EE Systems Seminars

The Electrical Engineering Systems seminar series features talks from world-class researchers and industry affiliates in information theory, control theory, coding, signal processing, and beyond. To suggest a speaker, please email EE-systems-seminarcaltech.edu.

Wednesday May 31, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Statistical Challenges in the Analyses of Genome-wide Genetic Data
Speaker: Sriram Sankararaman, UCLA
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday May 24, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
DNA Sequencing: From Information Limits to Assembly Software
Speaker: Thomas Courtade, UC Berkeley
Location: Moore B280
Thursday May 18, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Convex Geometry for Structured Signal Recovery: Super-Resolution and Total Variation Minimization
Speaker: Weiyu Xu, University of Iowa
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday May 17, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Nonconvex Optimization for High Dimensional Learning: From Phase Retrieval to Submodular Maximization
Speaker: Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, University of Southern California
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday May 10, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Structured Sampling for Covariance Compression
Speaker: Piya Pal, University of California, San Diego
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday May 3, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Coding Theory for Modern Computing and Memories
Speaker: Lara Dolecek, UCLA
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday April 26, 2017 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Measurement-dependent Noisy Search: An Information Acquisition Approach
Speaker: Tara Javidi, University of California, San Diego
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday April 19, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Cover's Open Problem: “The Capacity of the Relay Channel”
Speaker: Ayfer Ozgur Aydin, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday April 12, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Query Complexity of Clustering
Speaker: Arya Mazumdar, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Location: Moore B280
Friday December 2, 2016 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Trace Reconstruction When the Number of Samples Is Exponential in the Cube Root of n
Speaker: Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
Location: Moore B280
Thursday November 3, 2016 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
High-Dimensional Analysis of Stochastic Optimization Algorithms: Limiting Dynamics and Phase Transitions
Speaker: Yue Lu, Harvard University
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday October 26, 2016 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Extreme Power Density and Efficiency Power Converters for Grid Interfaced Applications—New Circuit Topologies and Control Techniques to Leverage Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Devices
Speaker: Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday October 5, 2016 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Streaming Communication: Information Theoretic Perspectives
Speaker: Ashish Khisti, University of Toronto
Location: Moore B280
Thursday January 28, 2016 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Excess-distortion analysis of lossy compression
Speaker: Yuval Kochman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Location: Moore B280
Thursday December 3, 2015 3:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Decoding Genetic Variations: Algorithms for Haplotype Assembly
Speaker: Haris Vikalo, University of Texas - Austin
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday November 3, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
A Stronger Soft-Covering Lemma that assures Semantic Security in Wiretap Channels
Speaker: Paul Cuff, Princeton University
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday October 27, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Coded MapReduce
Speaker: Salman Aversimehr, University of Southern California
Location: Moore B280
Thursday May 7, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Fundamental Trade-offs in Primal-Dual Optimization
Speaker: Volkan Cevher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday May 5, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Recovery from Linear Measurements via Denoising and Approximate Message Passing
Speaker: Dror Baron, North Carolina State University
Location: Moore B270
Thursday March 12, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Capacity of the Energy Harvesting Communication Channel
Speaker: Ayfer Ozgur Aydin, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280