Electrical Engineering 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.

Thursday May 27, 2021 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Transforms and Entropy
Speaker: Erdal Arikan, Bilkent University, Turkey
Location: Online Event
Monday May 10, 2021 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Smart NFC implantable optogenetic neuromodulator for frontier neuroscience research
Speaker: Abraham Vázquez-Guardado, PhD, Northwestern University
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 22, 2021 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Learnable Information in Deep Neural Networks
Speaker: Stefano Soatto, UCLA / AWS
Location: Online Event
Thursday March 11, 2021 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent State
Speaker: Benjamin Van Roy, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 25, 2021 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Accelerated gradient methods on Riemannian manifolds - Recording available upon request
Speaker: Suvrit Sra, Massachusetts Institue of Technology
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 4, 2021 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Machine Learning for Partial Differential Equations
Speaker: Michael P. Brenner, Harvard Univeristy
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 28, 2021 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Finding Global Minima via Kernel Approximations
Speaker: Francis Bach, INRIA/ENS
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 29, 2020 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
** CANCELED** From Feedforward-Designed Convolutional Neural Networks (FF-CNNs) to Successive Subspace Learning (SSL)
Speaker: C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday March 4, 2020 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Empirical Risk Minimization in High-dimensions: Asymptotics, Optimality and Double Descent
Speaker: Christos Thrampoulidis, UC Santa Barbara
Location: Moore B280
Friday February 21, 2020 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
What is the role of curvature in complexity of optimization on manifolds?
Speaker: Nicolas Boumal, Princeton University
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday February 12, 2020 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Graph Signal Processing for Machine Learning Applications: New Insights and Algorithms
Speaker: Antonio Ortega, University of Southern California
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday January 29, 2020 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
"Finite-Length Performance of Spatially Coupled Codes and Its Applications"
Speaker: Fredrik Brännström, Chalmers University of Technology
Location: Moore B280
Monday June 17, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Minimax Optimal Learning of Populations of Parameters
Speaker: Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, University of Washington in Seattle
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday May 22, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
How Feedback Improves Coding Performance over Memoryless Channels
Speaker: Aaron Wagner, Cornell University
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday May 1, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design?
Speaker: Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday March 20, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Overparameterization without overfitting: from compressed sensing to deep learning
Speaker: Samet Oymak, University of California, Riverside
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday February 20, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Information theory of multiple-access channels with many users
Speaker: Yury Polyanskiy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Moore B280
Thursday February 14, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
General adversarial channels: When do large codes exist?
Speaker: Sidharth Jaggi, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Location: Moore B270
Tuesday January 29, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Fundamentals for Low Latency Communications
Speaker: Vincent Poor, Princeton University
Location: Moore B270
Thursday December 6, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Randomized Algorithms for Convex and Non-Convex Optimization
Speaker: Mert Pilanci, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280