Sonoma State University

Lecture Series Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Eli Levenson-Falk Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Southern California Multimode superconducting circuits for quantum information science
Professor Ali Adibi School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Novel Hybrid Techniques based on Rigorous Optimization and AI Approaches for Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Structures
Dr. Shiva Abbaszadeh Associate Professor and Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz Building Better Detectors: Where Materials, Electronics, and Physics Meet
Prof. John Sullins Engineering & Computer Science, SSU, Rohnert Park, CA Engineering Solutions for Ethical Problems--Thoughts on Machine Ethics
Dr. Hashem Nehrir Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Montana State University, Life Fellow of IEEE Hydrogen Fuel and Fuel Cells for Sustainable and Environmentally-Friendly Power Generation
Mr. Brooks Hanley Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA Phase Noise Fundamentals, Applications and Measurements
Dr. Ian Davidson Professor of Computer Science, University of California - Davis Since (Not If) AIs Will Rule Us, Let's Make Them Nice To Us
Dr. Mohsen Shahinpoor Chaired Prof., Prof. Emeritus and Research Director at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Maine College of Engineering Smart Materials and Artificial Muscles
Dr. Mohsen Attaran Professor of Management, CSU Bakersfield, CA The Rise of “God-like AI”: Power, Ethics, and Human Destiny
Dr. Mahmoud Noorchashm Retired MTS, AT&T Bell Laboratories A Brief History of Electrical Engineering
Mr. Andy Hulse Principal Engineer, Research and Development, Viavi Solutions, Inc. Optical filters for free-space optical communications applications
Mr. Roger Nichols Retired Engineering Manager of Keysight Technologies Roger, It’s Just Test Equipment
Mr. Mohit Bhoite Senior Hardware Engineer at Particle in San Francisco Connected Sculptures: Building Internet-Enabled Free-Form Circuits
Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy Emeritus Prof. of CIS at University of Pennsylvania & NEC Distinguished Emeritus Prof. of EECS at UC Berkeley Robotics at the University of Pennsylvania from Birth to Maturity: A Review of 30 Years of Research
Dr. Stella Yu EECS Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Unscripted Grounded Visual Learning
Dr. Alane Suhr EECS Department, UC Berkeley, CA Interactive Language Agents: Training, Evaluation, and Interface
Mr. Ian Furniss Senior Payload Systems Engineer at Astranis Space Technologies, San Francisco, CA Performance at The Core: Geostationary Satellite Payloads
Dr. Jan Verspecht Intrapreneur at Keysight Technologies Radical Innovations in RF and Microwave Instrumentation
Dr. Bharat Bhushan Academy Professor The Ohio State University Lessons from Nature: Bioinspired Mechanically Durable and Self-healing Superliquiphilic/phobic Surfaces
Dr. Roya Salek Shahrezaie Assistant Professor CS Department, Sonoma State University Socially-Aware Navigation for Robots in Public Spaces