Lectures & Workshops
Engineering Lecture Series
Each spring and fall, the Engineering Department at SSU presents a series of colloquia on a wide range of engineering topics and trend of technologies. The talks are generally very high-level and designed for the general audience. The Engineering Colloquium was established in Fall 2006 and was initially sponsored by former Agilent Technologies (now Keysight Technologies) and local industries.
Days & Dates: First and Third Thursday of every month
Zoom ID:
https://SonomaState.zoom.us/j/87287592076, Passcode: 2009A
and/or Cerent Engineering Science Complex, Salazar Hall 2009A, Campus Map
Lecture: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. including Q &A
Attendance is open to students, faculty and staff of SSU and other members of the community, in general. A parking permit is required to park on campus, and is available for $5.00 at machines in the parking lots. Talks are otherwise free.
For more information, please contact the Engineering Department at (707) 664-2030 or engineering@sonoma.edu.
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EECS Department, UC Berkeley, CA
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EECS Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Past Lectures
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Dr. Robert Lee Bruce | Retired | Designing a Bandpass Filter with Network Synthesis | |
| Ms. Chelsi Wieland | Lead R&D Microwave Hardware Engineer Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA | RF & Microwave Engineering: Perspectives of a Hardware Engineer | |
| Mr. Roger Nickols | 6G Program Manager Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA | The Coming 6th Generation of Mobile Wireless (Fall 2024) | |
| Dr. Hashem Nehrir | IEEE Life Fellow and Emeritus Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Montana State University | Microgrid-Based Smart Grids: Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things for Improved Resilience/Self-Healing | |
| Ian Furniss | Hardware R&D Engineer Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA | Satellite communications Basics: From Orbits to Modulation (2024) | |
| Dr. Peng Li | Professor ECE Department, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA | Spiking Neural Networks: Learning Algorithms and Hardware Acceleration | |
| Dr. Ali Adibi | Professor School of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA | Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Design and Knowledge Discovery in Nanophotonics | |
| Mr. Mark Baldassari | Director, Codes and Standards Enphase Energy, CA | Photovoltaic Microinverters and Energy Storage Systems, 2024 | |
| Dr. Clayton Crocker | Technical Business Development Lead Quantum Engineering Solutions (QES), Keysight Technologies, CA | Engineering Challenges in Quantum Computing | |
| Mr. Roger Nichols | 6G Program Manager Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA | The Coming 6th Generation (6G) of Mobile Wireless | |
| Dr. Alex Stameroff | Operating Manager Signal Conditioning and Subsystems, Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA | A Highly Linear Distributed Amplifier Using Ultra-wideband Intermodulation Feedforward Linearization | |
| Dr. Anca Dragan | Associate Professor EECS Department, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA | AI Alignment and RLHF: What we've accomplished, what we've learned, and what's missing! | |
| Dr. Junshan Zhang | Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis, Davis | Warm-Start Reinforcement Learning: From Function Approximation Error to Sub-Optimality Gap | |
| Dr. Haewon Jeong | Assistant Professor ECE Department, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA | Fair Machine Learning for Education - An Information Theorist’s Perspective | |
| Mr. Roberto Medina | Hardware Engineer and Research Scholar and CEO Sosteco | Application of LoRa Protocol in IoT | |
| Mr. Michael Vargas | Director of HW Engineering Pocket Radar | Test Station Development - Consumer Electronics |