Past Seminars and Events

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May 9
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Strategic Directions for Electronics Packaging

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Presented by Professor Subramanian Iyer, UCLA

Online only
May 2
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Teledyne Scientific 3DHI SLIC Foundry Process

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Presented by Dr. Jonathan Hacker, Teledyne Scientific Company

Online only
May 2
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Harnessing Autonomous Vehicles for Smarter Traffic Management

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Presented by Ruolin Li, USC

Conference Rm #1014 and online
May 1
ISI Natural Language Seminar

LLMs Do Not Have Human-Like Working Memories

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Presented by Jen-Tse (Jay) Huang, Johns Hopkins Univ.

Conference Rm #689 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom link. and online
Apr 25
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Analytics for Semiconductors: From Megafabs to Nanofabs

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Presented by Steve Zamek, PDF Solutions and Brian Thibeault, UCSB

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Apr 25
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Texera: An Open-Source System for Cloud-Based Collaborative Data Science and AI/ML Using Workflows

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Presented by Chen Li, UC Irvine

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Apr 24
ISI Natural Language Seminar

The Surprising Effectiveness of Membership Inference with Simple N-Gram Coverage   

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Presented by Skyler Hallinan, USC

Conference Rm #689 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via Zoom. and online
Apr 18
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

CMOS Circuits and Systems for Coherent Multi-Band Millimeter-Wave Radars

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Presented by Professor Hamidreza Aghasi, UC Irvine

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Apr 17
ISI Natural Language Seminar

Ushering Agents to an Open Social World

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Presented by Hao Zhu, Stanford University

Conference Rm #689 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via Zoom. and online
Apr 11
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Integrated Photonics: It’s Always About High Performance

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Presented by Professor Jonathan Klamkin, UC Santa Barbara; Director of UCSB Nanofab

Online only
Apr 11
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

How I learned to stop worrying and love AI

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Presented by William Regli, University of Maryland

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Apr 10
ISI Natural Language Seminar

An Investigation of Intermediate Representations in Spoken Language Models

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Presented by Tolúlọpẹ́ Ògúnrẹ̀mí, Stanford University

Conference Rm #689 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via Zoom. and online
Apr 4
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Foundry Enabled Chip-scale Photonics Technology and Applications

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Presented by Professor Shaya Fainman, University of California, San Diego

Online only
Apr 4
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Experiments in Scaling Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

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Presented by Nathan Lambert, Allen Institute

Online only
Mar 28
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

The Role of InP Technologies in Next-Generation 50-300 GHz Systems

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Presented by Professor Mark Rodwell, University of California at Santa Barbara

Online only
Mar 28
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Designing Priors for Bayesian Neural Networks to Enhance Probabilistic Predictive Modeling in Engineering Applications

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Presented by Audrey Olivier, University of Southern California

ISI MDR #1014 and online
Mar 27
ISI Natural Language Seminar

MrT5: Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models

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Presented by Julie Kallini, Stanford University

Conference Rm #689 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom link. and online
Mar 21
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

High-Speed DACs towards High Performance and Efficiency

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Presented by Professor Mike Shuo-Wei Chen, USC

Online only
Mar 19
Scientific Computing at Large

Supporting Research Infrastructure Communities Through LUMI AI and AI Factories, Nordic and European Perspective

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Presented by Tomasz Malkiewicz, CSC - IT Center for Science in Finland

MDR#1137 and online
Mar 17
Cybersecurity Seminar Series

Generative AI including Large Language Models for Cyber-Security

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Presented by Dr. Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas

Online only
Mar 17
Cybersecurity Seminar Series

Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Securing Transportation Systems

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Presented by Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas

Online only
Mar 14
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Electronic-Photonic Co-Design for High-Speed Data Communication and Beyond

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Presented by Professor Azita Emami, Caltech

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Mar 13
ISI Natural Language Seminar

From “Democratization” to Personal Names: Reimagining NLP Practices Towards Justice

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Presented by Arjun Subramonian, UCLA

Conference Rm #689 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom link. and online
Mar 11
Fairness and Bias

Ctrl+Alt+Fairness: Resetting the Tech Equation for Fairness and Innovation

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Presented by Claudia Ruiz, UnidosUS

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Mar 7
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

A Brief History and the Promise of Gallium Nitride (GaN) Electronics; the Next Wave After GaN Photonics

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Presented by Umesh K. Mishra, Dean, Richard A Auhll Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara

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Feb 28
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Silicon-Based Phased-Arrays for SATCOM and 5G/6G: Lessons Learned from a Life in Microwaves

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Presented by Professor Gabriel M. Rebeiz, University of California, San Diego

Online only
Feb 28
Sun Gyoo Kang
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

AI Seminar-Can We Blame the Chatbot if it Goes Wrong?

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Presented by Sun-Gyoo Kang, National Bank of Canada

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Feb 27
ISI Natural Language Seminar

NL Seminar-Contextualization for Human-AI Interactions

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Presented by Justin Cho, USC/ISI

Conference Rm #689 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom link. and online
Feb 21
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

HRL’s Millimeter-wave GaN Technologies

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Presented by Dr. Jeong-sun Moon, HRL Laboratories

Online only
Feb 21
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Evaluating Sparse Autoencoders with Board Game Models

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Presented by Adam Karvonen, Machine Learning Researcher with the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars

Online only
Feb 18
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Building World-class AI Innovation Ecosystems: Experience and Future

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Presented by Professor Amit Sheth

1135/1137 and online
Feb 14
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Teledyne Scientific Advanced Technology Overview

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Presented by Dr. Bobby Brar, President, Teledyne Scientific Company

Online only
Feb 7
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Future System-on-Chip for Full Spectrum Utilization from RF to Optics

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Presented by Dr. M.C. Frank Chang, Wintek Chair in Electrical Engineering and Distinguished Professor, UCLA

Online only
Feb 7
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Causation and Influence in Causal Influence Models

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Presented by J. Dmitri Gallow, University of Southern California

ISI-MDR #1014 and online
Feb 4
Fairness and Bias

Socially Responsible Data for Large Multilingual Language Models

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Presented by Erin van Liemt

ISI-MDR #1014 and online
Jan 31
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Evaluating Text-to-Image Platforms’ Content Moderation During the 2024 US Presidential Election  

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Presented by Kevin Greene, Princeton University

Online only
Jan 23
ISI Natural Language Seminar

Inductive Biases for Data- and Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning

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Presented by Mozhdeh Gheini, USC/ISI

Conference Rm #689 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom link. and online
Jan 17
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Novel Integrated Circuits and Systems Covering Radio-Frequency and Millimeter-Wave

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Presented by Professor Payam Heydari, University of California, Irvine

Online only
Jan 17
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Towards Socially Aware and Safe AI Agents

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Presented by Xuhui Zhou, Carnegie Mellon University

Online only
Jan 10
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

California DREAMS: RF Microelectronics in Southern California

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Presented by Peter Asbeck, UCSD, Steve Crago, USC/ISI, and Aaron Oki, Northrop Grumman

Online only
Jan 9
ISI Natural Language Seminar

NL Seminar-Planning in Creative Contexts

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Presented by Alex Spangher, USC/ISI

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