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• Oct

  23

  ECE Meet-the-Faculty Seminar - Karan Ahuja

  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

  2:00 PM L440, Technological Institute

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  The rapid proliferation of consumer devices has created an unprecedented opportunity to revolutionize how we understand and quantify human behavior and movement in real-world settings. Today’s consumer devices – like smartphones and smartwatches – provide a glimpse of this potential, offering coarse digital representations of users with metrics such as step count, heart rate, and a handful of human activities like running and biking. Even these very low-dimensional representations are already bringing value to millions of people's lives, but there is significant potential for improvement. In my research, I introduce the "Human API" that enables consumer devices to query rich and continuous representations of our physical lives to sense, track, and understand users to augment their interactions and assist them in daily life. By driving advances in machine learning and sensing, sensor fusion, and edge computing, we aim to transform consumer devices into sophisticated user digitization and motion capture systems. Armed with such knowledge, our future devices could offer longitudinal health and wellness tracking, more productive work environments, full-body avatars in extended reality, and embodied telepresence experiences, to name just a few domains. Critically, these advances cannot come at the expense of user practicality, meaning my work must be strategic in developing new sensors and making use of existing sensors and edge computation.

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  TIME Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  LOCATION L440, Technological Institute    map it

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  CONTACT Catherine Healey    catherine.healey@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

• Oct

  30

  ECE Meet-the-Faculty Seminar - Koray Aydin

  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

  2:00 PM L440, Technological Institute

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  Metasurfaces and metamaterials emerged as promising nanophotonic material and device platforms to control light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. In such materials, the collective and effective optical response is dictated by individual building blocks and controlled by the geometrical parameters forming the crystal structure. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the research program in the Metamaterials and Nanophotonic Devices Laboratory at Northwestern University. I will introduce machine learning and inverse electromagnetic design methods to model optical metasurfaces. Inverse-designed free-space and on-chip metasurfaces realized with direct laser writing technique will be discussed and their applications in imaging and spectroscopy will be highlighted. Metasurface spatial filters for broadband optical edge-detection and bound-states-in-continuum (BIC) metasurfaces integrated with quantum dots will be introduced. I will also highlight collaborative research in designing and realizing metasurfaces based on DNA-assembled nanoparticle superlattices and their potential applications.

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  TIME Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  LOCATION L440, Technological Institute    map it

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  CONTACT Catherine Healey    catherine.healey@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

• Dec

  7

  Fall classes end

  University Academic Calendar

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  Fall classes end

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  TIME Saturday, December 7, 2024

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  CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR University Academic Calendar

• Dec

  14

  Northwestern Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Recognition Ceremony

  McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  4:00 PM Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

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  The ceremony will take place on Saturday, December 14 in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive.

  *No tickets required

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  TIME Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  LOCATION Pick-Staiger Concert Hall    map it

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  CONTACT Andi Joppie    andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science