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SUMMARY:BME Seminar Series: Salman R. Khetani
DESCRIPTION:From Engineering Predictive Human Tissue Platforms to Advancing the Impact of Wisconsin Biomedical Engineering\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSalman R. Khetani\, PhDProfessorAssociate Department HeadActing Associate Dean for Graduate StudiesDepartment of Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of Illinois Chicago \n\n\n\nAbstract:The convergence of patient-specific human cell sources\, microengineering\, and data science is accelerating the adoption of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) that reduce reliance on animal studies. Against this backdrop\, my lab develops highly functional\, long-lasting in vitro human tissue platforms for drug metabolism and toxicity testing\, disease modeling\, and regenerative medicine. We emphasize reproducibility\, scalability\, and ease of use to enable broad adoption by end users. We leverage these systems to uncover cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive major human diseases and to inform more effective therapeutics\, including metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease\, alcohol-associated liver disease\, hepatitis B viral infection\, inflammatory bowel disease\, lung fibrosis\, and atrial fibrillation. We are further extending our platforms into reproductive and developmental health\, where clinical guidance is often limited\, and advancing vascularized\, implantable human liver tissue surrogates as a bridge-to-transplantation strategy for patients with end-stage organ failure. \n\n\n\nPrint PDF
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/bme-seminar-series/
LOCATION:1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building\, 1550 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Biomedical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:ISyE - Interaction-Centered Design and Evaluation for Trustworthy Human-AI Work Systems
DESCRIPTION:As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in work systems\, questions of trust extend beyond whether people accept or rely on algorithms to how humans and AI jointly perform\, adapt\, and sustain trustworthy decisions over time. In this talk\, I present research that frames trustworthiness as a system-level property built through the iterative design\, evaluation\, and integration of human-AI interactions. I argue that interaction—not the human or the AI alone—is the fundamental unit for designing and evaluating trustworthy work systems. I illustrate this perspective through empirical studies of AI-enabled decision support in safety- and mission-critical domains\, including identity verification and intelligence analysis. Across these studies\, I show how human and AI strengths and weaknesses depend on interaction design; why explainable AI designs can produce mismatches between perceptual and performance measures of system trustworthiness; and how interaction-centered design can concurrently translate theoretical and operational trustworthiness models into experimentally testable systems. This work advances foundations for building human-AI systems that are effective\, efficient\, ethical\, and capable of sustaining human judgment over time. \n\n\n\n\n\nBio: Myke C. Cohen is a final-year Ph.D. student in Human Systems Engineering at Arizona State University and an Associate Scientist at Aptima\, Inc. His work sits at the intersection of human factors engineering\, complex adaptive systems\, and applied cognitive science\, with a focus on the design and evaluation of AI-enabled decision systems in safety- and mission-critical environments. He has led and contributed to projects sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\, DARPA\, and the Department of Defense. Myke is a recipient of the HFES Student Member with Honors Award\, and was named an Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Dean’s Fellow and the inaugural CHART Scholar at Arizona State University. Prior to his doctoral studies\, he served as an Instructor of Industrial Engineering at the University of the Philippines Diliman\, where he earned his B.S. in Industrial Engineering.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/isye-interaction-centered-design-and-evaluation-for-trustworthy-human-ai-work-systems/
LOCATION:1163 Mechanical Engineering\, 1513 Engineering Dr.\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Industrial & Systems Engineering
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SUMMARY:NEEP Seminar Series: Carlo Fiorina\, Texas A&M
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 512:00 – 1:00pm106 Engineering Research BuildingPlease contact office@neep.wisc.edu for assistance with remote participation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelected Examples of Recent Modeling and Simulation Work in Fission and Fusion SystemsThis seminar will review some recent projects involving the modeling and simulation of fission and fusion systems\, with an emphasis on the practical approaches used and the insights gained during the work. One example is the development of a full‑resolution model of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE). This effort combines neutronics and thermal‑hydraulics to represent the experiment’s configuration in detail\, providing a way to revisit historical data and gain additional understanding of MSRE behavior. A second example concerns inertial fusion energy (IFE)\, focusing on the response of the chamber to target pulses. The modeling examines gas dynamics\, shock propagation\, and interactions with chamber structures. The seminar will also touch on work related to heat‑pipe microreactors and nuclear thermal propulsion systems. \n\n\n\nTo conclude\, the seminar will briefly introduce foamForNuclear\, a fully open‑source multiphysics framework built on OpenFOAM that supports coupled simulations across multiple regions and physics models. The platform builds on developments such as GeN‑Foam and OFFBEAT to provide a modular structure that couples arbitrary physics across multiple regions and meshes without source code changes. It supports full‑core heterogeneous geometries\, advanced thermal‑hydraulics\, structural mechanics\, neutronics\, and materials behavior. The framework includes extensive documentation\, several tutorials\, and a comprehensive Python API. Through the Functional Mock‑up Interface (FMI)\, foamForNuclear connects with external tools for turbomachinery and control systems\, enabling end‑to‑end simulation of nuclear reactors and fusion energy systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarlo Fiorina is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University. He received his BS\, MS\, and PhD degrees from Politecnico di Milano\, Italy. Prior to joining TAMU\, he was an R&D Program Manager at EPFL\, Switzerland\, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Paul Scherrer Institute\, Switzerland. In his current position\, he teaches Nuclear Reactor Theory and conducts research on the modeling\, design\, and analysis of advanced reactors and fusion energy systems. Since 2015\, he has been actively supporting and promoting open-source software development and has played a key role in establishing the IAEA ONCORE initiative. He has been the lead developer of the GeN-Foam multiphysics solver since 2014 and a co-developer of the OFFBEAT fuel behavior solver since 2017.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/neep-seminar-series-carlo-fiorina-texas-am/
LOCATION:Wisconsin
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics
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SUMMARY:MS&E Seminar Series: Dr. Sam Zelinka\, Materials Research Engineer at the UW Forest Service Forest Product Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:UW-Madison Department of Materials Science and Engineering welcomes Dr. Sam Zelinka. His seminar\, “More uncertain than you might think… What 24 laboratories from around the world got wrong (and right) measuring sorption isotherms in an interlaboratory study”\, will take place on Thursday\, February 5 from 1-2 p.m. in MS&E Room 265. \n\n\n\nSamuel Zelinka\, Supervisory Materials Engineer at the Forest Products Laboratory on February 5\, 2025. USDA photo by Joshua Limbaugh.\n\n\n\nBio \n\n\n\nFor the past two decades\, Dr. Sam Zelinka has worked at the US Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory where he has conducted research and led research teams that have explored how water and high temperatures (fire) modify the properties of wood\, engineered wood composites and wood based materials. Dr. Zelinka’s work on the fire safety of wood buildings has been used to justify changes to the building code allowing the height and area limits of wood buildings in the United States to be increased from 6 stories to 18 stories. He also regularly partners with the wood industry in the United States to help new technologies meet fire safety requirements. Dr. Zelinka’s moisture research accomplishments have rewritten our understanding of many concepts in wood science including electrical conduction\, diffusion through wood cell walls and the maximum amount of water that wood cell walls can hold (the “fiber saturation point”). In the past 10 years\, Dr. Zelinka has shown that the previous sorption theories applied to wood were invalid and could not describe the physical changes the wood cell walls exhibit during absorption (often misunderstood as adsorption) of water vapor. He has further demonstrated that methods used to collection sorption data contain significant flaws and provided a new and robust framework to understand sorption kinetics. Dr. Zelinka is writing a book on wood moisture relations with an expected publication date of November\, 2026 (Wood-Water Interactions\, Elsevier). \n\n\n\nAbstract \n\n\n\nOver the past decade\, we have shown that commonly used protocols for using automated sorption balances (often called dynamic vapor sorption or DVS analyzers) for collecting water vapor sorption isotherms in wood lead to unacceptably high errors and uncertainties in the data. However\, our suggested protocols for acquiring high quality DVS data are still often not used because they require a long hold time at each relative humidity step. Our previous work has shown that a systematic correction factor can be applied to data collected with the commonly used short hold times to improve data quality\, although this was only tested on a small amount of data from one laboratory. In 2021\, we began a worldwide interlaboratory investigation on automated sorption measurements. The goal of this study was to gather data on matched wood samples from many different types of sorption balances and many different laboratories to develop a systematic correction factor that could be applied to sorption data collected with short hold times. However\, along the way\, we have learned many lessons about how these instruments are often used in practice raising further questions about the temperature\, mass and relative humidity stability of these instruments in real-world applications (even with simple calibration weights). While this lecture focuses on lessons we learned about water absorption\, these same lessons can be applied to many modern instruments commonly used for materials characterization.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mse-seminar-series-dr-sam-zelinka-materials-research-engineer-at-the-uw-forest-service-forest-product-laboratory/
LOCATION:Wisconsin
CATEGORIES:Materials Science & Engineering
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SUMMARY:ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Professor Marta Hatzell
DESCRIPTION:The ME 903: Graduate Student Lecture Series features campus and visiting speakers who present on a variety of research topics in the field of mechanical engineering. Professor Marta Hatzell is a professor at Georgia Tech University. \n\n\n\nElectrochemical Systems to Enable Circularity \n\n\n\nAbstract: Electrochemical technologies are emerging as key enablers of circular chemical systems as electrochemical systems are modular and able to connect to stranded energy sources. In this context\, I will highlight recent advances in electrochemical processes that address carbon capture and utilization\, resource recovery from waste\, and sustainable fertilizer production. Specifically\, I will provide insights into how bipolar membrane (BPM) electrolysis could provide a promising avenue to integrate carbon capture systems with conversion systems. Second\, I will examine how electrified separations processes may enable more effective nutrient management at agricultural and water treatment sites. Finally\, I will discuss the prospects for fully decentralized fertilizer production and highlight the potential advantages and disadvantages of distributed chemical manufacturing. \n\n\n\nBio: Marta Hatzell the Woodruff Professor Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology\, with a joint appointment in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Her research group investigates sustainable catalysis and separations\, with applications ranging from e-fuel production to resource recovery from waste. Dr. Hatzell’s honors include the NSF Early CAREER Award\, ONR Young Investigator Award\, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Inventor Fellow\, Sloan Fellow in Chemistry\, and the ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering Lectureship Award. Dr. Hatzell also serves as a Senior Editor for the Journal ACS Energy Letters.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/me-903-graduate-seminar-professor-marta-hatzell/
LOCATION:3M Auditorium\, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building\, 1513 University Ave\, Madison\, 53711
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:Mechanics Seminar: Professor D. Emma Fan
DESCRIPTION:The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids\, fluids\, and dynamics). Professor D. Emma Fan is a professor at University of Texas – Austin. \n\n\n\nRobotic Materials and Devices Across Scales for Biomedical Applications \n\n\n\nAbstract: In this talk\, I will discuss our recent work in materials fabrication\, manipulation\, assembly\, and manufacturing tailored towards biomedical applications. The focus is on active materials and robotic devices enabled by materials control across a wide range of length scales. At the nanoscale\, I will discuss 3D electrokinetic tweezers\, an ultra-precision tool developed in my lab\, which can be used to manipulate nanowires in room-temperature aqueous solutions. With this technique\, designed nanoparticles are maneuvered as untethered robotic tools for probing single biological cells; the precision reaches 20 nm in position and 0.5° in orientation in solution under a standard microscope. At a slightly larger\, chip-scale\, I will describe a recent innovation that permits the light-controlled patterning of soft actuators made of microbubbles\, which assemble large arrays of nanoparticles in parallel. The co-assembly of nanosensor-cell hybrids can be further achieved that detect metabolites of bacterial cells. Finally\, I will present a rational scheme for developing large-scale\, hierarchically porous superstructures for applications in monitoring human health and public-health relevant water treatment. \n\n\n\nBio: Dr. D. Emma Fan is Harry L. Kent\, Jr. Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin\, with affiliated appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering\, the Materials Science and Engineering Program\, and the Texas Materials Institute. \n\n\n\nProf. Fan leads a research program focused on the fabrication\, manipulation\, and assembly of intelligent micro/nanoscale structures\, 3D hierarchical porous materials\, and stimulus-responsive systems.She is a recipient of two NSF awards: the NSF CAREER Award (2012) and the NSF Mid-Career Advancement Award (2022). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2021) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) (2024)\, where she was elected to the Board of Directors (2025) by a vote of over 2\,000 Fellows. She was named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors in 2025 and has served as an Official Nominator for the Japan Prize since 2017. Dr\, Fan was selected as the 2022 Ilene Busch-Vishniac Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University—an honor that celebrates outstanding women in engineering and aims to inspire the next generation.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-d-emma-fan/
LOCATION:1227 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:ECE Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series: Professor Shiwen Mao\, Auburn University
DESCRIPTION:2305 Engineering Hall \n\n\n\nDiffusion-enabled 3D human pose tracking\, data augmentation\, completion\, and acceleration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract:In recent years\, 3D human activity recognition and tracking has become an important topic in human-computer interaction. To preserve the privacy of users\, there is considerable interest in techniques without using a video camera. In this talk\, Mao first presents RFID-Pose\, a vision-assisted 3D human pose estimation system based on deep learning (DL). The performance of DL models depends on the availability of sufficient high-quality radio frequency (RF) data\, which is more difficult and expensive to collect than other types of data. To overcome this obstacle\, in the second part of this talk\, he presents generative AI approaches to generate labeled synthetic RF data for multiple wireless sensing platforms\, such as WiFi\, RFID\, and mmWave radar\, including a conditional Recurrent Generative Adversarial Network (R-GAN) approach and diffusion/latent diffusion based approaches. Next\, he proposes a novel framework that leverages latent diffusion transformers to synthesize high quality RF data\, as well as a latent diffusion transformer with cross-attention conditioning to accurately infer missing joints in skeletal poses\, completing full 25-joint configurations from partial (i.e.\, 12-joint) inputs utilizing received RF sensory data. Finally\, he presents recent work TF-Diff\, a novel training-free diffusion framework for cross-domain radio frequency (RF)-based human activity recognition (HAR) system\, which enables effective adaptation with minimal target-domain data. \n\n\n\nProfessor Shiwen Mao\n\n\n\nBio:Shiwen Mao is a Professor and Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar and Director of the Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center at Auburn University. Dr. Mao’s research interest includes wireless networks\, multimedia communications\, RF sensing and IoT\, smart health\, and smart grid. He is the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking\, a member-at-large on the Board of Governors of IEEE Communications Society\, and Vice President of Technical Activities of IEEE Council on Radio Frequency Identification (CRFID). He is a co-recipient of several technical and service awards from the IEEE. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/ece-distinguished-speaker-seminar-series-professor-shiwen-mao-auburn-university/
LOCATION:2305 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Electrical & Computer Engineering,Seminar
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