February 3 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Yichun He 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Bridging Molecular and Functional Understandings of Cells with Artificial Intelligence Yichun HePhD Candidate, Harvard UniversitySchool of Engineering and Applied SciencesThe Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Abstract:The mammalian brain exhibits complex functions and behaviors, driven by diverse cell types distributed throughout its tissue. However, understanding the heterogeneity of cell types and neuronal functions across the...
February 6 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Jonathan Soucy, PhD 3210 Mechanical Engineering 1513 University Ave., Madison, WI, United States Engineering the retinal microenvironment to improve donor neuron integration post-transplantation Jonathan Soucy, PhDPostdoctoral Research FellowOphthalmology Department at Harvard Medical SchoolSchepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear Abstract:Neuron transplantation is an exciting solution for replacing retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) lost in glaucoma and other optic neuropathies. However, one significant barrier to successful donor RGC...
February 13 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Shailaja Seetharaman, PhD 3210 Mechanical Engineering 1513 University Ave., Madison, WI, United States Vascular Dysfunction in Disease: Engineering Mechanobiology Holds the Solution Shailaja Seetharaman, PhDPostdoctoral ResearcherJames Franck Institute and Department of PhysicsUniversity of Chicago Abstract:Abnormalities in blood vessel and blood flow properties are key drivers of severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular pathologies. The remarkable ability of the vasculature to sense and respond to mechanical and biochemical signals across multiple...
February 17 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Dhananjay Bhaskar, PhD 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Harnessing Geometry and Topology in Machine Learning for Biomedical Discovery Dhananjay Bhaskar, PhDPostdoctoral Researcher, Yale UniversityYale - Boehringer Ingelheim FellowKavli Institute for Neuroscience FellowVisiting Scholar in Engineering, Brown University Abstract:Understanding the shape of data through geometry and topology offers a powerful perspective with the potential to drive breakthroughs in biomedical science and engineering. This talk...
February 20 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ECE RISE-AI and RISE-EARTH Seminar Series – Seah Kim 4610 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison Join us as Seah Kim, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, presents Scalable SoC Architectures for Domain-Specific Computing: From Algorithms to Silicon.
February 24 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Mehmet Orman, PhD 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Metabolic Adaptations of Drug-Tolerant Persister Cells Mehmet A Orman, PhDAssociate ProfessorChemical and Biomolecular Engineering DepartmentUniversity of Houston Abstract:My research focuses on understanding drug-tolerant phenotypes, particularly persister cells, in both prokaryotic...
February 25 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ECE RISE SEMINAR SERIES: AI for Next-Generation Electronics and Chip Design – Olivia Hsu 1240 Computer Sciences 1210 W. Dayton St., Madison Join us as Olivia Hsu, Computer Science Department at Stanford University, presents From Language to Silicon: Programming Systems for Sparse Accelerators.
February 25 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ECE RISE SEMINAR SERIES: Clean Energy Technologies – Dr. Nishil Talati 2255 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison Join us as Nishil Talati, Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan, presents Systems-Architecture Co-Design for AI and Large-Scale Data Analytics.
February 27 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ECE RISE SEMINAR SERIES: Clean Energy Technologies – Dr. Noman Bashir 4610 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison Join us as Noman Bashir, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium, presents Designing the Next Generation of Computer Systems for Sustainable AI.
March 3 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Jacob Witten, PhD 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Artificial intelligence for state-of-the-art gene therapy Jacob Witten, PhDPostdoctoral FellowAnderson LabMassachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract:Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for RNA delivery have exploded onto the biomedical research scene with the success of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19. In addition to their promise as mRNA vaccines for infectious disease and cancer, LNPs have the potential to treat or...