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SUMMARY:ECE RISE-AI SEMINAR SERIES: Associate Professor Salman Asif
DESCRIPTION:Learning to See\, Adapt\, and Forget: From Computational Imaging to TrustworthyMultimodal AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: A central challenge in modern AI is that the world at test time does not match what was assumed at training time. Physical sensors operate under constraints\, modalities go missing\, data shift out of distribution\, and models retain information they were never meant to keep. Building systems that remain robust and reliable under incomplete\, shifted\, or misaligned information is the organizing question of my research program. \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, I will present our research spanning physically grounded inverse problems to large-scale trustworthy AI\, showing how robust behavior across different applications can be achieved through principled\, low-dimensional representations and adaptations. I will begin with computational imaging\, where we seek robust recovery of multidimensional data from indirect or incomplete measurements. I will discuss domain expansion and wavefront sensing\, showing how principled algorithmic innovations lead to robust models for challenging inverse problems. I will then discuss multimodal learning\, where we seek robustness against missing and imbalanced modalities at train or test time via parameter-efficient adaptation\, proxy token generation\, and model merging across modalities. Finally\, I will discuss targeted adversarial attacks and unlearning\, where we seek to exploit model vulnerabilities or remove targeted information (e.g.\, identities\, concepts\, unsafe content) without affecting unrelated capabilities.  \n\n\n\nI will close with a discussion of ongoing work and open problems spanning robust multimodal AI at scale\, continual learning with efficient unlearning\, and AI-guided sensing for medical\, agricultural\, and scientific applications. \n\n\n\nSalman Asif\n\n\n\nBio: M. Salman Asif is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California\, Riverside. Dr. Asif received his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology\, Atlanta\, Georgia. He worked as a Senior Research Engineer at Samsung Research America\, Dallas (2012–2014) and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Rice University (2014–2016). He has received an NSF CAREER Award (2021)\, Google Faculty Research Award (2019)\, Hershel M. Rich Outstanding Invention Award (2016)\, and UC Regents Faculty Fellowship (2017) and Faculty Development (2021) Awards. Dr. Asif currently serves as Senior Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging and as Area Chair for several top-tier venues including CVPR\, NeurIPS\, ICLR\, and AAAI. His research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning\, signal processing\, and computational imaging\, with a focus on building robust and trustworthy AI systems that perform reliably under incomplete\, shifted\, or misaligned information. Current research directions include robust multimodal learning\, model editing and unlearning\, and domain adaptation and generative models for computational imaging and inverse problems. \n\n\n\nLocation details: Discovery Building – Room 2329\, 2nd floor of Discovery Building (access through glass doors behind information desk)
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/ece-rise-ai-seminar-series-associate-professor-salman-asif/
LOCATION:Discovery Building\, 330 N. Orchard St.\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715
CATEGORIES:Electrical & Computer Engineering,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260414T160000
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SUMMARY:Bird\, Stewart and Lightfoot Lecture: Daniel Hammer
DESCRIPTION:Room 1610 Engineering Hall \n\n\n\nDaniel HammerAlfred G. and Meta A. Ennis Professor of BioengineeringUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia\, PA \n\n\n\nA Tale of Two Motilities\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the spirit of Bird\, Stewart and Lightfoot\, we have been studying an important problem in transport phenomena\, the biological and bio-inspired motility of cells. \n\n\n\nMotility is important for the functioning of the immune system\, mostly because immune recognition requires molecular transfer by direct cell to cell contact. We have been studying a fascinating form of cell motility in which T-lymphocytes can migrate against the direction of flow\, much like a salmon can swim upstream. Upstream migration is solely due to interactions between a specific lymphocyte receptor\, LFA-1\, and its natural ligand; no other receptor can support upstream migration. Our lab has found that many actively motile cells in the immune system have the ability to migrate upstream. Using CRISPR-Cas9 deletion\, we have identified several molecules in cells that are critical for upstream migration; deletion using Cas9 reverses the direction of migration. We have also made the first traction maps of forces exerted by upstream migrating cells. We found that during upstream migration\, cells maintain their “architecture\,” with active forces in the front and rear\, but the magnitude of the forces greatly increases\, allowing cells to exert sufficient traction to overcome the applied hydrodynamic forces. \n\n\n\nOur laboratory is also interested in making synthetic cells\, or protocells\, that can mimic the behavior of biological cells. In collaboration with Daeyeon Lee at Penn\, we have been making inert capsules using microfluidic assembly that can display motility in solution. By attaching urease to the surface of a capsule\, we can drive autonomous motion of the capsule in a field of urea. We find that asymmetry of the capsule\, in geometry or chemistry\, or both\, greatly enhances capsule motion. In gradients of urea\, our capsules display negative phoresis (move down the gradient). We have preliminary results for the urease-driven motion of Janus capsules\, made by microfluidic assembly from mixtures of phase-separating polymers\, as a function of the geometry of the capsules. \n\n\n\nIn the end\, we draw analogies between our biological and bio-inspired motile systems\, ultimately finding they have little in common.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/bird-stewart-and-lightfoot-lecture-daniel-hammer/
LOCATION:WI
CATEGORIES:Chemical & Biological Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:ME 150th Celebration: Distinguished Alumni\, Dr. Kelly Senecal
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate 150 years of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison\, the Department of Mechanical Engineering will feature distinguished alumni in mechanical engineering and engineering mechanics who have made a lasting impact on the field. Kelly Senecal\, who received his master’s (’97) and PhD (’00) in mechanical engineering\, is the cofounder of Convergent Science. Kelly also received the 2025 Luminary Award! To learn more about Dr. Kelly Senecal’s experience\, please join us for this installment of our ME 903: Graduate Student Lecture series. \n\n\n\nTitle: From Graduate Research to Global Impact: Building a CFD Company That Challenged Convention \n\n\n\nAbstract: This seminar reflects on the journey from graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to co-founding a company built on the idea that even established engineering fields can be reimagined. I will share formative experiences from my time at UW–Madison\, the early vision behind building a different kind of CFD company\, and the challenges of pursuing an approach that did not always align with conventional thinking. \n\n\n\nAlong the way\, I will highlight how computational fluid dynamics has grown from a specialized research tool into a technology with global impact across transportation\, energy\, and other critical industries. More importantly\, I will reflect on the lessons learned: that meaningful innovation often requires patience\, resilience\, and the courage to trust fundamentals over trends. \n\n\n\nFor students and researchers\, the message is simple: protect your curiosity\, question assumptions\, and be willing to take the long path. The most impactful ideas are not always the most popular at the start\, `but they are the ones worth pursuing. \n\n\n\nBio: Dr. Kelly Senecal is a co-founder of Convergent Science\, an industry-leading computational fluid dynamics software company. He is a visiting professor at the University of Oxford and a co-founder and director of the Computational Chemistry Consortium (C3). Dr. Senecal is a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)\, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)\, and the Combustion Institute (CI). He is the Chair of the executive committee of the ASME Transportation Systems Division and a member of the board of directors of the Combustion Institute. Recent accolades include the 2019 ASME ICE Award\, the 2023 SAE John Johnson Diesel Engine Research Medal\, the 2023 ASME Dedicated Service Award\, the 2025 ASME Soichiro Honda Medal\, and the 2025 University of Wisconsin Alumni Association Luminary Award. \n\n\n\nDr. Senecal has long been an advocate of creating cleaner propulsion systems\, with a particular focus on using CFD and HPC to enable faster design. Starting with his TEDx talk in late 2016\, he has promoted a diverse mix of transportation technologies through invited talks\, articles\, and social media. Dr. Senecal is co-author of the book Racing Toward Zero: The Untold Story of Driving Green\, winner of the 2022 Independent Press Award for Environment.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/me-903-graduate-seminar-dr-kelly-senecal/
LOCATION:3M Auditorium\, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building\, 1513 University Ave\, Madison\, 53711
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:Midwest Mechanics Seminar: Professor Laura de Lorenzis
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). This specific seminar is hosted in conjunction with the Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series. Professor Laura de Lorenzis is a professor at Institute for Mechanical Systems – Zurich.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/midwest-mechanics-seminar-professor-laura-de-lorenzis/
LOCATION:Engineering Research Building\, Room 106\, 1500 Engineering Dr.\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53706
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:BME Seminar Series: Fabian Voigt\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Expanding the optical bag of tricks for (neuro)biology\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFabian Voigt\, PhDPostdoctoral Researcher & Branco Weiss Fellow (2024-2029)Biolabs 2072Engert LaboratoryHarvard University \n\n\n\nAbstract:Seeing is believing and thus\, optical imaging techniques are extremely useful to study brain structure and function. I will present several projects aimed at providing the neuroscience community with better imaging instrumentation: These range from open-source light-sheet microscopes for imaging cleared tissue (http://mesospim.org) to novel multi-immersion microscope objectives that take inspiration from scallops and astronomical telescopes. In addition\, I will present recent projects aimed at rapid 3D tracking of freely behaving fish larvae and for increasing the light-collection efficiency of single objective light-sheet microscopes. \n\n\n\nPrint PDF
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/bme-seminar-series-fabian-voigt-phd/
LOCATION:1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building\, 1550 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Biomedical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:CBE Seminar Series: Sijin Li
DESCRIPTION:Sijin LiCornell UniversityIthaca\, New York \n\n\n\nInteractomics-driven discovery and characterization of plant natural product biosynthetic pathways in yeast\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlants are a rich source of small-molecule drugs and drug leads. Traditional methods for sourcing valuable plant natural products (PNPs) from their native producers are often limited by cost and inefficiency. Leveraging recent advances in synthetic biology and plant multi-omics analysis\, our work has demonstrated that yeast is a viable platform for elucidating and reconstructing complex PNP biosynthetic pathways. We have developed an interactomics-driven strategy to capture post-translational protein-protein interactions between plant enzymes to elucidate pathways. Combined with prevalent genomics and transcriptomics analyses\, this integrated approach led to the discovery and characterization of multiple PNP pathways from non-model plants\, highlighting the potential of synthetic biology to revolutionize PNP-based drug discovery and development
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/cbe-seminar-series-sijin-li/
LOCATION:WI
CATEGORIES:Chemical & Biological Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:ECE Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series: Professor Shanhui Fan
DESCRIPTION:Opportunities in nanophotonics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2535 Engineering Hall \n\n\n\nAbstract:Nanophotonic structures\, in which the feature sizes are comparable or even smaller than wavelength of light\, enables numerous new opportunities for the control of the properties of light. In this talk\, Fan will discuss some of their recent works in utilizing nanophotonic structures for creating novel states of light\, and for potential applications in computing and energy technology. \n\n\n\nShanhui Fan\n\n\n\nBio:Shanhui Fan is the Joseph and Hon Mai Goodman Professor of the School of Engineering at Stanford University. He did his undergraduate study in physics at the University of Science and Technology of China\, and received his Ph. D in 1997 in theoretical condensed matter physics from MIT. His research interests are in nanophotonics. He has published over 750 refereed journal articles\, given over 400 plenary/keynote/invited talks\, and holds over 80 US patents. His recent awards include the R. W. Wood Prize from Optica\, a Simons Investigator in Physics\, and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. He is a member of both the U. S. National Academy of Engineering and the U. S. National Academy of Sciences\, and a Fellow of APS\, Optica\, SPIE\, and IEEE.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/ece-distinguished-speaker-seminar-series-professor-shanhui-fan/
LOCATION:2535 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, 53711
CATEGORIES:Electrical & Computer Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Professor Wei Chen
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 Wei Chen is a professor at Northwestern University.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/me-903-graduate-seminar-professor-wei-chen/
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 Jennifer Mitchel
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 Jennifer Mitchel is a professor at Wesleyan University.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-jennifer-mitchel/
LOCATION:1227 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260427T120000
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CREATED:20260121T162912Z
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SUMMARY:BME Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Speaker TBA
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/bme-seminar-series-10/
LOCATION:1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building\, 1550 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Biomedical Engineering,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260430T161500
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SUMMARY:ME 150th Celebration: Distinguished Alumni\, Fred Kiekhaefer
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate 150 years of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison\, the Department of Mechanical Engineering will feature distinguished alumni in mechanical engineering and engineering mechanics who have made a lasting impact on the field. Fred Kiekhaefer\, who received his master’s (’72) in mechanical engineering\, is the former President of Mercury Racing. To learn more about Fred Kiekhaefer’s experience\, please join us for this installment of our ME 903: Graduate Student Lecture series.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/me-150th-celebration-distinguished-alumni-fred-kiekhaefer/
LOCATION:3M Auditorium\, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building\, 1513 University Ave\, Madison\, 53711
CATEGORIES:Alumni events,Featured Guest Speaker,Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:Mechanics Seminar: Professor Bala Balachandar
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 Bala Balachandar is a professor at University of Florida.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-bala-balachandar/
LOCATION:3M Auditorium\, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building\, 1513 University Ave\, Madison\, 53711
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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