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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: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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