Reminder: BNC Virtual Faculty Seminar Series TODAY @ 12:00noon. [cid:image004.jpg@01D685C0.EB336F80] The BNC Virtual Faculty Seminar Series is designed to provide faculty a platform to present an overview of their research and the opportunity for collaborative discussion with other BNC faculty and researchers across six colleges and 15 academic units. Ali Shakouri Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center Professor or Electrical and Computer Engineering September 10th, 2020 | 12:00pm Join Zoom: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/93857631004 Title: Overview of SMART Industry Consortium Abstract: I will give an overview of the work of more than 50 students, researchers and faculty who are using low cost roll-to-roll manufacturing techniques to make aware and responsive devices for digital agriculture, food safety, healthcare and environmental monitoring. Wabash Heartland Innovation Network (WHIN) to establish regional internet-of-things testbeds in the ten counties surrounding Purdue will be described. In particular, interdisciplinary collaborations will be highlighted where advanced imaging, in-line sensing and physics-based machine learning are used to make reliable devices from unreliable components. Bio: Dr. Ali Shakouri is the Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University. He received his doctoral degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1995 and his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Telecom ParisTech in France in 1990. He was a faculty member at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1998 to 2011 where he directed a multi university research center focused on direct conversion of heat into electricity. He also initiated a sustainability curriculum and a California-Denmark summer program in renewable energies in collaboration with colleagues in sociology, political science and environmental studies. Ali’s major initiative at the Birck Center focuses on nanomanufacturing and printing smart films. The goal is to develop low cost devices and internet of things (IoT) sensor networks to enable digital agriculture, smart food packaging, wearables for healthcare monitoring and smart infrastructure. This involves two dozen faculty from colleges of engineering, science, agriculture and pharmacy. Ali received a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 1999, an NSF CAREER Award in 2000 and the Thermi Award in 2014. Upcoming BNC Virtual Faculty Seminars: Date Faculty Title 9/10/20 Ali Shakouri, Director of Birck Nanotechnology Center Overview of SMART Industry Consortium 9/17/20 Luna Lu, Professor of Civil Engineering - *Note time change* (10am - 11am): Co-Hosted with ECE Nanotechnology for Energy Harvesting and Sensing Applications 9/24/20 Alex Ma, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Superconducting circuits for quantum simulation and quantum information sciences 10/01/20 Hadiseh Alaeian, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering atom-Nanophotonics at low dimensions 10/08/20 Jianguo Mei, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry Semiconducting Polymers: A Journey from Scientific Curiosity to Technology Commercialization 10/15/20 Chen-Lung Hung, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Engineering atom-nanophotonics hybrid lattices 10/22/20 Chi Hwan Lee, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Sticker-Like Flexible Sensors for Wearable Healthcare Applications 10/29/20 11/5/20 11/12/20 Krishna Jayant, Professor of BME - *Note time change* (10am - 11am): Co-Hosted with ECE 11/19/20 Jaime Turner Lead Administrative Assistant to the Director | Birck Nanotechnology Center BRK | 1205 W State Street | West Lafayette, IN 47907 o: 765-494-3509<tel:7654943509> | m: 765-491-3064<tel:7654913064> | jjturner@purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> [83324AA6]<https://www.purdue.edu/>