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FW: Seminar: Accelerating Digital Transformation Using AI & Automation - Utpal Mangla, IBM
by Hegewald, Lynn P 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

Reminder - Seminar tomorrow! Please join us for the following seminar. Additional details in the attached flyer. Accelerating Digital Transformation Using AI & Automation in a Post-COVID World Utpal Mangla, GM, Telco Industry & EDGE Cloud (IBM) Thursday February 10, 2022 9:30 AM ET * Webex<https://purdue.webex.com/purdue/j.php?MTID=mc5b44dbeb59bf381223effc2c6fd4119> Abstract Businesses across all sectors were on a digital transformation journey. They were working on their multi-year roadmap until COVID-19 forced companies to pivot quickly. It became critical for organizations to swiftly accelerate the digital transformation, change how we work, and more importantly, rapidly create a new set of skillsets for jobs of the future. Organizations are looking for ways to scale digital transformation in a post-COVID environment. Open innovation using AI, automation and analytics is CRITICAL for enabling industries to leapfrog, create the escape velocity and build momentum for exponential (quantum) leaps. Bio Utpal Mangla ( MBA, PEng, CMC, ITCP, PMP, ITIL, CSM, FBCS ) is a General Manager responsible for Telco Industry & EDGE Clouds in IBM. Prior to that, he was the Vice President and Senior Partner in IBM. He is a recognized Global Leader of IBM's Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment (TME) Industry. He is focussed on driving AI, 5G EDGE, Hybrid Cloud and Blockchain Innovations for TME clients worldwide. In his role as senior executive in the business and thought leader in emerging technologies, Utpal's mission is to fuel growth by building, selling and implementing differentiated competitive market service solution offerings to meeting critical business imperatives of our customers.

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REMINDER: Faculty Candidate Seminar: "Automated Analysis and Implementation for Modern Networks", Mina Arashloo (Cornell University), Wednesday, February 9 at 10:30AM, WANG 1004
by Hodges, Kendra Renee 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

[cid:image001.png@01D81D8C.33E8EE80] Kendra Hodges | Administrative Assistant Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University Materials and Electrical Engineering Building 501 Northwestern Avenue, Suite 150 West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Phone: 765-494-3540 Email: khodges(a)purdue.edu<mailto:khodges@purdue.edu> [download]

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Guest Speaker Seminar: "Adaptive Attention: Bringing Active Vision into the Camera", Sanjeev J. Koppal (University of Florida), Monday, February 14 at 11:30AM, Virtual
by Hodges, Kendra Renee 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

[cid:image001.png@01D81D29.8AEF41B0] Kendra Hodges | Administrative Assistant Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University Materials and Electrical Engineering Building 501 Northwestern Avenue, Suite 150 West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Phone: 765-494-3540 Email: khodges(a)purdue.edu [download]

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Guest Speaker Seminar: "Bounded Rationality Methods in Reinforcement Learning-driven Autonomy", Kyriakos Vamvoudakis (The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech), Thursday, February 17 at 10:30AM, POTR 234 (Fu Room)
by Hodges, Kendra Renee 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

[cid:image001.png@01D81D0B.FF7B3520] Kendra Hodges | Administrative Assistant Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University Materials and Electrical Engineering Building 501 Northwestern Avenue, Suite 150 West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Phone: 765-494-3540 Email: khodges(a)purdue.edu [download]

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Faculty Candidate Seminar: "From Energy-Efficient Digital SoCs to Adaptive Neuromodulation: Opportunities in Co-Design and Run-time Optimization", Visvesh Sathe (University of Washington, Seattle), Thursday, February 10 at 1:30PM, Wang 1004 & Virtual
by Hodges, Kendra Renee 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

Please note the confidentiality of this seminar and do not post publicly Kendra Hodges | Administrative Assistant Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University Materials and Electrical Engineering Building 501 Northwestern Avenue, Suite 150 West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Phone: 765-494-3540 Email: khodges(a)purdue.edu [download]

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Seminar: Jim Spohrer (IBM), Service Innovation in the AI Era
by Hegewald, Lynn P 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

Please join us for the following seminar. Additional details in the attached flyer. Service Innovation in the AI Era Tuesday, February 8, 2022 9:30 am ET Zoom link<https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/93305345902> Jim Spohrer, Retired IBM executive, and ISSIP.org, International Society of Service Innovation Professionals Abstract What if you had a hundred workers ready to assist you with your startup, both launch and ongoing pivots? To help you answer this question, this talk shares a roadmap for the future of AI and service science. Over the next forty years, AI systems will become more capable and less expensive, progressing through stages: tool, assistant, collaborator, coach, mediator, for the roughly two thousands types of occupation that drive the US economy (O*NET). Service innovation is about increasing the quantity and quality of mutually beneficial interactions as people, businesses, and nations adapt to accelerating change. In the end, learning to invest time, effort, and other resources is fundamentally important. The life of an entrepreneur is about learning to invest in getting better at competing for collaborators – customers, partners, investors. Not surprisingly, this is exactly what is expected of innovators and leaders in large corporations as well.

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Faculty Candidate Seminar: "Ferro-Electronics: From Memory to Computing", Kai Ni (Rochester Institute of Technology), Monday, February 7 at 1:30PM, WANG 1004
by Hodges, Kendra Renee 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

[cid:image002.png@01D811F1.92B97D90] Kendra Hodges | Administrative Assistant Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University Materials and Electrical Engineering Building 501 Northwestern Avenue, Suite 150 West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Phone: 765-494-3540 Email: khodges(a)purdue.edu [download]

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TODAY, 10:30a, PGSC: ACS Faculty Candidate Nak-seung Patrick Hyun, RA/PostDoc, Harvard: Autonomous Control of Extreme Behaviors in Bio-Inspired Robotics
by Satterfield, Mary Ann 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

[cid:image005.jpg@01D816BD.43DC9830] Faculty Candidate Seminar - Autonomous and Connected Systems [cid:image001.png@01D818E6.D18A34F0]Dr. Nak-Seung Patrick Hyun Research Associate (Postdoctoral Fellow) Harvard University Monday, February 7, 2022 Presentation: 10:30 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. Q & A: 11:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Purdue Graduate Student Center 504 Northwestern Ave. ~ Room 105A & B https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/97086184212 Autonomous Control of Extreme Behaviors in Bio-Inspired Robotics Abstract: Highly agile and extreme behaviors of many biological systems offer examples for future research directions to target similar mobility in bio-inspired robots understanding of the complex dynamics and subsequent design of a robust and adaptive control framework. Examples of extreme behaviors in biological systems are the fast oscillation-driven maneuvers of bees flapping their wings around 200 Hz and the rapid impulsive striking of mantis shrimp releasing their stored potential energy within milliseconds. The challenges for control of robots with similar extreme behaviors lie in the highly nonlinear dynamics operating over multiple timescales. Specifically, one has to account for fast dynamics (extreme motions) and slow dynamics (time-averaged motion or slower drift in the system), and the time-varying actuation model in the high-frequency regime (fast-dynamics) vs the low-frequency regime (slow dynamics). This talk will address the control-theoretic aspects of dealing with such challenges in bio-inspired robots based on first principles in mathematical system theory. The first part of this talk will address the recent progress on controlling the Harvard Robobee, an insect scale flapping-wing vehicle that flaps its wings around 150Hz. In addition, the recent findings in the nonlinear modeling of the dynamic principles of mantis shrimp strike will be covered, which allows the striking speed to reach 27 m/s within a few milliseconds. The second part of this talk will address the causality of modeling nonlinear impulsive systems, which utilize a singular impulsive contact force in nonlinear mechanical system modeling. The third part of this talk will introduce the recent work on safe trajectory optimization and multi-agent system control, envisioning the future of swarms of flapping wing vehicles. Lastly, I will conclude this talk with future research on the control autonomy of extreme behaviors in bio-inspired robotics. Bio: Nak-seung Patrick Hyun is a research associate at the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory, hosted by Robert J. Wood. His research focuses on the control-theoretic aspects of bio-inspired robots, emphasizing systems with extreme behaviors such as flapping vehicles and impulsive systems. He is interested in the broad range of nonlinear control, including optimization-based control, geometric control, and contraction-based control. His research program provides a cyclic learning cycle between biology, mathematical system theory, and robotics. He received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 2018, an M.S. degree in mathematics in 2013, and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 2013 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His previous research at Georgia Tech addresses a new framework of causal modeling of impulsive systems and optimal safe path planning for multi-agent systems. He was recognized as an outstanding graduate teaching assistant by the Georgia Tech ECE Department in 2011.

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Seminar: Accelerating Digital Transformation Using AI & Automation - Utpal Mangla, IBM
by Hegewald, Lynn P 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

Please join us for the following seminar. Additional details in the attached flyer. Accelerating Digital Transformation Using AI & Automation in a Post-COVID World Utpal Mangla, GM, Telco Industry & EDGE Cloud (IBM) Thursday February 10, 2022 9:30 AM ET * Webex<https://purdue.webex.com/purdue/j.php?MTID=mc5b44dbeb59bf381223effc2c6fd4119> Abstract Businesses across all sectors were on a digital transformation journey. They were working on their multi-year roadmap until COVID-19 forced companies to pivot quickly. It became critical for organizations to swiftly accelerate the digital transformation, change how we work, and more importantly, rapidly create a new set of skillsets for jobs of the future. Organizations are looking for ways to scale digital transformation in a post-COVID environment. Open innovation using AI, automation and analytics is CRITICAL for enabling industries to leapfrog, create the escape velocity and build momentum for exponential (quantum) leaps. Bio Utpal Mangla ( MBA, PEng, CMC, ITCP, PMP, ITIL, CSM, FBCS ) is a General Manager responsible for Telco Industry & EDGE Clouds in IBM. Prior to that, he was the Vice President and Senior Partner in IBM. He is a recognized Global Leader of IBM's Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment (TME) Industry. He is focussed on driving AI, 5G EDGE, Hybrid Cloud and Blockchain Innovations for TME clients worldwide. In his role as senior executive in the business and thought leader in emerging technologies, Utpal's mission is to fuel growth by building, selling and implementing differentiated competitive market service solution offerings to meeting critical business imperatives of our customers.

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Faculty Candidate Seminar: "Electro-Fluidics for Health and Environmental Monitoring", Mehdi Javanmard (Rutgers University), Wednesday, February 9 at 9:30AM, MJIS1001/Virtual
by Hodges, Kendra Renee 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

Mehdi Javanmard is a BME faculty candidate with potential interest in ECE research areas. [cid:image005.jpg@01D819F4.8C64A3B0] Karen Jurss|Administrative Manager Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University Materials and Electrical Engineering Building 501 Northwestern Avenue, Suite 150 West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Office: (765) 494-3539 https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE [4BEDF607]

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