This series features ISR faculty talking about their research. It is generously sponsored by Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Click on the links below to view abstracts and biographies associated with the lectures, and to view available videos.
Fall 2018
Sept. 21
Neuromorphic Artificial Intelligence: From Mathematical Foundations of Deep Learning to 'Cortex-on-a-Chip'
John Baras
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
| video | slides |
Spring 2018
Feb. 7
Private information retrieval: How to get something without letting anyone know what you got
Sennur Ulukus
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
April 5
Failures, Dynamics, Evolution and Control of the Global Risk Network
Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Network Science and Technology Center
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
| video |
Fall 2017
Sept. 6
The Maryland Power Electronics Laboratory (MPEL)
Alireza Khaligh
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
NOTE: This is also a seminar in the Northrop Grumman Microsystems Seminar Series
| video |
Oct. 4
Locomotion dynamics and control in bioinspired soft robots
Derek Paley
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
Dec. 6
Neural representations of speech in human auditory cortex: Systems-based approaches
Jonathan Simon
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Biology
Institute for Systems Research
Spring 2017
March 1
Air flow sensing in bats
Susanne Sterbing-D'Angelo
Institute for Systems Research
March 13
Coding techniques for distributed storage
Alexander Barg
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
| WebEx video (requires Cisco WebEx extension to view) |
April 5
Animal Movement: Progress and Opportunities at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology
William Fagan
Chair, Department of Biology
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
May 3
Electro-mechancial system modeling with application to analysis of magnetostrictive devices
Alison Flatau
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
| video |
Fall 2016
Sept. 7
Optimal learning for decision-making under uncertainty
Ilya Ryzhov
Department of Decisions, Operations and Information Technology
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
Oct. 6 (Thursday)
Acoustic imaging of 3D space
Cynthia Moss
Department of Psychological and Brain Studies; Neuroscience
The Johns Hopkins University
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
Nov. 2
On the algorithmic beauty of language
Juan Uriagereka
Department of Linguistics
University of Maryland
Faculty member of the Brain and Behavior Initiative
| video |
Dec. 7
What the variability of cortical neuron responses to sensory stimuli means about cortical function, and its [lack of?] relationship to machine learning
Daniel Butts
Department of Biology
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
Spring 2016
March 2
Hardware in cyberspace: The root of security and trust or the root of threats and crime?
Gang Qu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
March 31
How do we make sense of the acoustical world?
Shihab Shamma
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
April 6
Human-Centered Medical Device Design
Monifa Vaughn-Cooke
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
May 4
Constraint Reduction for Linear and Convex Optimization, with Applications
André Tits
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
Fall 2015
Sept. 9
Prove if You Can, Test if You Cannot
Rance Cleaveland
Department of Computer Science
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
Oct. 7
Cell-Based Nose on a Chip
Elisabeth Smela
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
November 4
Specification, Design, and Security of Autonomous Cyberphysical Systems
Huan Xu
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
Dec. 2
When, to Whom and What to Communicate: A Theory of Cooperative Estimation with Applications
Nuno Martins
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
Spring 2015
Feb. 20
Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture
Micro/Nano/Biosystems: The New 'Fantastic Voyage'
Reza Ghodssi
Director, Institute for Systems Research
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
March 4
Adaptive Processing of Auditory Stimuli
Patrick Kanold
Department of Biology
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
April 1
Games for Engineering Problems—Examples and Simple Learning Rules
Richard La
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
May 8
ISR 30th Anniversary Celebration
A Molecular View of ISR: Past, Present, and Future
Raymond Adomaitis
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
Fall 2014
Sept. 3
Nano Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering: Targeting Therapies to the Ear, Tooth, and Brain
Didier Depireux
Institute for Systems Research
Oct. 1
Sampling Beyond Nyquist: Structure, Geometry and Statistical Information
Piya Pal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
| video |
Nov. 5
Robust and Scalable Signal Processing for High-Dimensional Dynamic Complex Neural Data
Behtash Babadi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
Dec. 3
An Overview of Simulation Optimization
Michael Fu
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
Spring 2014
Feb. 5
Bio-Inspired Flow Sensing and Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Derek Paley
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
March 12
Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications
Sennur Ulukus
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
April 2
Exploring Power Network Signatures for Information Forensics
Min Wu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
| video |
May 7
Understanding and Mimicking How the Fly Hears
Miao Yu
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
| video |
Fall 2013
Sept. 6
Cortical Encoding of Auditory Objects at the Cocktail Party
Jonathan Simon
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Biology
Institute for Systems Research
| video (courtesy of ECE) |
Joint presentation with the Booz Allen Hamilton Distinguished Colloquium in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Oct. 9
Inkjet-printed fluidic paper SERS devices for chemical and biological analytics
Ian White
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
| video |
Nov. 6
Current Status of Adaptive Optics Imaging through Deep Atmospheric Turbulence
Mathieu Aubailly
Director, Intelligent Optics Laboratory
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
Dec. 4
Generalized Lagrangians: the Progress in Signal Processing and the Promise in Control
Michael Rotkowitz
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
Spring 2013
Feb. 6
Network Equilibrium Models with a Focus on Energy
Steven Gabriel
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
| video |
March 13
Scaling Down Robotics: Mobility, Mechanisms, and Motors for Microrobots
Sarah Bergbreiter
Department of Mechanical Engineering and
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
April 3
Towards Robot-Assisted Neurosurgery under Continuous MRI
Jaydev Desai
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
Fall 2012
Sept. 5
The Conundrum of Scheduling in Wireless Networks: Who Should Transmit What, to Whom, When?
Tony Ephremides
Institute for Systems Research
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Oct. 3
Neural Models of 3D Spatial Orientation in Echolocating Bats
Timothy Horiuchi
Institute for Systems Research
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
| video |
Nov. 7
Information and Influence Propagation on Social Networks: The Least Cost Influence Problem
S. "Raghu" Raghavan
Institute for Systems Research
Robert H. Smith School of Business
| video |
Dec. 5
Transportation 2.0: Towards Highly Efficient and Ultra-Compact Power Electronics Converters
Alireza Khaligh
Institute for Systems Research
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
| video |
Spring 2012
Feb. 1
Information Visualization for Medical Informatics
Ben Shneiderman
Department of Computer Science and UMIACS
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research | video |
March 7
Ants, Urns and Stochastic Approximations
Armand Makowski
Institute for Systems Research
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
| video |
April 4
Control of Magnetic Drug Targeting
Ben Shapiro
Institute for Systems Research
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
| video |
May 2
Current Research in the Space Systems Laboratory
David Akin
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research | video |
Fall 2011
Sept. 7
Nanostructures and Systems for Electrical Energy Storage
Gary Rubloff
Institute for Systems Research and
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
| video |
Oct. 5
UMD Contributions to the Next Generation Air Transportation System
David Lovell
Institute for Systems Research and
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
| video |
Nov. 2
Robots with Language
Yiannis Aloimonos
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
Dec. 7
Reconstructing Collectives
P. S. Krishnaprasad
Institute for Systems Research
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
| video |
Spring 2011
Feb. 2
Towards Simulation-Based Computational Synthesis
S.K. Gupta
Institute for Systems Research
Department of Mechanical Engineering
| video |
March 2
Auditory Signal-Processing From Sound to Meaning—New Insights from Systems Neuroscience
Jonathan Fritz
Institute for Systems Research
| video |
April 6
Component-based Architectures for System Synthesis (COMPASS)
John Baras
Institute for Systems Research
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
| video |
May 11
AESOP: A parallelizing compiler for high performance computing
Rajeev Barua
Institute for Systems Research
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
| video |
Fall 2010
Sept. 1
Recent Research on Present and Future Air Traffic Management Challenges
Michael Ball
Institute for Systems Research
Robert H. Smith School of Business
| video |
Oct. 6
Systems Engineering Education at ISR and Ontology-Enabled Traceability Mechanisms
Mark Austin
Institute for Systems Research
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
| video |
Nov. 3
Energy and Thermal Issues in Modern Computer Systems
Ankur Srivastava
Institute for Systems Research
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
| video |
Dec. 1
Bio Chips: Learning from Biology
Pamela Abshire
Institute for Systems Research
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
| video |
Spring 2010
Feb. 3
Study of a Neuromechanical System: Going from Neurons to Vortices
Avis Cohen
Institute for Systems Research
Department of Biology
Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Eric Tytell
Department of Biology
Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
| video |
March 3
Using Operations Research to Improve Planning for Public Health Emergencies
Jeffrey Herrmann
Institute for Systems Research
Department of Mechanical Engineering
| video |
April 7
Speech: The Holy Grail of User Friendliness in Computing
Carol Espy-Wilson
Institute for Systems Research
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
| video |
May 5
Evolution of State-Dependent Risk Preferences in Social-Modeling Games
Dana Nau
Institute for Systems Research and Department of Computer Science
| video |
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