Upcoming Events (made in-house)
AI Seminar: "Economic Development of the AI Opportunity" by Trelynd Bradley
February 20, 2026 @ 12:00 pm
MRB Seminar Room
ABSTRACT:
As the Deputy Director for Innovation and Emerging Technologies at the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), Tre Bradley is the primary advisor to California state leaders on technology trends and opportunities, focusing on commercialization, technology transfer, and talent pipeline…
AI Seminar: "Sparse View Synthesis" by Ravi Ramamoorthi
February 13, 2026 @ 11:00 am
Student Success Center (SSC) 329
ABSTRACT:
We seek the ability to take a few images of a scene of interest, and turn it into an immersive visual experience, where one can explore it from different viewpoints, in effect visualizing a 3D representation of an object, scene or photograph, and providing numerous applications in augmented reality, e-commerce and 3D…
AI Seminar: "Accelerating Research in the Experimental Sciences: Enabling the Shift from Automation to Autonomy through Self-Driving Laboratories" by Aldair Gongora
February 06, 2026 @ 12:00 pm
MRB Seminar Room
ABSTRACT:
The experimental sciences have long relied on labor-intensive, manual workflows that limit scalability and slow the pace of research and discovery. Despite advances in instrumentation and data analysis, the act of performing physical experiments remains time-consuming and resource- intensive, ultimately limiting the…
AI Seminar: "AI-Enhanced Programmable Optics: Toward Smarter Bioimaging and Optical Processors" by Fei Xia
January 30, 2026 @ 12:00 pm
MRB Seminar Room
ABSTRACT:
The convergence of artificial intelligence and programmable optics is opening new opportunities for both biological imaging and optical machine learning. By shifting complexity from optical hardware to data-driven algorithms and reconfigurable systems, these approaches promise faster, more adaptive, and more efficient…