LSU ECE

LSU Grad School Grad Student Appreciation Week started today!

PhD Defense – Murtaza Aslam (Dr. Jian Xu student) Join us as Murtaza Aslam demonstrates how explainable AI can revolutionize medical diagnostics & brain research! 📅 Mar 18 | ⏰ 9–10 AM | LSU ECE Zoom: 744 590 7582

📢 PhD Defense – Jones B. Essuman (Dr. Xiangyu Meng student) Topic: Optimal Trajectory Planning & Motion Control of Autonomous Vehicles Date: Monday, Mar 16, 2026 Public Seminar: 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Location: 3250H Patrick F. Taylor Hall, LSU

ECE PhD Dissertation Defense – Tongyao Wu (Dr. Kidong Park’s student) Title: Polymer Microstructures for Advanced Biomanufacturing 📅 Mar 16, 2026 🕤 9:30–10:30 AM Public Seminar 📍 3285 Patrick F. Taylor Hall, LSU

LSU ECE PhD Dissertation Defense 🎓 Tonmoy Sarker 🗓 March 3, 2026 🕙 10–11 a.m. Public Seminar 📍 3285 Patrick F. Taylor Hall Dissertation: AI-enabled Computer Vision Applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems #LSU #LSUECE #PhDDefense #AI #ComputerVision

🎤 ECE Seminar Speaker: Dr. Umamaheswara Rao Tida (NDSU) “System-level Design & Automation for Monolithic 3D Integration” 📅 Mar 3, 2026 | 9–10 AM 📍 3316E PFT M3D, EDA innovation & ML for next-gen IC design. Join us! #LSUECE #EDA #Monolithic3D #Seminar

🚀 ECE Seminar - Faculty Candidate Talk Hardware-Software Co-design of Heterogeneous Architectures to Enable AI at Scale Speaker: Gaurav Narang (Arizona State University) 📅 Feb 19 | 10 AM 📍 PFT 3316E #LSUECE #AIHardware #Seminar

Join us for a seminar by Dr. Jie Zhang (University of Michigan) on advancing (ultra)wide-bandgap nitride and oxide semiconductors for AI hardware, high-power/high-frequency devices, and harsh-environment applications. 📅 Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026 | 10:00–11:00 AM 📍 Room 3316E, PFT

📢 ECE Seminar | Feb 5 Risk-Aware AI and Autonomy: From physics-informed ML to long-term safety in AI, autonomy, and robotics. 🎤 Zhuoyuan (Jacob) Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) 🕥 10:30–11:30 AM 📍 PFT 3316E #SafeAI #Autonomy #ECE #MachineLearning #Robotics

🎓 ECE Seminar | Dr. Rohit Parasnis (MIT) Learning, Dynamics, and Incentives in Multi-Agent Networks 📅 Feb 3 | ⏰ 10:30–11:30 📍 PFT 3316E 👥 Grad students encouraged to meet the speaker at 9:45 AM #ECESeminar #MultiAgentSystems #DistributedLearning

🦠 ECE Seminar | Jan 30 (10:45–11:45) at PFT 3316E Dr. Baike She (Georgia Tech) presents a control-theoretic framework using reproduction numbers as feedback signals for epidemic intervention and behavior modeling. 🔗 Open to students, faculty, and the public.

LSU ECE Seminar Topic: Lyapunov-Based Deep Learning for Safe & Reliable Autonomy 🎤 Dr. Omkar Patil (University of Florida) 📷 Jan 28, 2026 | 10:45–11:45 #LSUECE #DeepLearning #ControlTheory #AI #Robotics

⚡ LSU ECE Seminar ⚡ Dynamic Microgrid Framework for Distribution System Black Start & Restoration 🎤 Salish Maharjan (Iowa State Univ.) 🗓️ Jan 22, 2026 | 10–11 AM 📍 PFT Hall 3316E #Microgrids #BlackStart #PowerSystems #DERs #ECE #SmartGrid

📢 ECE Seminar 🎓 Learning-Enabled Decision-Making in Power & Energy Systems 👩‍🔬 Meiyi Li (UT Austin) 📅 Jan 21, 2026 | 10:30–11:30 📍 PFT Hall 3316E #PowerSystems #SmartGrid #MachineLearning #ECE #LSUEngineering

🔔 ECE Seminar | Jan 20 Physics-Structured Intelligence for Power Systems 🎤 Haoran Li, visiting scholar from the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. 🕙 10–11 AM | Zoom 🔗 lsu.zoom.us/j/91675430840

Join us at Louisiana State University for a talk by Dr. Nishanth Gadiyar (Oak Ridge National Laboratory): Pathways to Realize High-Performance & Sustainable Electro-Mechanical Systems 🗓 Jan 15, 2026 | ⏰ 10–11 AM 📍 PFT Hall 3216E | 🍽 Refreshments 🔗 lsu.edu/eng/ece/seminar

🎓 Haoqiang Guo (Ph.D. Candidate, LSU ECE) 📘 Dissertation Defense: Cache-Conscious Sparse Matrix–Dense Matrix Multiplication on GPUs 📅 Dec 15, 2025 | ⏰ 12:30–1:30 PM (Public Seminar) 📍 Join: lnkd.in/eaSjW3VV

Proud to see ECE’s Dr. Wei and Dr. Xu featured in LSU & OLOL Health’s Collaboration in Action update—advancing solutions in athlete performance, brain/cardiovascular health, and pediatric obesity & cancer. 📷📷

Please join us in celebrating Baorui Wang from LSU Electrical & Computer Engineering as he presents his PhD dissertation: lsu.zoom.us/j/2652358578?o… 📅 Tuesday, November 25, 2025 🕐 1:00–2:00 PM · Public Seminar 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM · Closed Defense

📣 Join us for the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Dr. J.N. Reddy from Texas A&M University! 🗓 Fri, Nov 21 • 3 PM 📍 RoyOMartin Auditorium, PFT Hall 1100 Topic: “Nonlocal Approaches to Modeling Architected Structures and Fractures in Solids” #LSUEngineering