Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Davis College of Engineering

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From Generative Models to Control: Representation-based Reinforcement Learning in Physical Systems

Professor Na Li

Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics

Harvard

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Scanning Probe Nano-Optics: From biochemical nano-fingerprinting to light-matter interactions in quantum materials

Scanning probe optical microscopy offers access to material properties beyond the fundamental diffraction limit in conventional optics. In this talk, I will start by introducing nano-spectroscopic material identification—nano-fingerprinting.

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Assisting Creation Dating of 17th Century Dutch Drawings: Advances in Computational Art Connoisseurship Driven by Digital Image Processing

Professor C. Richard Johnson

Cornell University

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AI for Chip Design: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once?

Dr. David Pan

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Mitigating Stragglers in Distributed Computation and Optimization

Professor Stark Draper

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

High Performance Integrated Photonics

Marko Lončar

Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering, Harvard's John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)

ECExpo 2026

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