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2023

Date: December 13, 2023
Title: Wearable Biosensors and the Future of Personalized Medicine
Speaker: Wei Gao, Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute; Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar

Date: March 1, 2023
Title: Enigma of the Heart
Speaker: Morteza (Mory) Gharib, Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Medical Engineering; Booth-Kresa Leadership Chair, Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies; Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories; Director, Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies

2019

Date: April 3, 2019
Title: Tiny Chips for Brain-Body-Machine Interface
Speaker: Azita Emami, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator; Executive Officer for Electrical Engineering

2018

Date: November 28, 2018
Title: World's Deepest-Penetration and Fastest Optical Cameras
Speaker: Lihong Wang, Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering

Date: May 23, 2018
Title: Talking to Cells
Speaker: Mikhail Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute (Biedebach Memorial Lecture)

Date: January 17, 2018
Title: Flat Metasurface Optics
Speaker: Andrei Faraon, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, KNI-Wheatley Scholar

2016

Date: October 26, 2016
Title: Diagnostics for Global Health and Antimicrobial Stewardship
Speaker: Rustem Ismagilov, Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Director of the Jacobs Institute for Molecular Engineering for Medicine

2015

Date: April 24, 2015
Title: From Lab-on-a-Chip to Chip-in-the-Body: The Evolution of Point of Care Health Monitoring
Speaker: Axel Scherer, Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics; Merkin Institute Professor

Date: January 21, 2015
Title: Nanomaterials
Speaker: Julia Greer, Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics

2014

Date: December 17, 2014
Title: Controlling Light on a Chip at the Single Photon Level
Speaker: Andrei Faraon, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science

Date: January 29, 2014
Title: 1+1=3 or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Holistic Circuits
Speaker: Ali Hajimiri, Bren Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Co-Director, Space-Based Solar Power Project