Energy Transition or Energy Addition: State of Play in Decarbonization, Invited Talk, Siemens Energy, March 28, 2025.
Renewal: Engineering Research and Researcher, Keynote Talk, NSF BRITE PI Annual Meeting, Alexandria, VA, March 10, 2025.
Uncertainty Quantification for Decision and Control in Digital Twins, Workshop on UQ and Trustworthy AI Algorithms for Complex Systems and Social Good, IMSI, University of Chicago, March 7, 2025.
Future of Work and Workers in the AI Era, Engineering Community Lecture, Los Alamos, NM, February 19, 2025.
AI Engineering | A Strategic Research Framework to Benefit Society, Invited Keynote Lecture, Engineers Week, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, February 19, 2025.
AI in the Time of Control, Invited Panelist, Special Lunch Session, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, December 17, 2024.
Controls, Mathematics, and Science: Remembering Allen Tannenbaum, Invited Speaker, Workshop in Remembrance of Allen Tannenbaum
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, December 15, 2024
Opportunities and Challenges in Education for Digital Twins in Manufacturing, Keynote Presentation, DoE-NSF Workshop on Digital Twin in Manufacturing, University of Connecticut, November 13, 2024.
AI Engineering | A Strategic Framework to Benefit Society: Findings from the Visioning Event, ERVA (Engineering Research Visioning Alliance) Webinar, July 18, 2024. Recording of the webinar can be seen here.
Achieving Outcomes from Challenge-Driven Research Funding Programs, UCI/CSTI-UIDP Workshop on the Future of Challenge Driven Partnerships, Cambridge, UK, July 9-10, 2024.
Team Science at UC Irvine, Research and Application in Team Science – Meeting 3, National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine, May 29, 2024.
Lessons in Ideation from Engineering Research Visioning Alliance, NSF GERMINATION Workshop, May 13, 2024.
Future of Work and Workers: Potential Roles for Automation and Control, Invited Lunchtime Presentation, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 15, 2023, Singapore. (Also available at the IEEE CDC website).
Leveraging Control and Machine Learning to Accelerate Energy System Decarbonization, Invited Presentation, Workshop on Learning and Control for Decarbonized Energy and Transportation Systems, IEEE CDC, December 12, 2023, Singapore.
Cognitive Cyber-Physical Systems: Vision for AI Meets Control, Invited Presntation, Marine Robotics School 2023 Goa, November 22, 2023, Goa, India.
Electric Energy Systems and Global Warming: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities, Keynote Presentation, Texas Analog Center of Excellence Symposium, October 16, 2023, Univ of Texas at Dallas.
Climate Change: Adaptation and Resilience, Advancing Climate Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Economic Development, University of California, October 26, 2023.
Climate Change: Adaptation and Resilience, (video here), University of Michigan, August 22, 2023.
Climate Change: Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience, IC Forum 3: Control Systems for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: An Urgent Call, IFAC World Congress, July 13, 2023, Yokohama, Japan.
Optimal Storage and Solar Capacity of a Residential Household under Net Metering and Time-of-Use Pricing, 2023 American Control Conference, San Diego, CA.
Research to Innovation: Insights and Opportunities, NSF-TIH Workshop, Baltimore, MD, May 22, 2023.
Climate Action: Progress at Scale, University of California Disaster Resilience Network (UC DRN), Climate Workshop, Sacramento, CA, December 8, 2022.
Fundamental Engineering Research to Societal Benefits, (video), Lead-Off Speaker, Extraordinary Engineering Impacts, National Academy of Engineering Symposium, August 18, 2022.
Research, Innovation, Technology, and Society, (video), Invited Speaker, Bharat Abhiman Webinar Series, Savitribai Phule Pune University, May 11, 2022.
Climate Change Challenge: Role for ECE Departments, Invited Panelist, Climate Change and ECE, ECE Department Heads Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, June 2022.
Smart Cities: Ensuring Social Benefits from Advanced Technologies, (video), Invited Presentation, International Virtual Workshop on Smart Cities:A Road Map for Future Development, BITS Pilani, India, January 10, 2022.
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Role for Systems and Controls, Bode Prize Lecture, (video), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 16, 2021. [A slightly longer version of this presentation was given at the University of Michigan in October 2021. Please see below for links to slides and video from that talk.]
Cognitive Cyber-Physical Systems: Vision and Ideas for Exploring a New Frontier, (video), Plenary presentation, 7th Indian Control Conference, December 22, 2021.
Envisioning Engineering Climate Change Institutes of the Future, Role of Engineering in Addressing Climate Change, ERVA Visioning Event, December 7, 2021.
Convergence Research Paradigm: Role in Science and Technology Centers (video), NSF STC Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center, Inaugural Visiting Seminar, November 4, 2021.
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Role for Systems and Controls (video here), College of Engineering Control Seminar, University of Michigan, October 1, 2021.
Convergence Research Paradigm: Role for Engineering, Keynote talk, ECEDHA Emerging Technologies Summit, June 15, 2021.
Control for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, Panel presentation, IEEE CSS Workshop on Control for Societal Challenges, June 5, 2021.
Neuro-Cognitive Science Inspired Directions in Learning for Control, Invited Speaker, (video at the workshop website), Workshop on Cognition and Control, American Control Conference, May 24, 2021.
A Perspective on Trust in Machine Learning and Control for Dynamic Autonomous Systems, Invited speaker, Trusted AI Challenge Series, Air Force Research Lab and SUNY, (video of the event here), October 2020.
Strategic Thinking for Achieving Broader Impacts, (video here), Invited Seminar, University of Texas at Dallas, October 2020.
Kalman Filtering, Sensor Fusion, and Eye Tracking, (video here), ECCV OpenEyes Workshop, August 2020.
A Framework for Ethics in Cyber-Physical-Human Systems, (video here) joint work with M. Sampath (SUNY), talk at IFAC World Congress, July 2020.
Energy System and Decarbonization Challenge, Talk (video here) at a tutorial session that included presentations by Professors A. Annaswamy (MIT), M. Rotea (UT Dallas) and J. Stoustrup (Aalborg University, Denmark) and myself, IFAC World Congress, July 2020.
Cognitive Cyber-Physical Systems: Cognitive Neuroscience, Machine Learning, and Control, (video here)Tutorial talk at a special session organized by Professor M. Vidyasagar (IIT Hyderabad) and Professor B. Touri (UC San Diego) American Control Conference, July 2020. Video of the entire session is available here.
Envisioning Smart CPHS that Deliver Societal Benefits, Presentation at the Workshop on Systems and Control for Smart Society and Cyber-Physical & Human Systems, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, December 2019.
Cognitive Cyber-Physical Systems: Vision for the Next CPS Frontier, Plenary Presentation, ESWEEK, New York City, October 16, 2019. [A more detailed presentation with multiple hyperlinks can be downloaded here.]
Elmer Gilbert and Foundations of Linear Systems and Control Theory, A Symposium to Honor the Life of Elmer Gilbert, University of Michigan, September 14, 2019.
Leveraging Machine Learning for Advancing Smart-X Systems and Control, Keynote Presentation, GE Edge and Controls Symposium, September 10-12, 2019.
Convergence Research Paradigm: A Powerful Approach to Enable Major Advances, Keynote Presentation, SUNY Research Council Meeting, August 6-7, 2019.
The Future of Work and Jobs, Invited Presentation, Future of Work Workshop, Oxford-UIDP Summit, July 30, 2019, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
Deep Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks, Reinforcement Learning and Control, Workshop on Learning and Control, IIT Mandi, India, July 22-26, 2019.
“Socially Responsible Automation,” (with Meera Sampath), EmTechNext, MIT Technology Review, Boston, June 12, 2019.
“Envisioning Smart Cities that Deliver Societal Benefits,” Smart Cities for Sustainable Globalization, National Academy of Engineering Regional Meeting, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, April 24, 2019.
“Future of ECE in the Era of ML and AI,” Invited Panelist, ECE Department Heads Association Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, March 25, 2019
“Grid Integration of Renewable Energy and Distributed Control,” Plenary Talk, Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Johns Hopkins University, March 20, 2019.
“Bruce Francis and H-infinity Control Theory,” Session to Honor Bruce Francis, December 18, 2018, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Miami.
Panel Session “Interface between engineers and social-scientists: Low-hanging fruits, language barriers, and synergy,” Prepared Remarks, 2nd IFAC Conference on Cyber-Physical-Human Systems (CPHS), Miami, December 2018.
“Future Directions in Control in the Era of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence,” UCI-TAU Intelligence 2025 Conference, November 12, 2018
Envisioning Smart Technologies and Innovations for Societal Good, Invited Presentation at the Super Smart Society Consortium, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, October 22, 2018.
Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Convergence Framing for Research and Innovation, CONFOMA2018, Future of Food and the Role of Technology, Minneapolis, MN, September 8-9, 2018.
Real-Time Decision and Control for Power Grid Resilience, Plenary Talk, Workshop on Real-Time Data Analytics for Resilient Electric Grid, Portland, OR, August 4-5, 2018.
Research to Innovation: Future Directions for Systems and Control, Presentation at the Workshop, From Theory to Practice in Control: Enhancing Innovation and Impact, American Control Conference, June 26, 2018.
Visions for Systems and Control in the Era of Learning and Data Science, Presentation at the Workshop, New Problems on Learning and Data Science in Control Theory , American Control Conference, June 26, 2018.
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Manufacturing, Afternoon Keynote Presentation, Automation: The Next Generation of Lean, Industry 4.0 for Manufacturing, CNMI Summit, June 7, 2018.
Grid Integration of Renewable Energy and Distributed Control, seminar at the Center for Systems and Control, University of Southern California, March 2018
Grid Integration of Renewable Energy and Distributed Control, Emerging Applications of Control and Systems Theory, September 2017
Opportunities and Challenges in Integration of Renewable Generation in Electric Grids, Plenary Presentation, 1st IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Hawaii, August 2017
Recent presentations by students at conferences:
Development of a Deep Recurrent Neural Network Controller for Flight Applications, ACC 2017
Selected Presentations as NSF Assistant Director for Engineering
Electric Energy Systems Transformation, Columbia University, May 2016
Wireless Communications Research at NSF, EARS PI Meeting, Vienna, VA, March 2016
Broader Impacts: Achieving Greater Goals, Boston University, December 2015
Photonics Research— NSF Enabling Exploration at the Frontiers, Boston University, December 2015
NSF Engineering and High Performance Computing, CASC Workshop, April 2015
Perspective on Accessible Remote Testbeds, ART Workshop, Arlington, VA, October 2015
Emerging Frontiers in Robotics and Smart Systems, Presentation at the US Naval Academy November 2014
STEM Innovations and Future of Workforce, FedScoop Tech Town Hall September 2014
Research and Policy: A View from NSF, CDS@20, Caltech, August 2014
Systems Science and Engineering @ NSF ENG, JST Symposium, February 2014, Tokyo, Japan
STEM: Engineering Is at the Heart of It, STEMSmart, June 2013, Atlanta, GA