Fall 2021

September 10, 2021
Giacomo Nannicini
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
A snapshot of quantum algorithms for optimization

September 24, 2021
Vivek Srikrishnan
Department of Biological & Environmental Engineering at Cornell University
A Systems Approach to Flood Risk Management

October 1, 2021
Conrad Tucker
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Engineering Design and Manufacturing

October 22, 2021
Xiaonan Wang
Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Smart systems engineering contributing to a net-zero future

October 29, 2021
Bing Dong
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University
Occupant-Centric Ecosystem: from Smart Buildings to Smart Cities

November 5, 2021
Jennifer Dunn
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
Guideposts and Guardrails: Analysis to Guide Energy and Material Transitions

November 12, 2021
Shannon Harris
School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University
Overbooked and Overlooked: Machine Learning and Racial Bias in Medical Appointment Scheduling

November 19, 2021
Garvin Heath
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sustainability of PV in the TW era

December 3, 2021
Nanpeng Yu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Riverside
Machine Learning for Power Systems: From Pure Data-Driven to Physics-Informed Methods