EE Seminar Series

As part of the graduate seminar series, the EE Department welcomes speakers from academia or industry to present their work- a fantastic opportunity learn more about current cutting edge research and challenging applications from electrical engineering.

All UB faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend!

Speakers and Dates

7/8/25
Ness Shroff, PhD
Ohio Eminent Scholar in Networking and Communication, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ohio Eminent Scholar, Computer Science and Engineering
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering,
Ohio State University
Friday, July 11, 2025 | Seminar: 10 a.m. | 338 A Davis Hall
7/20/26
Christopher Brinton, PhD
The Elmore Associate Professor of of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 | Seminar: 2pm | 230 A Davis Hall
6/23/26
Everett Fraser, PhD
Senior MBE Scientist
Intelligent Epitaxy Technology, Inc. (IntelliEPI)
Friday, October 3, 2025 | Seminar: 2pm. | 230 A Davis Hall
7/20/26
Rose Qingyang Hu, PhD
Department Head and Professor
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
Monday, October 13, 2025 | Seminar: 2pm | 230 A Davis Hall
3/20/26
Mike Demler
Alumnus
University at Buffalo, Department of Electrical Engineering
Thursday, March 26 | Seminar: 3:30 pm. | 101 Davis Hall
4/13/26
Temitayo Olowu, PhD
Senior Power Systems & Control Systems Research Engineer
Idaho National Laboratory
Friday, April 17 | Seminar: 2:00 pm. | 230A Davis Hall

Charge dynamics and transport from terahertz spectroscopy
3/26/25
Alan Bristow, PhD
Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
West Virginia University
Friday, September 13, 2024 | 2 p.m. | 230 A Davis Hall
Unconventional Applications of Quantized Atomic Materials from Electronics to Sensors and Energy
3/26/25
Deji Akinwande, PhD
Chair Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Friday, September 27, 2024 | 2 p.m. | 230 A Davis Hall
Elzbieta Frackowiak
5/14/26
Elzbieta Frackowiak, PhD
Professor, Member of Polish Academia of Science and Academia Europaea,
Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Monday, February 10, 2025
Designing Excited States for Energy and Quantum-Information
3/26/25
Filipe da Jornada, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Friday, February 14, 2025 | 2 p.m. | 230 A Davis Hall
III-Nitride Ferroelectrics for Novel Non-Volatile Memory and Computing Architectures
3/26/25
Deep Jariwala, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Friday, March 28, 2025 | 2 p.m. | 230 A Davis Hall
Advanced Logic Scaling using Monolithic 3D Integration
6/23/26
Marko Radosavljević, PhD
Intel Corporation
Friday, April 4, 2025 | Seminar: 2 p.m. | Student Q&A: 3 p.m. | 230 A Davis Hall
Grid Modernization: Technological Advancements Beyond Smart Grid
4/15/25
John McDonald
Founder and CEO, JDM Associates
Friday, April 25, 2025 | Seminar: 2 p.m. | Student Q&A: 3 p.m. | 230 A Davis Hall
Electronic materials phenomena at nanometers and nanoseconds revealed by advanced electron microscopy
6/23/26
Daniel Durham, PhD
Assistant Scientist
Center for Nanoscale Materials
Argonne National Laboratory
Monday April 28, 2025 | Seminar: 2 p.m. | 230 A Davis Hall
Integrated sensing and communications: Blessings and curses
6/12/25
Husheng Li, PhD
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 | Seminar: 10 a.m. | 230 A Davis Hall
Finite-time convergence and sample complexity of actor-critic multi-objective reinforcement learning
6/24/25
Jia (Kevin) Liu, PhD
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University
Thursday, June 26, 2025 | Seminar: 2 p.m. | 230 A Davis Hall

2023 - 24
September 15	Geoff Wehmeyer, Rice University
September 29	Steven Koester, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
October 20	Feng Xu, University of Oklahoma
November 17	Daniel Gall, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
December 15	John Schaibley, University of Arizona
February 2	Saptarshi Das, Pennsylvania State University * CAST Seminar *
February 23	Xiaojia Wang, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities * CAST Seminar *
March 1	Nirmal Ramawamy, Micron Technology, Inc. * CAST Inaugural Distinguished Speaker Seminar *
March 8	Bayram Saparov, University of Oklahoma
March 15	Siu-Wai Chan, Columbia University
April 5	Matthew Singer, Thorlabs
April 12	Mike Santos, University of Oklahoma * CAST Seminar *
April 26	Gabriele Manganaro, Media Tek
May 10	Xi Wang, University of Delaware

2022 - 2023
August 16	Ian Sellers, University of Oklahoma
August 22	Jia (Kevin) Liu, Ohio State University
September 27	Advanced Energy Seminar
October 28	Yongmin Liu, Northeastern University
February 21	Howard Lee, UC Irvine
April 27	Chandan Biswas, Sungkyunkwan University
Yue Wang	UB PhD Candidate Seminar
June 16	Andrey Baydin, Rice University

2021-22
October 5	Jonathan BIrd, IEEE EDS Seminar
May 5	James Hone, Columbia University
May 12	Christopher Fritz, MOOG
June 27	Won Jong Yoo, Sungkyungkwan University

2020 - 2021
September 11	Ian Sellers, University of Oklahoma
September 18	Mark Hybertsen, Brookhaven National Labs
October 2	Kanad Basu, University of Texas, Dallas
October 8	Jon Martens, Anritsu
November 20	Swarup Bhunia, University of Florida
February 26	Dave Miller, Nicholas Lucek, Clean Air Technologies, Inc.

EE Seminar Series

Speakers and Dates

2025-26

2024-25

Past Seminars

Department of Electrical Engineering