Seminar with Professor Sylvia Herbert

Thursday, May 20, 2021 (11:00am - 12:00pm)

About our speaker: Sylvia Herbert is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California San Diego where she leads the Safe Autonomous Systems Lab. Her research focuses on developing new techniques for safe and efficient control in autonomous systems. These techniques should be able to quickly adapt to unexpected changes and new information in the autonomous system or the environment and are backed by both rigorous theory and physical testing on robotic platforms. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley, where she studied with Professor Claire Tomlin in the Hybrid Systems Lab and the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Group. She earned her BS/MS at Drexel University in Mechanical Engineering and is the recipient of the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fellowship, NSF GRFP, UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, and the Berkeley EECS Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award for Altruism.

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Industry Panel

Friday, April 30, 2021 (12:00pm - 1:00pm)

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Speakers:

Elynn Wu ‘20: Elynn is a software engineer at Vulcan, working on building better and faster climate models. Before joining Vulcan, she was an application engineer at Siemens supporting CFD software. She graduated from UCSD in 2020 with a PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Her research focused on Stratocumulus cloud modeling for weather and solar forecast applications. 

Frances Su ‘18: Frances is an Applications Scientist at Sigray, Inc, which is a Bay Area startup developing x-ray instrumentation for material analysis. She graduated from UCSD in 2018 with a Ph.D. in Materials Science, studying biological and bio-inspired materials.

Liz Lee ‘18: Liz is a mechanical engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). She graduated from UCSD in 2018 with an M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering and currently works in quality control and quality assurance for the LBNL superconducting cable facility. Her professional interests include instrumentation development and analysis. 

Rocio Pena ‘18: Rocio is a Senior Process Engineer at Intel Corporation in Chandler, AZ. She graduated from UCSD with her MS in Materials Science and Engineering in 2018 and her BS in Chemical Engineering in 2015. She previously worked as a process engineer in semiconductor package manufacturing and then moved to her current role at Intel in 2018 to work as PE in the latest high volume chip manufacturing technology. Her interests have always lied with nanotechnology, specifically in semiconductor applications, and most recently have transitioned to a love for data analytics and automation. Her motivation at work is driven by the narrative of “How can I tell a story with data?” and is currently working to strengthen her data visualization and automation skills. In her free time she loves to travel around the US/world with her fiancé and always makes a note of riding a bike wherever she goes.

Seminar with Professor Stephanie Lindsey

Thursday, April 22, 2021 (9:00am - 10:00am)

About our speaker: Before joining UCSD MAE, Dr. Lindsey (website) was both a Whitaker International Postdoctoral Scholar and a National Institute of Health T32 Postdoctoral Fellow. She completed the Whitaker postdoctoral fellowship in Montpellier France, before joining the Cardiovascular Computation Lab at Stanford University. Her research has focused on cardiovascular remodeling in both native vessels and tissue-engineered constructs and its association with hemodynamics. She relies heavily on numerical simulations to close the gap between experimental and clinical data. Dr. Lindsey earned her BS in biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, where she began research in the Mechanics of Morphogenesis Lab. She received her MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University in the Cardiovascular Developmental Bioengineering Lab. 

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Reasonable Expectations with Professor James Friend

Thursday, March 4, 2021 (5:00pm - 6:00pm)

About our speaker: James Friend is a Professor in the Center for Medical Devices, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Dept. of Surgery at the University of California, San Diego, leading the Medically Advanced Devices Laboratory. He spent fourteen years abroad as a faculty member in Japan and Australia before returning to the US. His research interests are principally in exploring and exploiting acoustic phenomena at small scales, mainly for biomedical applications. Over the years, he has over 280 peer-reviewed research publications (H-factor = 49) and thirty-one patents in process or granted, completed thirty-three postgraduate students and supervised eighteen postdoctoral staff, and been awarded over $29 million in competitive grant-based research funding.

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Career Search with Giulia Hoffmann

Thursday, February 11, 2021 (11:00am - 12:00pm)

About our speaker: Giulia Hoffmann, Ph.D., is an Associate Director at the UC San Diego Career Center. She provides career and professional development coaching to graduate students, with a particular focus on advising and programming for PhD students. After spending the last half of her graduate studies exploring multiple career options, she joined the Career Center in 2015, and continues to be motivated by the aim of supporting graduate students in their own career transitions. 

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Seminar with Professor Tania Morimoto

Friday, January 29, 2021 (11:00am - 12:00pm)

About our speaker: Tania K. Morimoto is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department (website). She obtained her undergraduate degree at MIT, followed by her masters and PhD degrees at Stanford University, all in Mechanical Engineering. Her research focuses on the design and control of flexible continuum robots for increased dexterity and accessibility in uncertain environments, particularly for minimally invasive surgical interventions. She is also working to address the challenges of designing human-in-the-loop interfaces for controlling these flexible and soft robots, including the integration of haptic feedback to improve surgical outcomes. 

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Seminar with Professor Lisa Poulikakos

Thursday, December 3, 2020 (4:00pm - 5:00pm)

About our speaker: Dr. Lisa Poulikakos is an Assistant Professor in MAE and the director of the Poulikakos Lab (website). She received her PhD in Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zürich and completed her postdoctoral research in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. She has received the ETH Medal for outstanding doctoral theses, the L'Oréal USA For Women in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Swiss National Science Foundation Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship. Her research focuses on the science and engineering of nanophotonic materials to controllably enhance, probe, and influence naturally-occurring light-matter interactions. 

You can refer to this 2-minute video as an introduction to Professor Poulikakos and her research.

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Seminar with Professor Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez

Thursday, November 12, 2020 (4:00pm - 5:00pm)

About our speaker: Dr. Hidalgo-Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor in MAE, affiliated with the Center for Energy Research, and the director of the Renewable Energy and Advanced Mathematics (REAM) lab (website link).  She holds a Ph.D. and two M.Sc. from the University of California, Berkeley in Energy and Resources and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. She graduated as an industrial and electrical engineer from Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. She is an NSF GRFP fellow, Siebel Scholar in Energy, Rising Star in EECS, and has been awarded the UC Berkeley GOP and the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (for teaching Convex Optimization). Professor Hidalgo-Gonzalez's work focuses on high penetration of renewable energy optimization, control theory and machine learning. 

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Goal Setting Seminar with Janette Williams

Thursday, October 29, 2020 (2:30pm - 3:30pm)

(1) Learn strategies to set effective goals. 

(2) Define a personal and professional goal for yourself. 

(3) Help us help you. What events can we host that will help you achieve your goals?

About our speaker: Janette Williams has over 29 years of experience working in private, public, non-profit and government sectors. She recently completed an interim Executive Director position at the Gordon Center Engineering Leadership at Jacobs School of Engineering and prior to that she worked for the Center for Creative Leadership. Earlier in her career, Janette worked in the financial industry as a Senior Relationship Manager for 12 years. Janette earned a B.S. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego and a Masters of International Business, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, San Diego.