Presenter: Luat Vuong, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, UC Riverside Description: Given the growing computational demands of machine learning, how can we scale approaches for sifting through large volumes of […]
Presented by: Edward Wang Description: “What does it actually look like to invent something? In this talk, I trace the decade-long journey of turning a smartphone into a blood pressure monitor, from […]
Sanya Cowal from the UCSC Environmental Studies Department In Person Location: ISB 221 Zoom Link One of the most pressing global challenges considers how to combine sustainable agricultural land use […]
Presenter: Riddhiman Bhattacharya, Postdoc, UCSC Description: We propose an active learning approach for dynamic fair resource allocation problems. In contrast to prior work that assumes full feedback from all agents […]
Presenter: Marcos Calegari Andrade, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Cruz Description: In this talk, I will demonstrate how neural networks can represent the high-dimensional potential energy surfaces of […]
Presenter: Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Abstract: Distributed programming is notoriously difficult. Not only are distributed systems concurrent, they pose additional challenges including data consistency and fault tolerance. […]
Presenter: Katherine Bonini, Senior Genetic Counselor @ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Description: It has long been argued that families are central to genomic medicine. Genomic risk, diagnosis, and […]
Presenter: Jaeyoung Lim, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Agile Robotics and Perception Lab at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of California, Berkeley Description: Monitoring large-scale environments is essential […]
John Morgan from the UCSC Environmental Studies Department In Person Location: ISB 221 Zoom Link As outdoor recreation grows in popularity, its effects on wildlife remain poorly understood. This dissertation […]
Presenter: Guan’ao Yan, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University Description: Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics technologies now let us map cellular diversity and tissue organization at high resolution, but the computational methods […]
Presenter: Dr. Pulkit Dubey, Postdoc, UC Santa Cruz Description: Neural climate emulators such as NeuralGCM and LUCIE offer efficient, differentiable alternatives to General Circulation Models (GCMs), producing climate predictions at […]
Presenters: Prof. Karl-Erik Arzen (Co-Director of WASP and Lund University), Dr. Paul Townend (WASP Graduate School management and Umeå University), and Carl Magnus Bruhner (Linkoping University) Abstract: The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems, and Software Program (WASP) is the largest research initiative in Swedish history, with a budget of over $700M and a research focus AI […]
Please join us for our BME 280B seminar series Thursday (5/7/26) in person at Biomed 200. The event will run from 11:40 AM to 1:15 PM and feature our 4th […]
Please register by Monday, May 4, 2026. If attending virtually, a Zoom link will be shared after you register. Join us for the International Research Opportunities Forum: focus on Latin […]
Presenter: Aubrey Streit Krug; Director of the Perennial Cultures Lab at The Land Institute About the speaker: Aubrey Streit Krug is a writer and researcher who investigates relationships among humans, […]
Presenter: Asir Intisar Khan, Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), University of California, Berkeley Description: With the rise in global data demands, energy efficiency in electronics is […]
Liz Carlisle from UC Santa Barbara In Person Location: ISB 221 Zoom Link Living Roots makes the case for putting perennial foods at the center of our farms and our […]
Presenter: Anil Damle, Associate Professor, Cornell University Description: The column subset selection problem is a classical topic in numerical linear algebra, with renewed interest driven by applications in computational quantum […]
Presenter: Yu Zhang, Associate Professor, ECE Department of UC, Santa Cruz Description: Modern cyber-physical systems present statistical learning problems that deviate significantly from standard i.i.d. supervised settings. In particular, two […]
Please join us for the fourth talk in the FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Melissa Mahoney giving her talk, “The Future of Blue: Co-Creating a Thriving Seafood Economy in Monterey Bay”.
Melissa Mahoney brings over two decades of experience at the intersection of sustainable seafood, fisheries policy, and marine innovation along the U.S. West Coast. Since August 2022, Melissa has served as Executive Director of the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust, where she leads initiatives to stabilize local fishing operations, expand community seafood access, and revitalize Monterey Bay’s working waterfront.
Preceding the talk please join us for a networking coffee hour (snacks provided) and a student-only lunch after the talk.