• CSE Colloquium – One Developer, Two Decades, and Thirty Million Users Later: How Python Tutor Became a Long-Lasting and Widely-Used Academic Software Project

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Philip Guo, UCSD Abstract: Since 2010 I have been developing Python Tutor (https://pythontutor.com/), a tool that lets users write code in a web browser and see what happens step-by-step as the computer runs it. The tool visualizes variables, objects, pointers, data structures, and stack frames. These visuals help students to debug their homework, teachers […]

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  • ECE 290 Seminar: “Enhancing Spectrum Utilization Through Measurement Science”

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presented by: Adam Wunderlich, Group Leader of Applied Systems Metrology @ NIST Description: As modern wireless networks crowd into shared and congested radio frequency (RF) bands, traditional spectrum engineering faces escalating challenges with coexistence and interference mitigation. Measurement science plays a key role in advancing technologies and shaping policies that ensure the spectrum is used […]

  • ECE 290 Seminar: “From Stochastic Planning to Safe and Resilient Autonomy: Learning and Control for Robotic Systems”

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presented by: Francesco Trotti, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow @ University of Bologna, Italy Description: “Developing autonomous robotic systems capable of operating reliably in uncertain and dynamic environments requires the integration of planning, learning, and control while addressing fundamental challenges related to safety, robustness, and computational efficiency. This talk will present a research journey from stochastic […]

  • Bondar, G. (AM) – Geometric and Graph Structured Optimal Transport for Learning and Control

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    We motivate, formulate, and solve several structured optimal transportation (OT) problems for learning and control. The field of OT had its inception in 1781, when Gaspard Monge sought the optimal map to transport mass from a given initial distribution to a desired terminal distribution. Both OT and its entropy-regularized variant, the Schrödinger bridge problem (SBP), […]