Robert T. Chien Distinguished Lecturer Series

The Robert T. Chien Distinguished Lecturer Series has been bringing eminent researchers from all over the world to speak at CSL since 1979. It is just one of the lasting legacies of the former CSL director who started the lecture series.

Speaker	Date	Title
Dr. Steven Lavalle University of Oulu	Oct. 11, 2023	"Robot planning and the path to minimalism"
Dr. Kristin Pettersen Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)	March 23, 2023	"Snake robotics research to a new class of marine robots"
Dr. Andrea Goldsmith Princeton University	April 26, 2022	"Imagining the Next Generation of Wireless Networks"
Dr. Christos Papadimitriou Columbia University	Feb. 9, 2022	"How does the brain beget the mind?"
Dr. Michael Levin Tufts University	Nov. 17, 2021	"Basal Cognition Outside the Brain: the future of regenerative medicine, AI, and synthetic living machines"
Dr. Claire Tomlin University of California, Berkeley	Feb. 10, 2021	"Safe Learning in Robotics"
Dr. Jon Kleinberg Cornell University	May 8, 2019	"Inherent Trade-Offs in Algorithmic Fairness"
Dr. Maja Mataric University of Southern California	February 27, 2019	"Automation vs. Augmentation – Assistive Robots and the Future of Work"
Dr. Dina Katabi Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	April 27, 2018	"Passive In-Home Health Monitoring: From Wearables to Invisibles"
Dr. Stephen Boyd Stanford University	October 13, 2017	"Convex Optimization"
Dr. H. Vincent Poor Princeton University	April 26, 2017	"Smart Grid: Energy Meets Information"
Dr. Jean Walrand University of California, Berkeley	March 7, 2017	"Scheduling Surgeries"
Dr. Andrew Chien University of Chicago	Sept. 6, 2016	"Zero-Carbon Cloud: Can Dispatchable Computing Loads Shrink Computing’s Rapidly Growing Carbon"
Paola Pirjanian iRobot	Sept. 9, 2015	“Robotics and Entrepreneurship”
Stéphane Mallat CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique	October 17, 2014	"Learning Signals, Images and Physics with Deep Neural Networks"
John N. Tsitsiklis Massachusetts Institute of Technology	April 29, 2014	"On the Power of (Even a Little) Resource Pooling and Flexibility"
A. Robert Calderbank Duke University	October 1, 2013	"Big Data at Duke"
Maurice Herlihy Brown University	April 9, 2013	"Type-Specific Synchronization for Software Transactional Memory"
Vijay Kumar University of Pennsylvania	April 8, 2013	"Aerial Robot Swarms"
Gottfried Ungerboeck University of Notre Dame	November 12, 2010	"PHY Layer Technologies: Evolutions in Transmission Rates, Transmission Efficiencies and Signal Processing"
Charlie Sodini Massachusetts Institute of Technology	November 13, 2009	"Silicon mm-Wave Imaging Arrays"
Dr. Karl Aström Lund University, Sweden	November 4, 2009	"The Future of Control"
K. Mani Chandy California Institute of Technology	March 10, 2009	"An Attempt at Integrating Ideas from Distributed Control, Temporal Logic and Game Theory"
Dr. Yannis Tsividis Columbia University	November 11, 2008	"Analog-Inspired DSP"
Dr. Martin Wikelski Princeton University	October 22, 2008
Dr. Shekhar Borkar Intel Fellow	April 11, 2006	"Extending and Expanding: Moor's Law Challenges and Opportunities"
Professor Nancy Lynch Massachusetts Institute of Technology	April 12, 2005	“Virtual Node Infrastructures For Mobile Wireless Networks”
Dr. Steven M. Bellovin AT&T Labs-Research	December 1, 2004	“Nuclear Weapons, Permissive Action Links, and the History Of Public Key Cryptography”
Professor Chenming Hu University of California, Berkeley	October 8, 2004	“How Much Longer CMOS?”
Professor Nancy Leveson Massachusetts Institute of Technology	May 4, 2004	“A New Model of Accident Causation”
Professor Joachim Hagenauer Institute of Communications Engineering Munich University of Technology	February 25, 2003	“The Turbo Principle in Communications Systems"
Professor Yale N. Patt University of Texas at Austin	December 5, 2002	“The High Performance Micro-processor”
Professor Ronald W. Schafer Georgia Institute of Technology	November 9, 2000	“DSP Research and Education: Past, Present, and Future”
Professor Mischa Schwartz Columbia University	April 12, 2000	“Multimedia Wireless Networks of the Future – Some Research Issues To Be Addressed"
Professor James L. Massey Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	March 29, 2000	“Prognosis for 21st Century Cryptography”
Dr. James F. Kaiser Duke University	February 25, 1999	“Engineering vs. Science in Problem Solving—A Perspective”
Professor Alberto Isidori University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Italy and Washington University, St. Louis, MO	September 15, 1997	“Nonlinear Feedback Design”
Dr. Tsuneo Nakahara Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.	December 6, 1996	“Fiber Optic Industry in a Borderless Economy”
Dr. Samuel H. Fuller Digital Equipment Corporation	October 29, 1996	“Future of Information Systems: Technology Drivers, Trends, and Possibilities"
Dr. Stephen W. Director Carnegie Mellon University	November 14, 1995	“A Formal Basis for Design Process Planning and Management"
Professor Brian Randell University of Newcastle upon Tyne	February 21, 1995	"Fault Tolerance in Concurrent Object-Oriented Software through Coordinated Error Recovery"
Professor E. J. Davison University of Toronto	May 2, 1994	“Intelligent Control of Complex Systems"
Dr. Hiroyuki Sakaki University of Tokyo and Japan Research Development Corp.	April 8, 1994	“Quantum Structure Materials and Devices for Advanced Electronics - Current Status and Outlook"
Professor William A. Wulf University of Virginia	December 9, 1993	“Processors are Getting Faster. Faster than Memories are Getting Faster"
Dr. Pallab Chatterjee Texas Instruments	October 13, 1993	“Impact of Gigachip Technologies on Future Systems"
Professor Bede Liu Princeton University	October 6, 1993	“Some Recent Work on Motion Compensated Video Coding"
Dr. William C. Holton Semiconductor Research Corporation	September 17, 1993	“The Role of the University in Today's Economic Environment"
Dr. Kenneth L. Davis Motorola Corporation	September 17, 1993	“University-Industry Research Relationships"
Dr. J. Iafrate U.S. Army Research Office	September 17, 1993	“Managing Science and Technology"
Professor Dimitri P. Bertsekas Massachusetts Institute of Technology	March 22, 1993	“Auction Algorithms: A New Generation of Linear Network Optimization Methods"
Professor Robert M. Gray Stanford University	March 15, 1993	“Clustering and Classification Trees for Image and Compression Classification"
Professor Ernest S. Kuh University of California, Berkeley	November 1, 1991	“Physical Design in Microelectronics: Past, Present and Future"
Professor C. V. Ramamoorthy University of California, Berkeley	April 23, 1991	“Software Engineering: Status and Trends"
Professor J. K. Aggarwal University of Texas at Austin	March 8, 1991	“Computer Vision: A Perspective"
Professor Donald L. Snyder Washington University in St. Louis	October 26, 1990	“Stargazing with Estimation Theory (Application of Medical Imaging Techniques)"
Dr. Jerry M. Woodall IBM Research Division T. J. Watson Research Center	April 10, 1990	“The Rise and Fall of GaAs. What's Next?"
Professor Yakov Tsypkin Institute of Control Problems Moscow, USSR	December 5, 1989	“When is it Optimal to Mix Online and Batch Data Processing?"
Professor Thomas M. Cover Stanford University	November 10, 1989	“Information Theory and the Stock Market"
Professor Algirdas Avizienis University of California, Los Angeles	March 14, 1989	“Can We Write Software that We Can Trust"
Professor Michael Brady University of Oxford	April 21, 1988	“The Problems of Robotics"
Professor Robert G. Gallager Massachusetts Institute of Technology	October 13, 1987	“Energy Limited Communication Channels: Coding, Multiaccess and Spread Spectrum"
Professor John Bardeen University of Illinois Nobel Prize winner	May 12, 1987	“Recent Developments in Superconductivity"
Dr. Klaus von Klitzing Max Planck Institute	October 13, 1986	“Physics and Applications of the Quantum Hall Effect"
Dr. John Hopfield California Institute of Technology	April 9, 1986	“Collective Computation by 'Neutral' Networks"
Dr. Robert E. Brayton University of California	December 6, 1985	“Algorithms for Optimizing Silicon Compilers"
Dr. Horst L. Stormer AT&T Bell Laboratories	September 23, 1985	“Two-Dimensional Physics in High Magnetic Fields"
Dr. Edward J. McCluskey Stanford University	September 4, 1985	“VLSI-Oriented Built-In Self Test”
Prof. Mark A. Aizerman Institute of Control Sciences Moscow, USSR	March 6, 1985	“Search for the Better: A Broader View on Optimization"
Dr. W. Fichtner AT&T Bell Laboratories	March 5, 1985	“Supercomputers in VLSI Technology Development and Device Design"
Professor James L. Merz University of California, Santa Barbara	February 18, 1985	“The Visible and the Invisible of Semiconductors: Defects and Other Effects"
Professor Stewart D. Personick Bell Communications Research, Inc.	September 12, 1984	“Optical Fiber Communications Technology and Applications - Present and Future"
Professor T. C. McGill California Institute of Technology	April 25, 1984	“Superlattices and Small Structures for Electronic Devices for the 1990s"
Professor Azriel Rosenfeld University of Maryland at College Park	April 10, 1984	“Human and Machine Vision”
Professor Karl Astrom Lund Institute of Technology	December 5, 1983	“Theory and Applications of Adaptive Control"
Dr. J. L. Lions Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et an Automatic	March 10, 1982	“Trends in Homogenization Theory"
Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi LINKABIT Corporation	November 3, 1980	“Some Theoretical Foundations for New Communication Network Services"
Professor Hans Bethe Cornell University Nobel Prize	May 6, 1980	“Nuclear Energy”
Professor D.O. Pederson University of California, Berkeley	April 9, 1980	“The Status of Computer Aided Design for Integrated Circuits in the U.S., Europe and Japan"
Professor Herbert Simon Carnegie-Mellon University Nobel Prize	November 14, 1979	"Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making"
Dr. Robert W. Lucky Bell Telephone Laboratories	October 25, 1979	“Telecommunication in the Future”