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The Provost’s Awards Lecture Series is intended to honor and showcase the recipients of the Provost’s Awards and provide them an opportunity to present, share and discuss their work with the campus. Another goal of this series is to raise the level of academic and intellectual discourse among our colleagues, and to further enrich connections with others across the campus.
All lectures are held from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Henry Madden Library, Room 2206.
Wednesday, Nov. 6
2018-19 – Distinguished Achievement in Research, Scholarship or Creative Accomplishment
Youngwook Kim, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
"Applications of Deep Learning to the Radar Signal Processing”
In this talk, Dr. Kim will present the application of Deep Learning (DL) to the radar signal processing especially for the analysis of human motion. Recognizing human motion using radar has been an important research topic owing to its wide variety of applications, including in health care, security, surveillance, border patrols and robot control. This presentation demonstrates the concept of DL and how it works on processing radar signals.
Thursday, Nov. 21
2018-19 – Innovation
Wei Wu, Department of Construction Management
“Cultivating Apprenticeship Learning in Architecture, Engineering and Construction with Mixed Reality”
The architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry is facing a severe shortage of skilled workforce. To fill the voids left by retiring baby boomers and adapt to a rapidly changing industry environment, higher education is challenged to prepare college students with desired career-specific competency by cultivating the head, hand and heart (3H) apprenticeship learning with innovative technology such as Mixed Reality.
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