CME Seminar Series

Spring 2026 Seminar Speakers

February 6

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Dr. Zach Beiley, PhD, Manager of Systems Reliability at Form Energy, Berkeley

March 6

Dr. Marco Rolandi, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

April 10: TBD

Fall 2025 Seminar Speakers

October 3

Dr. Tuan Anh Pham

PhD,

Group leader of Quantum Simulation Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore

December 5

Dr. Anuja Nirmal

PhD,

FEA Engineering at Etched AI

Spring 2025 Seminar Speakers

February 28

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Peter Marshall

^PhD,
^{Nasa Ames}

Fall 2024 Seminar Speakers

October 4

Morgan Anderson

^PhD,

^{Nasa Ames}

November 1

Kim Haegyeom Kim

^PhD,

^{Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory}

December 6

Michael Miller

^PhD,

^{Biotechnology R&D Strategy Leader}

Spring 2024

February 2

Michael Spaid

^{Founder and CEO,}

^{ConductiveBio Incorporated,}^{Mountain View}

March 1

Aiming Yan

^{Assistant Professor, Physics}
^{University of California, Santa Cruz}

May 3

Dr. Samira Bagheri

^{Sr. Operation Manager,}
^{EMD Electronics, California}

Fall 2023

September 1

Dr. Yayoi Takamura

^{Professor and Chair, Materials Science and Engineering}
^{University of California, Davis}

October 13

Hal Alper

Dr. Hal Alper

^{Professor, Chemical Engineering}
^{University of Texas, Austin}

November 3

Bala Rad.

Dr. Balachandran G. Radhakrishnan

^{Principal Researcher, Material Informatics}
^{Nissan Motor Corporation, Santa Clara}

December 1

Chris Weber Dr. Christopher Weber

^{Professor, Physics}
^{Santa Clara University, Santa Clara}

Spring 2023

February 3

Dr. Venkattraman Ayyaswamy

Dr. Venkattraman Ayyaswamy

^{Assistant Professor}
^{University of California, Merced}

March 3

Dr. Ibo Matthews

^{Division Leader, Materials Science Division,}
^{Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory}

April 7

Dr. Matthew J. Ellis

^{Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering}
^{University of California, Davis}

May 5

Dr. David Lederman

^{Professor and Director, Materials Science & Engineering Initiative}
^{University of California, Santa Cruz}

Fall 2022

September 2

Felipe Jornada, PhD

^{Assistant Professor}
^{Material Science and Engineering}
^{Stanford University}

October 7

Gianina Alina Negoita

^{Senior AI Engineer and Technical Lead,}
^{Volkswagen Group of America,}
^{Innovation and Engineering Center California.}

November 4

Eric Pop, PhD

^{Professor of Electrical Engineering,}
^{By Courtesy, Material Science and Engineering,}
^{Stanford University}

December 2

Dr Huizhong Xu, PhD

^{Professor of Physics and Astronomy}
^{San Francisco State University}