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Wireless Power Transmission Based on Retro-reflective Beamforming

May 13, 2026
10:00am - 11:00am
@ Holmes Hall 287; online available, check your email or contact the ECE office.
Dr. Mingyu Lu, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: VT-Refine: Learning Bimanual Assembly with Visuo-Tactile Feedback via Simulation Fine-Tuning

May 08, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: LAP: Language-Action Pre-Training Enables Zero-shot Cross-Embodiment Transfer

May 01, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: Closing the Reality Gap: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Deployment for Dexterous Force-Based Grasping and Manipulation

April 24, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

Scalable Quantum Information Processing with Photonic and CMOS-Integrated Artificial Atoms

April 17, 2026
9:30am
@ Zoom; check your email or contact us
Dr. Hyeongrak Choi, Stony Brook University

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: GraspVLA: a Grasping Foundation Model Pre-trained on Billion-scale Synthetic Action Data

April 17, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: SONIC: Supersizing Motion Tracking for Natural Humanoid Whole-Body Control

April 10, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

Covert Communication and Authentication for Next-Generation Wireless Networks

March 27, 2026
10:30am
@ Holmes Hall 287
Dr. Sang Kim, Iowa State University

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: ForceVLA: Enhancing VLA Models with a Force-aware MoE for Contact-rich Manipulation

March 27, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: π0.5: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization and π∗0.6: a VLA That Learns From Experience

March 20, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: SmolVLA: A vision-language-action model for affordable and efficient robotics

March 06, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: GR00T N1: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Humanoid Robots

February 27, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: World Simulation with Video Foundation Models for Physical AI

February 20, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: Cosmos-Reason1: From Physical Common Sense To Embodied Reasoning

February 13, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: π0: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control

February 06, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: FAST: Frequency-Space Action Sequence Tokenization

January 30, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model

January 23, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

HawAII Paper Reading Seminar Series: Molmo2: Open Weights and Data for Vision-Language Models with Video Understanding and Grounding

January 16, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Igor Molybog and participants

Solving Spinful Fermi Systems with a Self-Attention Ansatz

November 13, 2025
1:30pm - 2:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 411
Alexander Avdoshkin, Postdoc (Physics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Engineered Sensing and Automation Systems to Enhance Island Biosecurity

November 04, 2025
10:00am - 11:00am
@ Holmes Hall 389; online available, check your email or contact us
Dr. Daniel Jenkins, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Novel Measures of Automatic Complexity from Quantum Logic

October 30, 2025
1:30pm
@ Holmes Hall 389
Swarnalakshmi "Janani" Lakshmanan, PhD Candidate (Mathematics), University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Efficiently Probing Quantum Systems with Compressive Measurements

October 17, 2025
10:30am
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Zhihui Zhu, Ohio State University

Co-Designing Algorithms and Hardware for Machine Learning Systems

October 01, 2025
9:30am - 10:30am
@ Holmes Hall 389
Dr. Caiwen Ding, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Real-Time Biosensor Technology (*Will be rescheduled for a later date)

August 21, 2025
4:00pm - 5:00pm
@ Holmes Hall 389; online available, check your email or contact us
Dr. Tom Soh, Stanford University

Project‐Based Learning in Simulated Industry‐Like Conditions

May 23, 2025
3:00pm - 4:00pm
@ Holmes Hall 389; online available, check your email or contact us
Dr. Tomasz Pieciak, Universidad de Valladolid