Series Description: WPI’s “purpose-driven research” strategy provides a thriving, supportive environment for applied research that focuses on translating scientific discoveries into real-world solutions. The SOAR series features panel discussions that highlight several funding opportunities, with faculty members who have successfully secured research funding sharing their experiences along with representatives from the funding agencies. The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) serves as a global hub for the life sciences ecosystem, driving innovation through strategic investments, strengthening Massachusetts’ leadership in the sector, accelerating commercialization of treatments and cures, and advancing job creation, economic growth, and STEM workforce development.Carla Reimold, Ph.D. – Executive Vice President of Scientific Innovation and Strategic Investments (MLSC). She develops and manages the investment strategy for several initiatives in order to support the needs of the Commonwealth’s life sciences ecosystem. She holds degrees in biological and agricultural engineering (LSU) and biomedical engineering (NC State/UNC).Audrey Medeiros, Ph.D. – Program Manager of the Scientific Innovation and Strategic Investments team, including ARC (Accelerating Research through Collaboration) and Research Infrastructure. She manages life science investment programs to drive scientific innovation, growth, and collaboration across public, private, and non-profit sectors. Christina Bailey-Hytholt, Ph.D. – Chemical and biomedical engineer (WPI) whose research in biomaterials and drug/gene delivery focuses on developing placental models and designing lipid-based therapeutics to advance women’s health.Eric Young, Ph.D. – Biological and chemical engineer (WPI) whose research in synthetic biology focuses on reprogramming yeasts, bacteria, and fungi to produce valuable molecules through engineered metabolism.Registration: Registration is required for this event. Please fill out the form below to register and receive a calendar invite to the event.

Welcome to the WPI i3 Lab Demo Day!Join us for an exciting celebration of student innovation and entrepreneurship, where bold ideas come to life! At the heart of this event is a dynamic pitch competition, offering a unique platform for emerging startups to showcase their vision, gain invaluable exposure, and compete for a share of more than $60,000 prize pool! Whether you're looking to launch your venture or take it to the next level, this is your moment to shine!

Join us for an exciting celebration of student innovation and entrepreneurship, where bold ideas come to life! At the heart of this event is a dynamic pitch competition, offering a unique platform for emerging startups to showcase their vision, gain invaluable exposure, and compete for a share of more than $60,000 prize pool! Whether you're looking to launch your venture or take it to the next level, this is your moment to shine!

Looking for a way to make your day less stressful and more mindful...take some much-needed time for yourself and join us for Mindful Wednesdays! Drop-in meditation sessions are open to the entire WPI community, and no experience is necessary. A certified meditation teacher will offer guided meditations appropriate for both beginners as well as experienced meditators. People can join in person or via zoom.

Training will be performed in accordance AHA Guidelines and will teach Adult, Child, Infant CPR, as well as Automatic External Defibrillation (AED) and First Aid training. Attendees successfully completing this 4-hour course will be issued (AHA) Completion Cards, within 30-days of completion. This course is intended for WPI Faculty, Students, and Staff.Seats are limited. Registration is required to attend.

Title:Toward (Truly) Resilient Neural Networks in High-Stakes Mobile Systems Abstract:Mobile autonomous systems extensively leverage neural networks to implement a wide variety of high-stakes inference and control tasks (e.g, obstacle detection for unmanned navigation). As such, guaranteeing that neural networks will be resilient to both intentional and unintentional perturbations becomes necessary. Most of existing approaches tackle this issue at training time, which cannot address sudden and/or unpredictable perturbations. While test-time adaptation has been proposed, existing work takes a series of unrealistic assumptions that does not make them applicable in mobile autonomous systems. In this seminar, we are going to present our recent research results on ensuring resilience in neural networks operating in the context of mobile systems. We will conclude the seminar with discussions on ongoing research efforts in and possible research directions. Speaker:Francesco RestucciaAssistant Professor, ECE Department, Northeastern University Bio:Francesco Restuccia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. Prof. Restuccia’s main research focus is addressing the fundamental challenges related to edge-assisted data-driven resilient mobile systems. Prof. Restuccia’s research is funded by several grants from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. Prof. Restuccia has received the DARPA Young Faculty Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights Award, the Mario Gerla Award in Computer Science, as well as best paper awards at IEEE INFOCOM (twice) and IEEE WOWMOM. Prof. Restuccia has been granted 14 US patents and has been cited 5000+ times with an h-index of 39. He regularly serves as a TPC member and reviewer for several top-tier ACM and IEEE conferences and has served in the editorial board of Computer Networks, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.Host: Professor Ulkuhan Guler