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Join Our Monthly AI User Group Brown Bag Lunch!Curious about AI? Join faculty, staff, and students for an informal monthly gathering where we explore the opportunities, challenges, and real-world applications of artificial intelligence across campus and beyond.Each month we'll dive into a featured AI theme, but the conversation is yours to shape—bring your questions, experiences, and ideas. Whether you're an AI enthusiast, skeptical observer, or somewhere in between, your perspective adds value to our dialogue.What to expect:Relaxed, collaborative discussions in a brown bag formatMonthly themes to spark conversation (with plenty of room to explore tangents!)Open submissions for future discussion topicsA welcoming space for all experience levelsPack your lunch and join us for engaging conversations about how AI is reshaping our work, learning, and daily lives. Together, we'll navigate this rapidly evolving landscape and learn from each other's diverse experiences and viewpoints.

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.

Title:Atomically Thin Bioelectronics, Wearable E-Tattoos, and Biosensors Abstract:Conventional electronic components are rigid and stiff, making them poorly suited for integration with soft, dynamic biological systems such as skin, nerves, and organs. Atomically thin materials such as graphene and other emerging 2D materials offer a transformative alternative. Their flexibility, transparency, and biocompatibility enable seamless interfaces with living tissue while providing powerful electronic and sensing capabilities.In this seminar, Dr. Dmitry Kireev will highlight how these materials are driving the next generation of bioelectronics. He will discuss graphene microelectrode arrays and transistors for high-fidelity biointerfacing; field-effect transistors as ultrasensitive biosensors for pathogens and biomarkers; imperceptible graphene electronic tattoos for non-invasive monitoring of physiological signals such as blood pressure; cardiac implants; and biocompatible synaptic transistors that emulate brain-like processing. Collectively, these advances open new horizons for wearable, implantable, and neuromorphic bioelectronics.By merging the atomic precision of nanomaterials with the complexity of biology, Dr. Kireev’s work demonstrates how 2D material bioelectronics can transform healthcare, enabling continuous monitoring, early disease detection, and novel brain–machine interfaces. Speaker:Dmitry KireevAssistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Bio:Prof. Dmitry Kireev is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, working at the frontiers of Bioelectronics: between Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Nanoelectronics, and Neuromorphic Computing. His “2D Bioelectronics” Lab is contributing to the development of bioelectronic devices with fundamental implications in Healthcare, Wearables, and Translational Biomedical Devices. Previously, he worked as a Research Associate / Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his PhD work in 2017 at the Institute of Bioelectronics (ICS-8/IBI-3) of Forschungszentrum Julich and RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He is a recipient of a prestigious EMM-NANO scholarship and performed his MSc studies in KULeuven (2012) and Chalmers University of Technology (2013) with majors in nanoelectronics. Dr. Kireev has published 40+ primary research articles in broad scientific outlets, including high-impact journals (i.e., Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Science Advances, ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters), and field-specific topical journals (i.e., Advanced Healthcare Materials, IEEE tNANO, Carbon). Besides, he published few book chapters and review articles, contributing to the general development of the fields of bioelectronics and 2D materials.Host: Professor Ulkuhan Guler

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 Thursdays! 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. Mindful Thursdays: 2:15PM to 2:35PM Center for Well-Being, Daniels Hall 102E Zoom: https://wpi.zoom.us/j/186050714 Each Friday an email will be sent out to the group called Mindfulness Tools To-Go which will include information about meditations, poems shared during the week, and mindful resources. If you have questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact Robin Benoit, rbenoit@wpi.edu

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