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

These trainings are divided into a 101- and 201-level and will be offered on a termly basis in Stratton Hall 311. Both trainings will include creating an action plan and discovering new resources for continued learning. Please contact Lauren Feldman (they/she) at diversity@wpi.edu with any questions or accommodations requests. All are welcome to attend! 101: Learn about identities, pronouns, and how to advocate for your students and colleagues. A-Term: Wednesday, September 17, 2:00-3:30pm ET Zoom: Tuesday, October 14, 1:30-3:00pm ET B-Term: Tuesday, October 28, 11:00am-12:30pm ET 201: Learn about LGBTQIAP+ history, queer identity in other cultures, and queer liberation. Participants are encouraged to either attend the 101 training or have solid foundational knowledge before attending the 201 training. A-Term: Wednesday, September 24, 2:00-3:30pm ET B-Term: Wednesday, November 5, 1:30-3:00pm ET

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DIY Wednesdays are craft activities for you to de-stress and build social connections. This week, join us to make your own little hanging light from a mason jar! Drop-by, relax, have fun, and create with your friends or make new friends.