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.

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Title:The Circuit Frontier: Innovating and Expanding ASIC Solutions for Enhanced Biosensing and Seamless Wireless Communication Abstract:This talk will introduce Cyber-Secure Biological Systems, leveraging living sensors constructed from engineered biological entities seamlessly integrated with solid-state circuits. This unique synergy harnesses the advantages of biology while incorporating the reliability and communication infrastructure of electronics, offering a unique solution to societal challenges in healthcare and environmental monitoring. In this talk, examples of Cyber-Secure Biological Systems, such as miniaturized ingestible bioelectronic capsules for gastrointestinal tract monitoring and hybrid microfluidic-bioelectronic systems for environmental monitoring, will be presented. Additionally, I will introduce a universal noise-centric data decoding approach using GRAND that facilitates ultra-low-energy wireless communications, a critical requirement for the success of these biological systems and numerous other applications. In this talk, I will delve into the intricacies of interdisciplinary approach for system design, spotlighting the potential of energy-efficient integrated circuits in the domains of biosensing and wireless communications. These collaborative research projects involve MIT BE/MechE, BU ECE/BME, and MIT RLE-Northeastern University. Speaker:Rabia Tugce YazicigilAssociate Professor, ECE Department, Boston University Bio:Rabia Tugce Yazicigil is an Associate Professor of ECE Department at Boston University and a Network Faculty at Sabanci University. She was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT and received her Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 2016. Her research interests lie at the interface of integrated circuits, bio-sensing, signal processing, security, and wireless communications to innovate system-level solutions for future energy constrained applications. She has received numerous awards, including the NSF CAREER Award (2024), Early Career Excellence in Research Award for the Boston University College of Engineering (2024), the Catalyst Foundation Award (2021), Boston University ENG Dean Catalyst Award (2021), and “Electrical Engineering Collaborative Research Award” for her Ph.D. research (2016). Dr. Yazicigil is an active member of the Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Women-in-Circuits committee and is a member of the 2015 MIT EECS Rising Stars cohort. She was selected as an IEEE SSCS and CASS Distinguished Lecturer for the 2024-2026 term and elected to the IEEE SSCS AdCom as a Member-at-Large in 2024. She was selected as a member of the 2024 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) cohort. She serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I (TCAS-I) and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Artificial Intelligence (TCASAI). Additionally, she is the Workshop Co-Chair of the IEEE ESSERC 2024, and a Technical Program Committee member of the IEEE ISSCC and RFIC. Host: Professor Ulkuhan Guler