Lab Updates and News

Lab News

Throughout the year, Professor Park and affiliated individuals with the SPEC Lab attend various gatherings. Below are a gatherings that highlight the SPEC Lab or noteworthy news items that happen.

sung yeul park at DOE EERE workshop March 2024

Sung Yeul Park attended a Department of Energy EERE Workshop in March 2024. He presented a poster titled, "Development and Validation of a new PV degradation detection method using Light Intensity Modulated Impedance Spectroscopy."

connecticut invention convention

Sung Yuel Park was a judge at the Connecticut Invention Convention in June 2024.

sung yeul park at a IEEE conference

Sung Yeul Park attended the IEEE ICON 2024 Conference. His poster was titled, "Elevation Impact on LED Panel's Irradiance for Light Intensity Modulated Impedance Spectroscopy.

Events Happening at Engineering

At the College of Engineering, we have various events happening that involve the university, the community and even non-students.

  • Apr
    6
    Doctoral Dissertation Oral Proposal, Yuan Zhuang
    Homer Babbidge Library
    10:30 AM

    Title: Learning Good Policies Across Scales

    Ph.D. Candidate: Yuan Zhuang

    Major Advisor: Dr. Fei Miao

    Associate Advisors: Dr. Jonathan Shihao Ji, Dr. Dongjin Song

    Date/Time: Monday, April 6th, 2026, 10:30 am

    Location: HBL1947 room

  • Apr
    7
    Doctoral Dissertation Oral Proposal, Mohamed E. Najd
    Homer Babbidge Library
    9:00 AM

    Title: Towards Scalable and Secure Blockchain Systems and Applications

    Ph.D. Candidate: Mohamed E. Najd

    Major Advisor: Dr. Ghada Almashaqbeh

    Associate Advisors: Dr. Alexander Russell, Dr. Amir Herzberg

    Date/Time: Tuesday, April 7th, 2024, 9:00 am

    Location: HBL1947 room

  • Apr
    8
    Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense, Marjan Hosseini
    ITE Building
    1:30 PM

    Title:Integrating Probabilistic and Algorithmic Graph Approaches for Latent Structure Discovery in DNA and RNA and transcriptomes

    Ph.D. Candidate: Marjan Hosseini

    Major Advisor: Prof. Derek Aguiar
    Associate Advisors: Prof. Ion Mandoiu, Prof. Sheida Nabavi, Prof. Leighton Core

    Date/Time: Wednesday, April 8th, 2026, 1:30 pm
    Location: ITE201 room and Webex

  • Apr
    9
    Ph.D Defense: Yi Zhang - Electrical and Computer Engineering
    10:00 AM

    Dissertation Title: Attack-Resilient Control of Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems via Model-Based and Data-Driven Approaches

  • Apr
    10
    BME Seminar Series: Timothy Duerr, PhD.
    10:45 AM

    Timothy Duerr, PhD.
    Research Scientist
    Institute for Chemical Imaging of Living Systems (CILS)
    Northeastern University