You're invited to attend

Gebhardt Lecture

featuring 

Subra Suresh

Former President of CMU
Professor at Large, Brown University
Vannevar Bush Professor Emeritus, MIT
Former Director, National Science Foundation

Wednesday, April 10
11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
John Lewis Student Center,
3rd floor Atlantic Theatre

About the Seminar: 
This lecture focuses on how deep learning from nature and machines can catalyze opportunities for enhancing human creativity and facilitate new scientific discoveries and technological innovation. Here, research involving experiments, computational simulations, and deep learning from nature and machines are combined across disciplinary boundaries to suggest pathways to realize unprecedented mechanical, functional, and/or electronic properties of materials for a variety of applications in engineering, energy systems, soft robotics, and biomedicine. We present research results and applications from three different fields: materials engineering, biomedicine, and plant science.

About the Speaker: 
Subra Suresh is Professor at Large at Brown University and Vannevar Bush Professor Emeritus at MIT. He has previously served as Director of the National Science Foundation, President of Carnegie Mellon University, President of Nanyang Technological University Singapore, and Dean of Engineering at MIT. Elected as a member of all three US national academies of engineering, sciences and medicine, Professor Suresh is a recipient of the National Medal of Science, the highest national honor for an American scientist, from the White House. He has also been awarded the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, the highest recognition from the Republic of France by the President of France, and the Padma Shri medal from the President of India. He has authored three books, more than 300 research articles, and 30 patent applications. The NSF I-Corps Program created by Prof Suresh while serving as NSF Director is now widely regarded as one of the most impactful programs in helping to translate scientific discoveries into technological innovation and for societal benefit. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors and/or as a member of science/technology advisory boards of public and private companies and government agencies in the USA, Europe, and Asia.