Data-Driven Seminar: Dario Lopez-Pintor
Title: Data-driven Machine Learning Models to Solve Complex Combustion Problems
Abstract: The Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories is an internationally recognized leader in applied combustion research with unique expertise, laboratory, and computational facilities enabling development of the fundamental understanding needed to optimize new combustion technologies and adapt them to alternative fuels.
In this seminar, recent activities performed at Sandia in collaboration with University of Washington and Universidade de Vigo and focused on using data-driven machine learning models to solve complex combustion-related problems will be discussed. Examples include prediction of fuel properties and optimization of fuel composition for aviation applications and according to user-defined merit functions. More specifically, the Fuel Optimizer, a modeling approach for evaluation, screening and design of synthetic aviation turbine fuels (SATFs) will be presented. The development of this tool w…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 337. Accessibility Contact: llederer@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit cassyni.com. Data-Driven Seminar: Boris Kramer
Title: Data-driven Lagrangian reduced-order models and control of soft swimming robots
Abstract: Soft swimming robots provide a quieter and safer solution to underwater exploration than other forms of autonomous underwater vehicles, which are often propeller-driven. Anguilliform swimming is an effective mode of locomotion utilized by elongated fish like eels and oarfish to travel long distances. It is characterized by the use of full-body undulations that produce thrust and it proves highly energy efficient. Mimicking these swimming forms through actuation, sensing, and control is challenging. In this talk, we present efforts towards learning the low-dimensional dynamics from high-dimensional data, and designing closed-loop model predictive controllers to track natural swimming modes. In that direction, we first describe a method to leverage the Lagrangian model description of the anguilliform swimmer to learn structure-preserving reduced-order models via Lagrangian Operator Inference. Specifically, the data…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Paul G. Allen Center For Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). Campus room: 371. Accessibility Contact: llederer@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit cassyni.com. Data-Driven Seminar: Themis Sapsis
Title, abstract, and access link to be posted.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 250. Accessibility Contact: llederer@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Thrust Lead Meeting
Calendar invites with a Zoom link will be sent to participants.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: N/A. Accessibility Contact: llederer@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
UrbanAI: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities
Workshop at NeurIPS 2025.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: See Conference Website. Event Types: Special Events. Student Activities. Workshops. Academics. Conferences.
Sunday, December 7, 2025.
For more info visit urbanai2025.github.io. Institute-wide Meeting
See internal calendar for Zoom link.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: N/A. Accessibility Contact: llederer@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Data-Driven Seminar: Enrico Camporeale
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Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Paul G. Allen Center For Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). Campus room: G04. Accessibility Contact: llederer@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, December 11, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Thrust Lead Meeting
Calendar invites with a Zoom link will be sent to participants.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: N/A. Accessibility Contact: llederer@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings.
Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.