Oct. 7: Jana Doppa to speak on AI at upcoming Bose lecture

Jana Doppa, Washington State University's Huie-Rogers Endowed Chair Associate Professor of Computer Science and Berry Distinguished Professor in Engineering, will speak on "Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Accelerate Engineering Design and Scientific Discovery" at the upcoming Anjan Bose lecture.

The event is set for Monday, October 7 at 3:10 p.m. on ETRL 101. A reception will follow in ETRL 119.

Doppa, this year's Anjan Bose Outstanding Researcher award recipient, will present research on AI-driven adaptive experimental design algorithms to solve challenges in sustainability. Some examples of applications could include design of high-performance and energy-efficient hardware to overcome Moore's law; discovery of high-performing, nanoporous materials for absorbing carbon dioxide from air and storing hydrogen gas for fuel; accelerated design of effective and safe drugs/vaccines at low cost; and cost-effective geologic carbon sequestration to mitigate global warming and climate change.

Doppa conducts research in artificial intelligence, where he is developing core AI techniques and applying them to emerging application domains including in hardware design, nanoporous materials design, drug discovery, 3D printing, cybersecurity, and agriculture.

He and his collaborators have received five Best Paper Awards from top-tier venues including the AAAI conference, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, ACM/IEEE Embedded Systems Week Conference, ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronic Design. and ACM/IEEE Embedded Systems Week Conference. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and a Google Faculty Research Award. At WSU, he has received the WSU Faculty Mid-Career Award, the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture's Outstanding Junior Faculty in Research Award and the Reid-Miller Teaching Excellence Award.

The Anjan Bose Outstanding Researcher Award was created by the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture Executive Leadership Board along with friends and alumni to honor Anjan Bose for his service to the college as dean. To acknowledge Bose's support of faculty scholarship and to honor his internationally renowned reputation for research, the award annually recognizes and rewards the top faculty researcher in the college.