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FoundHer Stories | A Fireside Chat with Nishita Deka
Innovation and New Ventures Office
1:00 PM
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Northwestern University's Querrey InQbation Lab is hosting the FoundHer Stories series to amplify the startup stories of women scientist entrepreneurs.
Learn about Dr. Nishita Deka’s experience spinning out Sonera in 2018 while pursuing her doctorate at UC Berkeley. Dr. Deka will share how her company is building high-performance biomagnetic sensors for detecting muscle and brain activity, with the goal of building commercially viable non-invasive brain-computer interfaces.
While the FoundHer Stories series is focused on supporting women innovators and entrepreneurs, all are welcome to register.
Please register in advance.
OUR SPEAKER
Nishita Deka, Ph.D., is the co-founder and CEO of Sonera. She co-founded Sonera to commercialize a novel magnetic sensing technology for human-computer interfaces, with applications ranging from next-generation interaction modalities for personal computing to advanced healthcare monitoring and diagnostic tools. Nishita earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. At Berkeley, she focused on the design and fabrication of nanoscale devices for MEMS and sensing applications.
https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98353333202
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Friday, August 9, 2024 at 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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Innovation and New Ventures Office
Northwestern Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Recognition Ceremony
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
4:00 PM
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Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
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The ceremony will take place on Saturday, December 13 in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive.
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Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Pick-Staiger Concert Hall Map
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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Inderpal Bhandari
Northwestern Network for Collaborative Intelligence (NNCI)
12:00 PM
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Guild Lounge, Scott Hall
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Join us for NNCI's first Distinguished Speaker event featuring Inderpal Bhandari.
Lunch will be provided. Registration is required.
Time
Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Guild Lounge, Scott Hall Map
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Northwestern Network for Collaborative Intelligence (NNCI)
U.S. District Court Judge Xavier Rodriguez - NNCI & Pritzker School of Law
Northwestern Network for Collaborative Intelligence (NNCI)
12:15 PM
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Thorne Auditorium, Arthur Rubloff Building
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Join us for an in-person Distinguished Speaker event, co-hosted with Pritzker School of Law, featuring Judge Xavier Rodriguez.
Location: Thorne Auditorium, Pritzker School of Law, Chicago Campus
Lunch will be provided. Registration is required.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
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Thorne Auditorium, Arthur Rubloff Building Map
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Northwestern Network for Collaborative Intelligence (NNCI)
"Big-Data Algorithms That Are Not Machine Learning" - Jeffrey Ullman
Northwestern Network for Collaborative Intelligence (NNCI)
12:00 PM
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Ruan Conference Center, Chambers Hall
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Join us for an in-person Distinguished Speaker event featuring Jeffrey Ullman, a prominent figure in computer science whose contributions have shaped the foundations of algorithms, databases, and theoretical computing.
Title: "Big-Data Algorithms That Are Not Machine Learning"
Abstract: We shall introduce four algorithms that run very fast on large amounts of data, although typically the answers they give are approximate rather than precise. (1) Locality-sensitive hashing (2) Approximate counting (3) Sampling (4) Counting triangles in graphs.
Lunch will be provided. Registration is required.
Jeff Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford and CEO of Gradiance Corp. He received the B.S. degree from Columbia University in 1963 and the PhD from Princeton in 1966. Prior to his appointment at Stanford in 1979, he was a member of the technical staff of Bell Laboratories from 1966-1969, and on the faculty of Princeton University between 1969 and 1979. From 1990-1994, he was chair of the Stanford Computer Science Department. Ullman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, the National Academy of Sciences in 2020, and has held Guggenheim and Einstein Fellowships. He has received the Sigmod Contributions Award (1996), the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (1998), the Knuth Prize (2000), the Sigmod E. F. Codd Innovations award (2006), the IEEE von Neumann medal (2010), the NEC C&C Foundation Prize (2017), and the ACM A.M. Turing Award (2020). He is the author of 16 books, including books on database systems, data mining, compilers, automata theory, and algorithms.
Time
Tuesday, February 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Ruan Conference Center, Chambers Hall Map
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Northwestern Network for Collaborative Intelligence (NNCI)