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SUMMARY:Zhou\, K. (CSE) - Toward Safer Frontier AI: From Evaluation and Red-Teaming to Alignment and Oversight
DESCRIPTION:This dissertation investigates how to make modern AI systems safer as they grow more capable. It addresses two central sources of risk: malicious misuse\, in which adversarial users coerce models into harmful behavior\, and internal misalignment\, in which models themselves pursue goals that diverge from human intent through deception\, sandbagging\, or other covert behaviors. The dissertation identifies novel safety risks in frontier multimodal large language models and AI agents\, introduces a black-box red-teaming framework for AI agents\, proposes new safety alignment algorithms\, and builds the first probe-based misalignment monitoring system\, developing practical approaches for evaluating\, red-teaming\, aligning\, and overseeing frontier language models and agents. The central conclusion is that responsible AI cannot rest on any single guardrail: capability-scaled evaluation\, active red-teaming\, training-time alignment\, and scalable monitoring together form a coordinated stack for frontier AI safety. \nEvent Host: Kaiwen Zhou\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science & Engineering  \nAdvisor: Xin Wang \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/94196702062?pwd=b9LJMfL232ixG2THMab8XuJ32a4FVD.1 \nPasscode:  584794
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/zhou-k-cse-toward-safer-frontier-ai-from-evaluation-and-red-teaming-to-alignment-and-oversight/
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SUMMARY:Qureshi\, A. (ECE) - ISoC: A Universal Impedance Spectroscopy Instrument-on-Chip in SKY130 130 nm CMOS
DESCRIPTION:Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is the workhorse measurement behind lithium-ion battery diagnostics\, biosensing\, and corrosion science — yet no integrated circuit has ever delivered the complete capability of a benchtop analyzer on a single die. \nThis dissertation presents ISoC\, the first universal Impedance Spectroscopy instrument-on-chip. Designed in SkyWater 130 nm CMOS process\, ISoC supports all four standard electrochemical measurement modes and performs Fourier analysis\, calibration\, and model fitting directly on-chip. The work introduces a new delta-sigma transimpedance amplifier that breaks a long-standing sensitivity–bandwidth tradeoff in current measurement. It also presents the first application of digital predistortion — a technique borrowed from wireless transmitter design — to electrochemical instrumentation\, reducing calibration error by more than an order of magnitude. The design is validated through a ten-level verification methodology spanning from transistor-level simulation to FPGA emulation — an approach that uncovered silicon-critical bugs prior to fabrication. \nEvent Host: Azzam Qureshi\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Electrical & Computer Engineering \nAdvisor: Ken Pedrotti \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93312223921?pwd=jzCP7f8gbzqbkFGabEd4wM7O5TgHIH.1 \nPasscode: 342251
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/qureshi-a-ece-isoc-a-universal-impedance-spectroscopy-instrument-on-chip-in-sky130-130-nm-cmos/
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SUMMARY:Insurance\, Risk\, and Resilience in a Changing World
DESCRIPTION:Climate change is reshaping every system it touches. This panel examines one that most people haven’t much considered in climate terms: insurance. When the industry built to share risk retreats from it\, the consequences fall hardest on communities least able to absorb them. Three panelists examine what that failure looks like from the inside\, where financial instruments to do better already exist\, and what it would take to build a system designed for the world we are actually in. \nUCI’s Simon Penny takes us to the heart of the problem. While for most\, the Eaton Fire is a dim memory\, Penny is (still) an evacuee.  In Jan ‘25\, nearly 10\,000 buildings burned in the Eaton fire\, and a similar number remain contaminated and uninhabitable. Likely the most toxic urban fire in US history\, the Eaton Fire is a harbinger of a growing new phenomenon: Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires\, where plastics and electronics in buildings and vehicles create novel environmental toxins\, which in LA were driven across the city by winds of over 100 mph. \nResidents are often unaware of the presence of high levels of toxins\, carcinogens\, and forever chemicals such fires produce.  Community members face huge bills for abatement and remediation\, while insurance companies issue denials to long-time policyholders and curtail coverage of properties in newly declared “fire zones.” State agencies\, similarly\, have failed to recognize or respond to the scale of the problem.  In the absence of state support\, community-activist and citizen-science organizations have emerged to advocate for victims. Simon will offer a firsthand account of what thousands are experiencing\, abandoned by insurance companies\, multiple state agencies\, and the very algorithms of risk and restitution that underpin the entire fragile edifice of property and value.  \nUCSC’s Mike Beck directs our attention to the coastal risks growing due to climate change\, development\, and habitat loss.  Mike’s team assesses coastal risks\, values the adaptation benefits of nature\, and identifies innovative solutions to reduce risks to people\, property and nature.  In identifying innovative solutions\, Mike has worked closely with the risk industry to incorporate nature in risk models\, develop reef insurance\, and new investment opportunities through wetland resilience credits.  Mike will describe recent successes in these partnerships as well as shortcomings in public and private progress in risk reduction and climate adaptation efforts. \nThe Center for the Study of the Force Majeure’s Josh Harrison argues that the insurance industry’s retreat from climate risk is not a market failure but a systems failure\, one that reveals how deeply insurance functions as social infrastructure. His talk will examine why the current pricing and underwriting model is structurally blind to prevention\, what that blindness costs communities that can least afford it\, and what a different institutional architecture might look like.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/insurance-risk-and-resilience-in-a-changing-world/
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SUMMARY:BME80G Seminar – Katherine Bonini\, “Rethinking Familial Risk in Genomic Medicine: Ethical Approaches to Cascade Screening”
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Katherine Bonini\, Senior Genetic Counselor @ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai \n  \nDescription: It has long been argued that families are central to genomic medicine. Genomic risk\, diagnosis\, and management are rarely confined to a single individual\, and separating patients’ interests from those of their relatives is often neither straightforward nor desirable. Despite this\, healthcare systems in the United States continue to operationalize care at the level of the individual. This tension is especially evident in cascade screening\, the process of identifying\, notifying\, and offering genetic testing to relatives of a proband with a hereditary condition. Cascade screening can enable earlier diagnosis\, guide preventive care\, and reduce morbidity and mortality\, but its implementation raises important ethical questions.\nIn this talk\, we will examine how current approaches to familial risk communication place responsibility on patients to notify relatives\, often resulting in incomplete reach and missed opportunities for prevention. We will then consider alternative approaches\, including system-led contact models in which health systems directly notify at-risk relatives with proband consent. Drawing on public health ethics frameworks\, we will discuss a proposed framework demonstrating how system-led models may be ethically justified when specific criteria are met\, including considerations of public input\, opt-out mechanisms\, and a focus on actionable conditions. This talk will encourage consideration of how genomic care can be structured to better balance individual rights with broader responsibilities to families and public health. \n  \nBio: Katherine (Kate) Bonini\, MS\, MA\, CGC is a Senior Genetic Counselor and Core Faculty member in the Institute for Genomic Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her work focuses on the ethical\, legal\, and social implications of integrating emerging genomic technologies into clinical care\, with particular emphasis on implementation science and equitable translation of genomic advances into practice. She has contributed to several major NHGRI-funded initiatives\, including the Clinical Sequencing Evidence-Generating Research (CSER) Consortium\, the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network\, and the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC). \nKate is an active leader within the National Society of Genetic Counselors\, where she previously served as Chair of the Research Special Interest Group and Chair of the Public Policy Committee. She is also a member of the Mount Sinai Clinical Ethics Committee\, where she contributes to institutional discussions on complex ethical issues in patient care and research. \nShe received her MS in Genetic Counseling and MA in Medical Humanities and Bioethics from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. \nHosted by: Professor Karen Miga\, BME Department
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/bme80g-seminar-katherine-bonini-rethinking-familial-risk-in-genomic-medicine-ethical-approaches-to-cascade-screening-2/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Auditorium\, 191 Baskin Cir\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Zhu\, R. (ECE) - From Neuromorphic Principles to Efficient Neural Language Architectures
DESCRIPTION:This dissertation investigates how neuromorphic and brain-inspired principles can guide the design of efficient neural language architectures. It addresses two central limitations of modern Transformer-based language models: memory growth with context length and high computational cost from dense matrix multiplication. Through studies of spiking neural networks\, linear-recurrent language models\, hybrid attention architectures\, MatMul-free models\, and looped language models\, the dissertation develops practical approaches for bounded-memory and bounded-compute language modeling. The central conclusion is that recurrent state\, temporal decay\, sparse computation\, and parameter reuse can provide useful design principles for scalable language models\, even when they are abstracted beyond literal biological spiking. \nEvent Host: Ridger Zhu\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Electrical & Computer Engineering  \nAdvisor: Jason Eshraghian \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/96672322005?pwd=3MSitgbm5WboIENbf1hKpxwXnt9VXh.1
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/zhu-r-ece-from-neuromorphic-principles-to-efficient-neural-language-architectures/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Making an Exoneree Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Audiences are invited to Making an Exoneree\, a reception and film screening featuring the premiere of five student-made short documentaries that reveal the facts—and falsehoods—of wrongful conviction cases from around the country. Over the Winter and Spring quarters\, 15 UCSC undergraduate students in the Making an Exoneree course dedicated themselves to uncovering the truth about these cases. The final short films unravel the unjust convictions of Aaron Addison\, Dennis Littleton\, Ken Middleton\, Frank Perkins\, and Taunee Smith\, who have spent a combined 126 years in prison.The students hope that by sharing these stories\, they can help correct this injustice and bring innocent people home.\n—\nADVISORIES\n– Mature themes or content\, No intermission\, Strong language.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– Attend in person or online\n– ONLINE LINK HERE\n– Reception at 6:00 p.m.\n– Screenings at 7:00 p.m.\n—\nPARKING\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– $5 ParkMobile Arts Special Event flat rate; cash/credit via parking attendant when present in the lot; or by valid UCSC permit.\n– Before arriving to UCSC\, we recommend downloading the ParkMobile App on Google Play or Apple App Store and setting up a profile with license plate and payment information.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates must get their permits in advance; attendants will only sell non-affiliate rates\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services.\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/making-an-exoneree-showcase/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lectures & Presentations
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