by Wiesia Hsissen
The
Circuits and Systems Research Group Alumni Day 2022 took place on Monday 11th July.
This event provided the opportunity for our CAS alumni to come together again and reminisce about their time at Imperial College, as well as meeting our current students.
We were happy to see so many familiar faces from over the years, even back to 1979 !
Presentations were given by esteemed alumni to inspire current PhD students — Dr Stylianos Venieris (Samsung), Dr Peter Pesl (Austrian Embassy), Dr Alastair Smith (Adder Technology Cambridge) and Dr Shane Fleming (AMD).
Current students arranged poster presentations showcase their work, and lab tours for our alumni to explore the latest innovative research from the CAS group.
Thank you to everyone who attended, including our Head of the EEE Department for gracing our event. Everyone enjoyed it hugely, and we have agreed to hold another Alumni Day in two years time!
The EEE fireside chats are informal conversations between EEE PhD students and academic staff across the department, facilitated through a moderator that teases out the life story of the staff. The fireside chats have been popular and have served as a great way for the students to get to know members of staff on a more human level. The staff members have been excellent in sharing their wealth of knowledge and perspectives, especially regarding their journeys as researchers and in academia. The audience has received a fair share of inspiring stories from the head of the department, Eric Yeatman, and other remarkable journeys through the lens of Alessandro Astolfi, Goran Strbac, Ayush Bhandari, Pier Luigi Dragotti, Christos Papavassiliou, Nick Jennings, amongst others.
