Speaker: Larry Nelson Sr, PE – Nelson Research

Brief: Everything you wanted to know about running a consulting business.

Link: https://www.bostonconsultants.org/event-details/consultants-series-part-2-consulting-201-advanced-consulting-2

Reliability Society

Speaker: Stephanie Musinsky

Registration:  vTools Event Link

Hardware and Software are often thought of as two separate worlds in the way we design prototypes, products, and systems. Yet, closer examination reveals that each discipline offers processes, methodologies, and tools that can strengthen the other. Furthermore, recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of each discipline, and our selected implementations, enables more robust system-level design decisions. In fact, we already rely on this interplay more than we realize, as with hardware watchdogs enhancing protection against software faults. By understanding and intentionally leveraging the complementary capabilities of each domain, we can design systems that anticipate faults, recover gracefully, and ultimately perform more reliably in the real world.

Biography:

Stephanie is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Via Product Development, which supports teams in bringing hardware products from concept to commercialization.
She has led numerous complex and regulated projects from early concept through manufacturing handoff across diverse sectors including electro-optical systems, medical devices, defense and industrial technologies, IoT, consumer, and wellness products.  With experience spanning early-stage startups, engineering roles at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and leadership as a Director at a Product Development firm, Stephanie is well-versed in navigating the challenges of product development- including the critical “valley of death” between prototype and production.

She holds a BSE from Duke University and completed the Harvard HealthTech Fellowship, where she focused intensively on medical innovation. She has also served as a commercialization collaboration advisor to tough tech startups in MIT Engine’s Blueprint Accelerator.

Your IEEE Reliability Society is holding a town hall meeting on innovating the society.

Please join Dr. Jason Rupe, your current RS President, and RS Boston Chapter Chair, Daniel Weidman, for updates on activities in the society and the Boston chapter, along with discussions with you about how the society can support chapters and members.

We plan to present some brief updates from both, then turn it over to questions and ideas from you. The second of such townhalls this year, the Boston chapter has volunteered to host this event with the society, so their questions and ideas will be live. If you are able to attend this meeting remotely live, you will have a chance to submit questions and ideas via chat.

The meeting will also be recorded, so you can catch up after if you like. Hopefully some ideas will resonate and maybe you find something you would like to contribute too. We look forward to your engagement in this event!

Meeting number (access code): 2545 136 5467

Meeting password: mJEkej2JE33

Meeting URL: https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/j.php?MTID=m7565e5f7532de3c57897f76a542b5137

Greetings!

On behalf of IEEE Microsystems Boston, it’s our pleasure to invite you to a seminar which we’ll be co-hosting with the IEEE Photonics Society Boston Chapter. Please find the details below and in the attached flyer.

Speaker: Dr. Tianyi Zeng, Harvard University School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

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Agenda: 

6 – 7 pm:  Networking and light meal (free of charge)

7 pm:  Seminar and Q&A

RSVP: Please register at your earliest convenience using this link. This will be an in-person meeting.

Broadband frequency combs in the long-wavelength infrared (LWIR, 8–13 µm) hold great promise for high-precision sensing and spectroscopy, but achieving comb operation in this regime has been limited by strong material dispersion and fabrication constraints. This talk presents recent advances enabling an on-chip LWIR quantum-cascade laser (QCL) frequency comb with unprecedented bandwidth through precise dispersion engineering. I will first introduce the background in dual-comb spectroscopy, fundamental comb theory and traditional dispersion characterization techniques.

Building on this foundation, I will describe a new dispersion-characterization approach that quantifies bias-dependent group-velocity dispersion in LWIR QCLs and the subsequent implementation of an air–dielectric double-chirped mirror (DCM) providing tailored broadband compensation. I will then delve into the key fabrication challenges—deep subwavelength etching, high-aspect-ratio structures, and thermal management—that were overcome to realize the integrated device, which achieves record-broadband, coherent comb emission near 9.6 µm with a single narrow beatnote. These results highlight a powerful platform for dispersion-controlled LWIR photonics and chart a path toward octave-spanning, chip-scale combs across the mid- to far-infrared.

Speaker Bio:

Tianyi Zeng is a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University’s School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, working with Prof. Kiyoul Yang on integrated nonlinear laser devices. His research focuses on developing high-performance silicon nitride and aluminum oxide nanophotonic platforms for ultrafast and nonlinear photonics, achieving record-low optical losses and broadband gain.

He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT under Prof. Qing Hu, where he demonstrated ultrabroadband long-wave infrared quantum cascade laser frequency combs with integrated dispersion compensation. Tianyi’s work bridges semiconductor nanofabrication, III-V and solid-state lasers, and nonlinear integrated photonics. He is also co-founding a startup to commercialize an integrated chip-scale optical circuit switch and amplifier—technology aimed at enabling high-speed, energy-efficient AI data-centers.

Thanks and we look forward to meeting you soon!

Tyler

Director of Publicity, IEEE Microsystems Boston Chapter