The 2,542nd Meeting of the Society

October 9, 2026 at 8:00 PM

Powell Auditorium at the Cosmos Club

Beyond Human Intuition

AI-Designed Radio-Frequency and Terahertz Circuits

Kaushik Sengupta

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University
Director, Integrated Micro-systems Research Laboratory
Co-Director, Princeton NextG

About the Lecture

This lecture will discuss the use of artificial intelligence and machine-learning methods to design radio-frequency, millimeter-wave and terahertz circuits that differ substantially from conventional human-designed circuits, including how AI can search extremely large design spaces, generate structures that appear unintuitive to human engineers, and in some applications produce circuits or electromagnetic systems that outperform traditional designs made for the same purpose.

About the Speaker

Dr. Sengupta’s research has focused on integrated circuits and microsystems operating from radio frequencies through millimeter-wave, terahertz and optical frequencies. His work combines circuit design, electromagnetics, antennas, signal processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence to develop new systems for communications, sensing, imaging and biomedical applications, including unconventional circuit and electromagnetic structures discovered through computational and AI-assisted design.