Seminars

Apr 21, 2017 - 1:30pm
Ending Preventable Newborn Death in Africa: Can We Do it in a Decade?
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD

At current rates of progress, it will be 150 years before a baby born in Africa has the same chance of survival as one born in North America. We aim to reduce this to Learn More



Apr 17, 2017 - 11:00am
Diversity and Resilience in Robot Networks
AMANDA PROROK

Recent years have seen falling costs of communication and storage technologies and advances in fabrication methods. Sensors, actuators, and processors are being integrated into globally accessible Learn More



Apr 14, 2017 - 3:00pm
Cover's Open Problem: "The Capacity of the Relay Channel’’
Ayfer Ozgur, Ph.D., Stanford University

Formulating the problem of determining the communication capacity of channels as a problem in high-dimensional geometry is one of Shannon’s most important insights that has led to the conception Learn More



Apr 12, 2017 - 11:00am
Tunable and Reconfigurable Plasmonics and Metamaterials for Beam Shaping
Yongmin Liu, Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northern University, Boston, USA

Plasmonics has become a very vibrant research area in nano optics. It allows us to concentrate, guide, and manipulate light at the deep subwavelength scale, promising enhanced light-matter Learn More



Apr 10, 2017 - 2:00pm
Side-channel attacks for modern targets: from smart-cards to complex embedded systems
Ro Cammarota, Ph.D., Qualcomm Research

As mobile systems gain new capabilities, their security also needs to increase, to mitigate piracy, fraud and identity theft. Specifically, side-channel resistance needs to be accounted for both Learn More



Apr 10, 2017 - 11:00am
Relaxing Bottlenecks for Fast Machine Learning
CHRISTOPHER DE SA

As machine learning applications become larger and more widely used, there is an increasing need for efficient systems solutions. The performance of essentially all machine learning applications Learn More



Apr 5, 2017 - 11:00am
On Wireless Systems Modelling and Machine Learning-Based Optimization
DR. MERYEM SIMSEK

According to the evaluation methodologies of ITU, the basic evaluation characteristics and assessment methods for wireless networks wireless systems can be studied based on system level Learn More



Apr 5, 2017 - 11:00am
Time-Varying Electromagnetic Devices: Breaking the Fundamental Limits of Passives
Dr. Yuanxun Ethan Wang, Associate Professor - UCLA

Passive electromagnetic devices such as transmission lines, filters and antennas are essential parts of a wireless system. They often dominate the system’s efficiency, bandwidth and noise Learn More



Apr 3, 2017 - 11:00am
Design Automation for Tackling Key Challenges in Cyber-Physical Systems: Timing, Security, and Heterogeneity
Dr. Qi Zhu

Cyber-physical systems such as autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, smart buildings and grid, industrial robots, and healthcare systems, are poised to bring immense economic and societal Learn More



Mar 27, 2017 - 11:00am
Efficient Methods and Hardware for Deep Learning
Song Han

Deep learning has spawned a wide range of AI applications that are changing our lives. However, deep neural networks are both computationally and memory intensive, thus they are power hungry when Learn More