Mar 17, 2017 - 2:00pm
Fast Sequential Decoding Techniques for Polar Codes
Peter Trifonov, Distributed Computing and Networking Department,, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Polar codes are a novel class of capacity-achieving error-correcting codes. List decoding techniques are needed in order to implement near-maximum likelihood decoding of polar codes and their Learn More

Mar 16, 2017 - 11:00am
Securing the Internet of Things: A Hardware Perspective
Kaiyuan Yang

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to connect our physical world with billions of sensors and actuators, transforming the way we live and work, as well as creating enormous business markets Learn More

Mar 13, 2017 - 11:00am
Designing the Internet of Things With Ambient Awareness
Xinyu Zhang

The forthcoming decade will witness an explosion of Internet-of-Things (IoT), which incorporates not only the current mobile devices, but also smart everyday objects equipped with computation, Learn More

Mar 9, 2017 - 10:00am
Decision Making Under Uncertainty in Networks of Strategic Agents
Amir Ajorlou

Many complex systems involve large-scale interconnection of agents with heterogeneous information who interact strategically. Such systems are prevalent in diverse domains ranging from cyber- Learn More

Mar 8, 2017 - 11:00am
ECE Special Seminar: Uncertainty-Aware and Data-Driven Design Verification for Nanoscale Systems and Beyond
ZHENG ZHANG

Uncertainties can cause significant performance degradations and functional failures in numerous engineering systems. Examples include (but are not limited to) nanoscale devices and systems with Learn More

Mar 6, 2017 - 11:00am
ECE Special Seminar: Energy-efficient, high-fidelity, and broadband RF/millimeter-wave signal generation in silicon
SONG HU

 Wireless electronic devices are everywhere in our daily lives with applications ranging from data communication to energy transfer and biomedical sensing. Power amplifier (PA) interfaces the Learn More

Mar 2, 2017 - 11:00am
Towards a Theory of Safe and Interactive Autonomy
Dorsa Sadigh, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

Today’s society is rapidly advancing towards cyber-physical systems (CPS) that interact and collaborate with humans, e.g., semi-autonomous vehicles interacting with drivers and pedestrians, Learn More

Mar 1, 2017 - 11:00am
Stochastic Adventures in Systems and Controls
Behrouz Touri, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering , University of Colorado

In this talk, we visit two systems and controls problems with stochastic components. The first problem relates to the control of safety critical autonomous systems. We provide a necessary and Learn More

Feb 28, 2017 - 2:00pm
Low Threshold RF and Optical Oscillators Using Exceptional Points of Degeneracy
Filippo Capolino, Ph.D., University of Florence, Italy

We present a unified theory of exceptional points of degeneracy (EPD) in coupled-mode guiding structures, i.e., a theory that illustrates electromagnetic mode characteristics under the special Learn More

Feb 27, 2017 - 11:00am
Overcoming ontextual effects on cell signaling: A control theoretic approach
Marcella M. Gomez, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Gene regulatory networks are critical at every stage of life – from embryonic decision making to constant maintenance of intercellular protein concentrations. Rapidly evolving tools in synthetic Learn More