Jan 19, 2017 - 11:00am
ECE SPECIAL SEMINAR - Inverse Optical Design for Record-Breaking Photovoltaics and Biomedical Imaging
VIDYA GANAPATI

Improvements to the efficiency of photovoltaics lowers the cost of solar electricity, as higher efficiency causes overhead costs to decrease. In this talk, I will discuss how optical design Learn More

Jan 18, 2017 - 11:00am
iGPS:Integrated Navigation & Communication
David A. Whelan, Ph.D.

The benefits of adding a two way communications channel to the Global Positioning System (GPS) are examined using an experimental arrangement of a modified Iridium communications constellation and Learn More

Jan 13, 2017 - 11:00am
An information-theoretic perspective on interference management
Young-Han Kim, University of California San Diego

For high data rates and massive connectivity, next-generation cellular networks are expected to deploy many small base stations. While such dense deployment provides the benefit of bringing radio Learn More

Jan 12, 2017 - 1:00pm
New Ingredients in the Pot: Rethink Analog IC Design
Nan Sun, University of Texas at Austin

In this talk, I will present several unconventional analog IC design techniques. First, I will talk about how we can make use of noise, which is usually deemed as an Learn More

Dec 12, 2016 - 10:00am
Development and Application of an Optogenetic Platform for Controlling and Imaging a Large Number of Individual Neurons
Ali Mohammed, Texas Tech University

The understanding and treatment of brain disorders as well as the development of intelligent machines is hampered by the lack of knowledge of how the brain fundamentally functions. Over the past Learn More

Dec 6, 2016 - 2:00pm
Why Magnetic Sensing Can Be a Useful New Method for In-Vitro Diagnostics
Dr. Oliver Hayden, In-Vitro Diagnostics & Bioscience Research Siemens Healthcare, Germany

Blood is the most important source for routine in-vitro diagnostic information, such as the concentration level of plasma biomarkers and cells. Only in special cases, Learn More

Dec 2, 2016 - 2:00pm
Polar Codes: From Theory to 5G
Hessam Mahdavifar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan

The discovery of the channel polarization phenomenon and polar codes is one of the most recent fundamental advances in coding theory. Polar codes provably achieve the fundamental limit of capacity Learn More

Nov 29, 2016 - 10:00am
Energy Efficient Computing: From Devices to Architectures
Ethan C. Ahn, Ph.D, Professor of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio

With the advent of so-called ‘abundant data’ era and the required throughput and energy-efficiency for the next-generation computing paradigm, it becomes increasingly important to explore more Learn More

Nov 21, 2016 - 1:30pm
Incentivizing improved cybersecurity: a study of security as a public good
Parinaz Naghizadeh, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan

The security decisions of users interacting over a network, such as the Internet, can affect one another. For example, less protected computers may be compromised and Learn More

Nov 18, 2016 - 4:30pm
Reduced Computational Workload DSP with Multirate Polyphase Filters and Filter Banks / GREEN Technology (also known as DSP Magic)
fredric j harris

Last year someone posted a question on a DSP blog I visit occasionally. How does one design a very narrow bandwidth low pass filter? One version of the problem is a filter with 10 Hz wide pass Learn More