Seminars
Oct 17, 2018 - 4:00pm
Advancements in Large-Scale Phased Array & Optical Communication Components
Shahriar Shahramian
The wireless communication industry is at the verge of an exciting transformation; a shift from broadcast-mode to directed-beam communication in the form of large-scale mm-wave phased arrays. In Learn More
Oct 16, 2018 - 1:00pm
Low-Power mm-Wave Active Sensors: Potential Applications, Architectures, Circuit Topologies, and Technology Requirements
Sorin P. Voinigescu, University of Toronto, Canada
The requirements of nanoscale CMOS and SiGe BiCMOS technologies and the associated circuit topologies, design methodologies, and system architectures suitable for future autonomous navigation, Learn More
Oct 12, 2018 - 2:45pm
Quantization Aware Deep Learning
Prof. Dr. Max Welling, Research chair in Machine Learning at the University of Amsterdam, and VP of Technologies at Qualcomm
Increasingly deep learning applications are moving to the edge. Running high demand AI applications on small form factors puts very strict constraints on, among others, power efficiency of the Learn More
Oct 12, 2018 - 1:00pm
Understanding Plug-and-Play ADMM: Convergence, Objective Function, and Generalization
Dr. Stanley H. Chan, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Statistics , Purdue University
The Plug-and-Play (PnP) ADMM algorithm is a recently developed image restoration method that allows advanced image denoisers to be integrated into physical forward models Learn More
Oct 12, 2018 - 11:00am
AC vs. DC: Resurrection of Westinghouse and Edison Debate
M. Rezwan Khan
The debate between AC and DC power supply started at a time when development era of electronics has not dawned. So, it is quite obvious that Westinghouse and Edison debate on AC and DC in late Learn More
Oct 11, 2018 - 2:00pm
Ambient and Quantum Backscatter Communications
Riku Jantti, Department of Communications and Networking at Aalto University School of Engineering, Finland
Low-power wireless communication has been identified as one of the key enabling technologies for the Learn More
Sep 26, 2018 - 11:00am
Semiconductor Nanowires for Optoelectronics Applications
Chennupati Jagadish, Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Semiconductor Nanowires are considered as building blocks for next generation electronics and photonics. In this talk, I will discuss about growth of Semiconductor Nanowires using Vapor Learn More
Aug 17, 2018 - 11:00am
State of the Search for Majorana Fermions in Semiconductor Nanowires
Sergey Frolov, Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh
Majorana fermions are non-trivial quantum excitations that have remarkable topological properties and can be used to protect quantum information against decoherence. Tunneling spectroscopy Learn More
Aug 8, 2018 - 11:00am
Network Inference: from Passive to Active Learning
Negar Kiyavash
One of the paramount challenges of this century is that of understanding complex, dynamic, large-scale networks. Such high-dimensional networks, including social, Learn More
Jul 26, 2018 - 3:00pm
Generative Adversarial Networks and their applications in Natural Language Processing
Abhishek Sethi
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is a powerful idea to train generative models and has recently shown amazing results in computer vision. Broadly, the framework Learn More