Announcements

CECS will be hosting an evening reception in association with ICCAD. Please join us on Sunday, November 14th starting at 4pm on the 6th floor of Donald Bren Hall (DBH).

5pm  –  Welcome: Prof. Fadi Kurdahi (CECS Director)
Opening Address: Dr. Sanjiv Narayan (MC)
Speakers:
Prof. Wolfgang Rosenstiel (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Prof. Frank Vahid (University of California, Riverside)
Prof. Yale N. Patt (The University of Texas at Austin)
Prof. Rainer Doemer (University of California, Irvine)

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Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science, Nikil Dutt, was honored with this award on October 20th, 2017 for his contributions to embedded systems and architecture research, mentoring of many successful PhD advisees, as well as his teaching.

This award honors UIUC computer science alumni or faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to computer science education and research, and recognizes those who excel at motivating computer science students. Congratulations! Please see: More Details

 Professor Mohammad Al Faruque from CECS has been recognized for his exemplar achievements in research by the Academic Senate. He will be presented with the Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Research this Monday 4:30 – 6:30 p.m, November 6, 2017 in the Newkirk Alumni Center. This award is given to those who have achieved excellence through their activities in research, teaching, and service. Congratulations!

Pankaj Jalote, the Director of IIITD in India, is visiting UCI on November 7 to recruit faculty.

IIITD is a relatively new research-oriented institution based in Delhi, and could be an interesting destination for people considering an academic career in India.

Title: Tenure-Track Faculty Opportunities at IIIT-Delhi, India
Speaker:  Dr. Pankaj Jalote, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi
Date and Time:  Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 10:00 am- 11:00am
Location:  DBH 4011

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Since 2012, Technical University of Munich (TUM) is offering an interesting option for Postdocs: the TUM Research Opportunities Week.

It is a one-week tour of TUM in Munich, Germany – funded by TUM. Participants get to know TUM in general, and also specifically Postdoc opportunities in their fields.

The next event is scheduled for April 16-20, 2018. Application deadline is October 31, 2017.

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Title: “Self-Organizing Embedded Cameras: Staying Smart in a Chaotic World”

Speaker: Dr. Lukas Esterle, The Aston Lab for Intelligent Collective Engineering (ALICE), Aston University, Birmingham, UK

Date and Time: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 3:00PM-4:00PM

Location: DBH 3011

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Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science Nikil Dutt  and Assistant Professor of Computer Science Marco Levorato have received a $300,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for designing a personalized ubiquitous healthcare framework using the Internet of Things (IoT).  Dutt and Levorato lead the research  project “IoCT-CARE: Internet of Cognitive Things for Personalized Healthcare” jointly with Finnish partners at the University of Turku, the Turku University Central Hospital, and VTT Finland.  The two-year project investigates a self-aware cognitive IoT (more…)

Title: Part I: “Development of Low-End Embedded Processors for Some SoC Applications”
Part II: “The Application-Specific Design for Signal Processing Applications”

Speaker: Prof. Fitzgerald Sungkyung Park, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
Prof. Chester Park, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea

Date and Time: Monday, August 7, 2017, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Location: Donald Bren Hall 3011                               View Details

Title: “Accelerators and Enablement for Application-Specific Multicore Platforms”

Speaker: Dr. Andreas Herkersdorf, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Technische Universität München

Date and Time: Monday, July 31, 2017 at 2:00PM-3:00PM

Location: DBH 3011

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Title: “Mobile and Emerging Computing Systems: challenges and research opportunities”

Speaker: Dr. Raid Ayoub, Intel Strategic CAD Lab, Portland, Oregon, USA

Date and Time: Friday, June 23, 2017 at 11:00AM-12:00PM

Location: DBH 3011

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Title: “Self-Awareness in Remote Health Monitoring Systems using Wearable Electronics”

Speaker: Prof. Axel Jantsch, TU Wien

Date and Time: Friday, June 16, 2017 at 11:00AM-12:00PM

Location: 2430 Engineering Hall

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Associate Professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering and computer science Zoran Nenadic has been appointed a Hai-Tian scholar in recognition of his research contributions.
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Title: “Optimizing private local memories in heterogeneous architectures”

Speaker: Christian Pilato, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland

Date and Time: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 11:00AM-12:00PM

Location: ICS 432

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UC Irvine will be the first university in the U.S. to offer a professional master’s in embedded and cyber-physical systems (MECPS). Set to enroll its inaugural class of students in fall 2017, the one-year full-time master’s program will train students in the foundation, skills and hands-on practices of embedded and cyber-physical systems design, optimization and evaluation.

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Professor Jeffrey L. Krichmar of CECS was awarded the 2017 Proof of Product (POP) Grant for his interactive robotic device used as therapy for children with developmental disorders. The POP Grant provides funds of up to $125,000 to campus entrepreneurs to move promising early technologies closer to commercialization. As part of The BIG Initiative, the grant bridges the gap between promising UCI research and commercialization and spurs regional economic development.

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