Name: Jiang Wan Date: Friday, June 1 Time: 3:00 — 5:00 PM Location: EH 3206 Committee: Fadi Kurdahi (Chair), Mohammad Al Faruque, Rainer Doemer Abstract: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are integration of computation and physical processes connected through networks. The high complexity of cross-domain engineering in combination with the pressure for system innovation, higher quality, time-to-market, and […]
Name: Korosh Vatanparvar Date: Wednesday, May 30th Time: 3:00 — 5:00 PM Location: Calit2 3008 Committee: Professor Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque (Chair) Abstract: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) were presented as a solution to multidisciplinary integration and control in embedded systems. They provide seamless interactions between cyber and physical domains, enabling more intelligent and complicated control applications. However, CPS […]
Name: Tiago Mück Date: May 16, 2018 Time: 2:00pm Location: Donald Bren Hall 2011 Committee: Nikil Dutt (Chair), Alex Nicolau, Tony Givargis Abstract: Effective exploitation of power-performance tradeoffs in heterogeneous many-core platforms (HMPs), requires intelligent on-chip resource management at different layers, in particular at the operating system level. Operating systems need to continuously analyze the application […]
Name: Zhi Chen Date: May 15, 2018 Time: 2:30pm Location: Donald Bren Hall 3011 Committee: Professor Alex Nicolau (Chair), Alex Veidenbaum, Nikil Dutt Abstract: Modern processors continue to aggressively scale down the feature size and reduce voltage levels to run faster and be more energy efficient. However, this trend also poses significant reliability concern as it makes transistors […]
Title: "Efficient Acceleration of Computation Using Associative In-memory Processing" Speaker: Hasan Erdem Yantir, University of California, Irvine Date and Time: Monday, May 14, 2018 at 9:00AM Location: Engineering Hall 3206 Committee: Professor Fadi Kurdahi (Chair), Ahmed Eltawil, Rainer Doemer Abstract: The complexity of the computational problems is rising faster than the computational platforms' capabilities. This forces […]
Title: "A Compiler Infrastructure for Static and Hybrid Analysis of Discrete Event System Models" Speaker: Tim Schmidt, University of California, Irvine Date and Time: Friday, April 20, 2018 at 10:00AM-11:00PM Location: Engineering Hall 3206 Committee: Professor Rainer Doemer (Chair), Fadi Kurdahi, Kwei-Jay Lin Abstract: The design of embedded systems is a well-established research domain for many […]
Title: "Software Assists to On-chip Memory Hierarchy of Manycore Embedded Systems" Speaker: Majid Namaki Shoushtari, University of California, Irvine Date and Time: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 11:00AM-12:00PM Location: Donald Bren Hall 2011 Abstract: The growing computing demands of emerging application domains such as Recognition/Mining/Synthesis (RMS), visual computing, wearable devices and the Internet of Things […]
Name: Quoc-Viet Dang Date: May 30, 2017 Time: 02:00 P.M Location: Engineering Hall 3206 Committee: Professor Daniel Gajski (Chair), Fadi Kurdahi, Rainer Doemer Abstract: Public education is on the brink of a potential crisis attempting to significantly increase student enrollment while maintaining quality of education. Online courses have been proposed and debated among members of the […]
Name: Farhan A. Alenizi Date: May 26th, 2017 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Engineering Hall 3206 Committee: Professor Fadi Kurdahi Abstract: Establishing robust and blind data hiding techniques in multimedia is very important for authentication, ownership protection and security. The multimedia being used may include images, videos and 3D mesh objects. A hybrid pyramid Discrete-Wavelet-Transform (DWT) Singular-Value-Decomposition (SVD) data hiding scheme […]
Name: Peyman Nazari Date: May 15, 2017 Time: 10:00 AM Committee: Prof. Payam Heydari (Chair). Prof. Michael Green, Prof. Ahmed Eltawil Abstract: MM-wave/sub-Terahertz (THz) signal generation, radiation, and detection have become increasingly attractive due to its fast-growing applications in spectroscopy, radar, biomedical and security imaging as well as high-speed wireless communication. Silicon technology, in one hand, […]
Name: Guantao Liu Date: March 2, 2017 Time: 4:00 PM Location: Engineering Hall 3206 Committee: Rainer Doemer (Chair), Kwei-Jay Lin, Mohammad Al Faruque Abstract: In hardware/software co-design, Discrete Event Simulation (DES) has been in use for decades to verify and validate the functionality of Electronic System Level (ESL) models. Since the parallel computing platforms are readily available […]
Name: Wael Mahmoud Elsharkasy Date: February 15, 2017 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Engineering Hall 3206 Committee: Prof. Fadi J. Kurdahi, Prof. Ahmed Eltawil, Rainer Doemer Abstract: System-on-Chip (SoC) faced lots of challenges over the past decade. With nowadays applications centered around Internet-of-Everything (IoE), these challenges are expected to be more critical. Among these challenges are the reduction of power consumption […]