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 […]
Name: Hossein Tajik Date: November 15, 2016 Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM Location: DBH 3011 Conference Room Committee: Nikil Dutt (Chair), Tony Givargis, Alex Nicolau Abstract: With the increasing number of cores on a chip, we are moving towards an era where many-core platforms will soon be ubiquitous. Efficient use of tens to hundreds of cores on […]
Name: Rana A. Abdelaal Date: January 30, 2017 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Engineering Hall 3106 Committee: Professor Ahmed Eltawil Abstract: Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) technology has seen prolific use to achieve higher data rates and an improved communication experience for cellular systems. However, one of the challenging problems in MIMO systems is interference. Interference limits the […]
Name: Brett Chien Date: November 29, 2016 Time: 10:00AM Location: EH 2210 Committee: Pai H. Chou (Chair) Abstract: While Internet-Of-Things (IoT) has drawn more attention to researchers and the public, to build a complete system from the edge sensing units to the cloud services requires massive amount of efforts. Researchers with strong interests in collected information are […]
Name: Hung Nguyen Date: November 17, 2016 Time: 1:30 P.M. Location: EH 3206 Committee: Fadi Kurdahi (Chair), Aditi Majumder (Co-Chair) Abstract: We explore and develop an embedded real time system and associated algorithms that enable an aggregation of limited resource, low-quality, projection-enabled mobile devices to collaboratively produce a higher quality video stream for a superior viewing […]
Title: “Low Energy, a New Trend for Lightweight Cryptography” Speaker: Dr. Francesco Regazzoni, ALaRI Institute of Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland Date and Time: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. Location: DBH 4011 Host: Prof. Nikil Dutt Abstract: In the last decade, several lightweight block ciphers and hash functions have been proposed. One […]
The Edison Patent Awards at Liberty Science Center in Jersey City. 11/3/16 Photo by John O’Boyle Each year the Research & Development Council of New Jersey honors the winners of the Thomas Edison Patent Awards at its annual Edison Patent Awards Ceremony & Reception in the IMAX Theater of the Liberty Science Center. Professor Al […]
Title: "High Level Synthesis - Some Challenging Problems" Speaker: George A. Constantinides, Imperial College London, UK Date and Time: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 11:00 A.M. Location: Engineering Hall 2430 Host: Professor Nikil Dutt Abstract: High Level Synthesis - synthesis of circuits from behavioral descriptions - is a long-standing problem, but one that appears to now have come to […]
Title: “Malicious LUT: A Stealthy FPGA Trojan Injected and Triggered by the Design Flow” Speaker: Christian Krieg, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Date and Time: Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 2:00 PM Location: Donald Bren Hall 3011 Host: Professor Nikil Dutt Abstract: We present a novel type of Trojan trigger targeted at the field-programmable […]
Title: “Adaptive Design: Tackling Variability Challenges in VLSI Circuits” Speaker: Professor Mingoo Seok, Columbia University, New York Date: Friday, April 22, 2016 Time: 3:00PM Location: Harut Barsamian Colloquia Room (Engineering Hall 2430) Host: Prof. Payam Heydari Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss variability challenges in VLSI systems and our recent research efforts on variation-adaptive […]
Name: Ahmed Nassar Date: September 2, 2016 Time: 12:00 P.M. Location: EH 3403 Committee: Fadi Kurdahi (Chair), Rainer Doemer, Ahmed Eltawil Abstract: Post-Deployment runtime verification (RV) has recently emerged as a complementary technology to extend coverage of conventional software verification and testing methods. This thesis is an attempt to tackle three major barriers that need […]
Speaker: Prof. Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France Title: Resilience is a Critical Issue for Large-scale Platform Date: Monday, May 18, 2015 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Location: Harut Barsamian Colloquia Room (Engineering Hall 2430) Host: Prof. Jean-Luc Gaudiot Abstract: Resilience is a critical issue for large-scale platforms. This talk will survey […]