Name: Ahmed Mokhtar Nagy Ibrahim Chair: Prof. Ahmed Eltawil Date: August 7th, 2019 Time: 1:00 pm Location: EH 2210 – EECS Chair’s Conference Room Committee: Ahmed Eltawil(Chair), Ender Ayanoglu, and Lee Swindlehurst Title:"Event Detection and Estimation Using Distributed Population Owned Sensors " Abstract: Smart phones are an indispensable tool in modern day-to-day life. Their widespread […]
Name: Chenying Hsieh Date: Wednesday Aug 7, 2019 Time: 2:00 pm Location: Donald Bren Hall 4011 Committee: Nikil Dutt (Chair), Tony Givargis, and Ardalan Amiri Sani Title: Cooperative Power and Resource Management for Heterogeneous Mobile Architectures Abstract: Heterogeneous architectures have been ubiquitous in mobile system-on-chips (SoCs). The demand from different application domains such as games, computer vision and machine learning which […]
Title: "Low-Power Integrated Circuits For Biomedical Applications" Name: Karimi Bidhendi, Alireza Chair: Professor Payam Heydari Date: August 6, 2019 Time: 1 pm Location: Calit2, Room 3008 Abstract: With thousands new cases of spinal cord injury reported everyday, many people suffer from paralysis and loss of sensation in both legs. Beside the healthcare costs, such a […]
Name: Stanley Bak Date and Time: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Location: Engineering Hall 2430 Abstract: Cyber-physical systems combine complex physics with complex software. Although these systems offer significant potential in fields such as smart grid design, autonomous robotics and medical systems, verification of CPS designs remains challenging. Model-based design permits simulations to be used to explore […]
Title: "Data-Driven Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems using Side-Channel Analysis" Name: Sujit Rokka Chhetri Date: May 20, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM Location: EH 5200 Committee: Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque (Chair), Prof. Pramod Khargonekar, Prof. Fadi Kurdahi Abstract: Cyber-Physical System consists of the integration of computational components in the cyber-domain with the physical-domain processes. In cyber-domain, embedded computers and networks […]
Name: Jyotirmoy Vinay Deshmukh Date and Time: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. Location: Donald Bren Hall 4011 Abstract: With the increasing popularity of deep learning, there have been several efforts to use neural network based controllers in cyber-physical system applications. However, neural networks are equally well-known for their lack of interpretability, explainability and verifiability. […]
Name: Liron David Date and Time: Tuesday, March 12 at 10:00 a.m. Location: Engineering Hall 5204 Abstract: Rank estimation is an important tool for a side-channel evaluations laboratories. It allows estimating the remaining security after an attack has been performed, quantified as the time complexity and the memory consumption required to brute force the key […]
Title: "Cyber-Physical Systems Approach to Irrigation Systems" Name: Davit Hovhannisyan Date: March 5, 2019 Time: 4:00PM Location: EH 3206 (CECS conference room) Committee: Prof. Fadi Kurdahi (Chair), Prof. Ahmed Eltawil, Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque Abstract: Semiconductor industry has successfully brought silicon technology to price point that it is accessible for application domains such as irrigation systems, which wastefully utilizes 70% […]
Name: Masahiro Fujita Date and Time: Thursday, January 14 at 3:00 p.m. Location:Engineering Hall 3206 Abstract: In this talk first we review the partial logic synthesis problem and its associated algorithm based on QBF (Quantified Boolean Formula) formulation. Partial logic synthesis is to generate appropriate sub-circuits for the missing portions in the target design so that the entire […]
Title: "Control System Design Automation Using Reinforcement Learning" Name: Hamid Mirzaei Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Donald Bren Hall 3011 Committee: Professor Tony Givargis (Chair), Professor Eli Bozorgzadeh, Professor Ian Harris Abstract: Conventional control theory has been used in many application domains with great success in the past decades. However, novel […]
Name: Tulika Mitra Date and Time: Monday, November 5 at 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Location: Donald Bren Hall 3011 Abstract: Internet of Things (IoT), an ever-growing network of billions of devices embedded within physical objects, is revolutionizing our daily life. The IoT devices in the edge are primarily responsible only for collecting and communicating the data […]
Mohammad Al Faruque won the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems Early Career Award to honor his work over the past eight years in the areas of energy-efficient and security-award design automation methodologies for cyber-physical systems. Congrats Prof. Al Faruque!