Speaker: Mukesh Singhal, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Merced Title: A Client-centric Approach to Interoperable Clouds Date: Friday, December 6, 2013 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Location: Donald Bren Hall 6011 Abstract: Cloud computing offers several benefits in terms of scalability, cost and performance. These benefits have contributed to the wide-scale acceptance of the […]
Title: "Adaptive Design: Tackling Variability Challenges in VLSI Circuits" Speaker: Prof Mingoo Seok, Columbia University, New York, NY Date and Time: Friday, April 22, 2016 at 3:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. Location: Engineering Hall 2430 Hosts: Professor Payam Heydari Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss variability challenges in VLSI systems and our recent research […]
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Title: Building Fake Body Parts: Real-Time Digital Mockups of Physiological SystemsSpeaker: Prof. Frank Vahid, University of California, Riverside Location: 6011 Donald Bren Hall Date/Time: Friday, October 26, 2012, 11:00am - 12:00pm Host: Prof. Eli Bozorgzadeh Abstract: Designing computer-based medical devices like pacemakers or ventilators is hard, in part because testing can't be done on real […]
Speaker: Prof. Massimo Poncino, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy Title: Towards Computer-Aided Design of Electrical Energy Systems:Challenges and Solutions Date: Friday, April 22, 2016 Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm Location: Engineering Hall 2430 Host: Prof. Mohammad Al Faruque View Details Here
Name: Aras Pirbadian Date: August 29, 2016 Time: 3:30pm Location: EH 3403 Committee: Ahmed Eltawil (Chair), Fadi Kurdahi, Rainer Doemer With the continued scaling of chip manufacturing technologies, the significance of process variation in performance of the systems is increasing. Specifically, process variation results in growing voltage and frequency overhead margins required to ensure error […]
Name: Zhenqiu Huang Date: July 29, 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: EH 4106 Committee: Kwei-Jay Lin (Chair), Fadi Kurdahi, Mohammad Al Faruque Abstract: This thesis studies the issues on building and managing future Internet of Things (IoT) systems. IoT systems consist of distributed components with services for sensing, processing, and controlling through devices deployed in our […]
Speaker: Marco Zec, University of Zagreb Title: "Area/speed tradeoffs in a retargetable FPGA-optimized processor core" Date: Friday, July 15, 2016 Time: 11:00 AM Location: CECS Conference Room (Engineering Hall 3206) Host: Prof. Daniel Gajski Abstract: Can portable yet efficient, FPGA-optimized processor cores be constructed using generic HDL, without depending on any vendor-specific primitives? In this talk […]
Title: "Towards Computer-Aided Design of Electrical Energy Systems: Challenges and Solutions" Speaker: Professor Massimo Poncino, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy Date and Time: Friday, April 22, 2016 at 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Location: Engineering Hall 2430 Hosts: Professor Mohammad Al Faruque Abstract: Electrical energy systems (EESs) include energy generation, distribution, storage, and consumption, and […]
Name: Jun Luan Location: EH 4106 Date: February 24, 2016 Time: 1:00pm Committee: Pai Chou (Chair), Mohammad Al Faruque, Fadi Kurdahi Abstract: Medical sensing systems collect and analyze the patients’ physiological data for monitoring, aid or diagnostic purposes. System designers are faced with stringent requirements on not only correctness and safety but also power. Reference […]
Name: SeungJae Lee Date: April, 5, 2016 Time: 3:00p.m. Location: EH 4106 Committee: Pai H. Chou (Chair), Fadi Kurdahi, Tony Givargis Abstract: Wearable embedded systems with sensing, communication, and computing capabilities have given rise to innovations in e-health and telemedicine in general. The scope of such systems ranges from devices and mobile apps to cloud […]
Title: “Energy-Efficient Capacitance-to-Digital Converters for Low-Energy Sensor Nodes” Speaker: Professor Khaled N. Salama, King Abdullah, University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Date and Time: Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 11:00 A.M. Location: Engineering Hall 2430 Hosts: Fadi J. Kurdahi and Ahmed Eltawil Abstract: Energy efficiency is a key requirement for wireless sensor nodes, biomedical […]