• “Optimizing Private Local Memories in Heterogeneous Architectures”

    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 Abstract: Modern Systems-on-Chip (SoC) architectures and state-of-the-art computing platforms that integrate CPUs with FPGAs are heterogeneous systems featuring an increasing number of hardware accelerators. Private […]

  • Mobile and Emerging Computing Systems: challenges and research opportunities

    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 Abstract: The computing systems have been evolving at a fast pace and they are increasingly ubiquitous. This trend is driven by advancements […]

  • Self-Awareness in Remote Health Monitoring Systems using Wearable Electronics

    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 A.M. Location: 2430 Engineering Hall Host: Prof. Nikil Dutt Abstract: In healthcare, effective monitoring of patients plays a key role in detecting health deterioration early enough. Many signs of deterioration exist as early as […]

  • Quoc-Viet Dang PhD Defense

    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 […]

  • Robust Data Hiding in Multimedia for Authentication and Ownership Protection

    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 […]

  • Millimeter-wave and Sub-THz Signal Generation and Detection in Silicon Technologies

    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, […]

  • Heterogeneous Chip Architectures for Big Data Analytics

    Title: "Heterogeneous Chip Architectures for Big Data Analytics" Speaker: Houman Homayoun, George Mason University, Virginia Date and Time: Friday, April 28, 2017 at 11:00AM Location: 2430 Engineering Hall Abstract: There is a fundamental shift underway now in various industry sectors to transport their big data to the clouds, thus increasing their efficiency and improving cash flow. In […]

  • Distinguished Lecture at CECS

    Title:  "Processor Paradigms: Evolution or Disruption and the importance of the Transformation Hierarchy Moving Forward" Speaker: Prof. Yale N. Patt, University of Texas, Austin TX Date and Time: Friday, March 31, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. Location: Donald Bren Hall 4011 Hosts: Professor Alex Nicolau View Details Here

  • Optimizing Many-Threads-to-Many-Cores Mapping in Parallel Electronic System Level Simulation

    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 […]

  • Low Power Reliable Design using Pulsed Latch Circuits

    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 […]

  • Runtime Memory Management in Many-core Systems

    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 […]

  • On Optimizing the Performance of Interference-Limited Wireless Systems

    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 […]