Seminars

Friday, October 13, 2023 10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. (CST) ETB 1020 Arif Merchant Research Scientist @ Google Title: “Research Directions in Google Storage“ Talking Points:  How does Google Storage work? How do you lay out data across tens of thousands of disks, dozens of device types, with wildly varying failure rates and capacities, while keeping […]

Friday, September 22, 2023 10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. (CST) ETB 1020, In-Person Presentation Only Anshumali Shrivastava Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science Rice University Title: “How We Pre-Trained GPT/LLM Models from Scratch on a CPU-Only Cluster: Democratizing the GenAI Ecosystem with Algorithms and Dynamic Sparsity” Talking Points:  You can now Pre-train and fine-tune […]

Monday, September 25, 2023 10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. (CST) ETB 1034 Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale Director & Research Professor at the Parallel Programming Laboratory Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor Emeritus of Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Title: “The Migratable Objects Parallel Programming Model: Successes and Prospects” Talking Points:  Parallel Programming Model with Runtime Adaptivity Automated […]

Friday, October 6, 2023 10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. (CST) ETB 1020 Bingzhe Li Assistant Professor I Dept. of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas Title: “Next-Generation Storage Systems for Big Data” Talking Points:  How to efficiently manage current emerging storage devices How to design a new DNA storage system How to build a high-performance […]

Friday, September 15, 2023 10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. (CST) ETB 1020 Shuiwang Ji Professor at Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Texas A&M University Title: “AI for Science in Quantum, Atomistic, and Continuum Systems” Talking Points:  How to use AI to solve problems in physics, chemistry, material science, and fluid mechanics How to capture symmetries […]

Friday, September 8, 2023 10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. (CST) ETB 1020 P. R. Kumar Professor at Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Texas A&M University Title: “Security of Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory and Applications of the Dynamic Watermarking Method” Talking Points:  How to protect our critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks? How to secure the power grid, oil […]

Friday, September 1, 2023 10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. (CST) ETB 1020, In-Person Presentation Only Sunil Khatri Professor at Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Texas A&M University Title: “Flash – the ‘Overlooked’ Technology” Talking Points:  Flash technology has historically been used for non-volatile memory Can flash be used for digital, analog and mixed-signal circuits also? […]

Friday, May 12, 2023 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (CST) Fishbowl (WEB 333), In-Person Presentation Only Aditya Arun, PhD Student Center of Wireless Communications (CWC) and Contextual Robotics Institute (CRI) University of California, San Diego  Title: “Leveraging WiFi for Robust and Resource-Efficient SLAM” Talking Points:  Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) issues such as errors in […]

Friday, April 28, 2023 3:50 – 4:50 p.m. (CST) ETB 1020 or Zoom (see syllabus or email list for link) Vasudev Gohil CE PhD Student Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Computer Engineering Texas A&M University Title: “Reinforcement Learning for Hardware Security ” Talking Points Security threats such as hardware Trojans due to a globalized integrated […]

Friday, March 31, 2023 3:50 – 4:50 p.m. (CST) Zoom (see syllabus or email list for link) Archana Bura  PhD Candidate, Spring 2023 Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M University Title: “Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Networks ” Talking Points Challenges in learning under real world problems with constraints Developing CRL algorithms for two […]