Computer Engineering and Systems Group Seminars

Students Registered for ECEN 681 CESG Seminar
To receive the full credit for this course, you must meet the following requirements:

Attend at least 7 seminars. You are responsible for attending seminars whenever they are scheduled.

Complete and submit a brief report through the corresponding Google Form for each seminar (links below). The report is due on 3pm on the day after the seminar.  The report should be brief while highlighting the key points from each seminar.

Spring 2019

Organizer: Dr. Srinivas Shakkottai (sshakkot@tamu.edu)
Time: Friday 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.
Location: ETB 1037

• January 25, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1037): “Next Stop: 5nm. But What’s Next for Power Signoff?”, Dr. Albert (Zhiyu) Zeng, Candence Design Systems. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• January 31, Thursday 11:00 a.m. (SPECIAL SEMINAR, WEB 236C): “Programmable Hardware Monitors for Software Security”, Dr. Ajay Joshi, Boston University. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• February 1, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1037): “Acceleration at the Speed of System Memory”, Dr. Kevin Hofstee, IBM Research. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• February 8, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1037): “Robust Learning of Classifiers under Label Noise”, Dr. P.S. Sastry, IISc. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• February 15, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1037): “Decentralized control over Unreliable Communication Links”, Dr. Ashutosh Nayyar, USC. Summary form (only for registered students) .

Fall 2018

Organizer: Dr. Srinivas Shakkottai (sshakkot@tamu.edu)
Time: Friday 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.
Location: ETB 1020

• September 7, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1020): “Approximate Computing: A New Dimension for Hardware Design Trade-off”, Dr. Jiang Hu, Texas A&M University. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• September 14, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1020): “Big Data Analysis and Cross-Layer Optimization for Communication, Caching and Computing (C^3) Networks”, Dr. Zhu Han, University of Houston. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• September 21, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1020): “Accurate Learning or Fast Mixing? Dynamic Adaptability of Caching Algorithms”, Dr. Srinivas Shakkottai, Texas A&M University. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• September 28, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1020): Graduate Student Seminars.
  1. “Security of Cyber-Physical Systems”, Bharadwaj Satchidanandan, Texas A&M University
  2. “Small-Scale Markets for Bilateral Resource Trading in the Sharing Economy”, Bainan Xia, Texas A&M University.
  Summary form (only for registered students) .

• October 5, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1020): “Autonomous Vehicles: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, Dr. Srikanth Saripalli, Texas A&M University. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• October 12, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1020): “Transportation Systems Resilience: Capacity-Aware Control and Value of Information”, Dr. Saurabh Amin, MIT. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• October 25, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1020): “Scheduling Punctured Systems: Joint Scheduling of Ultra Reliable Low Latency and Mobile Broadband Traffic”, Dr. Gustavo De Veciana, UT Austin. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• November 2, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1020): “Enabling Seamless Coverage and Mobility Support for Millimeter-Wave Networks”, Dr. Xinyu Zhang, UC San Diego. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• November 9, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1020): “Quantum-driven classical optimization”, Dr. Helmut Katzgraber, Texas A&M University. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• November 16, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1020): “Sociotechnical Perspectives on Internet Resource Management: Internet Exchanges as Markets for Infrastructure Services”, Dr. Jesse Sowell, Texas A&M University. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• November 30, Friday 4:10 p.m. (ETB 1020): “Last Mile Security in Industrial IOT Applications”, Dr. Xiaolin Lu, Texas Instruments. Summary form (only for registered students) .

• December 12, Wednesday 11:10 a.m. (WEB 333, Fishbowl): “Deconstructing the Blockchain to Approach Physical Limits”, Dr, Sreeram Kannan, University of Washington

• December 12, Wednesday 4:30 p.m. (WEB 236C): “Interface between Machine Learning and Information Theory”, Dr, Sreeram Kannan, University of Washington

• • Spring 2018

    Organizers:Dr. Alex Sprintson (spalex@tamu.edu)
    Time: Friday 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.
    Location: WEB 236C

    • April 27, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236C): “Topological Quantum Computation”, Dr. Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University
    • April 20, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236C): “Algorithms, Architectures, and Test-beds for Advanced Wireless Communication Systems”, Dr. Joseph Cavallaro, Rice University
    • April 13, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236C): “Long-term Secure Communication without Computational Assumptions”, Dr. Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary
    • April 6, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236C): “Learning-Based Power and Performance Prediction for Heterogeneous System Design”, Dr. Andreas Gerstlauer, University of Texas, Austin
    • March 30, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236C): “Challenges and Opportunities in Advanced R&D at a Global Private Technology Company”, Jian Li, Huawei Technologies, Inc.
    • March 2, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236C): “Bridging Design and Manufacturing Gap through Machine Learning and Machine-Generated Layout”, Dr. Yibo Lin, University of Texas, Austin
    • February 23, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236C): “Energy-efficient Machine Learning Systems for Cloud and Edge Computing”, Dr. Yingyan Lin, Rice University
    • February 16, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236C): “Toward Online Intrusion Tolerance & Response in Power Systems”, Dr. Katherine Davis, Texas A&M University
    • February 9, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236C): “Impact of the Cyber-Physical Interdependency on Cascading Failure Mitigation in the Smart Grid”, Dr. Mingkui Wei, Sam Houston State University
    • January 26, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236C): “Private Information Retrieval with Side Information”, Brenden Garcia, Texas A&M University

     

Fall 2017

Organizers:

Dr. Alex Sprintson (spalex@tamu.edu)

Dr. Peng Li (pli@tamu.edu)

Time: Friday 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.

Location: WEB 236C

• November 17, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Sequential Learning, Optimization and Control for Cyber-Physical Systems, Dr. Dileep Kalathil, Texas A&M University
• November 14, Friday 2:20 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Implantable Electronic Migration at Biotronik, David Genzer ’83, Director of IC Design and Development – Texas Biotronik/Micro Systems Engineering Inc.
• November 10, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Human-Centric Machine Learning in the Big Data Era, Dr. Xia “Ben” Hu, Texas A&M University
• November 3, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Throughput-Optimal Scheduling for Multi-Hop Networked Transportation Systems with Switch-Over Delay, Dr. I-Hong Hou, Texas A & M University
• October 27, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Knowledge-driven representations of physiological signals: Developing measurable indices of non-observable behavior,  Dr. Theodora Chaspari, Texas A & M University
• October 20, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Model checking Asynchronous Systems: A New Technique and a Practical Tool, Dr. Jeff Huang, Texas A & M University
• October 13, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Embracing Sparsity in Deep Networks: From Algorithms to Hardware, Dr. Zhangyang (Altas) Wang, Texas A & M University
• October 6, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): What Really Lies beyond Moor’s Law?, Dr. Frank Liu, IBM Research
• September 29, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Spiking Neural Networks: Learning Architecture and Hardware Implementation, Dr. Peng Li, Texas A & M University
• September 22, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Small is the New Big: Data Analytics on the Edge – An overview of processors and algorithms for deep learning techniques on the edge, Dr. Abhay Samant, Vice President of Engineering Hiller Measurements
• September 15, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Systems for Clinical Outcomes Predictions, Dr. Bobak Mortazavi, Texas A & M University
• September 8, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): The Rewriting of a 50-Year-Old Solution: The Normalized Singular Value Decomposition of Non-Symmetric Matrices Using Givens Fast Rotations, Ehsan Rohani, Texas A & M University
• September 1, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Towards Principle Support for Storage and Wireless Applications in Software Defined Networks, Dr. Alex Sprintson, Texas A & M University 

   

Spring 2017

Organizer: Dr. Paul V. Gratz (pgratz@gratz1.com)

Time: Friday 3:55 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.

Location: CHEN 108

Spring 2017

•  May 5, Friday 4:00 p.m. (CHEN 108):  Trustworthy Integrated Circuit Design, Jeyavijayan (JV) Rajendran, University of Texas at Dallas
• April 28, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Breaking the On-Chip Latency Barrier Using Single-Cycle Multi-Hop Networks, Tushar Krisha of Georgia Tech
• April 21, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): CPU and Server System Architecture Opportunities for  AI Application Optimization, Balint Fleischer, CTO at Huawei
• April 7, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): How Much Time, Energy, and Power Does an Algorithm Need?, Richard (Rich) Vuduc of Georgia Tech
• March 31, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Prototyping Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Networks, Simon Yau of Texas A&M
• March 24, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Exo-Core — Software-Defined Hardware-Security, Mohit Tiwari of the University of Texas
• March 3, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Improving Cyber Security through Cyber Insurance and Data Analytics, Parinaz Naghizadeh of the University of Michigan
• February 24, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Making Wi-Fi Work in Multi-Hop Topologies: Automatic Negotiation and Allocation of Airtime, Violet R. Syrotiuk of Arizona State University
• February 17, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C): Leaping Over the Memory Wall with Data Prefetching and Cache Replacement, Jinchun Kim of Texas A&M
• February 3, Friday 4:10 p.m. (CVE 222): Hardware Trojans Begone: Inspiring Trust in Outsourced IC Fabrication, Siddharth Garg of New York University
• January 27, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 236-C):  Cyberethics and Cyberpolitics:  Ethical and Social Issues, Glen Miller of Texas A&M
• January 20, Friday 4:10 p.m. (WEB 333): Virtual Human Teleportation via UAV-IoT AR/VR Immersive Communication, Jacob Chakareski of the University of Alabama

Fall 2015

• Sept. 2, Wednesday 4:00 pm (O&M 112): No seminar, quick info session for the students enrolled.
• Sept 9, Wednesday 4:00 pm (WEB 236C): Unlocking system performance with NVMe Flash, Manu Awasthi, Samsung Research.
• Sept 16, Wednesday 4:00pm (WEB 236C): Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Systems Enabling Next-Generation High-Throughput Assays, Arum Han, Texas A&M University.
• Sept 23, Wednesday 4:00pm (WEB 236C): Tapas of Quantum Computing, Andreas Klappenecker, Dept. CSE, Texas A&M University. Slides
• Sept 30, Wednesday 4:00pm (WEB 236C): Rethinking Competitive-Ratio: Two Case Studies, I-Hong Hou, Texas A&M University.
• Oct 7, Wednesday 4:00pm (WEB 236C): Trustworthy Integrated Circuit Design, Jeyavijayan (JV) Rajendran, UT Dallas
• Oct 12, Monday 2:30pm (WEB 236C): (Eminent Scholar Seminar) Challenges and Approaches for a Trustworthy Power Grid Cyber Infrastructure, William Sanders, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
• Oct 23, Friday 4:00pm (WEB 236C): Distributed Algorithms for Big Graph Analytics, Alexandros G. Dimakis, The University of Texas at Austin.
• Oct 28, Wednesday 4:00pm (WEB 236C): Flash in The Enterprise : It’s Not Your Grandfather’s USB Stick, Charles Camp, IBM (Slides1, Slides2)
• Nov 4, Wednesday 4:00pm (WEB 236C): (seminar post-poned to spring, no seminar this week)
• Nov 11, Wednesday 4:00pm (WEB 236C): Vijay Janapa Reddi, The University of Texas at Austin.
• Dec 2, Wednesday 11:00am (Room 202 Reed McDonald Building): Health Data Sciences at ORNL: From Personalized Medicine to Population Health, Dr. Georgia Tourassi, Director of the Biomedical Science and Engineering Center and the Health Data Sciences Institute at ORNL.