PhD Dissertation Defense: Remotely Rechargeable Embedded Platforms for Next Generation IoT Systems in Critical Environments Raffaele Guida Location: Teams Meeting Abstract: In the near future, a new generation of miniaturized, multi-function and smart wireless devices for Internet of Things (IoT) systems, designed for real-time monitoring and with real-time reconfiguration will be deployed in critical and […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Platform-specific Model Compression for Deep Neural Networks with Joint Methods Sheng Lin Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning has delivered its powerfulness in many application domains, especially in computer vision, natural language processing and speech recognition. As the backbone of deep learning, deep neural networks (DNNs) consist of multiple layers of various […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Remote Monitoring of Multiple Ships over Instantaneous Continental-shelf Scale Region with a Large-aperture Coherent Hydrophone Array Chenyang Zhu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Multiple mechanized ocean vessels, including both surface ships and submerged vehicles, can be simultaneously monitored over instantaneous continental-shelf scale regions >10,000 km 2 via passive ocean acoustic waveguide remote sensing. […]
MS Thesis Defense: Exploring Effectiveness of Naive Spatio-Temporal Exploits for Depth Completion Xinan Huang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: With an increasing need for usable depth for autonomous navigation systems such as self-driving cars, depth completion is becoming an increasingly studied subject. RGB data provide much-needed aid in providing good recreation of dense depth maps from […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Development of Magnetodielectric Materials with Low Loss and High Snoekâs Product for Microwave Applications Qifan Li Location: Teams Link Abstract: Exhibiting both relative magnetic permeability and electric permittivity greater than unity, magnetodielectric materials have been attracting great attention in both academia and industry for next-generation communication, sensing, and radar applications. It is […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Real-World Applicable Deep Learning Techniques: From Efficient Modeling to Automated Model Optimization Ning Liu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely studied and achieved tremendous success in a variety of real-world applications, such as computer vision, medical diagnosis and machine translation. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL), as an […]
PhD Proposal Review: Design, Modeling and Operation of Plasmonic Devices for Smart Communication Systems in the Terahertz Band Arjun Singh Location: Teams Link Abstract: The terahertz (THz) band is an attractive spectral resource for future communication systems, for supporting very high-speed data rates and increasingly dense networks. However, the lack of a well-developed technology that […]
MS Thesis Defense: Allocating One Common Accelerator-Rich Platform for Many Streaming Applications Jinghan Zhang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Many demanding streaming applications share functional and structural similarities with other applications in their respective domain, e.g. video analytics, software-defined radio, and radar. This opens the opportunity for specialization (e.g. heterogeneous computing) to achieve the needed efficiency […]
PhD Proposal Review: The perils of shared computing: A hardware security perspective Majid Sabbagh Location: Teams Link Abstract: The enormous computation power of modern processors and accelerators has rendered them shared computing resources for multiple users and applications, both in the cloud and on the edge. Despite software techniques for security such as virtualization and […]
PhD Proposal Review: Automation Design and DNN Acceleration Algorithms: From Software Implementation to Hardware Physical Design Hongjia Li Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning has been growing at a fast pace in recent years and has been expanded into many application fields, with a wide range from image recognition, object detection to medical applications. Meanwhile, […]