PhD Dissertation Defense: The Perils of Shared Computing: A Hardware Security Perspective Majid Sabbagh Location: Microsoft Teams Link Abstract: Modern processors and hardware accelerators, in the cloud or on the edge, are capable of running multiple workloads from different users concurrently. Despite software techniques for security such as virtualization and containers, a new attack surface […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Improving the Virtual Memory Efficiency of GPUs Trinayan Baruah Location: Zoom Link Abstract: GPUs have been adopted widely based their ability to exploit data-level parallelism found in modern-day applications, ranging from high performance computing to machine learning. This widespread adoption has, in part, been accelerated by the development of more intuitive high-level […]

This session will cover interconnected nature of autonomous vehicles on land, underwater, and in the air. Using examples from research at Northeastern, it explores the interconnections of systems design, application-driven robotics, and the fundamental algorithms associated with simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), machine learning (ML), and computer vision and imaging as it applies to a […]