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: 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 […]

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 […]