PhD Dissertation Defense: Explainable Efficient Models for Computer Vision Applications Wenqian Liu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: State of the art deep learning based models, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and generative models, achieve impressive results, but with their great performance comes great complexity and opacity, huge parametric spaces and little explainability. The criticality of […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Near-Zero Power Microelectromechanical Sensors for Large-Scale IoT Sensor Networks Vageeswar Rajaram Location: ISEC 432 Abstract: The Internet-of-things revolution has ushered the development of sensing technologies aimed towards establishing large-scale remote sensor networks to monitor the environment continuously and with high spatial resolution. However, with existing sensor technologies this goal has so far […]
PhD Proposal Review: Sputtered Topological Insulator/Ferromagnet Heterostructures for Energy Efficient Spintronic Device Applications Nirjhar Bhattacharjee Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Topological insulators (TI) are Van der Waals (VdW) layered materials which possess enormous spin-orbit coupling (SOC) strength and spin-momentum locked robust surface states. TIs in presence of time-reversal symmetry breaking magnetic order can also exhibit chiral […]
The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things is pleased to host a distinguished lecture on Real-time Geo-spatial Spectrum Sharing by Dr. Elliot Eichen. When: Monday, September 20th, 1pm. Location: Zoom Link Abstract: New technology and new applications for wireless communications have created competition for frequency bands traditionally allocated to remote sensing and defense applications. […]
PhD Proposal Review: Data-Driven Control and Estimation Tianyu Dai Location: Zoom Link Abstract: During the last two decades, data-driven control (DDC) has attracted growing attention in the control community. Unlike model-based control (MBC) that first uses the collected data to identify the system, then designs the controller according to the certainty equivalence principle, DDC skips […]
PhD Proposal Review: Lightweight Neural Networks via Factorization Bin Sun Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning has become popular in recent years primarily due to powerful computing devices such as GPUs. However, many applications such as face alignment, image classification, and gesture recognition need to be deployed to multimedia devices, smartphones, or embedded systems with […]
PhD Proposal Review: Toward System Software Stack for NISQ–era Quantum Computers Tirthak Patel Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Despite rapid progress in quantum computing in the last decade, the limited usability of quantum computers remains a major roadblock toward the wider adoption of quantum computing. Prohibitively high error rates on existing Near-term Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers […]
PhD Proposal Review: Development of Interface-Engineered Thin Films and Magnetodielectric Bulk Composites for MMIC Applications Chengju Yu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Magnetodielectric materials are ubiquitous in electronic, energy, automotive, communication, and medical systems over radio frequency bands from high frequency to quasi-optical frequencies. With recent developments in modern power and communication technologies, improvements in magnetic […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Automation Design and DNN Acceleration Frameworks: from software implementation to hardware physical design Hongjia Li Location: Northeastern Zoom Link Abstract: With the breakthrough of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in the past decade, neural network-based computer vision has made huge progress, achieving exceptional performance. Tasks such as object detection, activity detection, and medical […]
PhD Proposal Review: Fault Location in Radial and Meshed Networks Containing Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) Cesar Antonio Galvez Nunez Location: Microsoft Teams Link Abstract: Rapidly increasing numbers of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) connected to transmission and distribution networks via Inverter Based Power Sources (IBPSs) introduce new challenges in detecting and locating faults. Distribution networks are […]