PhD Proposal Review: RFICs for Biomedical Magnetic and Magnetoelectric Microsystems Mehdi Nasrollahpourmotlaghzanjani Location: Zoom Links Abstract: Design and analysis of the advanced biomedical circuit and systems in wide variety of applications has emerged a significant interest. Not only in different engineering disciplines, but also in a variety of applications such as neuroscience, COVID-19, etc. In […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Learning from Spatio-Temporal Data with Applications in Climate Science Yumin Liu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Climate change is one of the major challenges to human beings and many other species in our time. In the recent decade, the number of disasters related to climate change such as wildfires, storms, floods and droughts […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Software-Defined Wireless Networking for 5G and Beyond: From Indoor Cells to Non-Terrestrial UAV Networks Lorenzo Bertizzolo Location: Microsoft Teams Abstract: While Software-defined Networking (SDN) is a consolidated and widely adopted concept in fixed infrastructure, its adoption to the wireless domain has been limited by some fundamental challenges. Unlike traditional fixed infrastructure, which […]
PhD Proposal Review: Automated Bayesian Network Exploration for Nuisance-Robust Inference Andac Demir Location: Zoom Link Abstract: A fundamental challenge in the analysis of physiological signals is learning useful features that are robust to nuisance factors e.g., inter-subject & inter-session variability, and achieve the highest nuisance-invariant classification performance. Towards resolving this problem, we introduce 2 frameworks: […]
PhD Proposal Review: Ferroelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers for Intra-body and In-memory Sensing Applications Bernard Herrera Location: Teams Abstract: Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUTs) are Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) devices that have become an established technology in applications such as range-finding, fingerprint sensing and imaging due to their capability of ultrasonic transduction in a miniaturized footprint, […]
PhD Proposal Review: Human Strategies in the Control of Complex Objects: A Task-Dynamic Approach with Clinical Applications Rashida Nayeem Location: Zoom Link Passcode: 247537 Abstract: Functional interaction with objects - tool use - is essential in daily living and is regarded as the foundation of our evolutionary advantage. Humans effortlessly interact with a variety of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: Fractional Order Derivative in Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing with Specific Application to Seizure Detection Ala Tokhmpash Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Epilepsy is a chronic brain disease that affects around 50 million people worldwide. This disease is characterized by recurrent seizures, which are brief episodes of involuntary movement that may involve a […]