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Real AI Initiative – "More Than the Sum of It's Parts"

From the RMCOE News article "Much More Than the Sum of Its Parts" When it comes to AI, two’s company but three — or more — can be a much harder problem. Many current approaches to AI in science model ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Sep 25 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: “Reinventing the Camera: AI and the Future of Imaging," Peyman Milanfar, Distinguished Scientist, Google

AI is fundamentally revolutionizing imaging, transforming how we capture, reconstruct, enhance, and experience visual content. Advancements in AI are actively overcoming the physical limitations of ...
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Sep 24 (Thu) @ 10:00am: "Online Algorithms for Learning and Control under Safety Constraints," Spencer Hutchinson, ECE PhD Defense

Learning and control algorithms are integral to modern engineered systems, such as power grids, autonomous vehicles, and robotics. In many settings, they must operate online under uncertain and ...
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Aug 31 (Mon) @ 1:00pm: "Scalable and Trustworthy Operator Learning for Thermal Simulation and Optimization in 3D-IC Design," Xinling Yu, ECE PhD Defense

Three-dimensional integrated circuits stack multiple dies to reach integration densities beyond the limits of planar scaling, but the same vertical integration concentrates power in a small volume and ...
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July 27 (Mon) @11:00am: "General purpose programming and OS principles for heterogeneous SoCs," Nazerke Turtayeva, ECE PhD Defense

There is a fundamental limit in how we architect System-on-Chips (SoCs) today. We lack the freedom to vary the accelerators we ship together to yield the best power and performance for a given SoC ...
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ECE Seminar Series — May 1 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Digital Twins for Inspection of Direct Ink Write Additive Manufacturing," Brian Giera, Director, Data Science Institute, LLNL

Inspection presents the largest bottleneck in the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) manufacturing enterprise and is as much as 4x more costly than fabrication itself. On top of this, ...
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April 13 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: “Scaling, Stacking, and Cracking the Memory Wall,” Shyam Surthi, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Micron Technology

Location: Harold Frank Hall (HFH), Room 4108 (ECE Conf. Rm.) AI has exposed an inconvenient truth: computation is no longer the bottleneck — memory is. Despite decades of aggressive scaling, modern ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Mar 6 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: "Six Mini Talks" by ECE PhD Students

This seminar features short research talks covering a range of topics across AI, photonics, communications, control, and computing systems. Learn about ongoing work in the department and connect with ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Jan 16 (Fri) @ 2:00pm: “MEMS and Microsystems for Space Applications,” Mina Rais-Zadeh, Group Supervisor, Jet Propulsion Lab

The future of space exploration demands instrumentation that is ultra-miniaturized, robust, and capable of functioning reliably in harsh, extreme environments—from the cryogenic depths of outer space ...
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Dec 3 (Wed) @9:00am: "Improving Friction Modeling for Robotics via Physics Informed Neural Networks," Asutay Ozmen, ECE PhD Defense

Location: Harold Frank Hall (HFH), Room 4110B (ECE Conf. Rm.) Accurately modeling friction in robotics remains a core challenge, as robotics simulators like Mujoco and PyBullet use simplified friction ...
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Dec 1 (Mon) @ 1:00pm: "Adaptive Methods for Prediction and Frame Reconstruction in Video Coding," Zeyu Deng, ECE PhD Defense

Efficient video compression relies heavily on accurate block prediction and effective frame reconstruction, both of which depend on statistical models that capture the characteristics of the encoded ...