Seminars

Mar 24, 2017 - 4:00pm
Engineering Development of the Monash Vision Group Bionic Eye
Dr. Arthur J. Lowrey, Monash Vision Group , Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Australia

Monash Vision Group is developing a vision prosthesis based on implanting stimulating tiles into the visual cortex, area V1. Each tile has 43 stimulating electrodes that are designed to stimulate Learn More



Mar 24, 2017 - 1:30pm
5G Network Architecture and the Future Mobile Internet
Dipankar Raychaudhuri

This talk provides a discussion of one of the central design challenges associated with next-generation “5G”
wireless systems - that of effectively converging 3GPP Learn More



Mar 20, 2017 - 11:00am
Pushing the Limits of Indoor Localization in Today's Wi-fi Networks
Jie Xiong

WiFi is ubiquitous nowadays and is playing an increasingly important role in our everyday lives. Traditionally, WiFi networks are mainly used for data communication. In recent years, WiFi signals Learn More



Mar 17, 2017 - 2:00pm
Fast Sequential Decoding Techniques for Polar Codes
Peter Trifonov, Distributed Computing and Networking Department,, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Polar codes are a novel class of capacity-achieving error-correcting codes. List decoding techniques are needed in order to implement near-maximum likelihood decoding of polar codes and their Learn More



Mar 16, 2017 - 11:00am
Securing the Internet of Things: A Hardware Perspective
Kaiyuan Yang

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to connect our physical world with billions of sensors and actuators, transforming the way we live and work, as well as creating enormous business markets Learn More



Mar 13, 2017 - 11:00am
Designing the Internet of Things With Ambient Awareness
Xinyu Zhang

The forthcoming decade will witness an explosion of Internet-of-Things (IoT), which incorporates not only the current mobile devices, but also smart everyday objects equipped with computation, Learn More



Mar 9, 2017 - 10:00am
Decision Making Under Uncertainty in Networks of Strategic Agents
Amir Ajorlou

Many complex systems involve large-scale interconnection of agents with heterogeneous information who interact strategically. Such systems are prevalent in diverse domains ranging from cyber- Learn More



Mar 8, 2017 - 11:00am
ECE Special Seminar: Uncertainty-Aware and Data-Driven Design Verification for Nanoscale Systems and Beyond
ZHENG ZHANG

Uncertainties can cause significant performance degradations and functional failures in numerous engineering systems. Examples include (but are not limited to) nanoscale devices and systems with Learn More



Mar 6, 2017 - 11:00am
ECE Special Seminar: Energy-efficient, high-fidelity, and broadband RF/millimeter-wave signal generation in silicon
SONG HU

 Wireless electronic devices are everywhere in our daily lives with applications ranging from data communication to energy transfer and biomedical sensing. Power amplifier (PA) interfaces the Learn More



Mar 2, 2017 - 11:00am
Towards a Theory of Safe and Interactive Autonomy
Dorsa Sadigh, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

Today’s society is rapidly advancing towards cyber-physical systems (CPS) that interact and collaborate with humans, e.g., semi-autonomous vehicles interacting with drivers and pedestrians, Learn More