MS Thesis Defense: Real-Time Object Detection on Mobile Devices via Compression-Compilation Co-Design Yuxuan Cai Location: Zoom Link Abstract: The rapid development and wide utilization of object detection techniques have aroused attention on both accuracy and speed of object detectors. However, the current state-of-the- art object detection works are either accuracy-oriented using a large model but […]
December 7: IEM-sponsored virtual event: About Hybrid NU-Flex 8:00 AM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.
PhD Proposal Review: 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: Remotely Rechargeable Embedded Platforms for Next Generation IoT Systems in Critical Environments Raffaele Guida Location: Teams Meeting Abstract: In the near future, a new generation of miniaturized, multi-function and smart wireless devices for Internet of Things (IoT) systems, designed for real-time monitoring and with real-time reconfiguration will be deployed in critical and […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Platform-specific Model Compression for Deep Neural Networks with Joint Methods Sheng Lin Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning has delivered its powerfulness in many application domains, especially in computer vision, natural language processing and speech recognition. As the backbone of deep learning, deep neural networks (DNNs) consist of multiple layers of various […]
ChE Seminar Series Presents: Arumugam Manthiram | Professor Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute Near-term and Long-term Perspectives of Battery Technologies Abstract: A widespread adoption of battery technologies for electric vehicles and grid electricity storage of renewable energies requires optimization of cost, […]
December 10: IEM-sponsored virtual event: 10 Questions to Ask Your College, including College of Engineering staff 8:00 AM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.
PhD Dissertation Defense: Remote Monitoring of Multiple Ships over Instantaneous Continental-shelf Scale Region with a Large-aperture Coherent Hydrophone Array Chenyang Zhu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Multiple mechanized ocean vessels, including both surface ships and submerged vehicles, can be simultaneously monitored over instantaneous continental-shelf scale regions >10,000 km 2 via passive ocean acoustic waveguide remote sensing. […]
MS Thesis Defense: Exploring Effectiveness of Naive Spatio-Temporal Exploits for Depth Completion Xinan Huang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: With an increasing need for usable depth for autonomous navigation systems such as self-driving cars, depth completion is becoming an increasingly studied subject. RGB data provide much-needed aid in providing good recreation of dense depth maps from […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Development of Magnetodielectric Materials with Low Loss and High Snoek’s Product for Microwave Applications Qifan Li Location: Teams Link Abstract: Exhibiting both relative magnetic permeability and electric permittivity greater than unity, magnetodielectric materials have been attracting great attention in both academia and industry for next-generation communication, sensing, and radar applications. It is […]