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: Integrated RF Devices Based on Magnetoelectric Coupling Huaihao Chen Location: Zoom Meeting Abstract: The magnetoelectric (ME) coupling effect is a coupling behavior between the magnetic properties and electric properties in a single-phase crystal or a composite structure. At present, ME composite is more widely used in practical application than the single-phase crystal […]

You’ve created something interesting and exciting in the lab, published a few papers and maybe filed some patents and are wondering what to do next. Mike Fuerstman and Becky Wilson of Rhapsody Venture Partners will walk through questions you should be asking and answering about your technology and your objectives to figure out the best path forward […]

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 […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Enhancing Monte Carlo Light Modeling Methods for the Development of Near-infrared Based Brain Techniques Yaoshen Yuan Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Studying light propagation in biological tissues is critical for developing biophotonics techniques and its applications. Monte Carlo (MC) method, a stochastic solver for radiative transfer equation, has been recognized as the gold […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: RF Magnetoelectric Microsystems Xianfeng Liang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Multiferroic materials are the materials that inherently exhibit two or more ferroic properties, such as ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism and ferroelasticity, etc. Magnetoelectric (ME) materials with coupled magnetization and electric polarization have attracted intense interests recently due to the realization of strong ME coupling and […]

PhD Proposal Review: Towards Efficient Deep Neural Network Execution with Model Compression and Platform-specific Optimization Xiaolong Ma Location: Zoom Abstract: Deep learning or deep neural networks (DNNs) have become the fundamental element and core enabler of ubiquitous artificial intelligence. Recently, with the emergence of a spectrum of high-end mobile devices, many deep learning applications that […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Can We Trust AI? Towards Practical Implementation and Theoretical Analysis in Trustworthy Machine Learning Kaidi Xu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning has achieved extraordinary performance in many application domains recently. It has been well accepted that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which raises concerns of DNNs in security-critical applications and […]