UCLA Electrical Engineering Department

2007-2008 Seminar Series in Electrical Engineering
All seminars in this series occur on Mondays 1-2PM in Engineering IV building, room 54-134.

Fall 2007 (Signals and Systems Area; Professor Abeer Alwan, organizer)

October 1: Professor Emmanuel Candes (Caltech) [abstract]
Compressive Sensing.
October 8: Professor John Hansen (UT Dallas) [abstract]
Speech and Speaker Recognition: Recent Advances for In-Vehicle Speech Systems.
October 15: Dr. Richard Lyon (Google) [abstract]
Cochrea Modeling Retrospective.
October 22: Professor Michelle Effros (Caltech) [abstract]
Network Source Coding: Pipe Dream or Promise.
October 29: Professor Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo (University of Minnesota) [abstract]
Performance Analysis of Quasi Maximum Likelihood Detection Based on Semidefinite Relaxation.
November 5: Professor Aurel Lazar (Columbia University) [abstract]
Time Encoding Machines.
November 19: Dr. Emina Soljanin (Bell Labs) [abstract]
What are the Benefits of Coding in Content Distribution Networks?
November 26: Professor Kannan Ramchandran (Berkeley) [abstract]
Smart networks of dense nodes using distributed signal processing and coding.
December 3: Professor Steve Young (Cambridge University, UK) [abstract]
Using POMDPs for Spoken Dialogue Management.

Winter 2008 (Circuits and Embedded Systems Area; Professor Puneet Gupta, organizer)

January 14: Professor Frank Vahid (UC Riverside) [abstract]
Self-Improving Computer Chips – Warp Processing.

January 30: Professor Andrew Neureuther (UC Berkeley) [abstract]
Lithography Physics, Models and Technology Pathways to 7nm Half-Pitch.

February 4: Professor Melvin Breuer (USC) [abstract]
One Person's Trash is Another Person's Treasure

February 11: Dr. Anand Raghunathan (NEC Labs) [abstract]
Embedding Security into Embedded Systems

February 25: Professor Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University) [abstract]
Multi-Robot Intelligence

March 3: Professor Ruchir Puri (IBM Research) [abstract]
Design and CAD Challenges for 45nm CMOS and Beyond

March 10: Professor Dennis Sylvester (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Energy-Driven Circuit Design for Ubiquitous Sensing Applications

Spring 2008 (Physical and Wave Electronics Area; Professor Benjamin Williams, organizer)

April 7: Professor Gabriel M. Rebeiz (UC San Diego) [abstract]
High-Performance Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Phased Arrays Imaging Systems Using CMOS and SiGe RFICs.
April 14: Professor Ian Appelbaum (University of Delaware) [abstract]
Silicon Spintronics.
April 21: Erich P. Ippen (MIT) [abstract]
Clocks, Combs and Optical Arbitrary Waveforms.
April 28: Dr. Subramanian S.Iyer (IBM) [abstract]
Beyond Scaling – Teaching the Old Dog some New Tricks!
May 5: Professor Dennis W. Prather (University of Delaware) [abstract]
Millimeter Wave Photonics: From Materials, Devices, and Integration to Systems and Applications.
May 12: Professor Claire Gmachl (Princeton) [abstract]
Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers.
May 19: Professor Oskar Painter (Caltech) [abstract]
Nanophotonics Hardware for Quantum Information Science and Applications.
June 2: Professor Umesh Mishra (UC Santa Barbara) [abstract]
Gallium Nitride Electronics: Providing Solutions Beyond Conventional Semiconductors.