Friday, February 27, 2015, Engineering IV Building.
This one day event showcased the department’s research, and included graduate students’ presentations and posters, short faculty presentations, and distinguished plenary lectures. A main focus of the event was forming closer connections and interactions with industry and innovation labs, as well as with our alumni.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of our sponsors for this event.
Danijela Cabric, ARR15 Co-Chair
Christina Fragouli, ARR15 Co-Chair
Frank Chang, Department Chair
Sponsored by:
56-147 Engineering IV
Program at a Glance
Luncheon and Plenary Talk by Dr. Mukund Padmanabhan
8:30am – 9:15am Breakfast and Registration
9:15am – 9:30am Chair’s Welcome Remarks
9:30am- 10:15am Faculty Spotlights
Mona Jarrahi, Rob Candler, Tatsuo Itoh, Asad Abidi, Lei He, William Kaiser,
Abeer Alwan, Kung Yao, Vwani Roychowdhury, Diana Huffaker, Lara Dolecek, Rick Wesel
10:15am -10:40am Coffee Break
10:40am -12:00pm Parallel Sessions: 1, 2 and 3
12:00pm – 2:00pm Dean Vijay Dhir’s Welcome Remarks
Luncheon and Plenary Talk by Dr. Mukund Padmanabhan
From Speech Recognition to Forecasting Stock Prices – an engineering perspective
2:00pm – 2:45pm Faculty Spotlights
Aydogan Ozcan, Jason Woo, Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Suhas Diggavi,
Paulo Tabuada, Izhak Rubin,Greg Potie
2:45pm – 3:45pm Poster Session and Coffee
3:45pm – 4:45pm Parallel Sessions: 4, 5 and 6
4:45pm – 5:00pm Coffee Break
5:00pm – 6:00pm Parallel Sessions: 7, 8 and 9
6:00pm – 7:30pm Dinner and Plenary Talk by Dr. Subramanian Iyer
Keeping Moore’s Law Alive — How can Academic Research help?
Session 1. Terahertz and Lasers
10:40-11:00 High Power and Broadband Terahertz Radiation from Large Area Photoconductive Emitter
by Incorporating Plasmonic Nanoantennas
Nezih Tolga Yardimci; Advisor: Mona Jarrahi
11:00-11:20 Modeling of high temperature terahertz quantum cascade lasers
Benjamin Burnett; Advisor: Ben Williams
11:20-11:40 A chip-scale low-phase-noise 18 GHz frequency comb oscillator spanning 65 THz
Ms. Jinghui Yang; Advisor: Cheewei Wong
11:40-12:00 Temperature-dependent carrier.phonon coupling in topological insulator Bi2Se3
Yi-Ping Lai; Advisor: Jia-Ming Liu
Session 2. Circuits
10:40-11:00 Scalable VLSI Architectures for Bioinformatics
Richard Dorrance; Advisor: Dejan Markovic
11:00-11:20 A 2.4-GHz 4-mW Inductorless RF Synthesizer
Long Kong; Advisor: Behzad Razavi
11:20-11:40 A Highly-Linear Phase and Thermal Noise Cancelling Receiver
Hao Wu; Advisor: Frank Chang
11:40-12:00 Sharp, Passive and Programmable Filters
Neha Sinha; Advisor: Sudhakar Pamarti
Session 3. Coding and Machine Learning
10:40-11:00 Feedback Systems using Non-Binary LDPC Codes with a Limited Number of Transmissions
Kasra Vakilinia; Advisor: Rick Wesel
11:00-11:20 Efficient Coding Schemes for Flash Memories
Fred Sala; Advisor: Lara Dolecek
11:20-11:40 Decomposition methods for sparse matrix nearness problems.
Yifan Sun; Advisor: Lieven Vandenberghe
11:40-12:00 A Jigsaw model for unsupervised parts-based model determination of objects from large-scale
image corpuses
Lichao Chen; Advisor: Vwani Roychowdhury
Session 4. Cyber Physical Systems
3:45-4:05 Secure State Estimation for CyberPhysical Systems
Shaunak Mishra; Advisor: Suhas Diggavi
4:05-4:25 CAreDroid: A Context-Awareness framework for Android
Salma Elmalaki; Advisor: Mani Srivastava
4:25-4:45 Physical Attacks and Countermeasures on Cyber-Physical Systems
Yasser Shoukry; Advisor: Paulo Tabuada
Session 5. Devices Modeling and Design
3:45-4:05 Efficient Layout Generation and Evaluation of Vertical Channel Devices
Weiche Wang; Advisor: Puneet Gupta
4:05-4:25 Quantum Modeling and Tunneling Design of Low Power FETs
Andrew Pan; Advisor: Chi On Chui
4:25-4:45 Magnetization switching through giant spin-orbit torque in the magnetically doped topological
insulators
Yabin Fan; Advisor: Kang Wang
Session 6. Imaging and Sensing
3:45-4:05 Lensfree On-Chip Microscopy using Synthetic Aperture
Wei Luo; Advisor: Aydogan Ozcan
4:05-4:25 A non-ZUPT gait reconstruction method for ankle sensors
Xiaoxu Wu; Advisor: Greg Pottie
4:25-4:45 Wifi Aided Indoor Localization and Navigation via Wearable Inertial Sensors
Yan Wang; Advisor; William Kaiser
Session 7. Antennas and RF
5:00-5:20 Reconfigurable UWB Bandpass Filter with Flexible Notch Characteristics
Kirti Dhwaj; Advisor: Tatsuo Itoh
5:20-5:40 Time.Varying Transmission Lines for Nonmagnetic Nonreciprocity and High.Q, Frequency.Tunable Amplification
Shihan Qin; Advisor: Ethan Wang
5:40-6:00 Novel Antenna Arrays for Direct-to-Earth (DTE) Communications in Mars Rovers
Jean Paul Dytioco Santos; Advisor: Rahmat-Samii
Session 8. Communications
5:00-5:20 End-to-end Throughput Maximization with Guaranteed Coverage in VANET
Yu-Yu Lin; Advisor: Izhak Rubin
5:20-5:40 A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach to Link Adaption in Wireless Communication
Cheng-An Yang; Advisor: Kung Yao
5:40-6:00 Interference-Robust Cyclic Weighted Centroid Localization Algorithm for Non-cooperative Targets
in Cognitive Radio Networks
Shailesh Chaudhari; Advisor: Danijela Cabric
Session 9. MEMS and Nanoscale systems
5:00-5:20 Advancing the understanding of Thermoelastic Dissipation and Anchor loss in MEMS
Jonathan Lake; Advisor: Rob Candler
5:20-5:40 NIR Optical Properties of PbSe Nanorods: One Dimensional Exciton Dynamics
Eli Kinigstein; Advisor: Cheewei Wong
5:40-6:00 Midwave-infrared (MWIR) photoluminescence of InAs1-xSbx nanopillars grown by catalyst-free
selective-area metal-organic chemical vapor deposition
Allan Farrel; Advisor: Diana Huffaker
Mukund Padmanabhan graduated with a B.Tech in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. He first worked as a Research Staff Member at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, in the area of speech recognition, eventually managing an Advanced Telephony Speech Algorithms group there. He then moved to a hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies LLC, where he is currently a Partner and Research Staff Member. His current research interests are in statistical financial modeling.
Mukund’s academic record includes writing a book related to digital filters, publishing around a dozen papers in peer-reviewed IEEE journals, and over 40 papers in various peer-reviewed international conferences, in the areas of signal processing and speech recognition. He has also given invited talks and tutorials at several international conferences, served on the IEEE speech technical committee, and in the technical committees of over a dozen international conferences, and as an editor for an international journal. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He also holds around 20 patents (with other co-authors). One of his journal papers received a “best paper” award from the IEEE signal processing society in 1999. His other awards include Research Division Awards from IBM in 1995 and 1996.
In additional to academic and professional activities, he also serves as President of Guru Krupa Foundation (GKF), a philanthropic private foundation that supports various educational, social and cultural causes.
Subramanian S. Iyer (Subu) is an IBM Fellow at the Systems & Technology Group, Microelectronics Division and Director of the System Scaling Technology Area at IBM Microelectronics. He obtained his B.Tech. at IIT-Bombay, and Ph.D. at UCLA. His key technical contributions have been the development of the world’s first SiGe base HBT, Salicide, electrical Fuses, embedded DRAM and 45nm technology used at IBM and IBM’s development partners. He also was among the first to commercialize bonded SOI for CMOS applications through a start-up called SiBond LLC. He has published over 250 papers and holds over 70 patents. His current technical interests and work lie in the area of advanced packaging and three-dimensional integration for system-level scaling, as well as the long-term semiconductor and packaging roadmap for logic, memory and other devices as well as counterfeit prevention. He has received several outstanding technical achievements and corporate awards at IBM and is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology as well as a Master Inventor. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE EDS as well as a member of its Board of Governors He is a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Bombay and received the IEEE Daniel Noble Medal for emerging technologies in 2012. He also studies Sanskrit in his spare time.
Dr. Iyer will be joining the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department.