Annual Research Review 2017
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The 2017 Electrical Engineering Annual Research Review was scheduled on April 21, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center. The one-day event showcased the Department’s research, and included graduate students’ presentations, posters, and distinguished plenary lectures. The ARR highlighted our research centers and featured short presentations and discussions on opportunities they offer in forming closer connections and interactions with industry and innovation labs. Thank you for joining us and we gratefully acknowledge the support of our sponsors for this event. Chee Wei Wong, ARR17 Co-Chair |
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Frontiers of Electrical Engineering
Program at a glance
8:30am – 9:00am Breakfast [Centennial CD] and Registration [Registration Desk]
9:00 am – 9:15am Chair Greg Pottie’s Welcome [Centennial AB]
9:15am – 9:55am A Sampling of UCLA Research Centers
- ERC: Translational Applications for Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems – Greg Carman and Ethan Wang
- DARPA STARnet: Function Accelerated nanoMaterial Engineering) – Jane Chang and Kang Wang
- Center for Heterogeneous Integration and Performance Scaling – Subramanian Iyer
- Center on Development of Emerging Storage Systems – Lara Dolecek and Rick Wesel
- Center for Public Safety Network Systems – Izhak Rubin
- Wireless Health Institute – William Kaiser
9:55am – 10:25am Plenary Lecture, Dr. Sam Waldman, SpaceX, “Sensing Space: SpaceX Sensor Development” @ Centennial AB
10:25am – 10:40am Coffee break @ Centennial Pre-Function Area
10:40am – 12:00pm Parallel sessions: 1, 2 and 3 @ [Centennial AB, Pinnacle & Pathways]
12:00pm – 1:30pm Luncheon, Dean Jayathi Murthy’s Welcome and Plenary Lecture by Dr. Richard Savage, “The LIGO Project and the Era of Gravitational-wave Astronomy” @ Centennial CD
1:30pm – 2:30pm Parallel sessions: 4, 5 and 6 @ [Centennial AB, Pinnacle & Pathways]
2:30pm – 2:45pm Coffee break @ Centennial Pre-Function Area
2:45pm – 3:45pm Parallel sessions: 7, 8 and 9 @ [Centennial AB, Pinnacle & Pathways]
3:45pm – 5:00pm Poster and Design Demo Session @ Centennial CD
5:00pm – 5:45pm Plenary Tutorial, Prof. Asad Abidi, UCLA, “On the State of Electronics: Past, Present and Future” @ Centennial AB
5:45pm – 6:30pm Reception @ Centennial Pre-Function Area
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Session 1. Cooperative Techniques [Chair: Prof. Mehta] [Pinnacle Room]
10:40am – 11:00am Cooperative Localization in Multirobot System with Explicit Communication Mechanism
Tsang-Kai Chang; Advisor: Ankur Mehta
11:00am – 11:20am Platoon Based Vehicular Networking for Autonomous Transportation Systems
Yulia Sunyoto; Advisor: Izhak Rubin
11:20am – 11:40am Cooperatively Learning Footprints of Multiple Incumbent Transmitters by Using Cognitive Ratio Networks
Mihir Laghate; Advisor: Danijela Cabric
11:40am – 12:00pm Cognitive Topic Modeling from Text Corpora
Misagh Falahi; Advisor: Vwani Roychowdhury
Session 2. THz and Laser Technologies [ Chair: Prof. Williams] [Pathways Room]
10:40am – 11:00am III-V Nanowire Array Lasers on Silicon-on-Insulator for Optical Links
Hyunseok Kim; Advisor: Diana Huffaker
11:00am – 11:20am A High-Power Broadband Terahertz Source Enabled by Three-Dimensional Light Confinement in a Plasmonic Nanocavity
Nezih Tolga Yardimci; Advisor: Mona Jarrahi
11:20am – 11:40am Terahertz Metasurface Quantum Cascade Lasers for Spectroscopy
Christopher Curwen; Advisor: Benjamin Williams
11:40am – 12:00pm Generation of Pico Second 10 um Seed Pulses Using Raman Shifting and Difference Frequency Mixing
Eric Welch; Advisor: Chand Joshi
Session 3. Advanced Computing [Chair: Prof. He] [Centennial AB]
10:40am – 11:00am Fabrication, Assembly and Properties of the Silicon Interconnect Fabric
Siva Chandra Jangram; Advisor: Subu Iyer
11:00am – 11:20am Timeline: An Operating System Abstraction for Time-Aware Applications
Fatima Anwar; Advisor: Mani Srivastava
11:20am – 11:40am Accelerator for Conventional Neural Network Based Artificial Intelligence
Yunxuan Yu; Advisor: Lei He
11:40am – 12:00pm Towards Quantum Computing: Boolean Satifiability by Quantum Annealer
Juexiao Su; Advisor: Lei He
Session 4. Advanced Sensing Technologies [Chair: Prof. Emaminejad] [Centennial AB]
1:30pm – 1:50pm Air-Quality Monitoring
Yichen Wu; Advisor: Aydogan Ozcan
1:50pm – 2:10pm Pico-Newton Force Sensing in Silicon Chips at the Thermodynamical and Quantum Limits
Jaime Flor Flores; Advisor: Chee Wei Wong
2:10pm – 2:30pm 3D On-Chip Microscopy of Cleared Tissue Using a Simplified CLARITY Method
Yibo (Max) Zhang; Advisor: Aydogan Ozcan
Session 5. Advanced Communications[Chair: Prof. Fragouli] [Pinnacle Room]
1:30pm – 1:50pm Approximate Optimality of Separation-Based Architectures in Wireless Coded Caching
Jad Hachem; Advisor: Suhas Diggavi
1:50pm – 2:10pm Approaching Capacity Using Incremental Redundancy Without Feedback
Sudarsan V. S. Ranganathan; Advisor: Rick Wesel
2:10pm – 2:30pm Efficiently Finding Simple Schedules in Gaussian Half-Duplex Relay Line Networks
Yahya Essa; Advisor: Christina Fragouli
Session 6. Future Wireless [Chair: Prof. Cabric] [Pathways Room]
1:30pm – 1:50pm A Quick Startup Technique for High-Q Oscillators
Hani Esmaeelzadeh; Advisor: Sudhakar Pamarti
1:50pm – 2:10pm Digital Predistortion for Hybrid Precoding Architecture in Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Systems
Han Yan; Advisor: Danijela Cabric
2:10pm – 2:30pm A Time-Interleaved Filtering-by-Aliasing Receiver for SDR Applications
Sameed Hameed; Advisor: Sudhakar Pamarti
Session 7. Advanced Memories [Chair: Prof. Gupta] [Centennial AB]
2:45pm – 3:05pm Software Defined ECC
Clayton Schoeny & Mark Gottscho; Advisors: L. Dolecek & P. Gupta
3:05pm – 3:25pm LDPC Coded for Flash Memories
Ahmed Hareedy; Advisor: Lara Dolecek
3:25pm – 3:45pm Solving Resistive Memory Problems with Negative Resistance
Shaodi Wang; Advisor: Puneet Gupta
Session 8. Device Advances [Chair: Dr. Semih Cakmakyapan] [Pinnacle Room]
2:45pm – 3:05pm Precision Mode-Locking and Stabilization in Ultrafast Frequency Combs
Hao Liu; Advisor: Chee Wei Wong
3:05pm – 3:25pm Free-Running Operation of InGaAs-GaAs Nanowire Single Photon Detectors
Alan C. Farrell; Advisor: Diana Huffaker
3:25pm – 3:45pm Blazed Metasurface: the Planar Equivalent of a Sawtooth Grating
Xiaoqiang Li; Advisor: Tatsuo Itoh
Session 9. Medical & Low Power Electronics [Chair: Iyer] [Pathways Room]
2:45pm – 3:05pm Next-Generation Neural Interfaces
Vahagn Hokhikyan; Advisor: Dejan Markovic
3:05pm – 3:25pm Flex Trate: a New Approach to Flexible Electronics for Medical Engineering
A. Alam; Advisor: Subu Iyer
3:25pm – 3:45pm High-Performance AC-DC Converters
Usama Anwar; Advisor: Dejan Markovic