2016 Annual Research Review
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Please join us for the 2016 Electrical Engineering Annual Research Review, that will take place on Friday, February 19, 2016.This one day event showcases the department’s research, and includes graduate students presentations, posters, and distinguished plenary lectures.This year the ARR will highlight our research centers, and feature short presentations and discussions on opportunities they offer in forming closer connections and interactions with industry and innovation labs. Registration is free but required in advance.We gratefully acknowledge the support of our sponsors for this event. Christina Fragouli, ARR16 Co-Chair
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“Frontiers of Electrical Engineering”
Program at a glance
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | Breakfast and Registration [5th Floor, Engr IV] |
| 9:00 am – 9:15 am | Chair Greg Pottie’s Welcome [Shannon Room, 54-134 Engr IV] |
| 9:15 am – 9:55 am | A Sampling of UCLA Research Centers [Chair: Prof. Chee Wei Wong] |
- ERC: Translational Applications for Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems – Greg Carman
- Center for Engineering Economics, Learning and Networks – Mihaela van der Schaar
- DARPA STARnet: Function Accelerated nanoMaterial Engineering – Jane Chang
- CAINS: Center for Autonomous Intelligent Networked Systems – Mario Gerla
- Center for Excellence for Green Nanotechnologies – Kang Wang
- CDSC: Center for Domain-Specific Computing – Jason Cong
- Institute for Technology Advancement – Dwight Streit
| 9:55 am – 10:10 am | Coffee break |
| 10:10 am – 10:45 am | A sampling of UCLA Research Centers [Chair: Prof. Christina Fragouli] |
- Nanoelectronics Research Facility (NanoLab) and CNSI – Rob Candler
- Center for Heterogeneous Integration and Performance Scaling – Subramanian Iyer
- Center on Development of Emerging Storage Systems – Lara Dolecek and Rick Wesel
- ScAI: Scalable Analytics Institute – Carlo Zaniolo
- Center for Public Safety Network Systems – Kung Yao
- Wireless Health Institute – William Kaiser
| 10:50 am – 12:10 pm | Parallel Sessions: 1, 2 and 3 |
| 12:10 pm – 2:00 pm | Luncheon, Dean Jayathi Murthy’s Welcome and Plenary lecture by Dr. Nambi Seshadri, Broadcom, @ California Room, Faculty Center |
| 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Parallel Sessions: 4, 5 and 6 |
| 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Poster Session and Coffee @ Engineering 4 — 2nd Floor Patio |
| 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | Parallel Sessions: 7, 8 and 9 |
| 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm | HKN Company-Student Mixer @ Main Dining Room, Faculty Center |
| 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm | Dinner and Plenary Lecture by Prof. Dan M. Goebel, NASA @ Main Dining Room, Faculty Center |
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Session 1. 5G Wireless and Networks (Maxwell Room, 57-124 Engr IV) [Chair: Prof. Diggavi]
| 10:50 am – 11:10 am | Biased-Based User Association for Downlink Multi-Antenna Heterogeneous Networks Ghaith Hattab; Advisor: Cabric |
| 11:10 am – 11:30 am | Device-to-Device Side-Channel Cooperation for 5G Wireless Networks Can Karakus; Advisor: Diggavi |
| 11:30 am – 11:50 am | Parsing the Online Anti-Vaccine Movement: Opinion Dynamics from Incubation to Mainstream Falahi Misagh; Advisor: Roychowdhury |
| 11:50 am – 12:10 pm | Integrated Networking and Traffic Regulation for Autonomous Highway Systems Yu-Yu Lin; Advisor: Rubin |
Session 2. Machine Learning and Robotics (Shannon Room, 54-134 Engr IV) [Chair: Prof. Mehta]
| 10:50 am – 11:10 am | Deep Learning of Neuromuscular Control for Biomechanical Human Animation Masaki Nakada, Advisor: Terzopoulos |
| 11:10 am – 11:30 am | Visual-Inertial Perception for High-Level Robotic Tasks Konstantine Tsotsos, Advisor: Soatto |
| 11:30 am – 11:50 am | Hyperband: An Infinite-Armed Bandit Algorithm for Hyperparameter Optimization Lisha Li, Advisor: Talwalkar |
| 11:50 am – 12:10 pm | The Applications of Subglottal Resonances (SGRs) in Age and Height Estimation, and Speaker Identification and Normalization Guo Jinxi; Advisor: Alwan |
Session 3. Neural Networks and Circuits (Tesla Room, 53-125 Engr IV) [Chair: Prof. Gupta]
| 10:50 am – 11:10 am | A Programmable Receiver Front-end Achieving >17dBm IIP3 at <1.25xBW Frequency Offset Sameed Hameed; Advisor: Pamarti |
| 11:10 am – 11:30 am | FPGA Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network Using Uniform Inner-Product Wei Wu; Advisor: He |
| 11:30 am – 11:50 pm | Implantable Neural Recording Front-Ends for Next-Generation Neuromodulation Systems Hariprasad Chandrakumar; Advisor: Markovic |
| 11:50 am – 12:10 pm | LEDPUF: Stability-Guaranteed Physical Unclonable Functions Through Locally Enhanced Defectivity Weiche Wang; Advisor: Gupta |
Session 4. Internet of Things (Shannon Room, 54-134 Engr IV) [Chair: Prof. Coogan]
| 2:00 pm – 2:20 pm | Simultaneous Localization & Time Synchronization Paul Martin; Advisor: Srivastava |
| 2:20 pm – 2:40 pm | Design and Mitigation of Vehicular Botnets in Vehicular Networks Mevlut Turker Garip; Advisor: Gerla |
| 2:40 pm – 3:00 pm | Design Tool Framework for End-to-End Development and Automated Optimization of Mobile Health Monitoring Platforms Mahdi Ashktorab; Advisor: Kaiser |
Session 5. Frontiers in Device and Optoelectronics (Maxwell Room, 57-124 Engr IV) [Chair: Prof. Iyer]
| 2:00 pm – 2:20 pm | 3D Wafer Scale Integration Technology to Enable Brain-Inspired Computing Zhe (Frank) Wan; Advisor: Iyer |
| 2:20 pm – 2:40 pm | High-Current Gain Two-Dimensional MoS2-Base Hot-Electron Transistors Shih-Hung Tsai; Advisor: K. Wang |
| 2:40 pm – 3:00 pm | Pixel Super-Resolution Using Wavelength Scanning Wei Luo; Advisor: Ozcan |
Session 6. Frontiers in High-Frequency Electronics (Tesla Room, 53-125 Engr IV) [Chair: Prof. Zhao]
| 2:00 pm – 2:20 pm | A 38mW 40 Gb/s 4-Lane Tri-Band PAM04/16-QAM Transceiver in 28mm CMOS for High-Speed Memory Interface Wei-Han Cho; Advisor: Chang |
| 2:20 pm – 2:40 pm | RFID-Inspired Millimeter-Size Loop Antennas for Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) Systems Lingnan Song; Advisor: Rahmat-Samii |
| 2:40 pm – 3:00 pm | A 40-Gb/s 14-mW CMOS Wireline Receiver Abishek Manian; Advisor: Razavi |
Session 7. Modern Applications of Coding (Tesla Room, 53-125 Engr IV) [Chair: Prof. Dolecek]
| 4:30 pm – 4:50 pm | Polar Codes with Feedback Kasra Vakilinia; Advisor: Wesel |
| 4:50 pm – 5:10 pm | Codes and Ball Sizes for the Limited Permutation Channel Clayton Schoeny; Advisor: Dolecek |
| 5:10 pm – 5:30 pm | Content-Type Coding Linqi Song; Advisor: Fragouli |
Session 8. Precision control of the electromagnetic spectrum: from infrared to THz
(Shannon Room, 54-134 Engr IV) [Chair: Prof. Williams]
| 4:30 pm – 4:50 pm | Large-Dynamic-Range Plasmonic Photomixer for Heterodyne Terahertz Detection Ning Wang; Advisor: Jarrahi |
| 4:50 pm – 5:10 pm | Chip-scale Femtosecond Laser Frequency Combs Near the Quantum Limit Abhinav Kumar Vinod; Advisor: Wong |
| 5:10 pm – 5:30 pm | Terahertz Metasurface Laser Luyao Xu; Advisor: Williams |
Session 9. Frontiers in Electromagnetics (Maxwell Room, 57-124 Engr IV) [Chair: Prof. Itoh]
| 4:30 pm – 4:50 pm | 3D ADI-FDTD Modeling of Platform Reduction with Thin Film Ferromagnetic Material ZhiYao; Advisor: Y. Wang |
| 4:50 pm – 5:10 pm | Transmission-Line Equivalent and Microstrip Structure for Planar Mobius Loop Resonator Xiaoqiang Li; Advisor: Itoh |
| 5:10 pm – 5:30 pm | Nonlinear Optics of Semiconductors in the Middle Infrared Jeremy Pigeon; Advisor: Joshi |
| Advisor | Student | Graduate Student Poster |
| Alwan | Soo Jin Park | Utilizing Voice Source Features for Robust Speaker Recognition |
| Cabric | Mihir Laghate | Using the Temporal Dimension to Detect Spectrally Overlapping Signals |
| Cabric | Shailesh Chaudhari | Interference-Robust Cyclic Weighted Centroid Localization Algorithm for Non-Cooperative Targeets in Cognitive Radio Networks |
| Candler | Srikanth Iyer | Size and Mode-Dependent Quality Factor Limits in MEMS Resonators |
| Candler | Jimmy Wu | High Performance Microfabricated Magnetic Multilayers for Ultra Compact Magnetic Shielding |
| Chang | Wei-Han Cho | A 38mW 40Gb/s 4-Lane Tri-Band PAM-4/16-QAM Transceiver in 28nm CMOS for High-Speed Memory Interface |
| Chang | Yan Zhao | An Integrated 0.56THz Frequency Synthesizer with 21GHz Locking Range and -74dBc Phase Noise at 1MHz Offset in 65nm CMOS |
| Dolecek | Frederic Sala | New Coding for Memories: Theory and Applications |
| Diggavi | Shaunak Mishra | Secure State Estimation Against Sensor Attacks in Cyber-Physical |
| Diggavi | Mehrdad Showfatbaksh | Model Identification Under Adversarial Attacks |
| Diggavi | Joyson Sebastian | Interference-Aware Rateless Coding |
| Dolecek | Ahmed Hareedy | Non-Binary Graph Based Codes for Flash Memories |
| Dolecek | Homa Esfahamizadeh | Spatially Coupled Codes and Applications |
| Dolecek | Amir Reisizadeh | Approximate Synchronization: A Distributed Source Coding Approach |
| Fragouli | M. Karmoose | Simplifying Wireless Social Caching |
| Fragouli | Yahya Ezzeldin | Recent Results on Wireless Network Simplification for Layered Relay Networks |
| Gupta | Yasmine Badr | Mask Assignment and Synthesis of DSA-MP Hybrid Lithography for Sub-7nm Contacts/Vias |
| Gupta | Mark Gottscho | DPCS: Dynamic Power/Capacity Scaling for SRAM Caches in the Nanoscale Era |
| Gupta | Shaodi Wang | Adaptive MRAM Write Using In-Situ MTJ-Based Variation Monitor |
| He | Liang Yuan | loT solution with smart vent to reduce HVAC energy and enhance thermal comfort |
| He | Wei Wu | FPGA Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network Using Uniform Inner-Product Accelerator |
| Iyer | Faraz Khan | Charge Trapping in Hi K Dielectrics for Memory and Hardware Security Applications |
| Jalali | Mohamad Asghari | Phase Stretch Transform for Feature Enhancement in Digital Images |
| Jarrahi | Shang-Hua Yang | Frequency-Tunable Continuous-Wave Terahertz Sources Based on GaAs Plasmonic Photomixers |
| Jarrahi | Nezih Tolga Yardimci | High-Power and Broadband Terahertz Radiation Through Plasmonics-Enhanced Large Area Photoconductive Emitters Operating at Telecommunication Wavelengths |
| Kaiser | Yan Wang | Scalable Networked Human Daily Activity Profiling |
| Markovic | Wenlong Jiang | High-Dynamic Range Recording Front-Ends for Simultaneous Neural Stimulation and Recording |
| Ozcan | Yichen Wu | Demosaiced Pixel Super-Resolution for Multiplexed Holographic Color Imaging |
| Pamarti | Neha Sinha | An 8mW, 1GHz Span Passive Spectrum Scanner with >+31dBm Out-of-Band IIP3 |
| Pamarti | Hani Esmaelzadeh | A Robust Fast Start-Up Crystal Oscillator |
| Pottie | Hua-I Derrick Chang | Opportunistic Calibration of Sensor Orientation Using the Kinect and Inertial Measurement Unit Sensor Fusion |
| Rahmat-Samii | Daisong Zhang | Electrotextile Facilitating an Ergonomic MRI Coil Design |
| Rahmat-Samii | Vignesh Manohar | Ka Band Offset Reflector Antennas for CubeSats: Mesh Characterization and Innovative Feed Designs |
| Rahmat-Samii | Lingnan Song | RFID-Inspired Millimeter-Size Loop Antennas for Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) Systems |
| Rahmat-Samii | Botian Zhang | Array Antenna Synthesis by Particle Swarm Optimization Including Sensitivity |
| Srivastava | Salma Elmalaki | CAreDroid – Adaptation Framework for Context-Aware Applications on Mobile Phones |
| Srivastava | Fatima Anwar | An End-to-End Quality of Time (QoT) Stack for Linux |
| Srivastava | Amr Alanwar | PrOLoc: Localization Using Private Observers |
| Srivastava | Bo-Jhang Ho | Coordinating Smartwatch and Smartphone to Improve Always-on Context Inference |
| Srivastava | Chenguang Shen | MiLift: Autonomous and Efficient Workout Tracking using Smartwatches |
| Srivastava | Moustafa Alznator | Privacy-Aware Inferencing for Mobile Phones |
| Wang, K. | Qiming Shao | Topological Matters for Energy Efficient Spintronics |
| Wang, K. | Hochul Lee | An Ultra-Low-Power, High-Density Hybrid Spin and CMOS Based Neural Network |
| Wang, K. | Shin-Hung Tsai | High-Current Gain Two-Dimensional MoS2 Hot-Electron Transistors |
| Williams | Luyao Xu | Terahertz Metasurface Laser |
| Williams | Benjamin Burnett | Density Matrix Modeling of THz Difference Frequency Generation in Dual Active Region |
| Williams | Chris Curwen | Feasibility of Graphene Composite Right-Left-Handed Metamaterial Waveguides |
| Wong | Jaime Flor Flores | 640 Zepto-Newton Force Sensing in Silicon Near the Standard Quantum Limit |
| Wong | Yi-Ping Lai | Gate-Tunable Ultrafast Giant Nonlinearities in Graphene |
| Wong | Baicheng Yao | 8 THz Difference-Frequency-Generation in Graphene On-Chip |
| Wong | Hao Liu | 60 GHz Low-Noise Frequency Combs in Silicon-Based Oscillators |
| Wong | Vito M. Iaia | 640 Zepto-Newton Force Sensing in Silicon Near the Standard Quantum Limit |
| Wong | Xu Xie | Harnessing High-Dimensional Hyperentanglement Through a Biphoton Frequency Comb |
| Wong | Ziqiang Cai | An Integrated Chip-Scale Optomechanical Oscillator for RF Clocking |
| Wong | Jinghui Yang | A Chip-Scale Frequency Comb at 2.8×10^-16 Relative Instability |
| Advisor | Student | Undergraduate Student Poster |
| Dolecek | Chi-Yo Tsai | Visualization tools for file synchronization |
| Fragouli | Shengkang Chen | Secrecy Over Erasure Networks |
| Gupta | Liheng Zhu | Assessing the Benefits of the Buried Interconnect Layer for Standard Cells |
| Ozcan | Zoltan Gorocs | High throughput volumetric detection of Giardia lamblia in water samples using real time holographic microscopy |
| Ozcan | Steve Feng | Color-based classification of microscale objects using lensfree imaging |
| Ozcan | Alborz Feizi | Portable cell counting based on lens-free on-chip imaging |
| Ozcan | Qingshan Wei | Mobile phone fluorescence microscopy for single DNA imaging and sizing |
| Ozcan | Mustafa Daloglu | High-throughput 3D tracking using lensfree holographic microscopy |
| Ozcan | Mustafa Daloglu | High-speed 3D reconstruction and tracking of microswimmers using parallel computing |
| Ozcan | Chau Nguyen | Label-free nanoparticle imaging and sizing using nano-lenses |
| Ozcan | Steve Feng | Evaluating feasibility for low-resource community-based malaria diagnostics |
| Ozcan | Hatice Koydemir | Rapid and Sensitive Detection and Enumeration of Giardia Lamblia Cysts in Large Volume Water Samples Using Smartphone Based Fluorescent Microscopy |
| Rahmat-Samii | Bohan Zhang | Ambient RF Energy Harvesting with a Novel Hemispherical Rectenna Array |
| Wesel | Nathan Wong | Dynamic Voltage Allocation with Quantization in Modeling Flash Memory |
| Wesel | Tong Mu | Optimality and Rate-Compatibility for Erasure-Coded Packet Transmissions when Fading Channel Diversity Increases with Packet Length |
| Williams | Daguan Chen | Simulation of an Active Polarization-Selective Metasurface |
| Wong | Parastou Mortazavian | Demonstration of a Microcavity Laser with 10^-13 Fractional Frequency Instability and Sub-25-Hz Linewidth |
| Wong | Chanyeol Choi | Excitons and exciton dynamics in two-dimensional atomic crystals |
Date/Time:
Date(s) - Feb 19, 2017
All Day
Location:
UCLA Electrical Engineering
420 Westwood Plaza - 5th Flr., Los Angeles California 90095