Industrial Affiliates Symposium

April 27, 2018

AGENDA
8:00 to 9:00 Continental Breakfast and Registration - Kemper Hall Foyer and 1003

9:10 to 9:30 Chair's Welcome – Rooms 1003 and 1007 Kemper Hall
Chair and Professor Saif Islam

9:30 to 10:15 New Faculty Presentations – Rooms 1003 and 1007 Kemper Hall,
Chair: Prof. Brian Kolner
Title: “Imaging and Manipulation of Brain Activity”
Assistant Professor Weijian Yang

Title: “Role of Gallium Nitride in Next Generation Electronics

Associate Professor Srabanti Chowdhury

10:15 to 10:30 Coffee Break – Kemper Lobby

10:30 to 11:00 Distinguished Alumni Award – Kemper Lobby

Chair: Assoc. Prof. Jane Gu, Chair: Prof. John Owens
Award Presented by Chancellor Gary May

11:00 to 11:50 Keynote Address – Kemper Lobby

Chair: Prof. John Owens

Title: “A Thought Provoking Message to the Next Generation of Engineers

From a Past Graduate”
Andy Botka, Keysight Technologies

11:50 to 1:00 Lunch – Kemper Courtyard

1:00 to 2:15 Fast-Forward Presentations – Rooms 1127 and 1131 Kemper Hall
Chair: Assoc. Prof. Srabanti Chowdhury
One minute snapshots of student posters

2:15 to 2:30 Coffee Break – Kemper Lobby

2:30 to 3:30 Technical Session I: Devices and Circuits

Rooms 1127 & 1131 Kemper Hall
Chair: Prof. Rick Branner
 Title: “Magnetless nonreciprocity with 2D materials”
Presenter: J. Sebastian Gomez Diaz, Assistant Professor

Title: “Error Feedback Transmitter for High Linearity and Low Noise”
Presenter: Jinbo Li, Grad Student, with Associate Professor Jane Gu

Title: “Signal Processing at RF for In-band Interference Mitigation”

Presenter: Leo Liu, Associate Professor

2:30 to 3:30 Technical Session II: Signals, Systems, and Computer Engineering
Rooms 1003 & 1007, Kemper Hall
Chair: Prof. Rajeevan Amirtharajah
Title: “Standing Wave Structures for Wideband Integrated mm-Wave/THz
Systems”
Presenter: Hossein Jalili, Grad Student with Associate Professor Omeed Momeni

Title: “Design and Optimization of Deep Neural Networks for Agricultural

Data Analytics”
Presenter: Terry O’Neil, Grad Student with Professor Venkatesh Akella

Title: “Fine-Grain Processor Arrays for Efficient and High-Performance

Computation”
Presenter: Bevan Bass, Professor

3:30 to 5:30 Poster Session and Project Demos - Kemper Lobby

Chair: Assoc. Prof. Xiaoguang “Leo” Liu
 Please rank the posters using the ballot in your folder.
Project Demos
Magic Wall
Group Members: Xin Luigi Chen, Richard Dering, Frank Lee, Keith Luong, Tran
Nguyen, Ajay Suresh, and Pratyusha Venmuri
“Use color coded cubes along with distance sensors to play different notes and
change the pattern on an infinity mirror”

Theremin
Group Members: Max Nedorezov, Alan Qin, Julia Fowler, Andrea Hsieh, Cathy Hsieh,
and Siu Yan Lo
“Control the pitch and tone of theramin using your hand. Changing the pitch and tone
also changes the pattern of an infinity mirror”

Whack-A-Mole
Group Members: Neil Arakkal, Feng Cai, Rohit Dhamankar, Duong Nguyen, James
Sun, and Daniel Vallejo
“Use pressure sensors to challenge a friend at whack-a-mole”

5:00 to 5:10 Best Poster Award - Kemper Hall Lobby

Awards Presented by Professor Linda Katehi, Professor

4:00 to 5:30 Reception - Kemper Hall Lobby

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