SystemX Alliance 2021 VIRTUAL Fall Conference

SystemX Alliance 2021 VIRTUAL Fall Conference

Monday-Thursday, November 8-11, 2021

Day 1 - Monday, November 8 • (8:00am-1:00pm) Student Poster Sessions
Day 2 - Tuesday, November 9 • (9:00am-2:10pm) Plenary Talk by Department Chair, Focus Area Overviews, and Technical Sessions
Day 3 - Wednesday, November 10 • (9:15am-2:10pm) New Faculty Introductions, Focus Area Overviews, and Technical Sessions
Day 4 - Thursday, November 11 • (3:00pm-8:25pm) Focus Area Overviews and Technical Sessions

 

This year's virtual conference was LIVE on Zoom. The talks included FMA projects, Seed Grant projects, Focus Area research, and special talks. See below all the links for PDF slides and video recordings of each talk and poster. NOTE: You must be logged in to view video recordings and PDF slides of presentations

• Day 1: November 8, 2021 • 8:00 AM-1:00 PM PST •

**8:00am -- Pre-recorded quickfire videos will be available for your preview before the poster sessions, starting at 10:00am

10:00-11:00 AM • Poster Session #1

Computation for Data Analytics
Participation List

Design Productivity
Participation List

Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Participation List

11:00AM-12:00PM • Poster Session #2

AMEND
Participation List

Heterogeneous Integration
Participation List

Photonic and Quantum Technologies
Participation List

12:00-1:00 PM • Poster Session #3

Bio Interfaces
Participation List

Internet of Everything
Participation List

Energy/Power Management Systems
Participation List

 


• Day 2: November 9, 2021 • 9:00 AM-2:10 PM PST •

Morning Session:

9:00 AM • Welcome & SystemX Overview [PDF & Video]

Prof. H.-S. Philip Wong

Prof. H.-S. Philip Wong

SystemX Faculty Co-Director,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University

9:20 AM • Plenary Talk: Overview of the EE Department Research Activities [PDF & Video]

Prof. Jelena Vuckovic

Prof. Jelena Vučković

Department Chair of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University

10:00 AM • Heterogeneous Integration Overview [PDF & Video]

Prof. Eric Pop

Prof. Eric Pop

Focus Area Lead,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University

10:15 AM • Internet of Everything Overview [PDF & Video]

Profs. Amin Arbabian & Tom Lee

Profs. Amin Arbabian and Tom Lee

Focus Area Leads,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University

10:30 AM • Photonic and Quantum Technologies Overview [PDF & Video]

Prof. Jonathan Fan

Prof. Jonathan Fan

Focus Area Lead,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University

10:45 AM • Break

(15 minutes)

 

Afternoon Sessions (Three In Parallel):

Day 2 - Technical Session Schedule (click arrow to expand)
Day 2 Technical Sessions
Heterogeneous Integration
(Lead: Prof. Eric Pop)
11:00 Extended Scale Length Theory of Low-Dimensional FETs for DTCO Carlo Gilardi, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Subhasish Mitra)
PDF & Video
11:25 Amorphous ITO Transistors Enable 3D Integration of Logic & Memory (FMA) Jimin Kwon, Postdoc
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. H.-S. Philip Wong)
PDF & Video
11:50 Data-Driven Soft Material Design Dr. Juyoung Leem, Postdoc
Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Xiaolin Zheng)
PDF & Video
12:15 Break 10 minutes
12:25 Compact IR thermal emitters using transferable self-assembled CNTs John Roberts, PhD Student
Applied Physics (Advisor: Prof. Jonathan Fan)
PDF & Video
12:50 Integration and Strain of 2D Transistors on Flexible Substrates (FMA) Jerry Yang, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Eric Pop)
PDF & Video
1:15 High-Specific-Power Flexible TMD Solar Cells for Self-Powered IoT Koosha Nassiri Nazif, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Krishna Saraswat)
PDF & Video
1:40 Focus Area Strategy Session Prof. Eric Pop
Heterogeneous Integration Focus Area Lead
2:10 END
Internet of Everything
(Leads: Profs. Amin Arbabian & Tom Lee)
11:00 Adding the Missing Depth Axis to Standard CMOS Image Sensors Okan Atalar, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Amin Arbabian)
PDF & Video
11:25 A Focal-Plane Code-Domain Millimeter-Wave Imager (FMA) Yinuo Xu, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Tom Lee)
PDF & Video
11:50 Recent progress with skin-inspired sensors and electronics Prof. Zhenan Bao
Chemical Engineering, Stanford
PDF Slides
12:15 Break 10 minutes
12:25 Mixed-Signal DNN Accelerators for tinyML (FMA) Prof. Boris Murmann
Electrical Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
12:50 The Rise of Ubiquitous Connected Embedded Computing Daniel Cooley
Silicon Labs
PDF & Video
1:15 IoT Evolution Towards 6G Mohammad Mozaffari & Mehrnaz Afshang
Ericsson
PDF & Video
1:40 Focus Area Strategy Session Profs. Amin Arbabian & Tom Lee
Internet of Everything Focus Area Leads
2:10 END
Photonic and Quantum Technologies
(Lead: Prof. Jonathan Fan)
11:00 Latency and bandwidth tradeoffs in Internet video streaming Prof. Keith Winstein
Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
11:25 High-Performance Rendering to Train Embodied Agents at 13,000 Frames per Second Prof. Kayvon Fatahalian
Computer Science, Stanford
PDF & Video
11:50 High speed simulation and design of photonic systems with physics-augmented neural networks Prof. Jonathan Fan
Electrical Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
12:15 Break 10 minutes
12:25 Simulating Quantum Computers and Quantum Chemistry Prof. Todd Martinez
Chemistry, Stanford
PDF & Video
12:50 Quantum 2D materials and metasurfaces for dynamic flat optics (Seed) Profs. Felipe Jornada & Mark Brongersma
Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
1:15 Light emission from perovskite materials (Seed) Prof. Dan Congreve
Electrical Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
1:40 Robotic assembly of 2D van der Waals heterostructures. Prof. Andrew Mannix
Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
2:05 Silicon photonics computational networks Prof. Olav Solgaard
Electrical Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
2:30 Focus Area Strategy Session Prof. Jonathan Fan
Photonic and Quantum Technologies Focus Area Lead
3:00 END

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• Day 3: November 10, 2021 • 9:15 AM-2:10 PM PST •

**8:00am -- Business Meeting (for SystemX Member Representatives ONLY)

 

Morning Session:

9:15 AM • Welcome & Agenda rundown

Prof. Amin Arbabian

Prof. Amin Arbabian

SystemX Faculty Co-Director,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University

9:30 AM • New Faculty Introductions

Profs. Aaron Sidford & Carlos Guestrin

Prof. Aaron Sidford [PDF & Video]

Computer Science/Management Science and Engineering

Prof. Carlos Guestrin [PDF & Video]

Computer Science

10:00 AM • Bio Interfaces Overview [PDF & Video]

Profs. Shan Wang & Sindy Tang

Profs. Shan Wang & Sindy Tang

Focus Area Leads,
Electrical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University

10:15 AM • Design Productivity Overview [PDF & Video]

Prof. Mark Horowitz

Prof. Mark Horowitz

Focus Area Lead,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
Stanford University

10:30 AM • Energy/Power Management Systems Overview [PDF & Video]

Profs. Juan Rivas-Davila & Debbie Senesky

Profs. Juan Rivas-Davila & Debbie Senesky

Focus Area Leads,
Electrical Engineering/Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University

10:45 AM • Break

(15 minutes)

 

Afternoon Sessions (Three In Parallel):

Day 3 - Technical Session Schedule (click arrow to expand)
Day 3 Technical Sessions
Bio Interfaces
(Leads: Profs. Shan Wang & Sindy Tang)
11:00 Embedded Deep Learning Inference of Photoplethysmography-based Detection of Atrial Fibrillation (FMA) Samiya Shimly, Postdoc
School of Medicine (Advisor: Dr. Euan Ashley)
PDF & Video
11:25 GMR Nanosensors for Detecting Circulating Tumor DNA in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Katie Antilla, PhD Student
Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Shan Wang)
PDF & Video
11:50 Ultra-high Fidelity Oligonucleotide Synthesis on Individual Beads (Seed) Punnag Padhy, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Lambertus Hesselink)
PDF & Video
12:15 Break 10 minutes
12:25 Machine learning methods to uncover the genetic basis of COVID-19 severity Sai Zhang & Michael Snyder
Genetics, Stanford
PDF & Video
12:50 Engineer Electrically Excitable Cells to Enhance the Human-Electronic Interface (Seed) Prof. Xiaojing Gao
Chemical Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
1:15 Magnetic recording of neural currents Prof. Ada Poon
Electrical Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
1:40 Focus Area Strategy Session Profs. Shan Wang & Sindy Tang
Bio Interfaces Focus Area Leads
2:10 END
Design Productivity
(Lead: Prof. Mark Horowitz)
11:00 Automated Modeling of Analog Circuits for Mixed-Signal Verification Daniel Stanley, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Mark Horowitz)
PDF & Video
11:25 Automated Design Space Exploration of CGRA Processing Element Architectures using Frequent Subgraph Analysis (Seed) Jackson Melchert, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Priyanka Raina)
PDF & Video
11:50 Scaling Up Hardware Accelerator Verification using A-QED with Functional Decomposition (FMA) Saranyu Chattopadhyay, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Subhasish Mitra)
PDF & Video
12:15 Break 10 minutes
12:25 A Unified Approach to IP Register Sequence Specification (FMA) Gedeon Nyengele, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Mark Horowitz)
PDF & Video
12:50 Copy-and-Patch Compilation Haoran Xu, PhD Student
Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Fred Kjolstad)
PDF & Video
1:15 Inferring Invariants via First-Order Quantified Separation Jason Koenig, PhD Student
Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Alex Aiken)
PDF & Video
1:40 Focus Area Strategy Session Prof. Mark Horowitz
Design Productivity Focus Area Lead
2:10 END
Energy/Power Management Systems
(Leads: Profs. Juan Rivas-Davila & Debbie Senesky)
11:00 Analytical circuit model for Coss losses in SiC junction termination extensions (FMA) Jia Zhuang, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila)
PDF & Video
11:25 High-Efficiency RF Power Amplifiers for Arbitrary Envelope Waveform Generation and Mismatched Load (FMA) Kawin Surakitbovorn, Postdoc
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila)
PDF & Video
11:50 Beyond Inductors: Realizing Miniaturized Power Converters with Piezoelectrics (FMA) Eric Stolt, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila)
PDF & Video
12:15 Break 10 minutes
12:25 A High Frequency Resonant Gate Driver for SiC MOSFETs (FMA) Zhechi Ye, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila)
PDF & Video
12:50 III-V High Electron Mobility Sensors (FMA) Anand Lalwani, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Debbie Senesky)
PDF & Video
1:15 3kV GaN Diodes with Avalanche Capabilities (Seed) Zhengliang Bian, PhD Student
Mechanical Engineering (Advisors: Profs. Srabanti Chowdhury & Ken Goodson)
PDF & Video
1:40 Focus Area Strategy Session Profs. Juan Rivas-Davila & Debbie Senesky
Energy/Power Management Systems Focus Area Leads
2:10 END

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**4:00pm -- Business Meeting (for SystemX Member Representatives ONLY)

 


• Day 4: November 11, 2021 • 3:00 PM-8:25 PM PST •

PM Session:

Special Talks by SystemX Faculty

 

3:00 PM • The New IC - the new inter-connectivity continuum [PDF & Video]
Profs. Srabanti Chowdhury & Subhasish Mitra

3:30 PM • Rooting Trust from RTL to the Operating System [PDF & Video]
Profs. Philip Levis and Caroline Trippel

4:00 PM • Welcome & Agenda rundown

Jon Candelaria

Jonathan Candelaria

SystemX Executive Director,
Stanford University

4:15 PM • Advanced Materials Enabling Novel Devices (AMEND) Overview [PDF & Video]

Profs. Paul McIntyre & Krishna Saraswat

Profs. Paul McIntyre & Krishna Saraswat

Focus Area Leads,
Materials Science and Engineering/Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University

4:30 PM • Computation for Data Analytics Overview [PDF & Video]

Prof. Subhasish Mitra

Prof. Subhasish Mitra

Focus Area Lead,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
Stanford University

4:45 PM • Robotics and Autonomous Systems Overview [PDF & Video]

Profs. Grace Gao & Monroe Kennedy

Profs. Grace Gao & Monroe Kennedy

Focus Area Leads,
Aeronautics and Astronautics/Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University

5:00 PM • Break

(15 minutes)

 

PM Sessions (Three In Parallel):

Day 4 - Technical Session Schedule (click arrow to expand)
Day 4 Technical Sessions
Advanced Materials Enabling Novel Devices (AMEND)
(Leads: Profs. Paul McIntyre & Krishna Saraswat)
5:15 Advances in area selective atomic layer deposition Prof. Stacey Bent
Chemical Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
5:40 Wide bandgap Materials and Devices: From Thermal Management to Efforts Towards Red LEDs Prof. Srabanti Chowdhury
Electrical Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
6:05 What are 2D materials good for? Prof. Eric Pop
Electrical Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
6:30 Break 10 minutes
6:40 Low Resistance Contacts to Ge and TMDs Prof. Krishna Saraswat
Electrical Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
7:05 Semiconductors in Space: Advantages of Microgravity Growth & On-Demand Device Fabrication Dr. Jessica Frick, Postdoc
Aeronautics and Astronautics (Advisor: Prof. Debbie Senesky)
PDF & Video
7:30 Off-Current Characterization of Carbon Nanotube MOSFETs for Leakage Power Control in Low-Energy and High-Speed CMOS Qing Lin, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. H.-S. Philip Wong)
PDF & Video
7:55 Focus Area Strategy Session Profs. Paul McIntyre & Krishna Saraswat
AMEND Focus Area Leads
8:25 END
Computation for Data Analytics
(Lead: Prof. Subhasish Mitra)
5:15 CHIMERA: Efficient DNN Inference and Training at the Edge with On-Chip Resistive RAM and Illusion Scaleup Kartik Prabhu and Robert Radway, PhD Students
Electrical Engineering (Advisors: Profs. Priyanka Raina & Subhasish Mitra)
PDF & Video
5:40 Accelerating Machine Learning with immersed-in-memory switched-capacitor based computing Massimo Giordano, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Boris Murmann)
PDF & Video
6:05 Capstan: A Vector RDA for Sparsity Alex Rucker, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Kunle Olukotun)
PDF & Video
6:30 Break 10 minutes
6:40 RecShard: Statistical Feature-Based Memory Optimization for Industry-Scale Neural Recommendation Geet Sethi, PhD Student
Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Christos Kozyrakis)
PDF & Video
7:05 SegAlign: A scalable GPU-based whole genome aligner Sneha Goenka, PhD Student
Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Mark Horowitz)
PDF & Video
7:30 Synthesizing Formal Models of Hardware from RTL for Efficient Verification of Memory Model Implementations Prof. Caroline Trippel
Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
PDF & Video
7:55 Building a Data-Centric Serverless Platform Peter Kraft, PhD Student
Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Matei Zaharia)
PDF & Video
8:20 Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces Albert Gu, PhD Student
Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Chris Re)
PDF & Video
8:45 Focus Area Strategy Session Prof. Subhasish Mitra
Computation for Data Analytics Focus Area Lead
9:15 END
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
(Leads: Profs. Grace Gao & Monroe Kennedy)
5:15 Collaborative Robotics Prof. Monroe Kennedy
Mechanical Engineering, Stanford
PDF & Video
5:40 AI-augmented Physics Models Prof. Karen Liu
Computer Science, Stanford
PDF & Video
6:05 Towards Safe GPS-based Localization: From Urban Navigation to Tandem Drifting Sriramya Bhamidipati, Postdoc
Aeronautics and Astronautics (Advisor: Prof. Grace Gao)
PDF & Video
6:30 Break 10 minutes
6:40 Guided Robotic Autonomy through Haptic Interfaces (FMA) Shameek Ganguly, Postdoc
Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Oussama Khatib)
PDF & Video
7:05 Generative Sparse Detection Network for 3D Single-shot Object Detection (FMA) JunYoung Gwak, PhD Student
Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Silvio Savarese)
PDF & Video
7:30 Offline Robotic Reinforcement Learning Prof. Chelsea Finn
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Stanford
PDF & Video
7:55 Focus Area Strategy Session Profs. Grace Gao & Monroe Kennedy
Robotics and Autonomous Systems Focus Area Leads
8:25 END

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