SystemX Fall Conference - November 7-9, 2023

Topic: 
SystemX Alliance Annual Fall Conference
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - 7:30am to 5:00pm
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 - 9:30am to 5:00pm
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Venue: 
Li Ka Shing Conference Center - Berg Hall (2nd Floor)
Abstract / Description: 

SystemX Alliance 2023 Fall Conference

Tuesday, November 7 - Thursday, November 9

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Tuesday, Nov. 7th, 2023
Room: Berg Hall A, B, C
7:30 Breakfast 30 mins
8:00 Welcome & SystemX Overview Prof. Tom Lee,
SystemX Faculty Co-Director
8:15 Introduction to: Heterogeneous Integration Prof. Eric Pop,
Focus Area Lead
PDF & Video
8:30 Introduction to: Computation for Data Analytics Prof. Rick Bahr,
on behalf of Prof. Subhasish Mitra
PDF & Video
8:45 Introduction to: Energy/Power Management Systems Profs. Juan Rivas & Debbie Senesky,
Focus Area Leads
PDF & Video
9:00 Upscaling and Automation: Pushing the Boundaries of Multiscale Systems Modeling through Symbolic Computing Prof. Ilenia Battiato,
Energy Science Engineering
PDF & Video
9:20 FMA Quickfire Presentations (1/2)
Participants List
1 hour PDF & Video
10:15 FMA Poster Viewing - Lobby Area 1 hour and 30 mins
12:00 Lunch 1 hour and 30 mins
Heterogeneous Integration
(Lead: Prof. Eric Pop)
Room: Berg Hall A
1:30 Thermal Scaffolding for Cooling Ultra-Dense 3D ICs Dennis Rich,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
1:50 Fabrication and Properties of 2D material/polymer composites Prof. Xiaolin Zheng,
Mechanical Engineering
PDF & Video
2:10 Seventy-Five Years of Semiconductor Integration Prof. Krishna Saraswat,
Electrical Engineering
PDF & Video
2:45 Break 15 minutes
3:00 Mobility Enhancement of Monolayer WS2 from Strain on Flexible Substrates Jerry Yang,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
3:25 Stretchable sensor interface circuits Yuya Nishio,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
3:50 Heterogeneous Integration and Simulation of Multi-Scalar Optical Systems Yixuan Shao,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
  Focus Area Feedback Survey and Roundtable Discussion
4:15 Focus Area Poster Session
Participants List & PDFs
30 mins
Computation for Data Analytics
(Lead: Prof. Subhasish Mitra)
Room: Berg Hall B
1:30 New Foundry Transistor + Memory Monolithic 3D Stack and its Large Architecture-level Benefits Robert Radway,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
1:55 Medusa: A Digital tinyML Processor with Pipelined Pixel Streaming of Bottleneck Layers Achieving 0.83/4.6 μJ/Frame for 86%/91.6% on IFAR-10 Massimo Giordano,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
2:20 EMBER: A 100 MHz, 0.86 mm2, Multiple-Bits-per-Cell RRAM Macro in 40 nm CMOS with Compact Peripherals and 1.0 pJ/bit Read Circuitry Luke Upton,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
2:45 Break 15 minutes
3:00 Monarch Mixer: A Simple Sub-Quadratic GEMM-Based Architecture Dan Fu,
PhD Student (Computer Science)
PDF & Video
3:25 Agile Design-Space Exploration using Differentiable Simulators Prof. Sara Achour,
Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
PDF & Video
3:50 Towards LLM-Assisted Hardware Verification Daniel Mendoza,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
  Focus Area Feedback Survey and Roundtable Discussion
4:15 Focus Area Poster Session
Participants List & PDFs
30 mins
Energy/Power Management Systems
(Leads: Profs. Juan Rivas and Debbie Senesky)
Room: Berg Hall C
1:30 Device offering High Power at High Frequencies with WBGs Zhengliang Bian,
PhD Student (Mechanical Engineering)
*The PDF and recording of this talk will not be shared.
1:55 Voltage Waveform Generation for Sawyer Tower Coss loss measurements using a hybrid power converter Malachi Hornbuckle,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
2:20 Lithium Niobate Piezoelectric resonators for high-frequency power conversion Eric Stolt,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
2:45 Break 15 minutes
3:00 Frequency-tuning Matching Network for Plasma Generation Zhechi Ye,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
3:25 RF Broadband Power Amplifier for Plasma Applications James Skelly,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
3:50 High speed impedance matching for real plasma load under multilevel pulsing operation Dr. Kawin Surakitbovorn,
Postdoc (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
  Focus Area Feedback Survey and Roundtable Discussion
4:15 Focus Area Poster Session
Participants List & PDFs
30 mins
Wednesday, Nov. 8th, 2023
Room: Berg Hall A, B, C
8:45 Breakfast 30 mins
9:15 Welcome & Agenda Rundown Prof. Tom Lee,
SystemX Faculty Co-Director
9:30 Talk by the Electrical Engineering Dept Chair Prof. Mark Horowitz,
EE Department Chair
PDF & Video
10:00 New Faculty Introduction Prof. Thierry Tambe PDF & Video
10:15 New Faculty Introduction Prof. Zerina Kapetanovic PDF & Video
10:30 Break 15 mins
10:45 Introduction to: Design Productivity Prof. Mark Horowitz,
Focus Area Lead
PDF & Video
11:00 Introduction to: Photonic and Quantum Technologies Chenkai Mao,
on behalf of Prof. Jonathan Fan
PDF & Video
11:15 Introduction to: Advanced Materials Enabling Novel Devices (AMEND) Profs. Paul McIntyre & Krishna Saraswat,
Focus Area Leads
PDF & Video
11:30 Luncheon 2 hours
12:00 Luncheon Keynote: What do Brains Have to say about AI
Talk Abstract
Jeff Hawkins,
Co-Founder, Numenta
PDF & Video
Design Productivity
(Lead: Prof. Mark Horowitz)
Room: Berg Hall A
1:30 MLSD For High Speed Links Zachary Myers,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
1:55 G-QED Pre-silicon Verification Saranyu Chattopadhyay,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
2:20 Verified Software Security Down to Gates Prof. Caroline Trippel,
Computer Science/Electrical Engineering
PDF & Video
2:45 Break 15 minutes
3:00 Hardware-Aware Static Optimization of Hyperdimensional Computations Pu (Luke) Yi,
PhD Student (Computer Science)
PDF & Video
3:25 CVXPY: Convex Optimization for Everyone Parth Nobel,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
3:50 Unity: Accelerating DNN Training Through Joint Optimization of Algebraic Transformations and Parallelization Colin Unger,
PhD Student (Computer Science)
PDF & Video
  Focus Area Feedback Survey and Roundtable Discussion
4:15 Focus Area Poster Session
Participants List & PDFs
30 mins
Photonic and Quantum Technologies
(Lead: Prof. Jonathan Fan)
Room: Berg Hall B
1:30 Enabling Ultra-Compact, High-Quality 3D Displays with Neural Holography Manu Gopakumar,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
1:55 Low-Power Coherent Optical Links using Thin Film Lithium Niobate Comb Generators Elizabeth Chen,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
2:20 Machine learning-enabled photon simulation and optimization Chenkai Mao,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
2:45 Break 15 minutes
3:00 High Resolution Continuous Liquid Interface Production for Microsystem Fabrication Ian Coates,
PhD Student (Chemical Engineering)
PDF
3:25 Scalable 3D Micro/Nano Fabrication via Upconversion Qi Zhou,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
*The PDF and recording of this talk will not be shared.
3:50 Integrated silicon carbide quantum systems Dr. Daniil Lukin,
Postdoc (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
  Focus Area Feedback Survey and Roundtable Discussion
AMEND
(Leads: Profs. Paul McIntyre & Krishna Saraswat)
Room: Berg Hall C
1:30 Integration of Diamond Heat Spreaders for GaN and Si Technology Prof. Srabanti Chowdhury,
Electrical Engineering
1:55 High-Temperature Operation of InAlN/GaN Heterostructures Prof. Debbie Senesky,
Aeronautics and Astronautics
PDF & Video
2:20 Advanced Thermal Management Materials for Electronic Devices & Systems Prof. Ken Goodson,
Mechanical Engineering
PDF & Video
2:45 Break 15 minutes
3:00 Postdoc and Student Talks 1 hour and 15 minutes
  Atomic Layer Deposited Indium Tungsten Oxide Semiconductor for Reliable Back-End-Of-Line Transistors Dr. Chanyoung Yoo,
Postdoc (Photon Science, SLAC)
PDF & Video
  Carbon-Free Inhibition Layers for Area Selective Deposition of a High k Dielectric Dr. Yujin Lee,
Postdoc (Chemical Engineering)
PDF & Video
  Process-Induced Strain Engineering in 2D Heterostructures and Devices Dr. Tara Peña,
Postdoc (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
  Doping of low dimensional materials for highly scaled FETs Dr. Gilad Zeevi,
Postdoc (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
  Focus Area Feedback Survey and Roundtable Discussion
4:15 Focus Area Poster Session
Participants List & PDFs
30 mins
Thursday, Nov. 9th, 2023
Room: Berg Hall A, B, C
8:30 Breakfast 30 mins
9:00 Welcome & Agenda Rundown Prof. Amin Arbabian,
SystemX Faculty Co-Director
9:15 FMA Quickfire Presentations (2/2)
Participants List
1 hour PDF & Video
10:15 FMA Poster Viewing - Lobby Area 1 hour and 30 mins
12:00 Lunch 1 hour and 30 mins
Applications
Room: Berg Halls A, B, C
1:25 Introduction to: Internet of Everything Profs. Amin Arbabian & Tom Lee,
Focus Area Leads
1:30 Project “No Battery” Dr. Kamesh Medapalli,
Infineon
PDF & Video
1:55 End-to-end design of adaptive systems for efficient sensing at the edge Soheil Hor,
PhD Student (Electrical Engineering)
PDF & Video
2:20 Introduction to: Bio Interfaces Prof. Sindy Tang,
Focus Area Lead
PDF & Video
2:25 Deciphering the Warburg effect: Can we turn tumor cells back to normal through metabolic therapy? Prof. Jiangbin Ye,
Radiation Oncology
PDF & Video
2:40 Optical Recording of Bioelectric Signals using Electrochromic Materials Dr. Peter Zhou,
Chemistry
PDF & Video
2:55 GD2 CAR T for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG): from process development to early clinical application Dr. Raquel Martin Ibanez,
Associate Director for Process Development and Manufacturing Cancer Cell Therapy Center
PDF & Video
3:10 Break 15 mins
3:20 Introduction to: Robotics and Autonomous Systems Profs. Grace Gao & Monroe Kennedy,
Focus Area Leads
PDF & Video
3:25 Learning to Solve Long-Horizon Tasks Christopher Agia,
PhD Student (Computer Science)
PDF & Video
3:50 Robot Design and Control Strategies for Lifting and Unloading Heavy Objects in Simulation William Chong,
PhD Student (Mechanical Engineering)
PDF & Video
4:15 Applications Poster Session
Participants List & PDFs
30 mins
Business Meeting: November 17
Zoom
9:00 Business Meeting with SystemX Member Reps 1 hour