SystemX Alliance Newsletter - September 2023
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November 7-9 at Li Ka Shing Center at Stanford University
SystemX Fall Conference 2023
Our faculty and students will be presenting research funded by you, our members.
Reminder for Members: EE310 Weekly Seminars
The SystemX seminar is back for Autumn Quarter! The first talk of the quarter will be on Thursday, September 28. Each seminar will be announced on the SystemX Events page.
Fall 2023 Selected Speaker List:
- AI Processor Architecture and Implementation: Bendik Kleveland, Cerebras Systems
- FPGA and Special Processors: Andreas Oloffson (Founder Zero ASIC) and Ilya Ganusov, Intel
- Alternative Energy: Merlin Solar
- We plan to have additional speakers in both Architecture and Alternative Energy. These topics are related, training GPT3 (a legacy AI model) took 1GW-h, that’s one nuclear power station output for 1 hour! Its successor, GPT4, is estimated to require 6X that amount of energy.
If you are already subscribed to the SystemX seminar mailing list, you will receive weekly email announcements with the Zoom link and information on how to access recordings.
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Students & Faculty Awards/Recognition
- Tony G. Chen, Abhishek Cauligi, Srinivasan A. Suresh, Marco Pavone, and Mark R. Cutkosky received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Best Paper Award for their paper "Testing Gecko-Inspired Adhesives With Astrobee Aboard the International Space Station: Readying the Technology for Space"
- Prof. Dan Congreve won the Intel Rising Star Award
- Profs. Danielle Mai and Renee Zhao named MIT Tech Review 35 Innovators Under 35
- Aina Niemetz and Mathias Preiner, Senior Research Engineers at Centaur (Stanford's Center for Automated Reasoning, faculty director: Prof. Clark Barrett), received two awards for two recent papers as co-authors:
- "IPASIR-UP: User Propagators for CDCL" was a highlighted paper at the 26th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT) in July 2023
- "Bitwuzla" was a distinguished paper at the 35th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) in July 2023.
- Prof. Srabanti Chowdhury received the 2023 Technical Excellence Award and Dr. Mohamadali Malakoutian received the 2023 Best Presenter Award at the Techcon Conference from Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
- Prof. Jelena Vučković elected to National Academy of Sciences
- Prof. James Harris received the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal
- Mark Zhao (Advisor: Prof. Christos Kozyrakis) won a 2023 Meta PhD fellowship on AI Systems HW/SW Co-Design
- Berivan Isik (Advisor: Prof. Tsachy Weissman) received a Google PhD Fellowship
- Prof. Grace Gao receives "Excellence in Teaching Award" by AIAA Stanford Chapter
- Seven "Best Presentation of the Session Awards" for the following papers at the ION GNSS+ conference, the world's largest annual conference on satellite navigation organized by Institute of Navigation (ION).
- Ashwin V. Kanhere and Grace Gao, Fault-Robust GPS Spoofing Mitigation with Expectation-Maximization, Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation GNSS+ conference (ION GNSS+ 2023), Denver, CO, Sep 2023.
- Asta Wu, Adyasha Mohanty, Anonto Zaman, and Grace Gao, Bounding GPS-Based Positioning and Navigation Uncertainty for Autonomous Drifting via Reachability, Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation GNSS+ conference (ION GNSS+ 2023), Denver, CO, Sep 2023.
- Adyasha Mohanty, and Grace Gao, Tightly Coupled Graph Neural Network and Kalman Filter for Improving Smartphone GNSS Positioning, Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation GNSS+ conference (ION GNSS+ 2023), Denver, CO, Sep 2023.
- Daniel Neamati, Shubh Gupta, Adyasha Mohanty, and Grace Gao, Neural City Maps for GNSS NLOS Prediction, Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation GNSS+ conference (ION GNSS+ 2023), Denver, CO, Sep 2023.
- Derek Knowles and Grace Gao, Detection and Exclusion of Multiple Faults using Euclidean Distance Matrices, Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation GNSS+ conference (ION GNSS+ 2023), Denver, CO, Sep 2023.
- Mira Partha, Shubh Gupta, and Grace Gao, Neural City Maps: A Case for 3D Urban Environment Representations Based on Radiance Fields, Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation GNSS+ conference (ION GNSS+ 2023), Denver, CO, Sep 2023.
- Marta Cortinovis, Keidai Iiyama, and Grace Gao, Satellite Ephemeris Approximation Methods to Support Lunar Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Services, Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation GNSS+ conference (ION GNSS+ 2023), Denver, CO, Sep 2023.