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
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Design Productivity
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems
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11:00AM-12:00PM • Poster Session #2
AMEND
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Heterogeneous Integration
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Photonic and Quantum Technologies
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12:00-1:00 PM • Poster Session #3
Bio Interfaces
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Internet of Everything
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Energy/Power Management Systems
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• 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
SystemX Faculty Co-Director,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University
9:20 AM • Plenary Talk: Overview of the EE Department Research Activities [PDF & Video]
Prof. Jelena Vučković
Department Chair of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
10:00 AM • Heterogeneous Integration Overview [PDF & Video]
Prof. Eric Pop
Focus Area Lead,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University
10:15 AM • Internet of Everything Overview [PDF & Video]
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
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)
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| 11:00 | Extended Scale Length Theory of Low-Dimensional FETs for DTCO | Carlo Gilardi, PhD Student Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Subhasish Mitra) |
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| 11:25 | Amorphous ITO Transistors Enable 3D Integration of Logic & Memory (FMA) | Jimin Kwon, Postdoc Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. H.-S. Philip Wong) |
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| 11:50 | Data-Driven Soft Material Design | Dr. Juyoung Leem, Postdoc Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Xiaolin Zheng) |
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| 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) |
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| 12:50 | Integration and Strain of 2D Transistors on Flexible Substrates (FMA) | Jerry Yang, PhD Student Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Eric Pop) |
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| 1:15 | High-Specific-Power Flexible TMD Solar Cells for Self-Powered IoT | Koosha Nassiri Nazif, PhD Student Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Krishna Saraswat) |
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| 1:40 | Focus Area Strategy Session | Prof. Eric Pop Heterogeneous Integration Focus Area Lead |
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| 11:00 | Adding the Missing Depth Axis to Standard CMOS Image Sensors | Okan Atalar, PhD Student Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Amin Arbabian) |
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| 11:25 | A Focal-Plane Code-Domain Millimeter-Wave Imager (FMA) | Yinuo Xu, PhD Student Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Tom Lee) |
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| 11:50 | Recent progress with skin-inspired sensors and electronics | Prof. Zhenan Bao Chemical Engineering, Stanford |
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| 12:15 | Break | 10 minutes | |||||||
| 12:25 | Mixed-Signal DNN Accelerators for tinyML (FMA) | Prof. Boris Murmann Electrical Engineering, Stanford |
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| 12:50 | The Rise of Ubiquitous Connected Embedded Computing | Daniel Cooley Silicon Labs |
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| 1:15 | IoT Evolution Towards 6G | Mohammad Mozaffari & Mehrnaz Afshang Ericsson |
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| 1:40 | Focus Area Strategy Session | Profs. Amin Arbabian & Tom Lee Internet of Everything Focus Area Leads |
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| 11:00 | Latency and bandwidth tradeoffs in Internet video streaming | Prof. Keith Winstein Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Stanford |
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| 11:25 | High-Performance Rendering to Train Embodied Agents at 13,000 Frames per Second | Prof. Kayvon Fatahalian Computer Science, Stanford |
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| 11:50 | High speed simulation and design of photonic systems with physics-augmented neural networks | Prof. Jonathan Fan Electrical Engineering, Stanford |
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| 12:15 | Break | 10 minutes | |||||||
| 12:25 | Simulating Quantum Computers and Quantum Chemistry | Prof. Todd Martinez Chemistry, Stanford |
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| 12:50 | Quantum 2D materials and metasurfaces for dynamic flat optics (Seed) | Profs. Felipe Jornada & Mark Brongersma Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford |
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| 1:15 | Light emission from perovskite materials (Seed) | Prof. Dan Congreve Electrical Engineering, Stanford |
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| 1:40 | Robotic assembly of 2D van der Waals heterostructures. | Prof. Andrew Mannix Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford |
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| 2:05 | Silicon photonics computational networks | Prof. Olav Solgaard Electrical Engineering, Stanford |
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| 2:30 | Focus Area Strategy Session | Prof. Jonathan Fan Photonic and Quantum Technologies Focus Area Lead |
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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
SystemX Faculty Co-Director,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University
9:30 AM • New Faculty Introductions
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
Focus Area Leads,
Electrical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University
10:15 AM • Design Productivity Overview [PDF & Video]
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
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)
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| 11:00 | Embedded Deep Learning Inference of Photoplethysmography-based Detection of Atrial Fibrillation (FMA) | Samiya Shimly, Postdoc School of Medicine (Advisor: Dr. Euan Ashley) |
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| 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) |
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| 11:50 | Ultra-high Fidelity Oligonucleotide Synthesis on Individual Beads (Seed) | Punnag Padhy, PhD Student Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Lambertus Hesselink) |
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| 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 |
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| 12:50 | Engineer Electrically Excitable Cells to Enhance the Human-Electronic Interface (Seed) | Prof. Xiaojing Gao Chemical Engineering, Stanford |
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| 1:15 | Magnetic recording of neural currents | Prof. Ada Poon Electrical Engineering, Stanford |
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| 1:40 | Focus Area Strategy Session | Profs. Shan Wang & Sindy Tang Bio Interfaces Focus Area Leads |
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| 11:00 | Automated Modeling of Analog Circuits for Mixed-Signal Verification | Daniel Stanley, PhD Student Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Mark Horowitz) |
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| 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) |
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| 11:50 | Scaling Up Hardware Accelerator Verification using A-QED with Functional Decomposition (FMA) | Saranyu Chattopadhyay, PhD Student Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Subhasish Mitra) |
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| 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) |
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| 12:50 | Copy-and-Patch Compilation | Haoran Xu, PhD Student Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Fred Kjolstad) |
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| 1:15 | Inferring Invariants via First-Order Quantified Separation | Jason Koenig, PhD Student Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Alex Aiken) |
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| 1:40 | Focus Area Strategy Session | Prof. Mark Horowitz Design Productivity Focus Area Lead |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 11:50 | Beyond Inductors: Realizing Miniaturized Power Converters with Piezoelectrics (FMA) | Eric Stolt, PhD Student Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila) |
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| 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) |
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| 12:50 | III-V High Electron Mobility Sensors (FMA) | Anand Lalwani, PhD Student Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Debbie Senesky) |
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| 1:15 | 3kV GaN Diodes with Avalanche Capabilities (Seed) | Zhengliang Bian, PhD Student Mechanical Engineering (Advisors: Profs. Srabanti Chowdhury & Ken Goodson) |
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| 1:40 | Focus Area Strategy Session | Profs. Juan Rivas-Davila & Debbie Senesky Energy/Power Management Systems Focus Area Leads |
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| 2:10 | END | ||||||||
**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
Jonathan Candelaria
SystemX Executive Director,
Stanford University
4:15 PM • Advanced Materials Enabling Novel Devices (AMEND) Overview [PDF & Video]
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
Focus Area Lead,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
Stanford University
4:45 PM • Robotics and Autonomous Systems Overview [PDF & Video]
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)
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| 5:15 | Advances in area selective atomic layer deposition | Prof. Stacey Bent Chemical Engineering, Stanford |
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| 5:40 | Wide bandgap Materials and Devices: From Thermal Management to Efforts Towards Red LEDs | Prof. Srabanti Chowdhury Electrical Engineering, Stanford |
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| 6:05 | What are 2D materials good for? | Prof. Eric Pop Electrical Engineering, Stanford |
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| 6:30 | Break | 10 minutes | |||||||
| 6:40 | Low Resistance Contacts to Ge and TMDs | Prof. Krishna Saraswat Electrical Engineering, Stanford |
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| 7:05 | Semiconductors in Space: Advantages of Microgravity Growth & On-Demand Device Fabrication | Dr. Jessica Frick, Postdoc Aeronautics and Astronautics (Advisor: Prof. Debbie Senesky) |
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| 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) |
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| 7:55 | Focus Area Strategy Session | Profs. Paul McIntyre & Krishna Saraswat AMEND Focus Area Leads |
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| 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) |
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| 5:40 | Accelerating Machine Learning with immersed-in-memory switched-capacitor based computing | Massimo Giordano, PhD Student Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Boris Murmann) |
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| 6:05 | Capstan: A Vector RDA for Sparsity | Alex Rucker, PhD Student Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Kunle Olukotun) |
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| 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) |
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| 7:05 | SegAlign: A scalable GPU-based whole genome aligner | Sneha Goenka, PhD Student Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Mark Horowitz) |
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| 7:30 | Synthesizing Formal Models of Hardware from RTL for Efficient Verification of Memory Model Implementations | Prof. Caroline Trippel Computer Science & Electrical Engineering |
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| 7:55 | Building a Data-Centric Serverless Platform | Peter Kraft, PhD Student Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Matei Zaharia) |
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| 8:20 | Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces | Albert Gu, PhD Student Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Chris Re) |
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| 8:45 | Focus Area Strategy Session | Prof. Subhasish Mitra Computation for Data Analytics Focus Area Lead |
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| 5:15 | Collaborative Robotics | Prof. Monroe Kennedy Mechanical Engineering, Stanford |
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| 5:40 | AI-augmented Physics Models | Prof. Karen Liu Computer Science, Stanford |
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| 6:05 | Towards Safe GPS-based Localization: From Urban Navigation to Tandem Drifting | Sriramya Bhamidipati, Postdoc Aeronautics and Astronautics (Advisor: Prof. Grace Gao) |
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| 6:30 | Break | 10 minutes | |||||||
| 6:40 | Guided Robotic Autonomy through Haptic Interfaces (FMA) | Shameek Ganguly, Postdoc Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Oussama Khatib) |
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| 7:05 | Generative Sparse Detection Network for 3D Single-shot Object Detection (FMA) | JunYoung Gwak, PhD Student Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Silvio Savarese) |
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| 7:30 | Offline Robotic Reinforcement Learning | Prof. Chelsea Finn Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Stanford |
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| 7:55 | Focus Area Strategy Session | Profs. Grace Gao & Monroe Kennedy Robotics and Autonomous Systems Focus Area Leads |
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