Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University
Houston Chapter – IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS)
2024
November 6, 2024 “Tensor-low rank models for reinforcement learning “
Prof. Antonio G. Marques, King Juan Carlos University, Spain
Host: Joseph Cavallaro and Santiago Segarra
November 4, 2024 “Compressive Ultrasound Imaging”
Prof. Geert Leus, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Host: Joseph Cavallaro and Santiago Segarra
September 23, 2024 “RadioHound, Spectrum Mapping, and Energy Harvesting Sensors”
Prof. Bertrand Hochwald, University of Notre Dame
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
April 15, 2024 “Trust and Security for IoT Devices”
Prof. Alan Marshall, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
January 8, 2024 “Beyond Traditional Wireless Communication xG Challenges and Opportunities”
Dr. Hsuanyu (Marcus) Pan, Semiconductor Research Corporation
Host: Joseph Cavallaro and Taiyun Chi
2023
November 16, 2023 “6G State of Play in Finland”
Prof. Matti Latva-Aho, University of Oulu, Finland
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
October 17, 2023 “Beyond High Impact: Multidisciplinary Experiences that Support Professional Development, Leadership Development AND Faculty Research”
Dr. Julia Sonnenberg-Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Joseph Cavallaro and Gary Woods
March 20, 2023 “Spectrum Sharing Challenges for Enabling Large Bandwidth mmWave/THz Spectrum Access Above 100 Ghz For 6G and Other Applications”
Dr. Michael Marcus, Marcus Spectrum Solutions LLC
Host: Edward Knightly
2022
November 28, 2022 “Data-driven control of hybrid systems and Chance-Constrained optimization”
Prof. Raphael Jungers, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Host: Cesar Uribe
November 3, 2022 “Energy Efficient Electronics: Exploiting Physics and Materials for Low Power Devices and New Computational Paradigm”
Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Yuji Zhao
2021
October 19-21, 2021 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS 2021)
Coimbra, Portugal (Virtual)
General Co-Chair: Joseph Cavallaro
October 20, 2021 “Enabling High-Speed Interconnects for Future High-Performance Computer Applications (Webinar)”
Walker Turner, NVIDIA Circuits Research Group
Host: Thanh Tran
October 19, 2021 “Enabling Industry 4.0 with NVIDIA’s AI-on-5G Solution Stack (Webinar)”
Chris Dick, NVIDIA
Host: Rahman Doost-Mohammady
June 23, 2021 “How could they forget the locks? Securing Test Circuitry from IJTAG Based Attacks (Webinar)”
Jennifer Dworak, Southern Methodist University
Host: Kaiyuan Yang
April 29, 2021 “Empowering Farmers with Affordable Digital Agriculture Solutions (Webinar)”
Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research Lab – Redmond
Host: Rahman Doost-Mohammady
April 8, 2021 “Mobile Drone Computing (Webinar)”
Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria
Host: Rahman Doost-Mohammady
February 23, 2021 “Low-Resolution to the Rescue of All-Digital Massive MIMO (Webinar)”
Christoph Studer, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Host: Rahman Doost-Mohammady
2020
October 20-22, 2020 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS 2020)
Coimbra, Portugal (Virtual)
General Co-Chair: Joseph Cavallaro
August 6, 2020 “Audio and Wearable Data for Health Diagnostics (Webinar)”
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Host: Akane Sano
July 23, 2020 “Security of Networked Cyberphysical Systems (Webinar)”
P.R. Kumar, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Host: Rahman Doost-Mohammady
July 21, 2020 “Mixed-Signal Circuit Techniques for Near-Sensor Data
Analysis and Machine Learning Inference (Webinar)”
Boris Murmann, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Host: Yingyan Lin
June 25, 2020 “Learning at the Wireless Edge (Webinar)”
H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Host: Santiago Segarra
2019
November 21, 2019 “High Performance Power Efficient Neural Network Implementations on Embedded Devices”
Arthur J. Redfern, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX
Host: Thanh Tran
June 18, 2019 “Networked Multi-Agent Systems Networked Multi-Agent Systems and Collective Motion of Animals: A Review of Parallel Research Directions”
Saad Saleh (retired), Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
May 14, 2019 “Ambient and Quantum Backscatter Communications”
Riku Jäntti, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
2018
September 25, 2018 “Using Discrete-Event Simulation for Evaluating Distributed Systems” Joint meeting with Rice IEEE Student Branch”
Aida Vosoughi, Oracle, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
February 02, 2018 “Future AI-empowered Mobile Systems: Cellular Architecture Perspective”
Li-Chun Wang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Host: Ashutosh Sabharwal
January 31, 2018 “Age of Information: Optimizing the Freshness of Real-Time Data”
Yin Sun, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Host: Ashutosh Sabharwal
2017
November 10, 2017 “Tesla Motors Technology and Careers” Joint meeting with Rice IEEE Student Branch
Vivas Kumar, Tesla Motors, Palo Alto, CA
April 21, 2017 “TexasWISE (Texas Workshop on Integrated Systems Exploration” Collaboration of Texas IEEE CASS Chapters
Held this year at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
January 24, 2017 “Codebooks with Limited Computational Complexity from Unbiased Bases”
Olav Tirkkonen, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
2016
October 26-28, 2016 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS 2016)
Technical Committee Co-Chair: Joseph Cavallaro
May 6, 2016 IEEE Texas Workshop on Integrated System Exploration (TexasWISE) 2016
Organizer: Joseph Cavallaro
February 1, 2016 “Inter/Intra Chip Optical Networks: Opportunities and Challenges”
Jiang Xu, Xilinx-HKUST
Host: Lin Zhong
January 14, 2016 “Addressing Spectrum Scarcity through Optical Wireless Communications”
Mohammed-Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
January 12, 2016 “Brain-Inspired Computing: The Extraordinary Voyages in Known and Unknown Worlds”
Yiran Chen, University of Pittsburgh
Host: Lin Zhong
2015
October 6, 2015 “Interdependency of Control and Communications: From Maxwell’s Demon to Cyber Physical Systems
Husheng Li, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
September 21, 2015 “Vertically Integrated Projects”
Randal Abler, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
2014
December 15, 2014 “VLSI Optimization for High-Speed Digital Communications”
Zhongfeng Wang, Broadcom Corporation
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
November 17, 2014 “Managing competition for (public) resources: Decision-making and some congestion cost cutting approaches”
Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece
Host: Edward Knightly
February 5, 2014 “Use-it or Lose-it: Wearout and Lifetime in Future Chip-Multiprocessor Interconnect”
Paul V. Gratz, Texas A&M University
Host: Farinaz Koushanfar
February 11, 2014 “Computing in space with Open SPL”
Georgi Gaydadjiev, Chalmers University, Sweden and Maxeler Technologies, London
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
2013
January 18, 2013 “Digitally-Assisted Transceiver Linearization”
Mikko Valkama, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
March 28, 2013 “Efficient Sparse Projection with Application to Scene and Video Classification”
shiv N. Vitaladevuni, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Host: Ashok Veeraraghavan
October 22, 2013 “Challenges in High-Temperature Embedded Systems Design”
Thanh Tran, Halliburton
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
November 7, 2013 “Public Access Wireless Networks: Vulnerabilities, Detection and Mitigation Strategies”
Alan Marshall, The University of Liverpool, UK
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
November 8, 2013 “Nonlinear Self-Interference Cancellation in Full-Duplex Transceivers”
Lauri Anttila, Tamper University of Technology
Host: Ashutosh Sabharwal
November 25, 2013 “Modeling, Architecture, and Applications for Emerging Memory Technologies”
Yuan Xie, Pennsylvania State University
Host: Lin Zhong
December 6, 2013 “Multiuser Spatial Resource Allocation and Frequency Scheduling for Evolving Cellular Communications”
Markku Juntti, University of Oulu, Finland
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
2012
April 24, 2012 “Wire Routing in Electronic Design Automation”
Martin D.F. Wong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Farinaz Koushanar
May 1, 2012 “Multiterminal Source Code under Logarithmic Loss”
Thomas Courtde, UCLA
Host: Ashutosh Sabharwal
September 20, 2012 “Toward Micro Vision Sensors”
Sanjeev Koppal, Harvard University
Host: Ashok Veeraraghavan
September 21, 2012 “Augmenting 2D Animation with Physically Simulated 3D Effects”
Eakta Jain, Carnegie Mellon University
Host: Ashok Veeraraghavan
September 26, 2012 “An Approach for Quantitative Optimization
of Highly Effiient Dedicated Cordic Macros as SoC Building Blocks”
Upasna Vishnoi, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
October 25, 2012 “Funding Opportunities in Wireless Networking and Communications”
Min Song, National Science Foundation
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
November 8, 2012 “Novel architectures and design tools for
the implementation of complex DSP systems on FPGA-based technologies”
Roger Woods, Queen’s University Belfast
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
November 14, 2012 “Algorithms for privacy-preserving machine learning”
Anand Sarwate, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Host: Ashutosh Sabharwal
November 15, 2012 “Overview of University Relations and Projects at Qualcomm Research”
Mahesh Ramachandran, Qualcomm
Host: Ashok Veeraraghavan
November 20, 2012 “Investigation of Wi-Fi vulnerabilities and countermeasures”
Bosheng Zhou, Queen’s University Belfast
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
2011
March 1, 2011 “Server Reliability and Mobile Energy Efficiency: Two Challenges and Two Solutions
Murali Annavaram, University of Souther California
Host: Lin Zhong
September 12, 2011 “Trellisware Tech Talk:
Mobile Ad hoc Network Design for Robustness, Scalability & Practical Application”
Thomas Carter (Rice BSEE ’76, MEE ’77), President/CEO, Trellisware
Technologies
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
September 15, 2011 “Wireless Channel Uncertainty in Relay-Assisted Communication and Distributed Detection Systems”
Azadeh Vosoughi, University of Rochester
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
September 29, 2011 “Developing a Multi-Sensor Wearable Device for Assessment of Diet and Physical Activity”
Mingui Sun, University of Pittsburgh
Host: Tony Elam
December 5, 2011 “Coded Multipath Routing for Wireless Networks”
Brooke Shrader, MIT LIncoln Lab
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
December 6, 2011 “3GPP LTE-Advanced and 4G” and “mmWave Mobile Comunication”
Dr. Charlie Zhang and Sridhar Rajagopal, Samsung Dallas Technology R&D Center
Hosts: Joseph Cavallaro and Aydin Babakhani
December 6, 2011 “Having One’s Cake and Eating it Too: The Problem of Joint Communication and sensing”
Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
2010
March 12, 2010 “Diversity-based Multband Spectum Sensing Policy for Cognitive Radios”
Visa Koivunen, Helsinki University of Technology
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
March 15, 2010 “Random Finite Set Approach to Multi-Object Estimation and Tracking in Computer Vision”
Reza Hoseinnezhad, University of Melbourne
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
March 19, 2010 “Configurable Analog Signal Processing”
Paul Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Richard Baraniuk
March 25, 2010 “Breaking the Barriers in Wireless Network Information Theory”
Salman Avestimehr, Cornell University
Host: Ashutosh Sabharwal
April 8, 2010 “Sampling of Social Processes to Understand Human Activity “
Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University
Host: Ashutosh Sabharwal
April 8, 2010 “Flexible Baseband Architectures for Wireless Communications”
Gerald Sobelman, University of Minnesota
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
April 14, 2010 “Should we decode or quantize?”
Sae-Young Chung, KAIST
Host: Ashutosh Sabharwal
April 14, 2010 “Time-Based UWB Synthetic Imager (TUSI) for Medical Applications”
Amin Arbabian, University of California at Berkeley
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
December 10, 2010 “Half-Duplex Gaussian Relay Networks with Interference Processing Relays”
Srikrishna Bhashyam, IIT-Madras
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
2009
January 15, 2009 – ECE Distinguished Lecture “Wireless Sensors Networks: The Art of Integration”
Magdy Bayoumi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Hosts: Yehia Massoud and Joseph Cavallaro
February 13, 2009 “Computing with Things Small, Wet, and Random: Design Automation for Nanoscale Technologies and Biological Processes”
Marc Riedel, University of Minnesota
Hosts: Lin Zhong
March 13, 2009 “Developing Safe, Secure and Sustainable Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems”
Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University
Host: Lin Zhong
April 6, 2009 “Visibile light communication”
Sridhar Rajagopal, Samsung Telecommunications America
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
September 9, 2009 “Design Challenges in Broadband Software Defined Radio Systems; A System and Circuits Perspective
Ahmed M. Eltawil, University of California – Irvine
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
September 17, 2009 “A 32 Gbps 2048-bit 10GBASE-T Ethernet Energy Efficient LDPC Decoder with Split-Row Threshold Decoding Method”
Tinoosh Mohsenin, University of California – Davis
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
September 29, 2009 “Challenges and Drivers for Future Radio Access”
Matti Latva-aho, University of Oulu, Finland
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
October 16, 2009 “Parameter Variations and Leakage in Nano-scale Technologies: Error Resiliency and Low-Power Design Methods”
Kaushik Roy, Purdue University
Host: Lin Zhong
October 16, 2009 “Customer Reviews in Spectrum: Recommendation System in Wideband Cognitive Radio Networks”
Husheng Li, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Host: Lin Zhong
October 28, 2009 – ECE Distinguished Lecture “The Technological Power of Communications + Content + Community”
Fred Kitson, Motorola
Host: Lin Zhong
2008
January 25, 2008 “Ultra Mobile Broadband: PHY and MAC overview”
Mohammad Jaber Borran, Qualcomm
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Ashutosh Sabharwal
October 9, 2008 “Restless Watchdog: Monitoring Multiple Channels in Cognitive Radio Systems”
Husheng Li, University of Tennessee
Host: Lin Zhong
November 5, 2008 “Cooperation and Fairness of Wireless Networking using Game Theoretical Approaches”
Zhu Han, University of Houston
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
November 11, 2008 “Coding for Flash Memories”
Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang, Texas A&M University
Host: Lin Zhong
2007
January 16, 2007 – CMC Young Guns Seminar “Field-Based Computational Tools for Addressing Complexity, Scaling, Variability, and Design in Microelectronics”
Vikram Jandhyala, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of
Washington
Host: Yehia Massoud
January 24, 2007 “Cooperation, Relay Selection, and the effects of Channel State”
Aria Nosratinia, University of Texas at Dallas
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhanag and Ashu Sabharwal
January 29, 2007 “An Overview of MediaFLO – Mobile Multimedia Multicasting Technology”
K. Kiran Mukkavilli, Qualcomm
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
February 22, 2007 “Self-consistent Analysis of Chip Power, Voltage and Temperature (IBM ARL VLSI Seminar Series)”
Emrah Acar, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Host: Kartik Mohanram
March 15, 2007 – ECE Distinguished Lecture “Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade”
Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Edward Knightly
April 5, 2007 – CMC Seminar “State-Dependent Multiple Access Channels with Channel State Known to Some Encoders”
J. Nicholas Laneman, University of Notre Dame
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
April 19, 2007 “Why I Love the Looming Crisis in Computer Architecture”
Mark Oskin, University of Washington
Host: Peter Varman
April 27, 2007 “Mobile2.0 – Enabling an Anytime, Anywhere Services Ecosystem”
Venu Vasudevan, Motorola Labs
Host: Lin Zhong
May 3, 2007 “Integrated Biosensors”
Khaled Salama, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Host: Yehia Massoud
May 18, 2007 “BlueFS: Distributed Storage Meets Consumer Electronics”
Jason Flinn, University of Michigan
Host: Lin Zhong
May 31, 2007 “The recent developments in cryptographic hardware”
Naofumi Homma, Tohoku University, Japan
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
June 1, 2007 “An Efficient Block Floating Point Realization of the Adaptive Decision Feedback Equalizer”
Mrityunjoy Chakraborty, IIT-Kharagpur
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
November 1, 2007 “Implementation Aspects of List Sphere Detector Algorithms for MIMO Communications”
Markku Juntti, University of Oulu
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
November 8, 2007 “Fixed-point Signal Processing: Fast Algorithms with Limited Resources”
Wayne T. Padgett, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
November 13, 2007 “Random Processes and Random Mixture”
Giuseppe Abreu, University of Oulu
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
2006
January 26, 2006 – The William E. Brice Colloquium Series “Feedback, Erasures, Zero-Errors, and More”
Prof.-em. Dr. James L. Massey, The Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH), Zürich, Adjunct Professor, Lund University,
Sweden, and Adjunct Professor, Technical University of Denmark
Host: A.C. Antoulas
February 21, 2006 “Overview of Indian Power System and Challenges Ahead”
Janardan Nanda, Indian National Science Academy Senior Scientist,
Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Delhi
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
August 22, 2006 “Analysis and Control fo Temporal Behaviors in Embedded and Networked Computing Systems”
Xue Liu, CS Department, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
September 14, 2006 – CMC Young Guns Seminar Series “Hybrid Digital analog Coding for Broadcasting”
Krishna R. Narayan, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Texas A&M University
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
September 21, 2006 – ECE Distinguished Lecture “Tracking people through gaps in observation”
Larry S. Davis, University of Maryland
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
September 26, 2006 “Joing Channel Estimation and Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction for OFDM”
Ning Chen, Freescale Semiconductor
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
October 12, 2006 – CMC Young Guns Seminar Series “Network Coding Rates and Edge-Cut Bounds”
Gerhard Kramer, Bell Labs
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
November 2, 2006 “MIMO Receivers for 3G LTE”
Markku Juntti, University of Oulu, Finland
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
November 9, 2006 – CMC Young Guns Seminar Series “Secure Communications over Wireless Channels”
Hesham El Gamal, Ohio State University
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
December 14, 2006 “Development of high-performance RF MEMS tunable filters and their system implications “
Kamran Entesari, ECE Department, Texas A&M University
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
December 15, 2006 “Disruption Tolerant Networks: UMass DieselNet and Capacity Building with Throwboxes”
Mark Corner, Department of Computer Science, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst
Host: Lin Zhong
2005
September 15, 2005 – Texas Instruments Leadership University Seminar Series “Subpixel information retrieval – applicaitons to image zooming and compression”
Albert Cohen, Visiting Professor, ECE Department, Rice University and
Laboratoire J.-L. Lions, Université P.&M. Curie, Paris
Host: Richard Baraniuk
November 10, 2005 – Texas Instruments Leadership University Seminar Series “Analog to Digital Conversion: Why Sigma-Delta Modulation?”
Ron DeVore, TI Visiting Professor, ECE Department, Rice University and
Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina
Host: Richard Baraniuk
November 28, 2005 “Object Oriented Programming for Digital Design”
Sergio R. Ramirez, Mentor Graphics Corporation
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
2004
January 15, 2004 “Recent Results on Limited-Feedback Communication Techniques for MIMO Systems”
Robert Heath, ECE Dept., University of Texas at Austin
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
January 22, 2004 “Practical Communication over doubly-Dispersive Channels”
Phil Schniter, The Ohio State University
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
April 15, 2004 “Digital, Analog, MEMS Systems-on-Chips”
Richard Brown, University of Michigan
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
2003
January 31, 2003 “Successive Interference Cancellation for Uplink CDMA”
Jeff Andrews, ECE Department, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
May 2, 2003 “Design goals for wireless handset and infrastructure modems: A comparative study”
Chaitali Sengupta, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
October 7, 2003 “Energy Consumption in Mobile Devices: Why Future Systems Need Requirements-Aware Energy Scale-Down”
Partha Ranganathan, Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA
Host: Vijay Pai
October 9, 2003 “Future Trends in the Electronics Industry: Gazing into the Cyrstal Ball”
Mike Smayling, Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA
Host: Bill Wilson
October 9, 2003 “Using Matlab and Simulink for System-level Design and Rapid Prototyping of an Adaptive Noise Canceller for Implementation on a TMS320C67”
Darel Linebarger, The Mathworks, Natick, MA
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
October 23, 2003 “Discrete System on a Chip (SOC) Design”
Thanh Tran, Texas Instruments
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
2002
April 16, 2002 “Is Binary Signaling Dead at the PCB-interconnect level?”
Dr. Howard Johnson, Signal Consulting, Inc.
October 3, 2002 “Electronics for the Next Billion People — Cost or Performance Driven?”
Mike Smayling, Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA
November 1, 2002 “Interference Avoidance for Wireless Systems”
Dimitrie Popescu, University of Texas at Austin
2001
February 15, 2001 “Data Synchronization with Timing”
Navin Kashyap, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
2000
March 22, 2000 “Architecture Enhancements and Arithmetic Units for Digital Signal Processing and Multimedia Systems”
Michael Schulte, EECS Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
April 5, 2000 – CMC Seminar “Practical Adaptive Processing for Weak Signal Detection”
Raviraj Adve, Research Associates for Defense Conversion (RADC) Inc.,
Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY
April 6, 2000 – CMC Seminar “Do Something Phenomenal with Two Cores”
Ray Simar, TI Fellow, Texas Instruments
April 6, 2000 “Lessons from Wavelet-based Image Coding: New Directions in Image Modeling”
Michael T. Orchard, Princeton University (TI Visiting Professor, ECE Department, Rice University)
May 19, 2000 – IEEE Distinguished Lecture “Wireless Systems-on-a-Chip Research at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center”
Bob Broderson, EECS Department, Berkeley Wireless Research Center,
University of California at Berkeley
June 13, 2000 “Telecom and Internet in Developing Countries: Bottlenecks and Solutions”
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, EE Department, IIT Madras, Chenai, India
August 4, 2000 “Rate Scalable Compression with application to internet streaming”
Edward J. Delp, Purdue Multimedia Testbed, School of ECE, Purdue University
October 19, 2000 “Filter Bank Design with Nilpotent Matrices for Audio Coding Applications”
Gerald Schuller, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ
October 20, 2000 “What Makes Rapid Prototyping Rapid?”
Markus Rupp, Lucent Technologies
1999
August 30, 1999 – CMC Seminar “Efficient Frequency Domain Speech Enhancement using a Recursive DCT”
Michael Nowak, ICTech Inc.
October 7, 1999 “An Introduction to Computational Imaging and Synthetic Aperture Radar”
David Munson, TI Visiting Professor, ECE Department, Rice University
October 14, 1999 “3-D Radar Imaging with Applications to Astronomy”
David Munson, TI Visiting Professor, ECE Department, Rice University
October 29, 1999 – CMC Seminar “Wireless Consumer Products: Current Designs and Future Improvements”
Jay Greenwood, Software Designer, Texas Instruments
December 13, 1999 “Model-Based Bayesian Feature Matching with Application to Synthetic Aperture Radar Target Recognition”
Lee Potter, Electrical Engineering Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH