Houston Chapter

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
  

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 - Seminar
  "Successive Interference Cancellation for Uplink CDMA"
  Jeff Andrews, ECE Department, University of Texas at Austin
  Host: Behnaam Aazhang
  
• May 2, 2003 - Seminar
  "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

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Last modified: April 2, 2009