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All times below are in PDT (Los Angeles time).

Thursday 16 March, 2023

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9:00 9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks  
    Joshua Yang (Symposium Co-Chair)
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Yolanda Gil (Symposium Co-Chair)
Senior Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering; Director, Data Science Programs, Computer Science Department, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Yannis Yortsos
Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering; Zohrab A. Kaprielian Dean’s Chair in Engineering and Chester Dolley Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Craig Knoblock
Keston Executive Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering; Vice Dean of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
9:15 10:05 Session I: TinyML – Machine Learning for edge devices  
    Session chair: Jonathan May
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Team Leader, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Neural inertial navigation in ultra-resource-constrained (URC) devices
Luis Garcia
Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Lead, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Embedding deep learning models within tiny IoT devices
Peter Beerel
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Distributed transformer models in edge environments
John Paul Walters
Research Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Collaborative training of large models at the edge
Salman Avestimehr
Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
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10:05 10:15 Break  
10:15 11:05 Session II: Neuromorphic computing  
    Session chair: Stephen Crago
Associate Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Brain–machine interfaces for probing the neural mechanisms of emotion regulation
Maryam Shanechi
Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Sensing biosignals through electronic skin
Yasser Khan
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Computational models for hippocampal memory prostheses
Dong Song
Research Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Neuromorphic image sensors through retina-inspired circuits
Akhilesh Jaiswal
Research Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
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11:05 11:15 Break  
11:15 12:00 Invited Talk  
    AI to Advance Edge Computing for Next-Generation Networks
Yiran Chen
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
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12:00 12:15 Special Presentation  
    Opportunities for AI on the Edge Under the DOD Microelectronics Commons Program
Stephen Crago
Associate Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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Friday 17 March, 2023

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9:00 9:50 Session III: Hardware-software co-design  
    Session chair: Keith Chugg
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Out-of-core graph analytics through multi-log memory updates
Murali Annavaram
Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Accelerating Graph Neural Networks
Viktor Prasanna
Charles Lee Powell Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Processing-in-Pixel-in-Memory-based object Detection and Tracking
Ajey Jacob
Director of Advanced Electronics, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Federated progressive sparsification
Jose Luis Ambite
Research Team Leader, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
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9:50 10:00 Break  
10:00 10:50 Session IV: Post-CMOS hardware and device materials  
    Session chair: Peter Beerel
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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    Phase change materials for energy efficient neuromorphic computing
Jayakanth Ravichandran
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Single-crystal indium phosphide (InP) field effect transistor (FET)-based artificial synapses
Rehan Kapadia
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Memristors with thousands of conductance levels for edge AI
Joshua Yang
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Hybrid analog-digital computing enabled by memristors for mobile robots
Wei Wu
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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10:50 11:00 Break  
11:00 11:50 PANEL DISCUSSION: AI at the Frontiers of Next-Generation Computing Architectures  
    Session chair: Joshua Yang
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Peter Beerel
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Ajey Jacob
Director of Advanced Electronics, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
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    Tony Levi
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Jonathan May
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Team Leader, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
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11:50 12:00 Concluding Remarks and Symposium Closing  
    Ishwar Puri
Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, University of Southern California; Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
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