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NVIDIA GTC Conference - September 19-22
by Hegewald, Lynn P 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

Nvidia GTC 2022 - AI Developer Conference<https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/>, September 19-22, 2022 Free registration. Conference topics<https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/session-catalog/?tab.catalogallsessionstab=16566…> include: * Computer vision * Data science * Deep learning * Embedded computing * Autonomous vehicles Thanks, Lynn Hegewald ECE Master's Program Manager Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Office: 765-496-3476 [72DF7C19]<https://www.purdue.edu/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=…>

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Guest lectures: Terry Taber, Product Development/Design for Sustainability
by Hegewald, Lynn P 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

Please join us for two guest lectures by Terry Taber, Chief Technical Officer & Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company & Senior Vice President, Advanced Materials and Chemicals. Monday, 9/12, 8:30 AM ET: Customer Interaction and Input for Developing Product Concepts and Designs - WebEx<https://purdue.webex.com/purdue/j.php?MTID=m43a62757e34940237b1ee2f1b5e753ed> Much has been written and debated about technology-led vs market-led innovation, products & services. This lecture will highlight an approach to combine customer & market input with the core competencies and capabilities of a company for innovation & manufacturing. Part of the discussion will focus on the required cross-functional and cross-organizational teams. Further, a model will be shared with examples to highlight success, failure, and learnings by using this approach. Wednesday, 9/14, 8:30 AM ET: Building a Corporate Environment to Encourage & Enable Design for Sustainability - WebEx<https://purdue.webex.com/purdue/j.php?MTID=md9361d16d7b50b26a2021189f473b9cf> In the 1980s and 1990s, many corporate R&D and product development efforts started to focus on products designed for manufacturing (DFM). Factors influencing this direction were increasing global competition, a push for improved product quality, and a need to improve business performance especially through productivity gains in manufacturing. Gradually this DFM focus was replaced by the emerging concept of sustainability. A holistic view of sustainability considers the entire life cycle of technologies and products from invention to end-of-life. And over the last two decades, "biodegradable," "recoverable," "reusable," "reduced-use footprint," and "REMADE" (reducing embodied energy and decreasing emissions) have become embedded in the sustainability lingo. This lecture will discuss and reflect on creating an environment to embrace these concepts from invention to manufacturing to the customer and share technology and product examples that emerged from such a culture. Additional details attached. Thanks, Lynn Hegewald ECE Master's Program Manager Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Office: 765-496-3476 [72DF7C19]<https://www.purdue.edu/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=…>

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SEMINAR TOMORROW, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 10:30A, BHEE 118: Dr. Rama Govindaraju / Google: Challenges, Opportunities and new Initiatives in Planet Scale Systems Infrastructure at Google
by Satterfield, Mary Ann 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

[cid:image004.png@01D88C8B.CB644AC0] Mary Ann Satterfield Sr. Administrative Assistant Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Building 465 Northwestern Ave., BHEE 326B West Lafayette, IN 47907 o: 765-494-6389 m: 765-490-6392 f: 765-494-2706 [BB871DD1]<https://www.purdue.edu/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=…>

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Seminar: Harnessing the Power of 5G, Edge Computing, and AI/ML for Industry 4.0 - Mallik Tatipamula, CTO, Ericsson
by Hegewald, Lynn P 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

Please joins us for this upcoming seminar; full details in the attached document: Harnessing the power of 5G, Edge Computing and AI/ML for Industry 4.0 Mallik Tatipamula, Chief Technology Officer, Ericsson Tuesday, June 29, 2022 9:30 AM ET * Zoom<https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/93077675022> Abstract Mallik will begin this session with an overview of mobile networking from 1st generation to 5th generation (5G). He'll then present 5G network architecture and discuss how SDN/NFV, AI/ML and edge computing/cloud are being applied in 5G to address ultra-low latency Industry 4.0 applications. He'll also discuss future research challenges at the intersection of "5G, edge computing and AI/ML" for realizing distributed multi-cloud for low-latency Industrial 4.0 applications and conclude with an introduction of 6G and possible research opportunities over the next decade. Thanks, Lynn Hegewald ECE Master's Program Manager Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Office: 765-496-3476 [72DF7C19]<https://www.purdue.edu/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=…>

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Guest Speaker: "Conductance spectroscopy of Majorana zero modes-circumstantial evidence or smoking gun?", Bhaskaran Muralidharan (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Tuesday, June 14 at 10:00AM, MSEE 239 & virtual
by Hodges, Kendra Renee 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

[cid:image001.png@01D87BE1.F78164E0] Kendra Hodges | Administrative Assistant Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University Materials and Electrical Engineering Building 501 Northwestern Avenue, Suite 150 West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Phone: 765-494-3540 Email: khodges(a)purdue.edu [download]

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REMINDER: Elmore EFC: Crossroads of Quantum and AI Day at Quantum Summer School
by Hodges, Kendra Renee 11 May '22

11 May '22

Dear Purdue Researchers, Please be reminded that the Quantum Science Center's Quantum Summer School will conclude tomorrow (5/12) with an excellent set of talks and a panel discussion on topics of interest to the Elmore ECE Emerging Frontiers Center: Crossroads of Quantum and AI. A full agenda is attached for your reference. You are all invited to join the onsite portions in the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall or join virtually at the live stream here<https://www.youtube.com/quantumcoffeehouse>. You do not need to have registered in advance to join the lectures in person, and we hope to see many of you there in person as we hear fascinating talks on a wide range of topics of interest to many Purdue ECE researchers! Regards, Thomas Roth ------ Thomas Roth Assistant Professor Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University

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Quantum Summer School: Going on Now!
by Hodges, Kendra Renee 09 May '22

09 May '22

Dear Purdue Researchers, The Quantum Science Center's second annual Quantum Summer School is currently running from 5/8 - 5/12. This is an exciting event with lectures from world-leading experts, interactive panel discussions, hands-on training sessions from QSC-affiliated companies, student poster sessions, and more! The final day of the school will be in conjunction with Purdue's Elmore ECE Emerging Frontiers Center: Crossroads of Quantum and AI, and will focus on topics of interest to this center. The school is focused on providing a rewarding experience for students and postdocs in our efforts to grow the quantum workforce. You are all invited to join the onsite portions in the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall or join virtually at the live stream here<https://www.youtube.com/quantumcoffeehouse>. You do not need to have registered in advance to join the lectures in person; however, food is restricted to pre-registered attendees. The agenda is attached with more details. We hope to see many of you in attendance! Regards, Thomas Roth

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Virtual Seminar, May 12, 2022, 10 am, Dr. Zoe Liu, "AV1 for Video Communications with Intelligent Optimization"
by Hamelman, Camille F 04 May '22

04 May '22

[cid:image003.png@01D85FA6.99A7CAF0]AV1 for Video Communications with Intelligent Optimization Dr. Zoe Liu Co-Founder, CTO and President of Visionular, Inc. May 12, 2022, 10:00am-11:00am Eastern Time * Purdue Graduate Student Center * Zoom: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/93213430846<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A//purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/93213430846&sa=…> Meeting ID: 932 1343 0846 Abstract In this talk, we will mainly focus on the optimization of AV1, the newly finalized open source, royalty free video codec standard. We will present the AV1 software encoding capability for its deployment in various use cases, including VOD, Live Streaming, and Real-Time Communications (RTC), taking our Aurora1 AV1 encoder as an instantiation. First, we will have an overview of this new codec standard, and illustrate its differentiation from its predecessors, e.g. H264/AVC, H265/HEVC, and VP9. In particular, we will highlight the Screen Content Coding (SCC) and Film Grain Synthesis (FGS) coding tools that are unique to AV1. We will describe the essential approaches for such coding tools as well as elaborate their essential contribution and influence to the industry and the end users. Secondly, we will further present the superior performance of Aurora1 AV1 in various use cases, from VOD, to Live, to RTC, with different requests in terms of encoding speed, latenty, as well as underlying computational resources. We will highlight the essential influence AV1 has brought to the industry, in terms of its nature in open source, royalty free, as well as its wide support by browsers and WebRTC, the most widely acknowledged RTC open source platform. Thirdly, we will in particular focus on the use of machine learning and content-adaptive encoding approaches to the encoding optimization for AV1. We will mention the joint use of machine learning through the use of neural networks together with traditional image processing algorithms to optimize an encoder to produce the minimum bits but indeed capable of producing even better visual quality. Lastly, we will also touch base with several relevant topics, all essential to the final deployment of AV1 to the real applications. We will describe the decoder complexity awareness for the encoder optimization, the topic of Blind Video Quality Assessment (B-VQA), as well as the per-title encoding approach facilitated by machine learning. As a bonus, as an entrepreneur who started to devote myself to the startup of Visionular at a late career stage, after years of only being a software engineer, I would love to share my entrepreneurship experiences with those who are interested. Bio Zoe Liu is the Co-Founder of Visionular, a tech startup with its HQ based in the Silicon Valley of California and close to 60 team members globally distributed across the continents of North America, Asia, and Europe. Visionular provides both on premise and cloud based video encoding, processing, and streaming solutions and services, and has served more than 60+ commercial enterprise customers worldwide. Zoe graduated from Purdue in August, 2004 with her Ph.D. earned from the VIPER lab under the supervision of Prof Edward Delp. Her Ph.D. thesis was titled "Layered Scalable And Low Complexity Video Encoding: New Approaches And Theoretic Analysis". Zoe was previously a software engineer with the Google WebM team and has been a key contributor to the newly finalized royalty free video codec standard AOM/AV1. She has devoted to the video codec and real-time communications (RTC) technologies for 20+ years, and contributed to several world class RTC products including Apple FaceTime and Google Glass Video Call. She was a 2018 Google I/O speaker. She has published 50 peer-reviewed international conference and journal papers, including an invited paper co- authored with Prof Maggie Zhu with Purdue ECE, published in the prestigious IEEE journal - The Proceedings of the IEEE to address state-of-the-art technologies in AI+Video Codec. Hosts Professor Maggie Zhu, zhuO(a)purdue.edu, <mailto:zhu@purdue.edu> 765-496-0407 and Professor Edward Delp, ace(a)purdue.edu,<mailto:ace@purdue.edu> 765-494-1740. Communications, Networking, Signal & Image Processing

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Dr. Mengjie's Seminar
by Abrol, Sangeeta Saddul 29 Apr '22

29 Apr '22

Dear All - Here is an upcoming seminar by Dr Mengjie Yu from UCLA that might be of interest to you: Topic : Nonlinear Photonics Based on Thin‐Film Lithium Niobate Date : Thursday May 5th, 2022 Time : 12.00pm - 1.00pm Virtual Link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/94820666697 Thanks, Best, Sangeeta Abrol Lead Administrative Assistant to the Director | Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State St | West Lafayette, IN 47907 abrols(a)purdue.edu<mailto:abrols@purdue.edu> |purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck<http://purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck> o: 765-494 3509 | BRK 1027 [cid:image001.png@01D5E1BC.DCF172D0]

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TODAY, 10:30A, BHEE 317: Prof of Engr Practice Faculty Candidate: Ruby Tahboub, Visiting Asst Prof / Purdue: "Intro to Data Science" and "Architecting Query Compilers for Diverse Workloads"
by Satterfield, Mary Ann 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

***In-person attendance encouraged.*** Zoom Room: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/93789944312 [cid:image002.png@01D85408.F80FB480] Mary Ann Satterfield Sr. Administrative Assistant Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Building 465 Northwestern Ave., BHEE 326B West Lafayette, IN 47907 o: 765-494-6389 m: 765-490-6392 f: 765-494-2706 [BB871DD1]<https://www.purdue.edu/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=…>

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