IEEE Israel Section

Machine Learning and Optimization for Communications and Deep Networks-Prof. Gerald Sobelman, University of Minnesota, USA
2021-01-05 15:00 - 16:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297825
In recent years, many remarkable achievements have been made in the field of machine learning. While most of the initial successes were related to image, speech and language recognition, a recent important development has been the application of these techniques to other areas. In particular, communications systems can benefit from applying these techniques. For example, algorithms such as Monte Carlo Markov Chain and Monte Carlo Tree Search have been successfully used in the design of MIMO (i.e., multiple antenna) transceivers. In addition, highly quantized implementations, such as binarized networks, have led to implementations that are well-suited to power-limited mobile platforms. In addition, metaheuristic optimization techniques such the genetic algorithm and others have been used to automatically find highly efficient deep learning architectures, eliminating the need for lengthy and tedious manual experimentation. This lecture will describe these approaches and present some recent design examples. Relationships between the algorithms will be emphasized, and important computational issues will be highlighted. Finally, opportunities for future research in these areas will be suggested.
Gerald Sobelman is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, and he has served as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Graduate Program in Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He received a B.S. degree in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Harvard University. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at The Rockefeller University, and he has held senior engineering positions at Sperry Corporation and Control Data Corporation.
Prof. Sobelman is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He has been a member of the technical program committees for several IEEE conferences. He was Chair of the Technical Committee on Circuits and Systems for Communications of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and he has also served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and for IEEE Signal Processing Letters. In addition, he has chaired sessions at international conferences in the areas of communications and VLSI architectures.
Prof. Sobelman has presented short courses at a number of industrial and academic sites. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 technical papers and 1 book, and he holds 12 U.S. patents.
Important: The participation is free of charge, but registration is required [/registration-gerald-sobelman/](https://acrc.net.technion.ac.il/registration-gerald-sobelman/).
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297825

Machine Learning and Optimization for Communications and Deep Networks-Prof. Gerald Sobelman, University of Minnesota, USA
2021-01-05 15:00 - 16:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285055
In recent years, many remarkable achievements have been made in the field of machine learning. While most of the initial successes were related to image, speech and language recognition, a recent important development has been the application of these techniques to other areas. In particular, communications systems can benefit from applying these techniques. For example, algorithms such as Monte Carlo Markov Chain and Monte Carlo Tree Search have been successfully used in the design of MIMO (i.e., multiple antenna) transceivers. In addition, highly quantized implementations, such as binarized networks, have led to implementations that are well-suited to power-limited mobile platforms. In addition, metaheuristic optimization techniques such the genetic algorithm and others have been used to automatically find highly efficient deep learning architectures, eliminating the need for lengthy and tedious manual experimentation. This lecture will describe these approaches and present some recent design examples. Relationships between the algorithms will be emphasized, and important computational issues will be highlighted. Finally, opportunities for future research in these areas will be suggested.
Gerald Sobelman is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, and he has served as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Graduate Program in Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He received a B.S. degree in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Harvard University. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at The Rockefeller University, and he has held senior engineering positions at Sperry Corporation and Control Data Corporation.
Prof. Sobelman is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He has been a member of the technical program committees for several IEEE conferences. He was Chair of the Technical Committee on Circuits and Systems for Communications of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and he has also served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and for IEEE Signal Processing Letters. In addition, he has chaired sessions at international conferences in the areas of communications and VLSI architectures.
Prof. Sobelman has presented short courses at a number of industrial and academic sites. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 technical papers and 1 book, and he holds 12 U.S. patents.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285055

TAU Seminar: Nanophotonics: Enabling Technology for Next-Generation Biosensors
2021-01-13 13:00 - 14:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283055
Seminar in Tel Aviv Unviersity
Lecturer:
Professor Hatice Altug,
Head of the BIOnanophotonic Systems Laboratory (BIOS),
Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, EPFL, Swisserland
Co-sponsored by: Tel Aviv University
Speaker(s): Hatice Altug,
Agenda:
New health initiatives with global healthcare, precision medicine and point-of-care diagnostics are demanding breakthrough developments in biosensing and bioanalytical tools. Current biosensors are lacking precision, bulky, and costly, as well as they require long detection times, sophisticated infrastructure and trained personnel, which limit their application areas. My laboratory is focused on to address these challenges by exploiting novel optical phenomena at nanoscale and engineering toolkits such as nanophotonics, nanofabrication, microfluidics and data science. In particular, we use photonic nanostructures based on plasmonics and dielectric metasurfaces that can confine light below the fundamental diffraction limit and generate strong electromagnetic fields in nanometric volumes. In this talk I will present how we exploit nanophotonics and combine it with imaging, biology, chemistry and data science techniques to achieve high performance biosensors. I will introduce ultra-sensitive Mid-IR biosensors based on surface enhanced infrared spectroscopy for chemical specific detection of molecules, large-area chemical imaging and real-time monitoring of protein conformations in aqueous environment. Next, I will describe our effort to develop ultra-compact, portable, rapid and low-cost microarrays and their use for early disease diagnostics in real-world settings. Finally, I will highlight label-free optofluidic biosensors that can perform one-of-a-kind measurements on live cells down to the single cell level, and provide their prospects in biomedical and clinical applications.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283055

Sensor interfacing in the edge: small, sound, smart! - Prof. Georges Gielen, KU Leuven, Belgium
2021-01-19 11:00 - 12:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297826
The continuous progress of CMOS semiconductor technology fuels the technological revolution towards a smart world that immersivly impacts our daily life, work and play. The Internet of Things, personalized healthcare monitoring, autonomous driving, industry 4.0, etc. are but a few examples. Sensors and sensor interfaces with intelligence in the edge play a key role in all applications where the physical and the cyber worlds meet. This presentation will focus on core challenges in the design of future electronic circuits for such applications, where cost, power and reliability are major issues besides raw performance. The key to achieve solutions with small area (cost) and low power is to design the analog functions in a highly digital manner. Also ways to build intelligence in the edge will be discussed. This will be illustrated with some practical design examples.
Georges G.E. Gielen received the MSc and PhD degrees in EE from the KU Leuven, Belgium, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He currently is Full Professor in the MICAS research division at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at KU Leuven. From August 2013 till July 2017 he was also appointed at KU Leuven as Vice‐Rector for the Group of Sciences, Engineering and Technology, and he was also responsible for academic Human Resource Management.
He was visiting professor in UC Berkeley and Stanford University. Since 2020 he is Chair of the Department of EE.
His research interests are in the design of analog and mixed‐signal integrated circuits, and especially in analog and mixed‐signal CAD tools and design automation.
He is a frequently invited speaker/lecturer & coordinator/partner of several (industrial) research projects in this area, including several European projects. He has (co‐)authored 10 books and more than 600 papers in edited books, international journals and conference proceedings. He is a 1997 Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts in the discipline of Engineering. He is Fellow of the IEEE since 2002, and received the IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg award in 2015 and the IEEE CAS Charles Desoer award in 2020. He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea.
Important: The participation is free of charge, but registration is required
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Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297826

Sensor interfacing in the edge: small, sound, smart! - Prof. Georges Gielen, KU Leuven, Belgium
2021-01-19 11:00 - 12:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285057
The continuous progress of CMOS semiconductor technology fuels the technological revolution towards a smart world that immersivly impacts our daily life, work and play. The Internet of Things, personalized healthcare monitoring, autonomous driving, industry 4.0, etc. are but a few examples. Sensors and sensor interfaces with intelligence in the edge play a key role in all applications where the physical and the cyber worlds meet. This presentation will focus on core challenges in the design of future electronic circuits for such applications, where cost, power and reliability are major issues besides raw performance. The key to achieve solutions with small area (cost) and low power is to design the analog functions in a highly digital manner. Also ways to build intelligence in the edge will be discussed. This will be illustrated with some practical design examples.
Georges G.E. Gielen received the MSc and PhD degrees in EE from the KU Leuven, Belgium, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He currently is Full Professor in the MICAS research division at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at KU Leuven. From August 2013 till July 2017 he was also appointed at KU Leuven as Vice‐Rector for the Group of Sciences, Engineering and Technology, and he was also responsible for academic Human Resource Management.
He was visiting professor in UC Berkeley and Stanford University. Since 2020 he is Chair of the Department of EE.
His research interests are in the design of analog and mixed‐signal integrated circuits, and especially in analog and mixed‐signal CAD tools and design automation.
He is a frequently invited speaker/lecturer & coordinator/partner of several (industrial) research projects in this area, including several European projects. He has (co‐)authored 10 books and more than 600 papers in edited books, international journals and conference proceedings. He is a 1997 Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts in the discipline of Engineering. He is Fellow of the IEEE since 2002, and received the IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg award in 2015 and the IEEE CAS Charles Desoer award in 2020. He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285057

Model-Based Systems Engineering as a Digital Transformation Agent - Challenges and Opportunities
2021-01-19 14:30 - 2021-01-20 18:15 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Haifa District, Israel, 32000, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/251720
Levin Day 19-20/1/2021
This is a remotely hosted virtual event.
Registration to the Seminar is free of charge, please confirm your registration by 1.1.2021 via the link below:
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Co-sponsored by: Gordon Center for Systems Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Agenda:
DAY 1 – January 19, 2021 — 14:30-19:00 IST | 12:30-17:00 GMT | 07:30-10:00 EST
Prof. Yossi Ben-Asher, The Gordon Center fo Systems Engineering, Technion – Opening remarks
Dr. Yaniv Mordecai, MIT- Five Lessons from Two Decades of Failing and Succeeding in MBSE
Eran Peleg, Metaphor- MBSE- Methodology, Challenges and Solutions
Juan Navas, THALES GROUP- Lessons Learned from THALES on MBSE implementation in large-scale organizations
Samuel Rochet, OBEO- Challenges and Practical Solutions for MBSE
Troy Peterson, SYSTEMXI- MBSE-The Challenges and Opportunities and the Practical Aspects of Implementing MBSE in Organizations
DAY 2 – January 20, 2021 — 15:00-18:15 IST | 13:00-16:15 GMT | 08:00-11:15 EST
Talya Gazit, PwC- Will You Survive the Digital Evolution? (Hebrew)
Dr. Avi Shaked, Systems Engineering Research Initiative, Tel Aviv University- Domain-Specific Application of Model-Driven Engineering
Ohad Snir, Kornit Digital- Automation Challenges and Opportunities in INDUSTRY 4.0
Shlomi Shraga, Systematix- Implementing Models and Simulation for Integrative Engineering
Hanan Kohen, Technion- IoT Systems Development Aspects with Executable OPM Models
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Haifa District, Israel, 32000, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/251720

CE Club Seminar - Demand-Aware Optimization in Offchain Networks
2021-01-20 11:30 - 12:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283117
Offchain networks are dominant as a solution to the scalability problem of blockchain systems, allowing users to perform payments without their recording on the chain by relying on predefined payment channels. Users together with the offchain channels form a graph, known as the offchain network topology. A pair of users can employ a payment even without a direct channel through a path of channels involving other intermediate users. The offchain topology and payment characteristics affect network performance such as latency and fees.
We study basic demand-aware problems in offchain network design: Efficiently mapping users to an offchain topology of a known structure as well as constructing a topology of a bounded number of channels that can serve well typical payments. Likewise, we suggest an approach for jointly serving multiple payments by finding an equivalent set of payments that has the same impact on user balance but can be served efficiently in a given topology.
Speaker(s): Ms. Julia Khamis,
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283117

Human-Centric Computing-Prof. Jan M. Rabaey, UC Berkeley, USA
2021-02-09 18:00 - 19:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297827
The world as we know it is going through some major upheavals: climate change, pandemics and technology-induced societal changes are upsetting our world-picture with no real end in sight. Hence, an extremely relevant question is how ‘we humans’ are going to cope with this rapid evolution. One plausible answer is for us to use those same technologies to evolve ourselves, and to equip us with the necessary tools to interact with, survive, and prosper in spite of (or in light of) these changes.
Various wearable devices have been or are being developed to do just that. However, their potential to create a whole new set of human experiences is still largely unexplored. To be effective, functionality cannot be centralized and needs to be distributed to capture the right information at the right place. This requires a human intranet, a platform that allows multiple distributed input/output and information processing functions to coalesce and form a single application. In this presentation, we focus on the computational aspects of such an intranet, tasks that are complicated by the extreme energy and form-factor limitations imposed on the wearable (or implanted) devices. An important aspect is that the human intranet should not only be able to learn from experience, but capable of dealing with changes in both the environment and in itself. Moreover, it should be able to do so on a continuous base. Computational models, architectures and circuits that enable such capabilities at ultra-low energy and small form factor are hence needed. A glimpse of what may be possible will be presented.
Jan Rabaey is a Professor in the Graduate School in the EECS Department at the University of California at Berkeley, where he held of the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship for over 30 years before retiring. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, he was a research manager at IMEC from 1985 until 1987. He is a founding director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and the Berkeley Ubiquitous SwarmLab, and has served as the Electrical Engineering Division Chair at Berkeley twice. In 2019, he also became the CTO of the System-Technology Co-Optimization (STCO) Division of IMEC, Belgium.
Prof. Rabaey has made high-impact contributions to a number of fields, including advanced wireless systems, low power integrated circuits, mobile devices, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing. His current focus is of the interaction between the cyber and the biological world (amongst many other things.
He is the recipient of major awards, amongst which the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Award, the European Design Automation Association (EDAA) Lifetime Achievement award, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award, and the SRC Aristotle Award. He is an IEEE Fellow, a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium, and has received a number of honorary doctorates. He has been involved in a broad variety of start-up ventures.
Important: The participation is free of charge, but registration is required
[/registration-jan-rabaey/](https://acrc.net.technion.ac.il/registration-jan-rabaey/)
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297827

Human-Centric Computing-Prof. Jan M. Rabaey, UC Berkeley, USA
2021-02-09 18:00 - 19:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285058
The world as we know it is going through some major upheavals: climate change, pandemics and technology-induced societal changes are upsetting our world-picture with no real end in sight. Hence, an extremely relevant question is how ‘we humans’ are going to cope with this rapid evolution. One plausible answer is for us to use those same technologies to evolve ourselves, and to equip us with the necessary tools to interact with, survive, and prosper in spite of (or in light of) these changes.
Various wearable devices have been or are being developed to do just that. However, their potential to create a whole new set of human experiences is still largely unexplored. To be effective, functionality cannot be centralized and needs to be distributed to capture the right information at the right place. This requires a human intranet, a platform that allows multiple distributed input/output and information processing functions to coalesce and form a single application. In this presentation, we focus on the computational aspects of such an intranet, tasks that are complicated by the extreme energy and form-factor limitations imposed on the wearable (or implanted) devices. An important aspect is that the human intranet should not only be able to learn from experience, but capable of dealing with changes in both the environment and in itself. Moreover, it should be able to do so on a continuous base. Computational models, architectures and circuits that enable such capabilities at ultra-low energy and small form factor are hence needed. A glimpse of what may be possible will be presented.
Jan Rabaey is a Professor in the Graduate School in the EECS Department at the University of California at Berkeley, where he held of the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship for over 30 years before retiring. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, he was a research manager at IMEC from 1985 until 1987. He is a founding director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and the Berkeley Ubiquitous SwarmLab, and has served as the Electrical Engineering Division Chair at Berkeley twice. In 2019, he also became the CTO of the System-Technology Co-Optimization (STCO) Division of IMEC, Belgium.
Prof. Rabaey has made high-impact contributions to a number of fields, including advanced wireless systems, low power integrated circuits, mobile devices, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing. His current focus is of the interaction between the cyber and the biological world (amongst many other things.
He is the recipient of major awards, amongst which the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Award, the European Design Automation Association (EDAA) Lifetime Achievement award, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award, and the SRC Aristotle Award. He is an IEEE Fellow, a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium, and has received a number of honorary doctorates. He has been involved in a broad variety of start-up ventures.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285058

A Flexible vision for RF ICs - Dr. Matan Gal-Katziri, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
2021-02-16 18:00 - 19:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297828
Flexible high-speed systems and architectures have promising and exciting applications at the intersection of communications, imaging, medicine and deployable arrays. The flexibility is expressed in terms of electrical reconfigurability, flexible circuit board materials, and lightweight, bendy interconnects between remote array elements. In this talk I will present my work at Caltech’s High-speed and holistic IC laboratory in developing such systems. Two key elements in our flexible schemes are the utilization of highly functional RFICs to minimize rigid component count, and a holistic, modular design approach which is crucial to future size scaling. Through the talk I will present several exemplary architectures for space, power transfer, communication and sensing applications, and will discuss the high-level considerations, implementation, challenges, and potential uses of such systems.
Matan Gal-Katziri received the B.S. degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel in 2009, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 2016 and 2020, respectively. He is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the department of electrical engineering at Caltech, Pasadena, CA. He is a part of Caltech’s Solar-Space Power Program RF design team, where his work on flexible arrays sheets has won the 2020 IMS advanced practice award. His research interests are high-frequency, integrated, and large-scale systems for medical, environmental, industrial and communications applications.
Important: The participation is free of charge, but registration is required
[/registration-matan-Gal-Katziri/](https://acrc.net.technion.ac.il/registration-matan-gal-katziri/)
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297828

A Flexible vision for RF ICs - Dr. Matan Gal-Katziri, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
2021-02-16 18:00 - 19:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285059
Flexible high-speed systems and architectures have promising and exciting applications at the intersection of communications, imaging, medicine and deployable arrays. The flexibility is expressed in terms of electrical reconfigurability, flexible circuit board materials, and lightweight, bendy interconnects between remote array elements. In this talk I will present my work at Caltech’s High-speed and holistic IC laboratory in developing such systems. Two key elements in our flexible schemes are the utilization of highly functional RFICs to minimize rigid component count, and a holistic, modular design approach which is crucial to future size scaling. Through the talk I will present several exemplary architectures for space, power transfer, communication and sensing applications, and will discuss the high-level considerations, implementation, challenges, and potential uses of such systems.
Matan Gal-Katziri received the B.S. degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel in 2009, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 2016 and 2020, respectively. He is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the department of electrical engineering at Caltech, Pasadena, CA. He is a part of Caltech’s Solar-Space Power Program RF design team, where his work on flexible arrays sheets has won the 2020 IMS advanced practice award. His research interests are high-frequency, integrated, and large-scale systems for medical, environmental, industrial and communications applications.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285059

CE Club Seminar - Designing a Programming Language Shared-Memory Concurrency Semantics
2021-02-17 11:30 - 12:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283121
A concurrency semantics (aka a memory model) for a programming language defines the allowed behaviors of multithreaded programs. For programmers, sequential consistency (i.e., standard interleaving-based semantics) is considered as the most intuitive model. However, it is too costly to implement. Designing a satisfactory substitute is highly challenging as it requires to carefully balance the conflicting desires of programmers, compilers, and hardware. In this talk I will introduce this challenge and the key ideas behind the prototype example of the C/C++ concurrency model from 2011. Then, I will demonstrate the drawback of the C/C++ approach, notoriously known as the “out-of-thin-air” problem. I will conclude by describing the “promising semantics” solution, and remaining challenges.
We study basic demand-aware problems in offchain network design: Efficiently mapping users to an offchain topology of a known structure as well as constructing a topology of a bounded number of channels that can serve well typical payments. Likewise, we suggest an approach for jointly serving multiple payments by finding an equivalent set of payments that has the same impact on user balance but can be served efficiently in a given topology.
Speaker(s): Dr. Ori Lahav,
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283121

Review of RAS activities and schedule of future activities
2021-02-24 16:01 - 18:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283149
Due to the COVID-19 situation, it was discussed ways of actively continuing the activities.
Agenda:
1. Review of last year activities
2. Open discussion of possible activities
3. Use of Zoom or hybrid methods in teaching and seminars
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283149

Ask A Graduate-1st session-
2021-02-26 19:00 - 20:00 (EET) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/280313
Ask a graduate is a series of 3 online sessions, the series consists of interviewing graduates who talk to students about their graduation projects and what are the difficulties they faced, whether by choosing the idea or at the beginning of the work, and what programs and tools they used, to guide and advise them based on their experience.
The first session was hosted by the Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). Leen Abu Shqair and Afaf Al Hanbali are computer engineering graduates, they were interviewed to present their hardware graduating project.
Speaker(s): Leen Abu Shqair, Afaf Al Hanbali
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/280313

Electric transportation
2021-03-01 16:00 - 17:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283023
Coming Electric transportation in Israel
Co-sponsored by: Gady Golan
Speaker(s): Nimrod Cafri,
Agenda:
Electric train
EMC
Electrification
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283023

Smart electric transportation
2021-03-01 16:30 - 18:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297215
Smart trains, smart cars and smart buses.
Co-sponsored by: seeei
Speaker(s): Sergio Holinger,
Agenda:
A zoom meeting – SEEEI
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297215

Women in Engineering Webinar פאנל מהנדסות צעירות
2021-03-01 20:30 - 22:30 (Asia/Jerusalem)
Speaker(s): Keren Barkai, Shani Shimenes Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/262259

Women in Engineering Webinar פאנל מהנדסות צעירות
2021-03-01 20:30 - 22:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/262259
מהנדסות מדברות:
סטודנטיות יקרות! האירוע בשבילכן! ב-1.3.21 בשעה
סטודנטיות יקרות! פתחו יומנים, ב-1.3.2021 בשעה 20:30 ZOOM
IEEE WIE affinity group Israel מארחת פאנל מהנדסות! נארח חמש מהנדסות נפלאות, שתשתפנה מניסיונן בקריירה בהנדסה, השתלבות במקום העבודה, הבחירות שהן עשו לאחר התואר, התמודדותן כנשים בתחום ועוד טיפים לסטודנטיות ומהנדסות צעירות. במסגרת הפאנל, אתן מוזמנות לדון ולהתלבט לגבי תחילת הדרך המקצועית ולשאול את הדוברות.
20:30-20:40 דברי פתיחה יו"ר הארגון IEEE WIE affinity group Israel ד"ר אלינה קרבצ'בסקי
הדוברות שלנו:
20:40-20:50 ולנטינה פרל – מהנדסת מכונות וחומרים, אינטל
20:50-21:00 קרן ברקאי – מהנדסת חשמל, Wiliot
21:00-21:10 שני שימנס – מהנדסת מכונות, hp אינדיגו
21:10-21:20 קרן בלחני – מהנדסת ביוטכנולוגיה, אינטל ואדמה
21:20-21:30 סופי רובין – מהנדסת כימית וסביבה, ברום
21:30-22:00 זמן לשאלות ודיון חופשי
טופס להרשמה: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZO1D_3UOhoKwkjdPWyJsmKWr-VDBm20e4u0919X4z6ODdCw/viewform
מחכות לראותכן!!!
Speaker(s): Keren Barkai, Shani Shimenes
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/262259

Advanced Communications Center - Annual Workshop
2021-03-02 09:15 - 18:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/298963
09:15-09:30
Welcome and ACC overview
Prof. Yossi Rosenwaks • Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Ofer Shayevitz • Head of the ACC, Tel Aviv University
09:30-10:20 Prof. Andrea Montanari • Stanford University
Generalization in deep learning: insights from simple models | Keynote Talk
10:30-11:20 Omer Keilaf • CEO Innoviz
Shedding light on autonomous cars
11:30–12:20 Prof. Ido Tal • Technion
Polar codes for the deletion channel
The Feder Family Award for Best Student Work in Communications
12:20-12:40 Ceremony
Prof. Ariel Porat • President, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Yossi Rosenwaks • Dean, Faculty of Engineering
Prof. Ram Zamir • Head, School of Electrical Engineering
Prof. Meir Feder • School of Electrical Engineering
12:40-13:10 1st place winner: Elad Romanov • Hebrew University
Fundamental limits and algorithms for some estimation problems
14:00–14:50 Prof. Emmanuel Abbe • EPFL
Fundamental limits of differentiable learning | Keynote Talk
15:00–15:20 2nd place winner: Eshed Ram • Technion
LDPC codes with sub-block locality
15:30–16:20 Prof. Rotem Oshman • Tel Aviv University
On distributed maximum matching
16:30-16:50 3rd place winner: Uri Meir • Tel Aviv University
Distribution testing in distributed models
17:00–17:50 Prof. Eran Segal • Weizmann Institute
Harnessing big data for personalized medicine
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/298963

Circuits and architectures with ultra-wide power-performance adaptation – going way beyond voltage scaling - Prof. Massimo Alioto, ECE - National University of Singapore
2021-03-02 11:00 - 12:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297829
Wide power-performance adaptation down to nWs has become crucial in always-on nearly real-time and energy-autonomous SoCs that are subject to wide variability in the power availability and the performance target. Wide adaptation is indeed a prerequisite to assure continuous operation in spite of the widely fluctuating energy/power source (e.g., energy harvester), and to grant swift response upon the occurrence of events of interest (e.g., on-chip data analytics), while maintaining extremely low consumption in the common case. These requirements have led to the strong demand of SoCs having an extremely wide performance-power scalability and adaptation, so that they can relentlessly operate without interruption in spite of the highly-uncertain power availability.
In this talk, new directions to drastically extend the performance-power scalability of digital, analog and power management circuits and architectures are presented. Silicon demonstrations of better-than-voltage-scaling adaptation to the workload are illustrated for both the data path (i.e., microarchitecture) and the clock path in the digital sub-system. New directions to achieve full-system coordinated power-performance scaling are also discussed. Silicon demonstrations and trends in the state of the art of battery-light, battery-less and battery-indifferent SoCs are illustrated to quantify the benefits offered by wide power-performance adaptation, identifying opportunities and challenges for the decade ahead. Finally, an always-on mm-scale integrated system that operates uninterruptedly when solely powered by moonlight is demonstrated, paving the way to a new generation of always-on systems with little to no battery.
Massimo Alioto is a Professor at the ECE Department of the National University of Singapore, where he leads the Green IC group, and is the Director of the Integrated Circuits and Embedded Systems area and the FD-FAbrICS research center on intelligent&connected systems. He held positions at the University of Siena, Intel Labs CRL, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, University of California Berkeley, EPFL – Lausanne.
He is (co)author of 300 publications on journals and conference proceedings, and four books with Springer. His primary research interests include ultra-low power circuits and systems, self-powered integrated systems, near-threshold circuits for green computing, widely energy-scalable integrated systems, circuits for machine intelligence, hardware security, and emerging technologies.
He is the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, and was Deputy Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. Previously, Prof. Alioto was the Chair of the “VLSI Systems and Applications” Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2010-2012), as well as Distinguished Lecturer (2009-2010) and member of the Board of Governors (2015-2020). He served as Guest Editor of numerous journal special issues, Technical Program Chair of several IEEE conferences (ISCAS 2023, SOCC, PRIME, ICECS, VARI, NEWCAS, ICM), and TPC member (ISSCC, ASSCC). Prof. Alioto is an IEEE Fellow.
Important: The participation is free of charge, but registration is required
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Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297829

Circuits and architectures with ultra-wide power-performance adaptation – going way beyond voltage scaling - Prof. Massimo Alioto, ECE - National University of Singapore
2021-03-02 11:00 - 12:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285061
Wide power-performance adaptation down to nWs has become crucial in always-on nearly real-time and energy-autonomous SoCs that are subject to wide variability in the power availability and the performance target. Wide adaptation is indeed a prerequisite to assure continuous operation in spite of the widely fluctuating energy/power source (e.g., energy harvester), and to grant swift response upon the occurrence of events of interest (e.g., on-chip data analytics), while maintaining extremely low consumption in the common case. These requirements have led to the strong demand of SoCs having an extremely wide performance-power scalability and adaptation, so that they can relentlessly operate without interruption in spite of the highly-uncertain power availability.
In this talk, new directions to drastically extend the performance-power scalability of digital, analog and power management circuits and architectures are presented. Silicon demonstrations of better-than-voltage-scaling adaptation to the workload are illustrated for both the data path (i.e., microarchitecture) and the clock path in the digital sub-system. New directions to achieve full-system coordinated power-performance scaling are also discussed. Silicon demonstrations and trends in the state of the art of battery-light, battery-less and battery-indifferent SoCs are illustrated to quantify the benefits offered by wide power-performance adaptation, identifying opportunities and challenges for the decade ahead. Finally, an always-on mm-scale integrated system that operates uninterruptedly when solely powered by moonlight is demonstrated, paving the way to a new generation of always-on systems with little to no battery.
Massimo Alioto is a Professor at the ECE Department of the National University of Singapore, where he leads the Green IC group, and is the Director of the Integrated Circuits and Embedded Systems area and the FD-FAbrICS research center on intelligent&connected systems. He held positions at the University of Siena, Intel Labs CRL, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, University of California Berkeley, EPFL – Lausanne.
He is (co)author of 300 publications on journals and conference proceedings, and four books with Springer. His primary research interests include ultra-low power circuits and systems, self-powered integrated systems, near-threshold circuits for green computing, widely energy-scalable integrated systems, circuits for machine intelligence, hardware security, and emerging technologies.
He is the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, and was Deputy Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. Previously, Prof. Alioto was the Chair of the “VLSI Systems and Applications” Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2010-2012), as well as Distinguished Lecturer (2009-2010) and member of the Board of Governors (2015-2020). He served as Guest Editor of numerous journal special issues, Technical Program Chair of several IEEE conferences (ISCAS 2023, SOCC, PRIME, ICECS, VARI, NEWCAS, ICM), and TPC member (ISSCC, ASSCC). Prof. Alioto is an IEEE Fellow.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285061

TAU Seminar: Developments and application of luminescent carbon nanotube for super-resolution imaging in the NIR
2021-03-03 13:00 - 14:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283058
Tel Aviv University – Seminar
Laurent Cognet
Institut d’Optique, CNRS & Université de Bordeaux, Talence, France
Co-sponsored by: Tel Aviv University
Speaker(s): Laurent Cognet,
Agenda:
Single-molecule localization microscopy has set a new paradigm in the field of optical imaging, especially in bioscience, by delivering super-resolution images i.e. with resolution much better than the diffraction limit. Yet, imaging at the single molecule sensitivity remains difficult in the NIR-II biological window (~1000–1350 nm) due to lack of suitable emitters. In addition, the use of long wavelength does not represent an asset when nanoscale imaging is desired. It would however be highly advantageous for in vivo studies because of low light extinction by biological constituents at these wavelengths.
Interestingly, single wall carbon nanotubes display bright and stable photoluminescence in the near-infrared, the domain of wavelength bearing many promises in bioimaging but also in quantum optics for instance. Applying concepts developed in super-resolution imaging to engineer and study basic carbon nanotube photophysics or to design novel nanoprobes thus represents an appealing opportunity. In his quest I will present our efforts to marry carbon nanotube luminescence and super-resolution imaging, for understanding basic excitonic processes in carbon nanotubes, advancing the field of bioimaging or creating optical molecular switches based on carbon nanotube nano-hydrids.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283058

הכנס הבינלאומי ה- 11 להנדסת מערכות
2021-03-16 09:00 - 2021-03-17 17:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/264065
דבר יושב ראש הכנס
בשנה האחרונה אנו עדים לתמורות גדולות במציאות חיינו שמשבשות מערכות קיימות ומשפיעות על הפיתוח של מערכות חדשות. הפרעות כדוגמת הקורונה והעולם הדיגיטלי משנות את הדרך בה נהגנו לחשוב. בכנס הבינלאומי להנדסת מערכות ננסה להבין לעומק את ההשפעות של הפרעות כאלו ואחרות על השינויים הנדרשים מאיתנו, מהנדסי המערכות, כדי להוביל את המענה לאתגרי ההווה והמחר.
"הנדסת מערכות בעידן של שיבושים ותמורות" היא כותרתו של הכנס הבינלאומי ה- 11 להנדסת מערכות שיתקיים בתאריכים 16-17 במרץ 2021. כנס זה הינו דו שנתי המאורגן ע"י INCOSE_IL האיגוד הישראלי להנדסת מערכות, הסניף הישראלי של INCOSE (האיגוד העולמי להנדסת מערכות).
הכנס הדו שנתי הפך עם השנים לאירוע המרכזי של הנדסת מערכות בישראל והוא לא רק מהווה מוקד משיכה למאות מהנדסי מערכות, אלא גם זוכה להכרה ולהערכה ע"י הקהילות הבינלאומיות, כגון INCOSE ו- IEEE אשר נציגים בכירים מהם ישתתפו בכנס.
הכנס יהיה כנס מקוון שיתנהל מעל פלטפורמה דיגיטאלית לניהול כנסים. מתכונת זאת מאפשרת למשתתפים מחו"ל להצטרף אלינו ביתר קלות ולהעשיר אותנו בידע. יעשה מאמץ לאפשר להם ליהנות מהידע שלנו ע"י מתן הרצאות ככל שניתן באנגלית. הכנס יארך יומיים בהם יהיה שילוב של הרצאות מליאה וכן 3 מסלולים מקבילים של הרצאות וסדנאות בהן יוצגו פרויקטים נבחרים בתעשייה, באקדמיה ובמגזר הציבורי. התוכנית תכלול הרצאות וסדנאות נבחרות מתוך ההצעות לקול קורא, על ידי מרצים מהארץ ומחו"ל.
אנא ראו בהזמנה זו פניה אישית, לכל אחת ואחד מכם, לבוא ולהשתתף בכנס מעניין זה.
פרופ' יורם רייך,אוניברסיטת תל אביב,
יו"ר הכנס
Co-sponsored by: Israeli Association for Systems Engineering – INCOSE_IL – האיגוד הישראלי להנדסת מערכות
Agenda:
תכנית היום הראשון – 16 במרץ 2021: https://incoseil.org/incose_il2021/program16
תכנית היום השני – 17 במרץ 2021: https://incoseil.org/incose_il2021/program17
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/264065

Ask A Graduate-2nd session-
2021-03-20 19:00 - 20:00 (EET) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/280321
Ask a graduate is a series of 3 online sessions, the series consists of interviewing graduates who talk to students about their graduation projects and what are the difficulties they faced, whether by choosing the idea or at the beginning of the work, and what programs and tools they used, to guide and advise them based on their experience.
The second session was hosted by the computer society. They interviewed Dr.Anas Toma, who is an assistant professor in the computer engineering department at An-Najah National University, he holds a PhD in computer engineering.
Speaker(s): Dr.Anas Toma,
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/280321

PES Day planning:Organize a debate
2021-03-21 20:00 - 21:30 (Asia/Amman) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/267238
A meeting between PES Jordan Student Branches and PES palestine Student branches, to Organize a debate to talk about clean energy during PES Day.
This activity will be the first of its kind and will add more curiosity to students and the community.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/267238

Python Online Course
2021-03-21 21:00 - 2021-03-25 22:00 (EET) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/280000
The IEEE Computer society chair and vice-chair presented an online course consisting of 6 sessions to introduce python language to participants. Around 120 people attended the zoom sessions. The course covered 17 important topics in python.
In addition, 3 contests were prepared to help participants practise the language, and they were given certificates depending on their interaction and participation.
Speaker(s): Abdul-Rahman Jaber , Nabeel Kayed
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/280000

Tubas hike
2021-03-29 08:00 - 17:00 (EET) | Tubas, West Bank, Palestine
The branch planned an educational and entertaining hike, where the participants visited the solar power station to learn about the project and solar energy, and then went to Tubas city to walk the path that varied between plains and mountains, and its distance reached 12 km. Many archaeological and historical sites were passed, and the hike also included many entertaining activities.
Tubas, West Bank, Palestine

Ask A Graduate-3rd session-
2021-04-09 19:00 - 20:00 (EET) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/280324
Ask a graduate is a series of 3 online sessions, the series consists of interviewing graduates who talk to students about their graduation projects and what are the difficulties they faced, whether by choosing the idea or at the beginning of the work, and what programs and tools they used, to guide and advise them based on their experience.
The third session was hosted by the Power and Energy Society (PES). They interviewed Aws Zubda who is an electrical engineering graduate, and was also the previous chair of the society and the ambassador of the PES day in the year 2020. He talked about his experience with his graduation project on the topic of "Internet of Robotic Things".
Speaker(s): Aws Zubda,
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/280324

AME (Additive Manufacturing of Electronics) webinar
2021-04-20 10:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/298768
AME confernece with more than 200 participants, mostly from Israel. 15 lectures abput AME machines, materials and technologies. Printing inks based mainly on Copper and Silver with a variety of usages for civil and millitary solutions.
Agenda:
https://www.aeai.org.il/activity/ame-webinar/
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/298768

AME - מדפיסים עידן חדש של אלקטרוניקה
2021-04-20 10:00 - 17:15 (Asia/Jerusalem)
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/268874
