2nd IEEEI-SYP
2016-06-02 09:00 - 16:00 (Asia/Jerusalem)
The 2nd Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Students & Young Professionals in Israel (IEEEI-SYP 2016)

The IEEE Israel Student Section together with IEEE Young Professionals in Israel are pleased to announce its 2nd graduate student and YP convention (IEEEI-SYP), which continues the new tradition that was started last year.
The IEEEI-SYP convention gives students the opportunity to present their research in a professional, yet casual environment. The convention is a platform for meetings and exchange of ideas between students in adjacent research fields, and between students and senior researchers and industry professionals.
The convention also serves as a catalyst in bringing together participants from academia and industry to help foster new connections and ideas. The program includes keynote speakers and workshops, as well as a poster session on today’s state-of-the-art research conducted by graduate students from around the country.

In addition, a job fair targeting specifically graduate students in the various fields of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will be held with the participation of leading high-tech companies. The names of companies that will participate in this event will be posted at a later stage.
The convention is free of charge, but advance registration is required. Light food and refreshments will be served. Keynote Speakers (In alphabetical order).

Aharon Aharon, CEO of Apple Israel

Inon Beracha, ex-CEO of PrimeSense

The organizing committee:

Itamar Levi, Michal Yemini (Bar-Ilan University)

Ilia Iofedov, Nir Shlezinger (Ben-Gurion University)

Aleks Dyskin, David Dov (Technion)

Liran Katzir, Yarden Mazor (Tel-Aviv University)

Detailed Program: Tel-Aviv University, Rosenblatt Auditorium​

Registration & Coffee: 09:00 – 09:30

Welcome remarks: 09:30 – 09:45

Keynote 1 | Inon Beracha | “Machine Vision – from Vision to Reality”: 09:45 – 10:30

Keynote 2 | Aharon Aharon: 10:30 – 11:15

Coffee + Networking: 11:15 – 11:45

Poster Session: 11:45 – 13:00

Yarden Mazor, PhD student at TAU | “My experience from GYSS 2015 in Singapore”: 12:45 – 13:00

Naftali Chayat, CTO at Vayyar “So, now that you’re an engineer”: 13:00 – 13:40

סדנאות 1-2 מתקיימות בחדר 103 בניין כיתות הנדסה

14:00 – 14:45

Workshop 1
Vered Bar Bracha, Principal Engineer at Intel | “Mobile multimedia evolution and new challenges in video & audio optimization over wireless links”

15:00 – 15:45

Workshop 2
Oren Hagai, President & CTO at INTERLLIGENT | “A short tutorial of today’s RF and Microwave industry, segments and challenges”

סדנאות 3-4 מתקיימות בחדר 016 בניין עבודה סוציאלית

14:00 – 14:45

Workshop 3
Gabi Zodik, Director, IoT and Mobile Platforms, IBM Research | “Cognitive and Contextual People Centric IoT”

15:00 – 15:45

Workshop 4
Yaron Kagan, Distribution Business Manager at Texas Instruments | “From Technological Career to Business Career”

09:00 – 16:00 Job fair in parallel with the convention
SPEAKERS
Inon Beracha
Inon, formerly CEO of PrimeSense, the creator of the Kinect sensor for Xbox360 which sold over 32M units (2006-2013). PrimeSense was acquired by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) in December 2013. Prior to PrimeSense Inon served as CEO of DSP Group, the leader of System on a Chip solutions for cordless telephony with revenues of $200M/year selling over 100M chips per year (NASDAQ: DSPG, 2004-2006).
Inon was a Co-Founder and COO of Ceragon Networks Ltd. delivering high capacity wireless (“Wireless Fiber”) Telecom and Datacom systems (NASDAQ: CRNT,1996-2004). Prior to Ceragon Networks, Inon was Vice President of the Electronic Research and Development Department of the Israeli Ministry of Defense (1985-1996). Inon holds BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering and Electronics from Tel Aviv University.
Aharon Aharon
Aharon joined Apple in 2011 as its first Apple employee in Israel, managing the R&D activities of Apple’s Hardware Technologies in Israel, as well as supervising Apple Israel site. Prior to Apple, Aharon co-founded Camero (2004-2010), a startup company selling imaging systems for the defense and HLS markets.
In parallel, Aharon also served as a Chairman of the Board at Discretix (2003-2010), a startup company providing mobile security that was acquired by ARM in 2015. Aharon was the CEO of Seabridge (2001-2003), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens, developing access aggregators in communication networks.
Prior to Seabridge, Aharon served as a COO as Zoran (1997-2001), and worked at IBM Haifa Research Labs, Sr. Manager and Deputy head (1983-1997). Aharon received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Engineering (Cum Laude) from Technion (1981 and 1983).
Naftali Chayat
Naftali has over 30 years’ experience in signal processing, communications, radio systems and antenna technology. Prior to Vayyar, Naftali was Chief Scientist of Alvarion (BreezeCom) where he was responsible for its core technology.
Prior to BreezeCom, Naftali held several roles in an R&D Department in the Israel Defense Forces, culminating as Chief Engineer. Naftali holds a BSc in Physics and Mathematics from the Hebrew University under the auspices of “Talpiot”, an elite R&D program of the Israel Defense Forces, and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel.
Vered Bar Bracha
Vered joined Intel in July 2014, Vered is a path finder, responsible for identifying new use cases and defining new technologies in areas of multimedia capture and sharing over wireless. Before joining Intel, Vered managed multi-disciplinary groups of hardware, VLSI and software engineers in small and large companies in Israel and The US.
Holds over 20 granted and pending patents in wireless communications. Winner of Qualcomm’s 2010 innovation contest. Vered holds an MBA from Northwestern University (Kellogg-Recanatti 2010) and BSC from Tel Aviv University (1991).
Oren Hagai
Oren is the president and CTO of INTERLLIGENT RF & Microwave solutions. He founded the company on 2000, and was responsible for developing the business from its inception to its current corporate level. Oren is a recognized expert in the field of RF and Microwave engineering and still makes time from his busy schedule to teach advanced microwave subjects at INTERLLIGENT’s training division.
In addition to managing the engineering activities at INTERLLIGENT, Oren keeps up to date with the latest technologies by actively participating in design reviews as well as attending and presenting at conferences and technical seminars.
Prior to establishing INTERLLIGENT, Oren studied electrical engineering at Tel-Aviv university and served as a Microwave Expert in the IDF. Oren has held an amateur radio license since his teenage years and is still active today (4X1VI).
Gabi Zodik
Gabi is the Director for IoT and MobileFirst Platforms in Research, as well as the Department Group Manager of the Mobile and Industry Solutions Dept. at IBM Haifa Research. Gabi oversees the lab’s research and development efforts in Mobile, IoT, Wearables, and emerging Cloud Computing platforms.
In his IoT and MobileFirst global role, Gabi oversees all the research activities in IoT and Mobile platforms. Gabi is the Research Relationship manager for MobileFirst and IoT platforms. Gabi holds M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, and an MBA from the University of Haifa.
IEEE-SYP Convention and Job Fair 2016

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ICSEE 2016 Organizing Committee
2016-11-16 08:00 - 2016-11-18 17:00 (Asia/Jerusalem)
General Chair: Mark Shtaif

Technical Program Chair: Uri Erez

Steering Committee:

Ady Arie: Tel Aviv University

Joseph Kost: Ben Gurion University

Ephraim Zehavi: Bar Ilan University

Ariel Orda: Technion

Yair Weiss: The Hebrew University

Yossi Rosenwaks: Tel Aviv University

Organizing Committee:

Mark Shtaif: Tel Aviv University

Israel Cohen: Technion

Sharon Gannot: Bar Ilan University

Anelia Somekh Baruch: Bar Ilan University

Yuval Beck: Holon Institute of Technology

Liran Katzir: Tel Aviv University

Technical Program Committee:

Ady Arie: Optics and Optoelectronics

Shmuel Auster: Antennas & Microwave

Jacob Baal-Schem: Smart Cities

Yuval Beck: Power Systems

Irad Ben-gal: Ind. Electronics & Applications

Itai Dabran: Communications

Sharon Gannot: Signal Processing

Jacob Gavan: Electromagnetic compatibility

Gady Golan: Electron Devices

Leah Goldin: Computers

Hugo Guterman: Robotics and Automation

Yuval Kochman: Information Theory

Steli Loznen: Product Safety Engineering

Reuven Meidan: Vehicular Technology

Yael Nemirovsky: Women in Engineering

Yaakov Oshman: Aerospace and Electronics Systems

Sigal Portnoy: Bio electronics

Doron Shmilovitz: Power Electronics

Solon Spiegel: Solid-State Circuits

Arie Yeredor: Signal Processing

Yuval Bistritz: Signal processing

IEEEI Festivity
2016-11-16 09:00 - 16:00 (Asia/Jerusalem)
The Opening Festivity of the Academic Year 2016-2017 of all Israel Universities and Colleges, for Students of Computer Science and Electrical, Software and Computer Engineering.

The IEEE Israel Student section together with the IEEE Young Professionals in Israel are pleased to announce the opening festivity of the academic year 2016-2017 of all Israel Universities and Colleges, for student of Computer Science and Electrical, Software and Computer Engineering. In the festivity will participate PhD, MSc and BSc students.
The festivity will be held in the Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan university, in Tuesday, November 22th, 2016.
Festivity highlights:

A job fair with the leading high-tech companies in Israel.

Symposia of many topics in Engineering and Entrepreneurship.

A large exhibition hall showcasing, will provide opportunities for industry professionals to share and learn about the latest ideas, trends, and product innovations in the industry.

Launch of the IEEE Walabot Student Challenge (see below)

The program includes two keynote speakers (see below) and workshops, as well as a poster session on today’s state-of-the-art research conducted by graduate students from around the country.
In addition, a job fair targeting graduates and students in the various fields (e.g. EE, SE, CS) will be held with the participation of leading high-tech companies. The names of companies that will participate in this event will be posted at a later stage. Light food and refreshments will be served.
Research students and graduates from all institutions will present posters describing their work on all topics related to electrical and computer engineering. IEEE Walabot Student Challenge presents an opportunity for young engineers to build useful and innovative applications based on the Walabot technology platform.
Student teams are encouraged to enter the competition, starting November 22, 2016. The final will be at IEEE-COMCAS 2017. Selected students will have an opportunity to present their applications and compete for scholarships and research grants, up to $10,000.

The festivity will host Ms. Eszter Lukacs, IEEE Client Service Manager at R8. Ms. Lukacs will lecture on carrer development with IEEE & IEEE Xplore and how to get published with IEEE.
Detailed Program: Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Engineering

Registration & Coffee: 09:00 – 09:45

Welcome remarks: 09:45 – 10:00

Keynote 1, Room 02 | Prof. David Mendlovic: 10:00 – 10:45

Keynote 2, Room 02 | Raviv Melamed: 10:45 – 11:30

Coffee + Networking: 11:30 – 12:00

Room 42

Nimrod Veroman, Yigal Arnon: 12:00 – 13:00

Dr. Gutman Igor. Qualcomm Research | “MIMO for Beginners”: 13:00 – 13:50

Room 22

Workshop 1 | Eszter Lukacs, IEEE Client Services Manager | “Career development with IEEE & IEEE Xplore“: 12:00 – 12:30

Coffee: 12:30 – 12:45

Workshop 2 | Eszter Lukacs, IEEE Client Services Manager | “How to get published with IEEE (part 1)” : 12:45 – 13:45

Coffee: 13:45 – 14:15

Workshop 3 | Eszter Lukacs, IEEE Client Services Manager | “How to get published with IEEE (part 2)”: 14:15 – 15:15

09:00 – 16:00 Job fair in parallel with the convention
SPEAKERS
Prof. David Mendlovic
Prof. David Mendlovic has received his BSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, Israel. Prof. Mendlovic was associated with Erlangen University as a MINERVA postdoctoral fellow, later joining Tel-Aviv University as a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, where at present he is a Full Professor of electro-optics.
Prof. Mendlovic has authored more than 200 technical articles, 3 book chapters, and is the holder of more than 30 patents all of them have been commercialized. Prof. Mendlovic is a founder of successful opto-electronics startup companies (e.g., Civcom and Eyesquad) and served as their CEO. Civcom Inc. was acquired by Padtec S/A of Brazil, Eyesquad was acquired by Tessera Inc (NASDAQ symbol: TSRA).
Recently, Prof. Mendlovic founded Corephotonics, a new startup that deals with the creation of advanced compact camera technologies. He serves as the CEO of Corephotonics. Prof. Mendlovic is the 1998 winner of the ICO (International Commission of Optics) Award, in recognition of his contribution to the optical signal processing area.
Since January 2008 till September 2010, Prof. Mendlovic was the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Science. At present he serves as the Chairman of the Industrial Affiliates Program and Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Engineering. Prof. Mendlovic also gathers the new TAU Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Raviv Melamed
Raviv is the CEO and Co-founder of Vayyar. Prior to Vayyar, Raviv was the Vice-President of the Intel Architecture Group and General Manager of Intel’s Worldwide Mobile Wireless Group.
Raviv joined Intel in 2004 as part of Intel’s acquisition of Envara, a fabless semi-conductor company based in Israel, where he served as Vice President of R&D. Prior to that he held several roles in the Israel Defense Force in large scale radar and communication projects. Raviv holds BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
Nimrod Vromen
Nimrod is a Partner in the Hi-Tech Department at Yigal Arnon & Co. Law Firm. Nimrod has been living and breathing the Israeli high-tech community for the past decade.
Nimrod’s specialties: representation of private technology companies and Israeli and foreign venture capital funds (hundreds of transactions over almost a decade); emphasizing on private financing, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and commercial matters. Nimrod holds an LLM and Executive MBA from Tel-Aviv University.
Dr. Gutman Igor
Since 2013 Igor has been with Qualcomm, working on development of advanced algorithms for physical layer of LTE/WiGig (60GHz band) modems. From 2003 to 2013 Igor held a various positions in the field of signal processing in GO Networks, Alvarion and Intel.
Igor research interests include analysis of communications systems with nonlinearities and MIMO systems. Igor holds a BSc, MSc and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
Eszter Lukács
Eszter is the IEEE Client Services and University Partnership Program Manager for Europe and Israel, providing outreach, education and awareness for organizations who subscribe to IEEE online content. Eszter offers free online or on-site seminars and training programs on the IEEE Xplore Digital Library for various user communities, including librarians, engineers, researchers, students, faculty and authors.
Eszter also supports initiatives and information needs of IEEE Student Branches. Based in Berlin, Germany, Eszter joined IEEE in 2013. Eszter holds a Magister degree in Linguistics from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Eszter speaks German, English, and Hungarian.
Important links:

Homepage of IEEEI-SYP

Linkedin page of IEEEI-SYP

Facebook page of IEEEI-SYP

3rd IEEEI-SYP Conference and Job-Fair (March 07, 2017)

2nd IEEEI-SYP Conference and Job-Fair (June 02, 2016)

1st IEEEIs Conference (June 25, 2015)

IEEE registration

Festivity – Detailed Program
2016-11-22 09:00 - 16:00 (Asia/Jerusalem)
The Opening Festivity of the Academic Year 2016-2017 of all Israel Universities and Colleges, for Students of Computer Science and Electrical, Software and Computer Engineering
Detailed Program:

Registration & Coffee: 09:00 – 09:45

Welcome remarks: 09:45 – 10:00

Keynote 1, Room 02 | Prof. David Mendlovic: 10:00 – 10:45

Keynote 2, Room 02 | Raviv Melamed: 10:45 – 11:30

Coffe: 11:30 – 12:00

Room 42:

Nimrod Veroman, Yigal Arnon: 12:00 – 13:00

Dr. Gutman Igor. Qualcomm Research | “MIMO for Beginners”: 13:00 – 13:50

Room 22:

Nimrod Veroman, Yigal Arnon: 12:00 – 13:00

Workshop 1 | Eszter Lukacs, IEEE Client Services Manager | “Career development with IEEE & IEEE Xplore”: 12:00 – 12:30

Coffee: 12:30 – 12:45

Workshop 2 | Eszter Lukacs, IEEE Client Services Manager | “How to get published with IEEE (part 1)” : 12:45 – 13:45

Coffee: 13:45 – 14:15

Workshop 3 | Eszter Lukacs, IEEE Client Services Manager | “How to get published with IEEE (part 2)” : 14:15 – 15:15

11:00 – 16:00 Job fair in parallel with the convention
SPEAKERS
Prof. David Mendlovic
Prof. David Mendlovic has received his BSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, Israel. Prof. Mendlovic was associated with Erlangen University as a MINERVA postdoctoral fellow, later joining Tel-Aviv University as a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, where at present he is a Full Professor of electro-optics. Prof. Mendlovic has authored more than 200 technical articles, 3 book chapters, and is the holder of more than 30 patents all of them have been commercialized.
Prof. Mendlovic is a founder of successful opto-electronics startup companies (e.g., Civcom and Eyesquad) and served as their CEO. Civcom Inc. was acquired by Padtec S/A of Brazil, Eyesquad was acquired by Tessera Inc (NASDAQ symbol: TSRA). Recently, Prof. Mendlovic founded Corephotonics, a new startup that deals with the creation of advanced compact camera technologies. He serves as the CEO of Corephotonics.
Prof. Mendlovic is the 1998 winner of the ICO (International Commission of Optics) Award, in recognition of his contribution to the optical signal processing area.
Since January 2008 till September 2010, Prof. Mendlovic was the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Science. At present he serves as the Chairman of the Industrial Affiliates Program and Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Engineering. Prof. Mendlovic also gathers the new TAU Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Raviv Melamed
Raviv is the CEO and Co-founder of Vayyar. Prior to Vayyar, Raviv was the Vice-President of the Intel Architecture Group and General Manager of Intel’s Worldwide Mobile Wireless Group. Raviv joined Intel in 2004 as part of Intel’s acquisition of Envara, a fabless semi-conductor company based in Israel, where he served as Vice President of R&D.
Prior to that he held several roles in the Israel Defense Force in large scale radar and communication projects. Raviv holds BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
Nimrod Vromen
Nimrod is a Partner in the Hi-Tech Department at Yigal Arnon & Co. Law Firm. Nimrod has been living and breathing the Israeli high-tech community for the past decade. Nimrod’s specialties: representation of private technology companies and Israeli and foreign venture capital funds (hundreds of transactions over almost a decade); emphasizing on private financing, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and commercial matters. Nimrod holds an LLM and Executive MBA from Tel-Aviv University.
Dr. Gutman Igor
Since 2013 Igor has been with Qualcomm, working on development of advanced algorithms for physical layer of LTE/WiGig (60GHz band) modems. From 2003 to 2013 Igor held a various positions in the field of signal processing in GO Networks, Alvarion and Intel. Igor research interests include analysis of communications systems with nonlinearities and MIMO systems. Igor holds a BSc, MSc and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
Eszter Lukács
Eszter is the IEEE Client Services and University Partnership Program Manager for Europe and Israel, providing outreach, education and awareness for organizations who subscribe to IEEE online content. Eszter offers free online or on-site seminars and training programs on the IEEE Xplore Digital Library for various user communities, including librarians, engineers, researchers, students, faculty and authors.
Eszter also supports initiatives and information needs of IEEE Student Branches. Based in Berlin, Germany, Eszter joined IEEE in 2013. Eszter holds a Magister degree in Linguistics from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Eszter speaks German, English, and Hungarian.

Detailed program IEEEI-SYP
2017-03-07 09:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Jerusalem)
The IEEE Israel Conference of Students and Young Professionals 2017 – Technion, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Detailed Program:

Registration & Coffee: 09:00 – 09:45

Welcome remarks: 09:45 – 10:00

Keynote 1, Auditorium 280 | Prof. Yossi Matias (VP Engineering Google) | “On Science, Technology, and Innovation”: 10:00 – 11:00

Keynote 2, Auditorium 280 | Dr. Ran Gozali (Executive VP Rafael) | “R&D Challenges in a Competitive World”: 11:00 – 12:00

Poster Session + Lunch onsite: 12:00 – 13:30

Parallel Workshops (see below): 13:30 – 15:45

Coffee + Networking: 15:00 – 17:00

Leadership and Entrepreneurship Workshops:

Workshop 1, Auditorium 280 | Prof. Milo Jones (IE Business School) | “Leadership in a Time of AI and Robotics”: 13:30 – 14:15

Workshop 2, Auditorium 280 | Nimrod Veroman (Yigal Arnon): 14:15 – 15:00

Career Development Workshops:

Workshop 3, Auditorium 352 | Ella Kogan (Executive Head Hunter and Recruiter) | “Developing and leveraging your personal brand and career”: 13:30 – 14:15

Workshop 4, Auditorium 352 | Amanie Brik (Technical Recruiting Specialist, Google) | “How Google works?”: 14:15 – 15:00

Internet of Things (IoT) Workshop:

Workshop 5, Room 352 | Gil Paryanti (Intel) | “Specifics of Communication Aspects in IoT Technology”: 15:00 – 15:45

09:00 – 15:00 Job fair in parallel with the convention
SPEAKERS
Prof. Yossi Matias
Prof. Matias is Vice President of engineering in Google’s Search. He is also the managing director of Google R&D Center in Israel, with overall responsibility for Google research, development, and technology innovation in Israel.
Under his leadership, the Israeli center has developed visible and core technologies in the areas of Search, Data Analytics, Gmail, YouTube, and Internet scale infrastructure, as well as pioneered an initiative of bringing online hundreds of heritage collections including the Yad Vashem photo archive and the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls.
Dr. Ran Gozali
Dr. Ran Gozali is an Executive VP in Rafael and heads the company’s Research, Development and Engineering Division, which supports all development programs of the company’s business units: Air and Inteligence, Air Supremacy, Ground and Marine Systems.
Prior to joining Rafael Dr. Gozali served as the CEO and President of Goji Solutions Ltd. a global company engaged in the development of unique solutions for thawing and heating systems for medical applications, sensing and software solutions for the oil & gas industries and a smart energy delivery for the food industry.
Dr. Gozali holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from Virginia Tech Univeristy/USA, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion/Israel and a B.Sc. cum laude in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the Univesity of Ben Gurion in the Negev, Israel.
Dr. Milo Jones
Dr. MILO JONES is a Visiting Professor at IE business school in Madrid. At IE, he teaches “Intelligence Tools for the Finance Professional”, advanced non-market strategy courses, and a variety of Geopolitics-related courses in the MBA and Masters in Advanced Finance programs. Milo is also a staff member of Wal-Mart’s Leadership Academy, where he works with the retailer’s senior leadership on questions surrounding strategy, geopolitics and technology.
In addition to Walmart, Milo’s experience in executive education extends to work with Axa, Accenture, Banco Santander, BHP Billiton, E&Y, Gestamp, Gulf Medical, Kimberly-Clark, Nikkei, Nissan, Renault, and Westpac Bank. Milo has spoken at numerous intelligence, finance and geopolitics-related conferences, including Institutional Investor Forums, Euromoney, Oxford University, the World Knowledge Forum in Korea, and before intelligence-related groups in around the world.
In addition to teaching, Milo is the Managing Director of Inveniam Strategy. Inveniam Strategy specializes in non-market strategy and in applying the analytical tools and frameworks of Intelligence Community to business and financial issues; clients include Accenture, Axa, Kimberly Clark, Walmart, and one of Spain’s largest credit card issuers.
Milo also serves on the board of a private American food company with over $200 million in annual sales. He is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. You can follow him on twitter @inveniam.
Talk Description: In recent years, managers have been hearing more about Robotics, “Big Data” and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and their capabilities to transform business decision-making. At minimum, these technologies put enormous pressure on firms to keep innovating. But what are their wider implications for management?
This session will look at how these technologies are already being applied in fields like Retailing, Finance, Consulting, the Law, Journalism and Medicine. It will then seek to answer questions like, “What have we learned about good management in this ‘Brave New World’? How do these technologies change optimal team structure and behaviour? In other words, what do we already know about making best use of teams as the impact of Robotics, Big Data and AI spread?”
Nimrod Vromen
Nimrod is a Partner in the Hi-Tech Department at Yigal Arnon & Co. Law Firm. Nimrod has been living and breathing the Israeli high-tech community for the past decade.
Nimrod’s specialties: representation of private technology companies and Israeli and foreign venture capital funds (hundreds of transactions over almost a decade); emphasizing on private financing, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and commercial matters. Nimrod holds an LLM and Executive MBA from Tel-Aviv University.
Gil Paryanti
Gil is a system engineering manager in the WioT division in Intel. Through the years Gil has been working on various aspects and subjects of digital telecomuunication products, in different positions and companies of various sizes. Gil’s passion is mostly for phsical layer aspects in different types of systems such as cellular modems, wireless connectivity, coherent optical communication, and others.
Lately focused on how IoT product challenges affect system design, architecture and the development of new algorithms. Gil holds a BSc in EE from the Technion and MSc EE from BGU.

Directions by a public transportation:

From Hof ha Carmel to Technion

From Lel ha Mifrac to Technion

3rd IEEEI-SYP, March 2017
2017-03-07 09:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Jerusalem)
The IEEE Israel Student Section together with IEEE Young Professionals in Israel are pleased to announce its 3rd graduate student and YP convention (IEEEI-SYP). The 3rd IEEEI-SYP will be hosted at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in the Technion, in Tuesday, March 07, 2017.
The IEEEI-SYP convention gives to its attendees the opportunity to present their research in a professional, yet casual environment. The convention is a platform for meetings and exchange of ideas between students in adjacent research fields, and between students and senior researchers and industry professionals.

The convention also serves as a catalyst in bringing together participants from academia and industry to help foster new connections and ideas. The program includes keynote speakers and workshops, as well as a poster session on today’s state-of-the-art research conducted by graduate students from around the country.
In addition, a job fair targeting specifically graduate students in the various fields of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will be held with the participation of leading high-tech companies.
We are looking forward to seeing you in the 3rd IEEEI-SYP !

Advance registration is required (the registration will be open soon). Light food and refreshments will be served. Poster Presentation Graduate students from all institutions will present posters describing their work on all topics related to electrical and computer engineering. The registration will be open soon.
We encourage intended participants to register as early as possible since the number of available seats is limited!
Detailed Program:

Registration & Coffee: 09:00 – 09:45

Welcome remarks: 09:45 – 10:00

Keynote 1, Auditorium 280 | Prof. Yossi Matias (VP Engineering Google) | “On Science, Technology, and Innovation”: 10:00 – 11:00

Keynote 2, Auditorium 280 Dr. Ran Gozali (Executive VP Rafael) “R&D Challenges in a Competitive World”: 11:00 – 12:00

Poster Session + Lunch onsite: 12:00 – 13:30

Parallel Workshops (see below): 13:30 – 15:45

Coffee + Networking: 15:00 – 17:00

Leadership and Entrepreneurship Workshops:

Workshop 1, Auditorium 280 | Prof. Milo Jones (IE Business School) | “Leadership in a Time of AI and Robotics”: 13:30 – 14:15

Workshop 2, Auditorium 280 | Nimrod Veroman (Yigal Arnon): 14:15 – 15:00

Career Development Workshops:

Workshop 3, Auditorium 352 | Ella Kogan (Executive Head Hunter and Recruiter) |“Developing and leveraging your personal brand and career”: 13:30 – 14:15

Workshop 4, Auditorium 352 | Amanie Brik (Technical Recruiting Specialist, Google) | “How Google works?”: 14:15 – 15:00

Internet of Things (IoT) Workshop:

Workshop 5, Room 352 | Gil Paryanti (Intel) | “Specifics of Communication Aspects in IoT Technology”: 15:00 – 15:45

09:00 – 15:00 Job fair in parallel with the convention
SPEAKERS
Prof. Yossi Matias
Prof. Matias is Vice President of engineering in Google’s Search. He is also the managing director of Google R&D Center in Israel, with overall responsibility for Google research, development, and technology innovation in Israel. Under his leadership, the Israeli center has developed visible and core technologies in the areas of Search, Data Analytics, Gmail, YouTube, and Internet scale infrastructure, as well as pioneered an initiative of bringing online hundreds of heritage collections including the Yad Vashem photo archive and the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls.
Prof. Matias is Vice President of engineering in Google’s Search. He is also the managing director of Google R&D Center in Israel, with overall responsibility for Google research, development, and technology innovation in Israel. Under his leadership, the Israeli center has developed visible and core technologies in the areas of Search, Data Analytics, Gmail, YouTube, and Internet scale infrastructure, as well as pioneered an initiative of bringing online hundreds of heritage collections including the Yad Vashem photo archive and the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls.
Dr. Ran Gozali
Dr. Ran Gozali is an Executive VP in Rafael and heads the company’s Research, Development and Engineering Division, which supports all development programs of the company’s business units: Air and Inteligence, Air Supremacy, Ground and Marine Systems.
Prior to joining Rafael Dr. Gozali served as the CEO and President of Goji Solutions Ltd. a global company engaged in the development of unique solutions for thawing and heating systems for medical applications, sensing and software solutions for the oil & gas industries and a smart energy delivery for the food industry.
Dr. Gozali holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from Virginia Tech Univeristy/USA, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion/Israel and a B.Sc. cum laude in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the Univesity of Ben Gurion in the Negev, Israel.
Dr. Milo Jones
Dr. MILO JONES is a Visiting Professor at IE business school in Madrid. At IE, he teaches “Intelligence Tools for the Finance Professional”, advanced non-market strategy courses, and a variety of Geopolitics-related courses in the MBA and Masters in Advanced Finance programs.
Milo is also a staff member of Wal-Mart’s Leadership Academy, where he works with the retailer’s senior leadership on questions surrounding strategy, geopolitics and technology. In addition to Walmart, Milo’s experience in executive education extends to work with Axa, Accenture, Banco Santander, BHP Billiton, E&Y, Gestamp, Gulf Medical, Kimberly-Clark, Nikkei, Nissan, Renault, and Westpac Bank.
Milo has spoken at numerous intelligence, finance and geopolitics-related conferences, including Institutional Investor Forums, Euromoney, Oxford University, the World Knowledge Forum in Korea, and before intelligence-related groups in around the world.
In addition to teaching, Milo is the Managing Director of Inveniam Strategy. Inveniam Strategy specializes in non-market strategy and in applying the analytical tools and frameworks of Intelligence Community to business and financial issues; clients include Accenture, Axa, Kimberly Clark, Walmart, and one of Spain’s largest credit card issuers.
Milo also serves on the board of a private American food company with over $200 million in annual sales. He is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. You can follow him on twitter @inveniam.
Talk Description: In recent years, managers have been hearing more about Robotics, “Big Data” and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and their capabilities to transform business decision-making. At minimum, these technologies put enormous pressure on firms to keep innovating. But what are their wider implications for management?
This session will look at how these technologies are already being applied in fields like Retailing, Finance, Consulting, the Law, Journalism and Medicine. It will then seek to answer questions like, “What have we learned about good management in this ‘Brave New World’? How do these technologies change optimal team structure and behaviour?
In other words, what do we already know about making best use of teams as the impact of Robotics, Big Data and AI spread?”
In parallel, Aharon also served as a Chairman of the Board at Discretix (2003-2010), a startup company providing mobile security that was acquired by ARM in 2015. Aharon was the CEO of Seabridge (2001-2003), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens, developing access aggregators in communication networks.
Prior to Seabridge, Aharon served as a COO as Zoran (1997-2001), and worked at IBM Haifa Research Labs, Sr. Manager and Deputy head (1983-1997). Aharon received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Engineering (Cum Laude) from Technion (1981 and 1983).
Nimrod Vromen
Nimrod is a Partner in the Hi-Tech Department at Yigal Arnon & Co. Law Firm. Nimrod has been living and breathing the Israeli high-tech community for the past decade.
Nimrod’s specialties: representation of private technology companies and Israeli and foreign venture capital funds (hundreds of transactions over almost a decade); emphasizing on private financing, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and commercial matters. Nimrod holds an LLM and Executive MBA from Tel-Aviv University.
Gil Paryanti
Gil is a system engineering manager in the WioT division in Intel. Through the years Gil has been working on various aspects and subjects of digital telecomuunication products, in different positions and companies of various sizes.
Gil’s passion is mostly for phsical layer aspects in different types of systems such as cellular modems, wireless connectivity, coherent optical communication, and others. Lately focused on how IoT product challenges affect system design, architecture and the development of new algorithms. Gil holds a BSc in EE from the Technion and MSc EE from BGU.
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Detailed Program 4th IEEEI-SYP
2018-04-16 09:00 - 15:00 (Asia/Jerusalem)
The IEEE Israel Student Section together with IEEE Young Professionals in Israel are pleased to announce its 3rd graduate student and YP conference (IEEEI-SYP). The 4th IEEEI-SYP will be hosted at the Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on Monday, April 16, 2018.
The IEEEI-SYP conference gives to its attendees the opportunity to present their research in a professional, yet casual environment. The conference is a platform for meetings and exchange of ideas between students in adjacent research fields, and between students and senior researchers and industry professionals.
The conference also serves as a catalyst in bringing together participants from academia and industry to help foster new connections and ideas. The program includes keynote speakers and workshops, as well as a poster session on today’s state-of-the-art research conducted by graduate students from around the country.
In addition, a job fair targeting specifically graduate students in the various fields of Electrical Engineering, Computer / Software Engineering and Computer Science will be held with the participation of leading high-tech companies. We are looking forward to seeing you in the 4th IEEEI-SYP !

Advance registration is required (the registration will be open soon). Light food and refreshments will be served. Poster Presentation Graduate students from all institutions will present posters describing their work on all topics related to electrical and computer engineering. The registration will be open soon.
We encourage intended participants to register as early as possible since the number of available seats is limited.
Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Detailed Program:

Registration & Coffee: 08:30 – 09:00

Welcome remarks: 09:00 – 09:30

Keynote 1, Auditorium Floor 3, Building B | Mr. Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem: 09:30 – 10:30

Keynote 2, Auditorium Floor 3, Building B | Prof. Amnon Shashua, CEO & CTO, Mobileye, an Intel company and Senior Vice President, Intel Corporation: 10:30 – 11:30

Poster Session + Lunch onsite: 11:30 – 12:45

Keynote 3, Auditorium Floor 3, Building B | Mr. Aharon Aharon, CEO of Israel Innovation Authority | “Israel’s Innovation Policy”: 12:45 – 13:45

Coffee + Networking: 13:45 – 15:00

09:00 – 15:00 Job fair in parallel with the convention
SPEAKERS
Mr. Nir Barkat
Nir Barkat has served as Mayor of Jerusalem since 2008, inspiring Jerusalemites with his vision to transform Israel’s capital city into one rich in culture, youth, education, economic development, innovation and tourism. Before entering public service, Mayor Barkat co‐founded BRM Technologies, a pioneering software house and later venture capital firm that developed and marketed ground‐breaking anti‐virus software now standard on personal computers throughout the world. His early successes as Mayor are rooted in his business methods and entrepreneurial approach to City Hall.
Mayor Barkat received the rank of Major during his six years of service in the Israel Defense Forces, which included serving as a company commander of paratroopers during the First Lebanon War. Following his army service, Mayor Barkat returned to Jerusalem where he attended Hebrew University and earned a degree in computer science. He is married to artist Beverly Barkat, with whom he has three daughters.
Prof. Amnon Shashua
Prof. Amnon Shashua holds the Sachs chair in computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His field of expertise is computer vision and machine learning. Amnon has founded three startups in the computer vision and machine learning fields. In 1995 he founded CogniTens that specializes in the area of industrial metrology and is today a division of the Swedish corporation Hexagon.
In 1999 he cofounded Mobileye with his partner Ziv Aviram. Mobileye develops system-on-chips and computer vision algorithms for driving assistance systems and is developing a platform for autonomous driving to be launched in 2021. Today, approximately 24 million cars rely on Mobileye technology to make their vehicles safer to drive. In August 2014, Mobileye claimed the title for largest Israeli IPO ever, by raising $1B at a market cap of $5.3B.
In August 2017, Mobileye became an Intel company in the largest Israeli acquisition deal ever of $15.3B. Today, Prof. Shashua is the CEO and CTO of Mobileye and a Senior Vice President of Intel Corporation leading Intel’s Autonomous Driving Group. In 2010 Amnon co-founded OrCam which harnesses computer vision and artificial intelligence to assist people who are visually impaired or blind.
Mr. Aharon Aharon
Aharon is the CEO of Israel Innovation Authority since 2016. Before that, Aharon had managed the R&D activities of Apple’s Hardware Technologies in Israel, as well as supervising Apple Israel site. Prior to Apple, Aharon co-founded Camero (2004-2010), a startup company selling imaging systems for the defense and HLS markets.
In parallel, Aharon also served as a Chairman of the Board at Discretix (2003-2010), a startup company providing mobile security that was acquired by ARM in 2015. Aharon was the CEO of Seabridge (2001-2003), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens, developing access aggregators in communication networks.
Prior to Seabridge, Aharon served as a COO as Zoran (1997-2001), and worked at IBM Haifa Research Labs, Sr. Manager and Deputy head (1983-1997). Aharon received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Engineering (Cum Laude) from Technion (1981 and 1983).
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Workshop on ethics in autonomous & intelligent systems
2018-05-13 15:30 - 19:00 (Asia/Jerusalem)
סיכום הסדנא שהתקיימה ב – 13.5.2018
מערכות אוטונומיות אינטליגנטיות (Autonomous Intelligent Systems, AIS) הוא שם כולל לטכנולוגיות המביאות מוצרים בעלי יכולת למידה וקבלת החלטות עצמאית, כגון רובוטים, מכוניות אוטונומיות ואפליקציות האוספות דטה ומשתמשות בה להשפעה על התנהגות אנושית. מפתחי מערכות כאלו הם אנשי ונשות תכנה וחומרה, שהוכשרו כמהנדסים, מדעני מחשב, מתכנתים וכד’.
למערכות אינטליגנטיות אוטונומיות תהיה השפעה עצומה על האנושות – לצד פוטנציאל עצום לתועלת לפרט ולחברה, קיימים סיכונים לפרטיות, לבטיחות, להטיות ועוד. מוסדות וארגונים רבים עוסקים בלימוד הנושא ובגיבוש המלצות להסדרה בחקיקה בנושאים קשורים.
ה IEEE, שהוא ארגון בינ”ל המאגד מקצועית למעלה מ 400,000 מהנדסי חשמל ואלקטרוניקה וטכנולוגים אחרים, בחר לפעול אחרת. בשנתיים האחרונות מתקיימת בארגון יוזמה גלובלית להתמודדות עם האתגרים האתיים שעולים מהטכנולוגיה שמביאה לנו מערכות אוטונומיות אינטליגנטיות, כדי להבטיח רתימתה למיקסום התועלת לאנושות, במובן הרחב.
המיקוד והייחודיות של יוזמה זו היא בהצפת הנושא אל מול העוסקים במלאכת התכנון והעיצוב של מערכות כאלו, תוך צפייה ללקיחת אחריות מהדרג המבצע, ולא מקובעי המדיניות, כפי שמנוסח במטרות היוזמה:
“To ensure every stakeholder involved in the design and development of autonomous and intelligent systems is educated, trained, and empowered to prioritize ethical considerations so that these technologies are advanced for the benefit of humanity.”
“להבטיח שכל המעורבים בתכנון ופיתוח של מערכות אוטונומיות ואינטליגנטיות ממוקדים למתן עדיפות לשיקולים אתיים, כך שטכנולוגיות אלו מקודמות לטובת האנושות”. IEEE ישראל ארגן סדנא בנושא והשתתפו בה כ 60 חברי וחברות IEEE ואחרים, מהאקדמיה, מהתעשייה, מהמגזר הפרטי, הציבורי ואחרים.

את הסדנא פתח יו”ר IEEE בישראל, פרופ’ אורי שקד שהדגיש בדבריו את המחויבות של ארגון IEEE בכלל ושל הסניף הישראלי בפרט לקידום טכנולוגיות למען האנושות.
אח”כ ניתנה הרצאה ע”י אורח שהגיע במיוחד לסדנא, Dr Ing Konstantinos Karachalios, Managing Director IEEE Standards Association and Member of IEEE Management Council “The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous an Intelligent Systems and the Ethically Aligned Design Report” ובה הוצגה היוזמה, התהליכים שעברה ומנגנוני העבודה שלה.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
[/registration-massimo-alioto/](https://acrc.net.technion.ac.il/registration-massimo-alioto/)
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
