Program

Friday, April 3rd, 2020 

8:00 AM Registration and Morning Coffee
9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction
Jacob Robinson, Affiliates Program Chair
9:05 AM ECE Department Updates
Ashu Sabharwal, Department Chair, ECE
9:15 AM ECE Faculty Research Talks:
Lan Luan, Assistant Professor, ECE
Chong Xie, Associate Professor, ECE
An Ultra-Compliant Axon-Sized Electrode Array in Rat Vagus Nerve
John Seymour, Associate Professor, ECE
10:20 AM The path to making 5G a reality and initiatives towards 6G
Aris Papasakellariou, Vice President, Communications Standards
Samsung Electronics
10:50 AM Intel FPGA’s Accelerating the Edge to the Cloud
Vincent Hu, Vice President, Strategy & Innovation Office, Programmable Solution Group
Intel Corporation
11:20 AM Boxed Lunch, Served in Duncan Hall
12:30 PM Demo and Poster Session
2:00 PM Developing and Commercializing Engineering Innovations for Pulmonary Healthcare
Rajoshi Biswas, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder
Cognita Labs
2:30 PM Susann Keohanne, Chief of Staff to General Manager
IBM Watson Health
3:00 PM Best Ph.D. Presentators
3:30 PM The Effect of Entropy on the Choice of a Technical Career
John Treichler, Chief Technical Officer
Raytheon Applied Signal Technology
4:00 PM Awards Ceremony
4:30 PM Gene Brice Lecture featuring Gene Frantz
Intrepreneurship: Being an Entrepreneur within a Large Corporation
Gene Frantz, Professor in the Practice, ECE
Member of National Academy of Engineering
5:30 PM Networking Reception