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Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Tue, Sep 04, 2012 @ 01:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Justin Haldar, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California
Talk Title: "Constrained Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Signal Processing Methods for Denoising and Sparse Sampling"
Abstract: Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging technologies have enabled new opportunities to reveal the mysteries of the central nervous system -- its function and organization, and what goes wrong when it is injured or diseased. MR experiments are quite flexible, and the MR signal can be manipulated to noninvasively probe anatomy, physiology, and metabolism. However, while MR imaging is decades old and has already revolutionized modern radiology, current methods are still far from utilizing the full potential of the MR signal. In particular, traditional MR methods are based on the Fourier transform, and suffer from fundamental trade-offs between signal-to-noise ratio, spatial resolution, and data acquisition speed. These issues are exacerbated in high-dimensional applications, due to the curse of dimensionality.
In this talk, I will present an brief overview of some of our recent work in applying novel signal processing techniques to enhance the efficiency of MR neuroimaging experiments. This efficiency is gained by modifying the way that MR data is acquired, modeled, and processed, leveraging physics-based constraints and guidance from new signal processing theory. Example applications of these new methods are presented in a range of different contexts, including diffusion imaging and metabolic imaging of the brain and spinal cord.
Biography: Justin Haldar received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 2011, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been with the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California since summer 2011, and was appointed as Assistant Professor in Fall 2012. His research interests include image reconstruction, signal modeling, parameter estimation, and experiment design for biomedical imaging applications, with a particular focus on magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy. He is currently seeking excellent students with a strong background in signal processing, and an interest in developing methods to improve existing advanced MRI methods and enable the next generation of imaging-based biomedical and neuroscientific inquiry.
Host: Prof. Krishna Nayak
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 @ 01:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Vidya Rajagopalan, Childrenâs Hospital Los Angeles
Abstract: Historically, human in vivo fetal brain growth studies have been limited to manual measurements, such as diameters and volume, of the entire brain or fetal head from ultrasound and 2D MR images. However, the formation of complex folded cortical structure of the adult brain requires that tissue volume is added at different rates within different brain regions. Recent advances in fetal MRI motion correction and preprocessing methods present an unprecedented opportunity to characterize fetal brain
development as a function of both age and location within the brain. In this talk, we will discuss computational shape analysis techniques to model spatio-temporal patterns in
age-related development of normal fetal brains. We discuss how these models can be used to understand the emergence of cortical foldings and structural asymmetries of the fetal brain. We also present a comparative analysis of growth rates of various brain
structures allowing us to understand the similarities and differences between regional growth trajectories. These growth models allow us to develop a baseline of developmental biomarkers with which to correlate abnormal development.
Host: Prof. Krishna Nayak
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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"Wind and Solar Power for the Electric Grid: Opportunities and Challenges"
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Mohammed Beshir, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Talk Title: "Wind and Solar Power for the Electric Grid: Opportunities and Challenges"
Abstract: Motivated by environmental policies and national security considerations there has been a tremendous increase in the development of renewable resources, specifically wind and solar power around the world in the last several years. As the opportunities for development of wind and solar power increase so are the challenges with the integration of the resources into the electric power grid. The seminar will outline some of the key opportunities and challenges associated with the high penetration of wind and solar in the electric power grid as well as some of the innovative ideas and concepts that are been developed to address these issues. Background information on the electric power grid, the key drivers of the development of renewable power, and some practical examples of the wind and solar development activities in the western U.S. will be also presented in the seminar.
Biography: Dr. Mohammed Beshir is an Assistant Director of Power System Planning and Development Division at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP). He has worked for LADWP for 31 years in various responsibilities including integrated resource planning, transmission planning, renewable project development, HVDC design, power contracts, distribution planning, and power reliability. Presently, he is heading LADWPâs research activities in renewable integration, electric power modeling, and storage systems.
Dr. Beshir has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of California and is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Electrophysics at USC and teaches graduate level power system classes.
Host: Dr. Alexander A. Sawchuk
More Information: Beshir Announcement 091112.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Sep 14, 2012 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Jafar Savoj, Xilinx
Talk Title: Design of High-Speed Wireline Transceivers for Backplane Communications in 28nm CMOS
Abstract: This presentation describes the design of the architecture and circuit blocks for backplane communication transceivers. A channel study investigates the major challenges in the design of high-speed reconfigurable transceivers. Architectural solutions resolving channel-induced signal distortions are proposed and their effectiveness on various channels is investigated.
Subsequently, the presentation describes the design of two fully-adaptive backplane transceivers embedded in state-of-the-art low-leakage 28nm CMOS FPGAs operating up to 12.5Gb/s and 13.1Gb/s. The receive AFE utilizes a three-stage CTLE to provide selective frequency boost for long-tail ISI cancellation. A speculative DFE removes the immediate post-cursor ISI. The second transceiver also uses a 4-tap sliding DFE to remove the post-cursor ISI up to 64 taps. Both CTLE and DFE are fully adaptive using sign-sign LMS algorithm. A novel clocking technique uses wideband LC and ring oscillators for reliable clocking for 0.6-12.5Gb/s and 0.6-13.1Gb/s operation. The transmitter utilizes a 3-tap FIR and provides flexibility for supply and ground referenced operation. The two transceivers achieve BER < 10-15 over a 33dB-loss backplane at 12.5Gb/s, and over a 31dB-loss backplane at 13.1Gb/s. Both transceivers achieve BER < 10-15 over channels with 10G-KR characteristics at 10.3125Gb/s.
Biography: Jafar Savoj received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1996, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1998 and 2001, respectively.
Dr. Savojâs areas of expertise include technology and product development for wireless, wireline, and analog systems. He is currently an Engineering Director with the Serdes Technology Group at Xilinx, San Jose, CA, and leads high-speed, low-power wireline transceiver development for FPGA applications. From 2008 to 2010, he was with Qualcomm, Santa Clara, CA, and led the advanced technology development group for wireless connectivity. He was responsible for development of WLAN and Near Field Communication (NFC) transceivers, and low power chip-to-chip interfaces for mobile platforms. From 2005 to 2008, he was a principal engineer at Rambus, where he developed ultra-high-speed data converters for software programmable wireline transceivers. Prior to that, he held design engineering positions at Marvell Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA, focusing on fiber channel and Gigabit Ethernet transceivers; and at Transpectrum, Los Angeles, CA, architecting 10-Gb/s and 40-Gb/s optical transceivers in CMOS technology. He held a lecturing position at Stanford University in 2004. He is the author of High-Speed CMOS Circuits for Optical Receivers (Kluwer, 2001).
Dr. Savoj was a recipient of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Fellowship for 2000â2001, and the Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence at the 2001 ISSCC, and the Design Contest Award of the 2001 Design Automation Conference. He serves as a technical program committee member of ISSCC (Analog Subcommittee). He served as a technical program committee member of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) from 2001 to 2007 and the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits from 2007 to 2011. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS from 2008 to 2011 and a Guest Editor for the Journal in 2005, 2006 and 2011.
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mahta Moghaddam, Prof. Mike Chen
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems
More Information: Savoj_sep14_flyer2.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Tue, Sep 18, 2012 @ 01:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Zhongping Chen, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine
Talk Title: "Advances In Optical Coherence Tomography: Translation Of Oct Technology From Bench To Bedside"
Abstract: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is one of the fastest growing areas of biomedical optics with many potential clinical applications. The recent development of Fourier domain OCT has significantly increased the imaging speed and sensitivity, and has enabled real-time 3-D imaging. The innovations in light source, detector, miniature probe, and image processing have greatly extended the clinical applications of OCT technology. Many of the functional extensions of OCT technology that were developed in the last decade, such as Doppler OCT, Polarization sensitivity OCT, and Phase resolved OCT, started to generate clinically important information in clinical studies. I will report several on-going research projects in my laboratory that focus on translating OCT technology to solve specific clinical problems. The challenges and opportunities in translational research will be discussed.
Biography: Dr. Zhongping Chen is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of OCT Laboratory at University of California, Irvine. He is a Co-Founder of OCT Medical Imaging Inc.. Dr. Chen received his B.S. degree in Applied Physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1982, his M. S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1987, and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Cornell University in 1993.
Dr. Chenâs research interests encompass the areas of biomedical photonics, microfabrication, biomaterials and biosensors. His research group has pioneered the development of functional optical coherence tomography, which simultaneously provides high resolution 3-D images of tissue structure, blood flow, and birefringence. He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers and review articles and holds a number of patents in the fields of biomaterials, biosensors, and biomedical imaging.
Dr. Chen is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), a Fellow of SPIE, and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
Host: Prof. Krishna Nayak
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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Improving RNA secondary structure prediction
Fri, Sep 21, 2012 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Michelle (Shel) Swensen, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Talk Title: Improving RNA secondary structure prediction
Abstract: RNA folding is one of the fundamental open problems in computational molecular biology. Thermodynamic optimization approaches, which find structures with minimum free energy (MFE), remain the most widely used RNA secondary structure prediction methods. Though these predictions do not always match known structures, the expectation is that structures with a lower free energy are more likely to contain native base pairings, even when the predicted MFE structure itself is not correct.
In this talk I will discuss two avenues for improving structural prediction in a thermodynamic framework: considering large sets of probable structures and augmenting thermodynamic models with additional experimental data.
The Boltzmann distribution specifies that the probability of RNA secondary structure is proportional to an exponential of the negative of its free energy. We present a novel combinatorial method for identifying patterns in structural elements across a Boltzmann sample. Our approach is based on classifying structures according to features chosen from well-defined structural units called helix classes. We show that this combinatorial profiling is straightforward, stable and surprisingly comprehensive.
Data from recently emerging high-throughput structure probing technologies, such as the SHAPE method, have been used in the framework of thermodynamic optimization to predict RNA secondary structure. Via stochastic simulations, we investigate the factors influencing the accuracy of SHAPE data-directed predictions as well as the potential of auxiliary data to further improve prediction accuracy.
Biography: Shel Swenson's training and research interest position her at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, and biology, where she utilizes discrete mathematics to answer questions in molecular and evolutionary biology. Her dissertation, completed under the advisement of Tandy Warnow at The University of Texas at Austin, developed methods for estimating large-scale evolutionary histories. Dr. Swenson is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she collaborates with Christine Heitsch and her students on problems in mathematical and computational biology.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series (Cancelled)
Fri, Sep 21, 2012 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Amir Mortazawi, University of Michigan
Talk Title: Frequency Agile Circuits Based on Thin Film Ferroelectrics
Abstract: This talk concentrates on the development of frequency agile circuits based on thin film ferroelectrics. Central to this effort is the use of barium strontium titanate (BST) which is a low loss, high dielectric constant and non-linear dielectric material. The electric field dependence of BST permittivity allows fabrication of tunable RF and microwave devices and components. Applications of BST based varactors for the design of adaptive matching circuits and linearized power amplifiers will be discussed. Another important characteristic of such materials is their dc electric field induced piezoelectric and electrostrictive effects. These properties can be utilized to design intrinsically switchable film bulk acoustic wave resonators (FBARs) and FBAR filters. By eliminating the switching devices used in conventional filter banks, ferroelectric based filters provide reduced size and power consumption necessary for the design of low power multi-standard radios. Recent results on the development of intrinsically switchable resonators and filters will be presented.
Biography: Prof. Amir Mortazawi received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, in 1990.
He is a currently a Professor of electrical engineering with The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His research interests include millimeter-wave circuits, phased arrays, power amplifiers, ferroelectric thin film based devices and frequency-agile microwave circuits.
Prof. Mortazawi was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES from 2006-2010. He is a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S) Administrative Committee (AdCom). He also served as Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION (1998â2001), IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES (2005). Mortazawi is a Fellow of IEEE.
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mahta Moghaddam, Prof. Mike Chen
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Multimodal Analysis for Audio-Driven Human Body Animation
Mon, Sep 24, 2012 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Engin Erzin, College of Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Talk Title: Multimodal Analysis for Audio-Driven Human Body Animation
Abstract: This talk will present an overview of the recent multimedia signal processing research portfolio on audio-driven human body animation at the Multimedia, Vision and Graphics Laboratory (MVGL) of Koc University. The talk will focus on two key applications. The first one will be music-driven choreography synthesis, where a novel framework will be presented for learning many-to-many statistical mappings from musical measures to dance figures towards generating plausible music-driven dance choreographies. The second application will be on automatic synthesis of gesticulation in synchrony with speech, where the correlation between prosody, head and upper-body gestures will be in the focus.
Biography: Engin Erzin (Sâ88âMâ96âSMâ06) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1990, 1992, and 1995, respectively, all in electrical engineering. During 1995â1996, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Signal Compression Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined Lucent Technologies in September 1996, and he was with the Consumer Products for one year as a Member of Technical Staff of the Global Wireless Products Group. From 1997 to 2001, he was with the Speech and Audio Technology Group of the Network Wireless Systems. He has been with the College of Engineering, Koç University, Sariyer-Istanbul, Turkey, as an assistant professor between January 2001 and July 2009 and as an associate professor since July 2009. Dr. Erzin is serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing (2010-2013). His research interests include speech signal processing, audio-visual signal processing, human-computer interaction, and pattern recognition.
Host: Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 320
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mary Francis
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The Spoken Web
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 @ 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Amit Nanavati, IBM Research India
Talk Title: The Spoken Web
Abstract: The Spoken Web is a system that leverages the pervasiveness of mobile phones in developing countries and allows the creation, deployment, and hosting of voice-driven applications called VoiceSites by any phone subscriber. It attempts to empower users by giving them the opportunity to become content creators and provides a mechanism for users to access information and content with affordable devices (just a regular telephone). Being a voice-driven system, it extends the access to ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) to illiterate users. Many users in the developing world are now creating and accessing information through the Spoken Web platform. The content ranges from information about people and events in a village to information about the crop prices in the market, to business information for the unorganized workforce in developing regions. This session will start with the need for such a technology, then focus on the technology platform that drives the Spoken Web and will finally end with some interesting field insights that were derived as a result of it being used by low-literate users for a period of more than three years.
Biography: Amit is a Senior Researcher and barely manages Telecom Solutions Research at IBM Research, India. He has been working on Telecom social network analysis (SNAzzy) since its inception in 2006. He is also a âSpoken Webâ evangelist â trying to promote the vision of a world-wide Spoken Web hosted in the Telecom network, which does not require an Internet connection or the ability to read and write. He is always interested in applying graph theory to various domains. He also dabbles with speech in mobile and pervasive environments. Along with Nitendra, he has been co-hosting the SiMPE workshop for the last 7 years at the ACM MobileHCI conference. Together they wrote a book on âSpeech in Mobile and Pervasive Environmentsâ published by Wiley in 2012. Much to his surprise and that of his friends, he was named a Master Inventor at IBM Research in 2011.
Host: Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 320
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mary Francis
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 @ 01:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Shuliang Jiao, Department of Ophthalmology and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California
Talk Title: "Multi-modal Retinal Imaging: Technology Development"
Abstract: Photoacoustic ophthalmoscopy (PAOM) is a new retinal imaging technology based on the photoacoustic effect. PAOM detects the ultrasonic waves induced by pulsed laser light shined onto the retina. PAOM offers the unique capability to measure optical absorption contrast in the retina, which is suitable for imaging retinal vessel oxygenation and the pigmentation of the RPE cells. Since PAOM is compatible with optical coherence tomography, scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, and autofluorescence imaging, registered multimodal images can be acquired from a single device at comparable resolution for comprehensive anatomic and functional retinal characterizations. Therefore, photoacoustic ophthalmoscopy is anticipated to have applications in both research and clinical diagnosis of many blinding diseases. This talk will cover the principles of PAOM, the integration of PAOM with OCT and auto-fluorescence for multimodal imaging, and the integration of adaptive optics in PAOM.
Biography: Shuliang Jiao, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Southern California. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2003. His research interest is bio-optical imaging. His current research focus is optical coherence tomography (OCT) and photoacoustic microscopy with the emphasis of their applications in eye imaging. He is one of the pioneers in Mueller-matrix polarization-sensitive OCT, OCT small animal ocular imaging, and photoacoustic retinal imaging. He also holds four US patents and several US patent applications.
Host: Prof. Krishna Nayak
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Sep 28, 2012 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Un-Ku Moon, Oregon State University
Talk Title: Itâs About Time! (Making Best Use of Information in Time)
Abstract: Everybody loves ADCs... And recently there has been a lot of chatter about Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs). I haven't made up my mind yet about TDCs, but there certainly is an interesting aspect of TDCs in that the focus is on time rather than voltage. As we look more deeply into this, we are finding there are benefits to reap from making best use of time--information in time or time domain signal processing and analysis. Like anything else, these ideas are sure to be showered with doubts and criticisms. However, we can not ignore the possibility that such use of time may be leading us into a new era of ADCs that could yield exceptional power efficiency and performance. This talk will summarize a few well known techniques on this topic, as well as some recent developments in my own research team at the Oregon State University.
Biography: Prof. Un-Ku Moon has been with the Oregon State University since 1998. Prior to that, he was with Bell Labs (Reading & Allentown) 1988-1989 and 1994-1998. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington, a master's degree from Cornell University, and a PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His current research activities are found at http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/~moon/research.
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mahta Moghaddam, Prof. Mike Chen
More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
