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EiS Communications Hub - Tutoring for Engineering Ph.D. StudentsWed, Nov 13, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Come to the EiS Communications Hub for one-on-one tutoring from Viterbi faculty for Ph.D. writing and speaking projects!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A
Audiences: Viterbi Ph.D. Students
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home
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ECE Seminar: Scaling Energy Efficiency of Mobile XR using Hardware/Software Codesign
Wed, Nov 13, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Scott Mahlke, Claude E. Shannon Professor of Engineering Sciences, EECS Department, University of Michigan
Talk Title: Scaling Energy Efficiency of Mobile XR using Hardware/Software Codesign
Abstract: Extended Reality (XR) is an important frontier in technology that combines virtual reality (VR) wherein users are immersed in a virtual world and augmented reality (AR) wherein virtual content is overlayed on the real world. Mobile XR focuses on the realization of AR/VR technologies in the context of portable headsets and other wearable technology, which severely restricts power dissipation and weight requirements for the onboard computing and sensory systems. The constraints preclude direct adoption of desktop/server solutions, instead require efficiency scaling by one to two orders of magnitude. To solve this problem, this work focuses on specialization of both the XR software stack and the underlying hardware. On the software side, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms that track an agent's movements through an unknown environment are too computationally expensive to be applied in a brute-force manner. Instead, we develop SlimSLAM, a domain-specific runtime scheduler, which adapts SLAM algorithmic parameters based on input needs, minimizing computation while maintaining accuracy. SlimSLAM exploits information from a SLAM algorithm's state to detect and adjust over-provisioned parameters in real-time. SlimSLAM outperforms other adaptive approaches by an average of 2.3x with iso-accuracy. On the hardware side, we focus on in-memory computing that enables data parallel computation to occur in-place in an on-chip memory system, thereby eliminating data movement into and out of the processor and achieving high levels of data parallel computation. Specifically, we develop a duality cache architecture that flexibly transforms caches on demand into programmable in-memory accelerators that can execute arbitrary data-parallel programs commonly used in AR/VR. The cache accelerator outperforms a server-class GPU by 3.6x and CPU by 72.6x with only a 3.5% area cost across a range of data parallel applications.
Biography: Scott Mahlke is the Claude E. Shannon Professor of Engineering Sciences in the EECS Department at the University of Michigan. He leads the Compilers Creating Custom Processors research group that focuses on hardware/software technologies for scaling performance, energy efficiency, and cost of computing systems through specialization of the hardware down to the software it runs. Mahlke has won numerous awards including the 2022 IEEE B. Ramakrishna Rau Award, and is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM.
Host: Drs. Murali Annavaram (annavara@usc.edu) and Viktor Prasanna (prasanna@usc.edu)
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97853375830?pwd=3oQpMoZJyA9SVdgaGf40va9ObZJl4r.1 (USC NetID log in required)Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97853375830?pwd=3oQpMoZJyA9SVdgaGf40va9ObZJl4r.1 (USC NetID log in required)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Viterbi - Networking for Engineering Students
Wed, Nov 13, 2024 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This event is for Viterbi Engineering Students only. Please register through Handshake. This event is virtual.
Are you looking to expand your professional network? Join Viterbi Career Connections for "Networking for Engineering Students," an engaging workshop designed to help you learn how to build meaningful connections and leverage them for career success.
In this engaging workshop, you will:
Learn why networking is essential for engineering students and how it can help you land internships, job offers, and mentorship opportunities.
Discover strategies for connecting with professionals in the engineering field, both online and in-person.
Gain insights into using Viterbi Link, Linkedin, and other platforms to connect with industry experts, alumni, and potential employers.
Get tips on the elevator pitch, ask meaningful questions, and make a lasting impression at career fairs, employer-hosted events, and networking events.
Participate in an interactive exercise to help you practice your networking skills in a supportive environment.
Walk away with action items and resources to start building your professional network.
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/
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Computer Science General Faculty Meeting
Wed, Nov 13, 2024 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
Bi-Weekly regular faculty meeting for invited full-time Computer Science faculty and staff only. Event details emailed directly to attendees.
Location: Ginsburg Hall (GCS) - 107
Audiences: Invited Faculty Only
Contact: Julia Mittenberg-Beirao
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Seminar - Raghuveer (Raghu) M. Rao, Ph.D., Wednesday, November 13th at 1:30pm in EEB 248
Wed, Nov 13, 2024 @ 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Raghuveer (Raghu) M. Rao, Ph.D., Chief, Intelligent Perception Branch DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory FCDD-RLA-IE
Talk Title: The Army Research Laboratory: Some Current Interests and Opportunities
Abstract: The DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is the primary executor of basic and multiple technical competencies, ARL welcomes collaboration with external partners to further its mission of operationalizing science. The talk will provide an overview of ARL followed by a description of select opportunities and current research efforts.
Biography: Dr. Raghuveer Rao is the Chief of the Intelligent Perception Branch at the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Adelphi, Maryland, where he oversees R&D in multimodal computer vision and applications, mainly to autonomous systems and scene understanding. Prior to joining ARL, Dr. Rao was a professor of electrical engineering and imaging science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has held visiting appointments with the Indian Institute of Science, the US Air Force Research Laboratory, the US Naval Surface Warfare Center, and Princeton University. He has made multiple research contributions to signal & image processing, communication, and computer vision, and serves as an ABET program evaluator for electrical engineering. Dr. Rao is a life fellow of IEEE and an elected fellow of SPIE.
Host: Richard Leahy
More Information: Raghuveer Rao Flyer.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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PhD Thesis Proposal - Xiao Fu
Wed, Nov 13, 2024 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Title: Computational Wildfire-proneLandscape Design and Mapping
Date and Time: Nov 13, 2 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: SAL 300
Committee members: Barath Raghavan, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Ramesh Govindan, Peter Beerel, and Dani Yogatama
Abstract: Firefighters still rely on coarse remote sensing and inaccurate eyewitness reports to localize spreading wildfires. Despite advances in sensing, UAVs, and computer vision, the community has yet to combine the right modalities to achieve effective wildfire geolocalization and spotting. We present FireLoc, a fast and accurate wildfire crowdsensing system that localizes and maps wildfires combining ground cameras and landscape data. Prior image-based localization techniques fail in vegetated areas as they are tuned for close-range human-built environments. Instead, FireLoc integrates monocular depth mapping models, topography models, and cross-camera methods to achieve over 1000m range in vegetated environments leveraging low-cost smartphones. Due to the paucity of historical wildfire data, we built a wildfire simulator to provide additional data for validation. We show that FireLoc surpasses prior wildfire mapping work and reduces wildfire mapping time from hours to seconds.In future work, we propose a complete system that ensures landscape monitoring beyond the early wildfire propagation phase. We then emphasize multimodal approaches to landscape understanding for adaptive fuel analysis. Beyond monitoring the wildfire expansion, future systems can structurally understand the shifting landscape.Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 300
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ellecia Williams
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AME Seminar
Wed, Nov 13, 2024 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Robert Kohn, New York University
Talk Title: Mechanism-based mechanical metamaterials
Abstract: The design and analysis of mechanism-based mechanical metamaterials is a relatively new and rapidly growing research area. It studies artificial "materials" that take advantage of "mechanisms" (that is, nontrivialenergy-free deformations) to achieve interesting macroscopic behavior.The relevant mechanics is nonlinear, since mechanisms involve large rotations. While there have been insightful studies of specific examples, some fundamental issues remain poorly understood. This talk will address two of them, namely (a) how to analyze a metamaterial's macroscopic behavior, and (b) whether linear elastic calculations can still be of use in the analysis of such systems, despite the fact that their mechanisms involve large rotations? My talk will start with a broad introduction to this area; then I'll discuss some recent work with Xuenan Li, which focuses on a particular (very rich) example -- the Kagome metamaterial. This system is interesting because it has infinitely many mechanisms, yet it behaves macroscopically as anonlinear elastic material whose stress-free states are compressive conformal maps.
Biography: Robert V. Kohn is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at New YorkUniversity's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Princeton in 1979, then held a two-year NSFPostdoctoral Fellowship which took him to the Courant Institute. He joined the faculty of the Courant Institute 1981, becoming Full Professor in 1988 and Silver Professor in 2017 before choosing to retire in 2022. Much of his work has addressed problems from mechanics and physics using methods from the calculus of variations and partial differential equations. He has, in particular, studied many examples of energy-driven pattern formation, in diverse systems ranging from shape-memory materials to thin elastic sheets. Professor Kohn's recognitions include selection as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, receipt of the American Mathematical Society's 2014 Leroy P. Steele Award, and being selected as both a SIAM Fellow and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Host: AME Department
More Info: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 202
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tessa Yao
Event Link: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
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PhD Dissertation Defense - Ayush Jain
Wed, Nov 13, 2024 @ 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
University Calendar
Presentation Title: Decision Making in Complex Action Spaces
Committee Members: Erdem Biyik, Joseph J Lim, Gaurav Sukhatme, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Feifei Quan
Date and Time: Wed., Nov. 13th, 2024: 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Location: VHE 214
Abstract: The action space of a reinforcement learning agent defines how it interacts with the world, whether selecting discrete items in a recommender system or controlling continuous movements in robotics. An agent is considered optimal when, at every step, it chooses an action within its action space that maximizes the expected future return. In this thesis, I study the relationship between expected returns and action space, identifying three key complexities that make certain tasks challenging. Specifically, I address decision-making in (1) unseen actions, such as new items to recommend; (2) changing action spaces, like variable inventory or toolset; and (3) locally optimal actions that hinder the search for the global best action. For each, we propose solutions to enhance agent adaptability and decision-making across complex action spaces.
Zoom Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/91845196972?pwd=ghI6Q1gZmsmvonVUlFOTffDLAFwFY9.1Location: Vivian Hall of Engineering (VHE) - 214
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ayush Jain
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Viterbi - Meta Recruiting Session
Wed, Nov 13, 2024 @ 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This event is for Viterbi Engineering students only, non-Viterbi students will not be admitted. Please register on Handshake.
The Meta Recruiting Team is excited to be back on the USC campus for an evening filled with information sharing, networking, and food! The evening will consist of information shared about Life @ Meta, engineering panel, etc. We also intend to have time for general networking, where you can have candid conversations with engineers and recruiters. We will have food and drink for consumption, so don’t worry about dinner that evening. We will provide a Splash Page with further details about the agenda, speakers, etc. prior to the event date.
Majors: Computer Science and related majors.
Individuals with disabilities who need accommodations to attend this event may contact Viterbi Career Connections at vcareers@usc.edu">vcareers@usc.edu or (213) 740-9677. It is requested that individuals requiring accommodations or auxiliary aids such as sign language interpreters and alternative format materials notify us at least 7 days prior to the event. Every reasonable effort will be made to provide reasonable accommodations in an effective and timely mannerLocation: May Ormerod Harris Hall, Quinn Wing & Fisher Gallery (HAR) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/
