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Events for March 31, 2025
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Controls Seminar: Jim Misener
Mon, Mar 31, 2025 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jim Misener, Senior Director, Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
Talk Title: En Route to the Intersection of V2X and Automated Vehicles
Abstract: This talk will cover the long journey to vehicle to all ( V2X) communications, focusing on the United States but referencing other global regions as well. It will begin with the safety-focused origins for ad hoc short-range communications, then progress to how the underlying radio access technology works, and the C-V2X vs DSRC comparison where ultimately C-V2X emerged as the protocol of choice in North America. The talk will also cover application profiles for a so-called Day 1 deployment and will end with a prognosis. It will progress to the thesis of the talk, that there is still a journey ahead whereby V2X messages could be used for a dream that many academics, policy makers and some OEMs have, a connected and automated vehicle or CAV with real-time V2X communication the link between vehicles and the nearby infrastructure.
Biography: Jim Misener is Senior Director, Product Management and Global V2X Ecosystem Lead for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. He develops and executes C-V2X deployment strategies across all global regions, working with automotive, road owner-operator and telecommunications partners to accomplish broad C-V2X deployment. Jim also develops IoT solutions for transportation markets. Previously at Qualcomm Technologies, Jim led the automotive standards team. Jim was a pioneer in vehicle-highway automation and vehicle safety communication at the California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) at UC Berkeley. He served as the PATH Executive Director, Executive Advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton, and as an independent consultant. In these roles Jim has experience and reputation from delivering dozens of technology projects with large scale safety impact. In addition to his roles at Qualcomm Technologies, Jim serves as a 5GAA Board member, ITS America Board member and ITS California senior advisor. He also serves on the IEEE ITS Society Board of Governors and is co-chair of the TRB Roadway Digital Infrastructure Joint Working Group. He established and is the immediate past chair of the SAE C-V2X Technical Committee. Jim is an Advisory Council member to Mobility 21-Traffic 21 University Transportation Center led by Carnegie Melon University and on the Technical Advisory Board to the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation at the University of Michigan. Jim is also a member SAE WCX Technical Advisory Committee. Jim holds BS and MS degrees from UCLA and USC and is an IEEE Fellow.
Host: Dr. Petros Ioannou, ioannou@usc.edu | Dr. Mihailo Jovanovic, mihailo@usc.edu
More Info: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96670292602
More Information: 2025.03.31 ECE Seminar - Jim Misener.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - EEB 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Miki Arlen
Event Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96670292602
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. -
AAI-CCI-MHI Seminar on CPS: David Snyder
Mon, Mar 31, 2025 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: David Snyder, PhD Candidate
Talk Title: How Do We Know Good Policies When We See Them?
Abstract: The recent and ongoing revolution in state-of-the-art robotic architectures has dramatically altered the empirical and theoretical landscape of robotics research. Unprecedented empirical success rates on long-horizon tasks with nonlinear dynamics and high-dimensional sensory inputs have been achieved through the adoption of large models, trained on large datasets, requiring large compute budgets. However, these substantial successes contravene many principles of generalization and robustness in the theories of statistical learning and control. Equally pressing, significant empirical gaps remain to human-level performance, and the observed presence of unpredictable yet preventable failure modes has driven research attention to rigorous methods for uncertainty quantification, robust control, and the understanding of fundamental limits of robotic procedures that are implemented in the real world. In this talk, I will discuss several works that investigate the "Evaluator Problem" for robotic tasks in varied uncertainty regimes, with the goal of providing practical, computable, and non-vacuous guarantees that complement the increasingly complex robotic decision-making procedures used in practice. In each instance, the core insight is to treat large models as input-output filters and design structure in the output space that is amenable to analytical methods. I will conclude with a brief discussion of two promising future directions: modeling uncertainty regimes which interpolate stochastic and adversarial scenarios, and nonparametric questions of data efficiency in robotic applications.
Biography: David Snyder is a final-year PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, where he works in the Intelligent Robot Motion (IRoM) Lab advised by Prof. Anirudha Majumdar. Previously, he received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Economics from the University of Maryland. Snyder's work focuses on constructing efficient, non-vacuous, and practical guarantees for the generalization and safety of robotic systems operating in unstructured environments, with particular emphasis on augmenting the roboticist's capacity to adaptively evaluate the behavior of complex systems and reduce the epistemic risk of static design decisions. During his PhD he is fortunate to have collaborated with multiple external research groups including Google DeepMind and the Toyota Research Institute. Additionally, he is a grateful recipient of the NSF GRFP.
Host: Stephen Tu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ariana Perez
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.
