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Events for April 19, 2013
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Backscatter, MIMO, Ultra-Wideband: Three Independent Worlds?
Fri, Apr 19, 2013 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Daniel Arnitz, Duke University
Talk Title: Backscatter, MIMO, Ultra-Wideband: Three Independent Worlds?
Abstract: Three systems have independently revolutionized the physical layer of wireless communications in the past decade: backscatter communications, multi-input-multi-output systems, and ultra-wideband signaling. Yet, are these concepts as independent and incompatible as they initially appear, or can these fields learn from each other? The talk will span topics from backscatter tag localization (i.e. secondary radar), ultra-wideband backscatter propagation channels, and MIMO wireless power transfer, to a potential new application of these technologies: real-time ultra-wideband channel modeling.
Biography: Daniel Arnitz is a PostDoc at Duke University (NC, USA), working on backscatter channel modeling and prediction, MIMO wireless power transfer, and RFID localization. He received his Master degree Dipl.-Ing.(FH) in electrical engineering from the University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum Kapfenberg, Austria, in 2005, and a Ph.D. (Dr. techn.) degree from Graz University of Technology, Austria, in 2011 (both degrees with honors). His Ph.D. thesis covers the field of tag localization in passive UHF RFID and his diploma thesis focused on a feasibility study of (burst) error correcting codes for long-range RFID systems. Daniel is TPC Chair of IEEE RFID 2012 and 2013 and maintainer of the PARIS simulation framework, an open-source simulation engine intended for researching (ultra-)wideband backscatter systems.
Host: Andreas Molisch, x04670, molisch@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Apr 19, 2013 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Donhee Ham, Harvard University
Talk Title: Solid-state and Biological Systems Interface
Abstract: The complexity, programmability, small size, and low cost of solid-state devices in direct contact with living organisms or their in vitro or ex vivo subsystems can open up new exciting vistas in biology and biotechnology. In this talk, I would like to review some recent developments along this direction, especially, some past and on-going works in my own research group at Harvard. These will include spin-resonance based radio-frequency (RF) biomolecular sensors, and a variety of silicon + electrochemistry interfaces aimed at analyzing proteins, DNA, and population cellular dynamics for personalized medicine, genetics, and neurotechnology.
Biography: Donhee Ham, from Busan, South Korea, and a 2011, 2012, and 2013 Harvard Yearbook Favorite Professor, is Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and EE at Harvard University. He earned a B.S. degree in physics from Seoul National University where he graduated summa cum laude with the Presidential Prize, ranked top 1st across the College of Natural Sciences, and also with the Physics Gold Medal (sole winner). Following a 1.5 years of mandatory military service in the Republic of Korea Army, he went to Caltech for graduate training in physics. There he worked on general relativity and gravitational astrophysics under Professor Barry Barish, and later obtained a Ph.D. in EE winning the Charles Wilts Prize awarded for the best thesis in EE. His doctoral work examined the statistical physics of electrical circuits. He was the recipient of the IBM Doctoral Fellowship, Li Ming Scholarship, IBM Faculty Partnership Award, IBM Research Design Challenge Award, the KFAS fellowship,the Hoopes prize (/w William Andress), and the recognition by MIT Technology Review as among the world's top 35 young innovators in 2008 (TR35). Ham was one of 8 Harvard Thinks Big speakers in 2012 (8 Harvard faculty chosen by college-wide votes). He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. Donhee Ham's work experiences include Caltech-MIT Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), IBM T. J. Watson Research, Consulting Visiting Professorship at POSTECH, IEEE conference technical program committees, advisory board, or associated/guest editorships in, for example, the IEEE ISSCC, IEEE ASSCC, IEEE ISCAS, IEEE T-Biocas, and IEEE JSSC, and various US, Korea, and Japan industry, government, & academic technical advisory positions. The current intellectual focus efforts of his group are in: 1) solid-state and biological systems interface; 2) nanoscale and/or low-dimensional plasmonics, spintronics, and quantum devices; 3) analog, RF/microwave, and mixed-signal integrated circuits.
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi and Prof. Mike Chen
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
