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Events for April 29, 2010
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Investment in Technology Development and Technology Transfer in the Arab world: Opportunities & chal
Thu, Apr 29, 2010 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Hosted by Prof. Cauligi RaghavendraSpeaker: Alaya Bettaieb, Director Arab Academic Tech Transfer project at the Arab Science & Technology Foundation; Manager of MENA Technology Fund (raising); Former Chairman, Tunisia Venture Capital AssociationAbstract:
Last June, President Obama visited Cairo and delivered a landmark speech to the Muslim and Arab world, meant to launch a new era of US engagement for the development of better political cultural and business relations. A crucial part of his strategy was the announcement of multi-million dollars technology fund, centers of excellence, and technology transfer assistance for Muslim-majority countries, designed to jumpstart a new knowledge economy and forge business ties that can bridge cultures. Indeed, the Arabic-speaking world represents a vast untapped customer base of more than 320 million people, with a global market size of hundreds billion dollars and a high forecasted growth rate. Biography:
Mr. Bettaieb, former chairman of the Tunisian Venture Capital Association, and director of the Arab Academic Technology Transfer project within the Arab Science & Technology Foundation, will present Thursday 29 April, in a lecture entitled: "Investment in Technology development and technology transfer in the Arab world : Opportunities & challenges", the state of Technology development, investment and transfer in the Middle East & Northern Africa "MENA" region, with both identified opportunities and emerging challenges facing such development.Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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Strategic Research and Innovation: An Excited-State Lifetime of 40 Years at AT&T Bell Labs
Thu, Apr 29, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Tingye Li,
Formerly of AT&T LabsRefreshments will be providedAbstract: Strategic research may be regarded as work that is focused on producing viable advances and innovations in a particular field. It can be fundamental or applied, but always involves having realistic goals in mind, an understanding of physics and limitations, and an appreciation for application issues. It is often associated with a vision that could launch a new technical direction and lead to innovations that engender significant industrial and societal impact. Innovation, on the other hand, is a process by which ideas or concepts are translated into viable applications. The innovative process can initially be a one-person or small-group effort, but later will involve usually a large-scale, institutionally-supported, team endeavor, driven by significant and measurable operational and economical gains. In this talk, I shall relate my experiences and observations of world-class strategic research and innovation in the field of optical fiber communications at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a participant over an excited-professional-state lifetime of 40 years.Biography: Tingye Li retired from AT&T in 1998. Until then, he was a Division Manager in the Communications Infrastructure Research Laboratory of AT&T Laboratories in New Jersey. Since joining AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1957, he has worked in the areas of antennas, microwave propagation, lasers and optical communications, in which he has contributed more than 100 journal papers, patents, books and book chapters. His early work on laser resonator modes established the basis for the understanding of laser operation and is considered a classic. Since the late 1960s, he and his groups have been engaged in pioneering research on lightwave technologies and systems, which are now ubiquitously deployed in telecommunications infrastructures worldwide. His work with his colleagues on amplified wavelength-division-multiplexed transmission systems has revolutionized lightwave communications.He holds a Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University. He is a Fellow of the OSA, IEEE, AAAS, Photonic Society of Chinese-Americans, and International Engineering Consortium. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has received the IEEE Baker Prize, IEEE David Sarnoff Award, OSA/IEEE John Tyndall Award, OSA Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus Quinn Endowment, AT&T Science and Technology Medal, IEEE Photonics Award, and IEEE Edison Medal. He was named an honorary professor at many prestigious universities in China and Taiwan. He has been active in various professional societies, and was President of the Optical Society of America in 1995.Host: Prof. Alan Willner, willner@usc.eduLocation: Charles Lee Powell Hall (PHE) - 223
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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[Photonics Seminar] Photonics based Telemedicine Technologies toward Smart Global Health Systems
Thu, Apr 29, 2010 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Prof. Aydogan Ozcan, UCLAAbstract:
Most of these existing cellphones are already equipped with advanced digital imaging and sensing platforms that can be utilized for various health monitoring applications. This impressive advancement is one of the central building blocks of the emerging fields of ¡°Telemedicine¡± and ¡°Wireless Health¡±. I will introduce new imaging and detection architectures that can compensate in the digital domain for the lack of complexity of optical components by use of novel theories and numerical algorithms to address the immediate needs and requirements of Telemedicine for Global Health Problems. Specifically, I will present an on-chip cytometry and microscopy platform that utilizes cost-effective and compact components to enable digital recognition and 3D microscopic imaging of cells with sub-cellular resolution over a large field of view without the need for any lenses, bulky optical components or coherent sources such as lasers. This incoherent holographic imaging and diagnostic modality has orders of magnitude improved light collection efficiency and is robust to misalignments which eliminates potential imaging artifacts or the need for realignment, making it highly suitable for field use.Bio:
Dr. Aydogan Ozcan received his Ph.D. degree at Stanford University Electrical Engineering Department in 2005. After a short post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University, he is appointed as a Research Faculty Member at Harvard Medical School, Wellman Center for Photomedicine in 2006. Dr. Ozcan joined UCLA in the summer of 2007 as an Assistant Professor, where he is currently leading the Bio-Photonics Laboratory at the Electrical Engineering Department. In 2009, Dr. Ozcan received the NIH Director¡¯s New Innovator Award, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, the IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Young Investigator Award and the MIT¡¯s TR35 Award for his seminal contributions to near-field and on-chip imaging, and telemedicine based diagnostics. Prof. Ozcan is also the recipient of the 2010 Netexplorateur Award given by the Netexplorateur Observatory and Forum in France, and the 2009 Wireless Innovation Award organized by the Vodafone Americas Foundation as well as the 2008 Okawa Foundation Award, given by the Okawa Foundation in Japan.Host:
Prof. Michelle PovinelliLocation: EE 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jing Ma
