IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Workshop, Spring 2007
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Abstracts and Biographies
Title
Ubiquitous Computing Research at IBM
Speaker
Dr. Ellen J. Yoffa
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York
Abstract
Better life. More profitable business. This is the promise of truly ubiquitous computing. This talk will describe a range of innovative projects at IBM Research which show how technology can enable users to interact with their environment and others - to capture the value of pervasive computation.
Biography
Ellen J. Yoffa is currently Director of User Technologies at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York. She leads research in a broad range of activities focused on the user side of computing. This work covers the interaction of humans with computers as well as the platform required to support that interaction - human language technologies, collaborative and social computing, accessibility and client infrastructure. She heads a team of about 150 research scientists.
Prior to her current position, Dr. Yoffa held executive positions leading research in next generation web technologies and in emerging system technologies. This work comprised computer system hardware and software ranging from handheld devices to massively parallel computers, sensor networks and web infrastructure. She also spent one year as technical assistant to the President of the IBM Research Division.
Dr. Yoffa is 2007 Past-President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and is a member of the IEEE Technical Activities Strategic Planning Committee. She chairs the external advisory board of the University of Massachusetts Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
Her most recent technical contributions have been in the area of electronic design automation. She received the 2006 Marie R. Pistilli Achievement Award for Women in Electronic Design Automation. She has been General Chair of the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference and has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of IEEE Spectrum magazine.
She received a BS and PhD in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where her area of study was theoretical solid state physics. Dr. Yoffa is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, ACM and Sigma Xi.
Wireless Sensors networks: the New Melting Pot
Speaker
Dr. Magdy Bayoumi
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Abstract
Computers, communication, and sensing technologies are converging to change the way we live, interact, and conduct business. Wireless sensor networks reçect such convergence. These networks are based on collaborative efforts of a large number of sensor nodes. They should be low-cost, low-power, and multifunction. These nodes have the capabilities of sensing, data processing, and communicating. Sensor networks have a wide range of applications, from monitoring sensors in industrial facilities to control and management of energy applications to military and security fields. Because of the special features of these networks, new network technologies are needed for cost effective, low power, and reliable communication. These network protocols and architectures should take into consideration the special features of sensor networks such as: the large number of nodes, their failure rate, limited power, high density, etc. In this talk the impact of wireless sensor networks will be addressed, several of the design and communication issues will be discussed, and a case study of a current project of using such networks in drilling and management off-shore oil and natural gas in the gulf region will be given.
Biography
Dr. Magdy A. Bayoumi is Director of The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), and Department Head of the Computer Science Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette). He is also Edmiston Professor of Computer Engineering, and Lamson Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Bayoumi has been a faculty member in CACS since 1985. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt; M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis; and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Windsor, Canada. Dr. Bayoumi is the recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2003 Education Award, and he is an IEEE Fellow. He was on the governor's commission for developing a comprehensive energy policy for the State of Louisiana. He represented the CAS Society on the IEEE National Committee on Engineering R&D policy, IEEE National Committee on Communication and Information Policy, and IEEE National Committee on Energy Policy.
Dr. Bayoumi has graduated more than 30 Ph.D. and about 175 Master's students. He has published over 300 papers in related journals and conferences. He edited, co-edited and co-authored 5 books in his research interests. He was and has been Guest Editor (or Co-Guest Editor) of eight special issues in VLSI Signal Processing, Learning on Silicon, Multimedia Architecture, Digital and Computational Video, Perception on a Chip, and Systems on a Chip. He has given numerous invited lectures and talks nationally and internationally, and has consulted in industry.
Dr. Bayoumi is the Vice President for Conferences of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society, where he has served in many editorial, administrative, and leadership capacities, including Vice President for Technical Activities. He was Chair and Founder of "Circuits and Systems for Communication" Technical Committee. He was Chair of VLSI Systems and Applications (VSA) Technical Committee (TC). He is General Chair of the forthcoming ISCAS 2007 to be held in New Orleans. He was General Chair of the Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception, 1993, New Orleans. He was General Chair of the IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 1994) (Lafayette), and Co-General Chair of MWSCAS 2003 (Cairo). Dr. Bayoumi served as General Chair of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLS 1998), Lafayette, LA; General Chair of the VLSI Signal Processing Systems Workshop (SiPS 2000), Lafayette, LA; General Chair of the International Workshop of Digital and Computational Video (DCV 2002), Clearwater Beach, FL; and General Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI 2004), Lafayette, LA.
He was Associate Editor of the Circuits and Devices Magazine, Transaction on VLSI Systems, Transaction on Neural Networks, and Transaction on Circuits and Systems II. Dr. Bayoumi is Associate Editor of INTEGRATION, VLSI Journal and Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems. He was Associate Editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers. He is Regional Editor for the VLSI Design Journal and on the Advisory Board of the Journal on Microelectronics Systems Integration. Dr. Bayoumi served on the Distinguished Visitors Program for IEEE Computer Society, 1991-1994, and Circuits and Systems Distinguished Program, 1999-2001. Dr. Bayoumi was Chair of the ASSP Technical Committee on Signal Processing Systems Design and Implementation. He is Faculty Advisor for the IEEE Computer Student Chapter at UL Lafayette, the winner of the 2002 Outstanding Chapter Award. He won UL Lafayette 1988 Researcher of the Year award and 1993 Distinguished Professor award at UL Lafayette.
Dr. Bayoumi served on the technology panel and advisory board of the U.S. Department of Education project, "Special Education Beyond Year 2010," 1990-1993. He was Vice President of Acadiana Technology Council. He was on the organizing committee for Acadiana's 3rd Internet Workshop, 1999. He gave the keynote speech in "Acadiana Y2K Workshop," 1999, Lafayette. He is a member of Lafayette Chamber of Commerce where he was a member of the Economic Development, Education, and Tourism Committees. Dr. Bayoumi was a technology columnist and writer of the Lafayette newspaper, "The Daily Advertiser".
Title
The Design of High-Speed Low-Power Digital FIR Filters Based on Frequency-Response Masking Technique
Speaker
Dr. Yong Lian
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore
Abstract
The digital filters are basic building blocks in many digital signal processing systems. Finite impulse response (FIR) filters are often desirable due to their guaranteed stability and linear phase characteristics. However, the arithmetic complexity of an FIR filter becomes very high if a long filter is needed to meet the stringent frequency-selective specifications. The VLSI implementation of a long FIR filter requires great computational resources, large silicon area, and high power. Frequency-response masking (FRM) technique is one of the most computationally efficient techniques for synthesizing arbitrary bandwidth sharp FIR filters. In some cases the reduction on the number of multipliers can be as high as 98%. The basic idea of the FRM technique is to compose a sharp FIR filter using several short filters. There are two stages in an FRM approach. The first stage is to produce the sharp transition band and arbitrary bandwidth by a pair of interpolated complementary band-edge shaping filters, whereas the second stage forms the overall filter by removing the undesired periodic frequency components from the band-edge shaping filters using two masking filters. The interpolation of band-edge shaping filter leads to a filter with sparse coefficients. Such a sparse coefficient filter not only achieves great savings in the number of multipliers and adders, but also reduces the power consumption significantly when such a filter is implemented in an ASIC. The high efficiency of the FRM technique makes it very attractive for the modern filter design, especially for the low-power applications. The talk will present the most recent developments in the FRM technique including various modified FRM structures that yield additional savings in the number of arithmetic operations, high-speed low-power filters based on FRM technique, and implementation issues of FRM based filters.
Biography
Yong Lian (S'90-M'93-SM'99) received the B.Sc degree from the School of Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 1984, and the Ph.D degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 1994. He was with the Nanyang Computer Co., Brighten Information Technology Ltd, SyQuest Technology International, and Xyplex Inc. from 1984 to 1996. He joined the National University of Singapore in 1996 where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include digital filter design, low power IC design for biomedical devices, and RF IC design. He is author or co-author of over 100 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. Dr Lian is a recipient of the 1996 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's Guillemin-Cauer Award for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II.
Dr. Lian is serving as Associate Editors for the IEEE Trans. On Biomedical Circuits and Systems, the IEEE TCAS II, and the journal of Circuits Systems and Signal Processing (CSSP). He was Associate Editors for the IEEE TCAS I and TCAS II from 2002-2005, Guest Editors for the Special Issues in IEEE TCAS I (2005) and the CSSP(2003 and 2006). Dr. Lian has involved in various IEEE technical activities, including serving as the VP Region 10 of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS), Vice Chairman of the Biomedical Circuits and Systems Technical Committee, Committee Member of Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee. He was the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 2004 to 2005, Founding member and General Co-Chair of the 2004 IEEE International Workshop on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS04), Technical Program Co-Chair of the BioCAS06, and Technical Program Co-Chair of the APCCAS06.
Architectures and Design Methodologies for Very Low Power and Power Effective A/D Sigma-Delta Converters
Speaker
Dr. Franco Maloberti
University of Pavia, Italy
Abstract
The main goal of portable applications is obtaining data conversion with very low power consumption while maintaining acceptable resolution and linearity. This paper presents various design methods for achieving figure of merit at fractions of pJ-conv levels in sigma-delta architectures. Results of state-of-the art designs are presented and compared.
Biography
Franco Maloberti received the Laurea degree in physics (summa cum laude) from the University of Parma, Parma, Italy, in 1968, and the Doctorate Honoris Causa in electronics from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (Inaoe), Puebla, Mexico, in 1996. He was a Visiting Professor at The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-PEL), Zurich, Switzerland and at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. He was the TI/J.Kilby Chair Professor at the A&M University, Texas and the Distinguished Microelectronic Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. Presently he is Professor of Microelectronics and Head of the Micro Integrated Systems Group, University of Pavia, Italy.
His professional expertise is in the design, analysis, and characterization of integrated circuits and analog digital applications, mainly in the areas of switched-capacitor circuits, data converters, interfaces for telecommunication and sensor systems, and CAD for analog and mixed A/D design. He has written more than 340 published papers, four books, and holds 24 patents.
Dr. Maloberti was the recipient of the XII Pedriali Prize for his technical and scientific contributions to national industrial production, in 1992. He was co-recipient of the 1996 Institute of Electrical Engineers Fleming Premium. He was the President of the IEEE Sensor Council from 2002 to 2003 and Vice-President, Region 8, of the IEEE CAS Society from 1995 to 1997 and an Associate Editor of IEEE TCAS-II. Presently he is serving as VP-Publications of the IEEE CAS Society He received the 1999 IEEE CAS Society Meritorious Service Award, the 2000 CAS Society Golden Jubilee Medal, and the 2000 IEEE Millennium Medal. He is an IEEE Fellow.
Title
Fractal Structures for Electronics Applications
Speaker
Dr. Maciej Ogorzalek
AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Abstract
We present first a brief review of mathematical notions and properties of geometric structures displaying non-integer dimensionality. These kind of geometric objects find various applications in electronic engineering. We give a review of the following applications: Fractal multi-band antennae are widely used in cars and mobile equipment. Fractal capacitors exploiting lateral capacitance are used in integrated circuit design. Fractal capacitors of different technology are used nowadays in power electronics units in fuel-cell-powered cars.
Biography
Maciej Ogorzalek received the MSc degree in 1979, PhD degree in 1987 and Habilitation degree in 1992, all from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland.
Currently he is employed as full Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland and holds a joint appointment as Head of the Department of Information Technologies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (the oldest university in Poland funded in 1364).
His research and teaching interests include circuit theory with an emphasis on Nonlinear and dynamic circuits, complex phenomena and chaos, neural networks, nonlinear signal analysis and processing, nonlinear methods for mixed signal circuit design, biomedical signal analysis and modeling. He was the creator of the new department and new curricula in applied computer science including bio-informatics at the Jagiellonian University. Author or co-author of over 220 technical papers and one book (Chaos and Complexity in Nonlinear Electronic Circuits - World Scientific).
He held several visiting positions: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, The Technical University of Denmark, Arti¯cial Brain Systems Laboratory, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako, Japan; Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. Centro Nacional de Microelectronica, Sevilla, Spain, Kyoto University, Japan (Senior JSPS Award) and Goethe University Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (Hertie Guest- professor).
He is a Member of The Association of Polish Electrical Engineers, Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Electrical Sciences, Member of the Committee on Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Automatic Control of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow Sec- tion, Member of the Section of Electronic Signal and Systems, Committee on Electronics and Telecommunication of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is currently the Vice-President of the Executive Board of Sniadecki Science Foundation.
Awards: IEEE Fellow (1997), Recipient of the IEEE Guillemin-Cauer (Best Paper) Award 2002. Distinguished Lecturer of the CAS Society 2001-2003. Premio Ano Sabatico from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Sport; Senior Award - Japan Society for Promotion of Science; Award of the Minister of National Education of Poland; National Educations Medal - Poland; Silver Cross of Merit - Poland.
Editorial activities: Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I 1993-1995 and 1999-2001, Since 2004 elected member of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE. Since 2004 he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Circuits and Systems Magazine. Associate Editor Int. J. Circuit Theory and Applications (1999- ) Associate Editor - Journal of The Franklin Institute (1997- ), Secretary of the Editorial Board for the Quarterly of Electrical Engineering and Electronics (Poland) (1993- ), Member of the Editorial Board of Automatics (in Polish Automatyka). Member of the Editorial board of the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.
He was the Vice-chairman of the IEEE CAS Chapter Poland, recipient of the Chapter of the Year Award 1995, Chairman of the Technical Committee of Nonlinear Circuits and Systems of CAS Society 1997/1998, Chairman of the Organizing Committee 1994 Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems, member of technical committees of several IEEE sponsored conferences, Special Sessions chairman for ISCAS'2000. Founding member of the CASS Technical Committee on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. General Chairman European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design 2003. Recipient of the IEEE-CAS Golden Jubilee Award. He has been elected CAS Society Vice-President for Region 8 for 2002-2004 and CAS Society Administrative Vice-president since 2004.
Title
Algebraic methods and optimization for signal processing and source separation of multiway signals and data sets.
Speaker
Dr. Joos Vandewalle
Electrical Engineering Department (ESAT),
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Abstract
The singular value decomposition of a matrix, and its generalizations are an important algebraic method for seperating signals and sources. Applications range over telecommunication, biomedical signal processing and bioinformatics, and information retrieval. Concepts of oriented energy and oriented signal to signal ratio are important conceptual methods in this respect. Generalizations to multi-way data sets and signals require extensions to of these decompositions and signal to signal ratios to tensors. In the presentation we discuss such generalizations and their use in applications. Such concepts have interesting geometric interpretations in terms of vector spaces and linear algebra, and have a great potential for design of algorithms in signal processing and data processing.
Biography
Joos Vandewalle was born in Kortrijk, Belgium, in August 1948. He obtained the electrical engineering degree and a doctorate in applied sciences, both from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 1971 and 1976 respectively. From 1976 to 1978 he was Research Associate and from July 1978 to July 1979, he was Visiting Assistant Professor both at the University of California, Berkeley. Since July 1979 he is back at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium where he is Full Professor since 1986 and the head of the SCD division at ESAT, that has more than 130 researchers. He is an Academic Consultant since 1984 at IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Center, Leuven). From August 1996 till August 1999 and from August 2003 till February 2005 he was Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering. From August 1999 till July 2002 he was the vice-dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In the second semester of 2002-2003 he was on sabbatical leave at the I3S laboratory of CNRS Sophia Antipolis, France. From February 2005 on he is a member of he Governing Board of Exact Sciences at the K.U.Leuven.
He teaches courses in linear algebra, linear and nonlinear system and circuit theory, system identification and neural networks. His research interests are mainly in mathematical system theory and its applications in circuit theory, control, signal processing, cryptography and neural networks. His recent research interests are in nonlinear methods (support vector machines, multilinear algebra) for data processing. He has authored or coauthored more than 300 international journal papers in these areas. He is the co-author of 4 books and co-editor of 5 books. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Circuit Theory and its Applications, Neurocomputing, Neural Networks and the Journal of Circuits Systems and Computers. From 1989 till 1991, he was associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.He was Deputy Editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems part I Fundamental theory and applications from January 2002 till December 2003. Since 2001 he is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Journal on Information Security (IJIS). He was program chairman of ISCAS 2000 in Geneva, and for IJCNN 2004 in Budapest. He was Chairman of the NOLTA c onference in Bruges in 2005. He was elected fellow of IEEE in 1992 for contributions to nonlinear circuits and systems and in 2006 as Vice-President Technical Activities of the IEEE CAS Society. In 1991-1992 he held the Francqui chair on Artificial Neural Networks at the University of Limmittee of the Vlaamse Raad voor WetenschapsBeleid (VRWB).
Title
A 3D Simplicial CNN Structure: Architecture and Circuit Realization
Spekaer
Dr. Pedro Julian
Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Abstract
Three dimensional (3D) integration is an emerging technology that allows the interconnection of several wafers of integrated circuits (IC) on a vertical direction by small metallic plugs called vias. The effectiveness of the approach finds justification when the vias size drops below some micrometers square allowing high density wafer-to-wafer interconnection. The main advantage of this technology is that t permits to increase density by allowing the integration of several "floors" of ICs. Moreover, in the near future this technology will allow the combination of different types of wafers for dedicated high performance systems.
This talk will describe the system architecture of an integrated circuit consisting of an imager with pixel processing capabilities in the 3D technology, inspired on a CNN-type structure.
Biography
Pedro M. Julian (S'94, M'00) was born in the city of Bahía Blanca, Argentina, on June 28, 1970. He received the "Ingeniero Electronico" degree in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in "Control de Sistemas" in 1999, both from Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS).
From 2000 to 2002, he was a visiting scholar in the Nonlinear Electronics Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley, USA. From 2002 to 2003, he was a visiting scholar in the Sensory Communication & Microsystems Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He has been an Assistant Professor in the Departamento de Ingeniería Electrica y Computadoras (DIEC) at UNS since 2003. He also holds a position in the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) as an Adjoint Researcher since 2002. His research interest areas are: computation, integrated circuits and systems theory/design. In particular, he is interested in practical and theoretical aspects of computation structures, including parallel systems like Cellular Neural Networks and Cellular Automata, with a special emphasis in the design and analysis of VLSI systems and low power systems.
He serves as the Region 9 (Latin America) Vice President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society since 2004 and he has been one of the founding members of the Latin American Consortium for Integrated Services (LACIS).
Efficient Mining of Data Through Reuse in a Public Safety Network
Speaker
Dr. Ljiljana Trajkovic
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Abstract
Traditional statistical analysis of network data is often employed to determine traffic distribution, to summarize patterns of user behavior, or to predict future network traffic. Mining of network data may be used to characterize user behavior patterns, to discover hidden user groups, to detect payment fraud, or to identify network abnormalities. We combine this traditional traffic analysis with data mining techniques and analyze traffic data collected from a deployed public safety trunked radio network. After data cleaning and traffic extraction, we identify clusters of talk groups by applying clustering algorithms on patterns represented by the hourly number of calls. Traffic prediction models are then developed by applying classical prediction models on the aggregate and clustered data. Cluster-based prediction approaches, while less computationally demanding, perform well compared to the prediction based on the aggregate traffic.
Biography
Ljiljana Trajkovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from University of Pristina, Yugoslavia, in 1974, the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California at Los Angeles, in 1986.
She is a Professor in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. From 1995 to 1997, she was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Visiting Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley. She was a Research Scientist at Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ, from 1990 to 1997, and a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, from 1988 to 1990. Her research interests include high-performance communication networks, control of communication systems, computer-aided circuit analysis and design, and theory of nonlinear circuits and dynamical systems.
Dr. Trajkovic is currently serving as president of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. She was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2001 - 2003 and 2004 - 2005). She served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (2004 - 2006). She is Chair of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society joint Chapter of the Vancouver/Victoria Sections. She was Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems (1998). She was Technical Program Co-Chair of ISCAS 2005 and served as Technical Program Chair and Vice General Co-Chair of ISCAS 2004. She served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (Part I) (2004 - 2005 and 1993 - 1995), the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (Part II) (1999 - 2001 and 2002 - 2003), and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (2001 - 2003). She is a Fellow of the IEEE.