Title: ThirdEye: Visual Assist for Grocery Shopping
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Speaker: Dr. VijayKrishnan Narayan
Abstract: Shopping is widely considered as a relaxing leisure activity. However, grocery shopping can be a frustrating experience for those with visual impairment. While getting to a grocery shop itself is not as much of a challenge for them, locating and picking the items in the grocery shelf becomes a task as challenging as picking a needle from the haystack. Imagine picking up five items for your dinner recipe from a typical grocery store in the US that carries around 35,000 unique items and can have more than 30 aisles spanning 45,000 square meters. This talk will showcase synergistic advances in algorithms, architectures and interface design for assisting those with visual impairment to do shopping.
Biography: Vijay Narayanan is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the director of the NSF Expeditions-in-Computing Program on Visual Cortex on Silicon and a thrust leader for the DARPA-MARCO LEAST Center. He has published more than 400 papers and won several awards in recognition of his research in power-aware systems, embedded systems and computer architecture. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM.

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Speaker: Dr. Sri Parameswaran, Professor & Program Director for Computer Engineering, School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia
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Title: Challenges of Converging Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology for Internet of Things
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Speaker:Dr. Durgamadhab (Durga) Mishra, Professor & Associate Chair for Graduate Program, FELLOW of The Electrochemical Society, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ, USA
Abstract: Current trends in Internet of Things (IoT) require the convergence of Nanoelectronics, Nanotechnology, Communication Technology and Information Technology. Sensor systems monitoring environment, health care, water quality, vehicle traffic, smart cities are becoming the norm. Despite extended range of applications low power requirement is the key to these nanosystems. Incorporation of different nanodevices into these nanosystems with functionalities that do not necessarily scale according to "Moore's Law,” but provide additional value in different ways (more than Moore), is necessary. It is therefore important to get exposed to the current trend in chip fabrication, device structures and fabrication (gate stack design and fabrication), device and circuit relationship and design, reliability of new devices and processes. Furthermore, nanoelectronic devices with extremely low power consumption depends on the next generation high-k deposition process, precise selection of deposition parameters, pre-deposition surface treatments and subsequent annealing temperatures. In this talk, some of the recent developments in device fabrication for electronics devices and IoT devices will be outlined.
Biography:Durga Misra is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA. He served as the Director of Microelectronics Research Center at NJIT andhad a short-term appointment at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, in 1997. His current research interests are in the areas of nanoelectronic/optoelectronic devices and circuits; especially in the area of nanometer CMOS gate stacks and device reliability. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) and serving in the IEE EDS Board of Governors. He is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) and served in the ECS Board as a Board Member (2008-10). He received the Thomas Collinan Award from the Dielectric Science & Technology Division and Electronic and Photonic Division Award from ECS. He edited and co-edited more than 40 books and conference proceedings in his field of research. He has published more than 95 technical articles in peer reviewed Journals and more than 160 articles in International Conference proceedings including 75 Invited Talks. He has graduated 15 PhD students and 35 MS students. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in

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Speaker: Dr. Garrett S. Rose, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2250 USA
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