Schedule
Thursday, February 20, 2014
| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 9:20 - 9:50 | Breakfast and Registration | Outside B02 |
| 9:50-10:00 | Welcome Ceremony | B02 |
| 10:00-11:00 | Keynote 1: Professor Venkat Anantharam (University of California, Berkeley) Title: Information Theory of Coordination | B02 |
| 11:00-11:10 | Break | Outside B02 |
| 11:10-12:30 | Session 1 | B02 |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch and Poster Session | 301 |
| 2:00-3:00 | Keynote 2: Professor Justin Romberg (Georgia Institute of Technology) Title: Using structure to solve underdetermined systems of linear equations and overdetermined systems of quadratic equations | B02 |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break | Outside B02 |
| 3:15-5:30 | Special Session: Learning and Signal Processing | B02 |
| 6:00-8:30 | Dinner Reception | Siebel Center, Atrium |
Friday, February 21, 2014
| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Breakfast | Outside B02 |
| 10:00-11:00 | Keynote 3: Dr. Chris J.C. Burges (Microsoft Research) Title: From Machine Learning to Machine Intelligence? | B02 |
| 11:00-11:10 | Break | Outside B02 |
| 11:10-12:30 | Session 3 | B02 |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch and Poster Session | 301 |
| 1:30-2:30 | Keynote 4: Dr. Ron Benson (Walmart Labs) Big Data driving e-Commerce at WalmartLabs | B02 |
| 2:30-2:35 | Break | Outside B02 |
| 2:35-3:45 | Session 4 | B02 |
| 3:45-3:50 | Break | Outside B02 |
| 3:50-4:45 | Panel Discussion | B02 |
| 4:45 | Closing Ceremony | B02 |
Session 1
| Time | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11:10-11:25 | Jae Won Do (ECE) | Nanosoldering Carbon Nanotube Junctions by Local Chemical Vapor Deposition for Improved Device Performance |
| 11:25-11:40 | Alex Dytso (ECE, UIC) | On Gaussian Interference Channels with Mixed Gaussian and Discrete Inputs |
| 11:40-11:55 | Diana Maamari (ECE, UIC) | The K user cognitive interference channel with cumulative message sharing |
| 11:55-12:10 | Zhiyu Cheng (ECE, UIC) | Two-way Networks: When Adaptation is Useless |
Session 2: Learning and Signal Processing
| Time | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 3:15-3:30 | Luke Pfister (ECE) | Model-based Tomographic Reconstruction with Adaptive Sparsifying Transforms |
| 3:30-3:45 | Navid Aghasadeghi (ECE) | Controller Design for Lower-Limb Prosthetic Devices by Learning from Demonstration |
| 3:45-4:00 | Thomas Paine (Informatics) | GPU-ASGD: Training neural networks fast |
| 4:00-4:15 | Yun Li (ECE) | Universal Outlier Hypothesis Testing |
| 4:15-4:30 | Intermission | |
| 4:30-4:45 | Pooya Khorrami (ECE) | Vision-Based System for Vehicle Crash Prediction |
| 4:45-5:00 | Minji Kim (ECE) | Gene Prioritization via Rank Aggregation |
| 5:00-5:15 | Taposh Banerjee (ECE) | Data-Efficient Quickest Change Detection |
Session 3
| Time | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11:10-11:25 | Adam Tilton (MechSE) | Technology Demonstration of a Physical Activity Tracking System |
| 11:25-11:40 | Anuj Girdhar (Physics) | Graphene Quantum Point Contact Transistor for DNA Sensing |
| 11:40-11:55 | Chandramani Singh (ECE) | Proportionally Fair and Locally Adaptive Spatial Aloha in Poisson Networks |
| 11:55-12:10 | Liang Heng (Aero) | Cooperative GNSS Authentication: Reliability from Unreliable Peers |
Session 4
| Time | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2:35-2:50 | Venanzio Cichella (MechSE) | Cooperative Flying Robots |
| 2:50-3:05 | Homa Alemzadeh (ECE) | MedSafe: Measurement-driven Safety Analysis of Medical Devices |
| 3:05-3:20 | Aly El Gamal (ECE) | Flexible backhaul design for locally connected interference networks |
| 3:20-3:40 | Fardad Raisali (ECE) | Rank Aggregation with Positional Relevance: A Linear Programming Approach |
Posters
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Adrian Radocea (MatSE) | Novel route towards the fabrication of graphene antidot lattices |
| Lea Nienhaus (Chemistry) | Single molecule absorption detected by scanning tunneling microscopy |
| Rui Wu (ECE) | Clustering users and items using noisy binary rating matrices: algorithms and trade-offs |
| Long Le (ECE) | Cheap Noisy Sensors can Improve Activity Monitoring Under Stringent Energy Constraints |
| Felix Wang (ECE) | Simulation Tool for Asynchronous Cortical Streams (STACS): Learning in Networks of Spiking Neurons |
| Ryan Corey (ECE) | Estimation Using Unreliable Quantized Observations |
| Yanying Chen (ECE, UIC) | The capacity region of three user Gaussian inverse-compute-and-forward channels |
| Hongyang Li (CS) | Trustworthy Framework for Mobile Smart Meter |
| Wenyu Ren (CS) | Secure Data Collection in Smart Grid |
| Kyeong hyun Park (ECE) | Empirical Thermal Conductivity Model Considering Van der Waals Contacts In Bi2Te3 |