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The event will be held virtually. To receive a link please register here.

All times below are in PDT (Los Angeles time).

Thursday 16 March, 2023

Start	End	Session	Speakers
9:00	9:15	Welcome and Opening Remarks
		Joshua Yang (Symposium Co-Chair) Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Yolanda Gil (Symposium Co-Chair) Senior Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering; Director, Data Science Programs, Computer Science Department, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Yannis Yortsos Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering; Zohrab A. Kaprielian Dean’s Chair in Engineering and Chester Dolley Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Craig Knoblock Keston Executive Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering; Vice Dean of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
9:15	10:05	Session I: TinyML – Machine Learning for edge devices
		Session chair: Jonathan May Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Team Leader, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Neural inertial navigation in ultra-resource-constrained (URC) devices Luis Garcia Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Lead, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Embedding deep learning models within tiny IoT devices Peter Beerel Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Distributed transformer models in edge environments John Paul Walters Research Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Collaborative training of large models at the edge Salman Avestimehr Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
10:05	10:15	Break
10:15	11:05	Session II: Neuromorphic computing
		Session chair: Stephen Crago Associate Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Brain–machine interfaces for probing the neural mechanisms of emotion regulation Maryam Shanechi Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Sensing biosignals through electronic skin Yasser Khan Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Computational models for hippocampal memory prostheses Dong Song Research Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Neuromorphic image sensors through retina-inspired circuits Akhilesh Jaiswal Research Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
11:05	11:15	Break
11:15	12:00	Invited Talk
		AI to Advance Edge Computing for Next-Generation Networks Yiran Chen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
12:00	12:15	Special Presentation
		Opportunities for AI on the Edge Under the DOD Microelectronics Commons Program Stephen Crago Associate Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering

Friday 17 March, 2023

Start	End	Session	Speakers
9:00	9:50	Session III: Hardware-software co-design
		Session chair: Keith Chugg Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Out-of-core graph analytics through multi-log memory updates Murali Annavaram Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Accelerating Graph Neural Networks Viktor Prasanna Charles Lee Powell Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Processing-in-Pixel-in-Memory-based object Detection and Tracking Ajey Jacob Director of Advanced Electronics, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Federated progressive sparsification Jose Luis Ambite Research Team Leader, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
9:50	10:00	Break
10:00	10:50	Session IV: Post-CMOS hardware and device materials
		Session chair: Peter Beerel Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
		Phase change materials for energy efficient neuromorphic computing Jayakanth Ravichandran Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Single-crystal indium phosphide (InP) field effect transistor (FET)-based artificial synapses Rehan Kapadia Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Memristors with thousands of conductance levels for edge AI Joshua Yang Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Hybrid analog-digital computing enabled by memristors for mobile robots Wei Wu Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
10:50	11:00	Break
11:00	11:50	PANEL DISCUSSION: AI at the Frontiers of Next-Generation Computing Architectures
		Session chair: Joshua Yang Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Peter Beerel Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Ajey Jacob Director of Advanced Electronics, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Tony Levi Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, Viterbi School of Engineering
		Jonathan May Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Team Leader, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
11:50	12:00	Concluding Remarks and Symposium Closing
		Ishwar Puri Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, University of Southern California; Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering