ESE Spring Seminar – “Securing AI from the Hardware Up: Efficient Designs from Architecture to Silicon”
Trustworthy AI requires secure hardware that protects data confidentiality and integrity. Yet security is often an afterthought, while AI hardware is optimized primarily for performance and energy efficiency. My vision […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Uncompromising Performance with Exocompilation”
Performance is the currency of modern computing. Achieving peak throughput on fast‑evolving accelerators demands more control than today’s compilers provide. I will present Exo and the Exocompilation paradigm: a user‑schedulable […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Heterogeneity without the Headache: Architecting Accelerator-Centric Computing Systems”
With the end of Dennard scaling and the slowing of Moore’s Law, the performance of general-purpose processors has plateaued. At the same time, the energy cost of computing is following […]
AI Research Seminar Series – “Toward Sustainable Data Centers for Artificial Intelligence”
As the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to proliferate, computer architects must assess and mitigate its energy demands. This talk will survey strategies for mitigating the energy used by […]
ESE Guest Seminar – “Hyperpolarized Spins: Materials Science to Quantum Sensing”
I will present the development of electron and nuclear spin hyperpolarization techniques and their applications in dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) and quantum sensing. With an improved understanding of the spin […]
AI Innovation Seminar Series – “From Bytes to Atoms to Excavators – An engineer’s journey to the physical world”
Tom Eliaz, Co-Founder of Bedrock Robotics (Penn Engineering Class of 2002), shares his journey and learnings from Penn and a career at IBM, multiple startups and exits, public company leadership, […]
FOLDS seminar: Multi-step reasoning via curriculum learning
Zoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98220304722 Can multi-step reasoning be learned from data? We investigate this question in the context of a simple function composition task. We prove that this task is […]
ESE PhD Thesis Defense – “Low-Dimensional Excitons for Electro-Optics”
For nearly two decades, low-dimensional media have promised to produce atomically-thin optical devices. However, making optical devices in the deep-subwavelength regime requires techniques to confine light for efficient light-matter interactions. […]
ESE Guest Seminar – “From glass to gigapixels: charting the next decade of AI in anatomic pathology”
Pathologists have historically evaluated glass slides of excised tissue under a microscope to assess cancer and other disease. Over the last few years, the field has faced an inflection point […]
ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Radio-Frequency Passive Wireless Sensing for Agricultural Applications”
Inefficiencies in current agriculture practices result in the overuse of scarce resources, while limiting achievable crop production. Precision agriculture systems can lead to a more judicious use of agriculture resources […]