VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1, FEBRUARY 2011

2011 CASS Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP)

The very successful Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) has for years connected engineers and academic professionals with lectures by experts in the field of circuits and systems from all over the world. This CASS initiative benefits members and the wider community by bringing leading researchers to local venues; it is also a great opportunity for lecturers to visit universities and industry in distant regions, present their research, and engage with other researchers and engineering professionals on circuits and systems.

Every year, the Society elects as many as ten speakers for the DLP program, with each lecturer appointed to serve two years. During their two-year term, CASS sends lecturers on up to six trips, preferably visiting multiple nearby cities on the same trip. DLP events are arranged by one or more neighboring IEEE-CAS chapters contacting the DLP Chair. You can reach me by email: jeske@ece.pdx.edu.

It has been my pleasure to serve as DLP Chair these past few years and I look forward to another very productive year. I would like to introduce and welcome the ten newly elected 2011-2012 CASS DLP lecturers, and to warmly greet the group of eight returning 2010-2011 CASS DLP lecturers who will ensemble constitute the Society’s 2011 Distinguished Lecturer Program.

The list of current lecturers is presented below and a more detailed list with speaker bios and lecture abstracts can be found on the CASS website at http://www.ieee-cas.org (select “DLP”/”Current Lecturers”).

This year DL lectures span topics from modeling the human visual system, mining network traffic data, to systems and devices for energy harvesting.

I am delighted to have the opportunity for another year to work with this great group of distinguished lecturers and with CASS Chapters from all around the world to promote our Society through expert presentations on exciting and relevant topics in circuits and systems. I would like to thank all the DLP Speakers for their valuable service.

The next election of DLP Speakers (for 2012-2013) will start in August of 2011 with an open nomination period. An announcement will be placed on the CASS website this summer. The website also features detailed descriptions of the DLP program; please contact me if you have any additional questions – I will be glad to help. Remember to check the DLP website frequently for the latest updates: http://www.ieee-cas.org (select “DLP”)


Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, Portland State University, IEEE CASS DLP Chair (email: jeske@ece.pdx.edu)




List of Current Distinguished Lecturers and Their Lecture Titles

Ramachandra Achar, Carleton University, Canada (2011-2012)

  1. •Meeting the Signal Integrity Challenges of High-Speed Design

  2. •Advanced Modeling and Simulation Strategies for Power Integrity in High-Speed Designs


Charles J Alpert, Research Division, IBM Corp., New York, USA (2011-2012)

  1. •Physical Synthesis: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  2. •What Makes a Design Difficult to Route


Magdy Bayoumi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA (2011-2012)

  1. •Wireless Sensors Networks: Current and Future Challenges

  2. •Towards Green Circuits and Systems


Eugenio Culurciello, Yale University, USA (2011-2012)

  1. •Modeling the human visual system in hardware



Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University, USA (2010-2011)

  1. •Distinguished Lectures in Neuromorphic Engineering


Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada (2010-2011)

  1. •Optimal Resource Allocation for Video Streaming  over Distributed Communication Systems

  2. •Methods and Techniques for Multimodal Information Fusion


Jaeseok Kim, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea (2011-2012)

  1. •Modem SoC design for IEEE 802.11n WLAN systems

  2. •Low-power modem SoC design for WiMedia UWB systems


Yusuf Leblebici, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland (2010-2011)

  1. •Subthreshold Source-Coupled Circuit Design for Ultra Low-Power Applications



Yiannos Manoli, University of Freiburg, Germany (2010-2011)

  1. •Energy Harvesting - from Devices to Systems



Pramod Kumar Meher, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore (2011-2012)

  1. •Memory-Based Computing Systems for DSP Application

  2. •Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for DSP Application


Antonio Petraglia, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2011-2012)

  1. •Analog Multirate Signal Processing and IC Implementations

  2. •Automatic Placement of Capacitor Arrays and Embedded


Ruchir Puri, IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, New York, USA (2010-2011)

  1. •Will 22nm be our catch 22! Design and CAD Challenges

  2. •From "Custom" Mars to "Synthesis" Venus : Visions


Hanspeter Schmid, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (2011-2012)

  1. •The Current-Mode Story

  2. •Electrical and Human feedback




Wee Ser, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2010-2011)

  1. •Wearable Respiratory Monitoring: Algorithms and System Design

  2. •Near-field Microphone Array: Algorithms and System Design


Fernando Silveira, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay (2011-2012)

  1. •Intuitive and power optimized analog and RF CMOS design based on gm/ID and drain current density

  2. •Ultra Low Power Analog Integrated Circuits for implantable medical devices


Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada (2010-2011)

  1. •Analysis of Internet Topologies

  2. •Mining Network Traffic Data




C. K. Michael Tse, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2011-2012)

  1. •Applications of Complex Networks Research: From Science, Engineering, Art to Finance

  2. •Design-Oriented Bifurcation Analysis of Power Electronics


Gilson Inacio Wirth, Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil (2010-2011)

  1. •Reliability and Yield of MOS Devices and Circuits



More details of current Distinguished Lecturers can be found in the society’s website.

 

Rui J. P. de Figueiredo Received Golomb/Chilingar Medal of Honor of “Giants of Science and Engineering” 2010


Professor Rui J. P. de Figueiredo of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) has been awarded by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS) its 2010 Golomb/Chilingar Medal of Honor of “Giants of Science and Engineering”, in acclaim of his sustained life-long fundamental contributions to sciences and engineering and extraordinary international leadership in his profession.


The Medal bears the names of two distinguished faculty of the University of Southern California (USC) who are also members of the US Branch of RANS, namely Prof. George V. Chilingar, President of the Academy’s US Branch, and Solomon Golomb, Viterbi Chair University Professor, Fellow of IEEE and AAAS, Member of the US National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences, and recipient of the 1985 IEEE Information Theory Society’s Claude Shannon Award.


This is Rui’s third award from the RANS. In 2007, he was elected as a foreign member of the U.S. Branch of RANS and was awarded its George V. Chilingar Medal of Honor for his contributions to science and engineering. Moreover, in 2009, he was awarded by the Academy its prestigious P. L. Kapitsa Gold Medal for his pioneering contributions to the mathematical foundations and applications of signal processing.


These contributions include the invention of generalized spline filters, and in particular, the Butterworth and Chebyshev generalized spline filters, for dynamical-source-model-based recovery of analog signals from linear observations; and the generalization of the symmetric Fock space, the state space of non-self-interacting boson fields in quantum field theory, to a reproducing kernel Hilbert space F for the input-output maps of nonlinear dynamical systems.  De Figueiredo called this space a “neural space,” as it provides a rigorous framework and tools for the modeling and design of kernel-based neural networks and intelligent machines.


Rui has successfully applied this underlying technology to telecommunications, biomedical engineering, and other machine intelligence applications. Additional contributions with collaborators cited in the award are the invention of a generalized-moments-invariant/attributed-graph approach for application to 3-D robotic vision for the Space Station Freedom; the development of a new theory of photometric stereo for Lambertian surfaces; and, the introduction of computer-oriented pattern recognition techniques into combined seismic-and-well-log-data-based analysis for application in petroleum exploration.


At UCI, Rui is Professor, Above-Scale, in the Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Dept of Mathematics, and Director of the Laboratory for Machine Intelligence and Soft Computing of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).


Rui is a former President (1998) of the IEEE Circuits ad Systems Society. For all his extraordinary achievements, Rui has received a number of prestigious awards and medals from IEEE listed on his website www.uci.lminsc.edu.


Congratulations, Rui!



Ron Chen, City University of Hong Kong (email: gchen@ee.cityu.edu.hk)

 

SOCIETY NEWS

Newly Elected IEEE Fellows 2011

The following CAS members have been elected to the Fellowship of the IEEE effective January 1, 2011 (names with asterisk (*) are elevated by the CAS Society):

Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, for contributions to design optimization for signal processing

Wayne Burleson*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, for contributions to integrated circuit design and signal processing

Gert Cauwenberghs,  University of California San Diego, USA, for contributions to integrated biomedical instrumentation

Vivek De*, Intel Corporation, USA, for contributions to low power microprocessor design

Moncef Gabbouj*, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, for contributions to nonlinear signal processing and video communication

Yehea Ismail*, Northwestern University, USA &  Nile University, Egypt, for contributions to high-performance circuits and interconnects

Peter Kinget, Columbia University-NYC, USA, for contributions to  analog and radio frequency integrated circuits

Shipeng Li*, Microsoft Research Asia, China, for contributions to the advancement of image and video coding

Sakae Okubo*, Waseda University, Japan, for contributions to video coding and multimedia communication systems

Gabriel Rincon-Mora*, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, for contributions to energy and power integrated circuit design

Susanto Rahardja, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, for leadership in digital audio and signal processing

Wouter Serdijn*, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, for contributions to integrated circuits for medical devices and wireless communications

Qibin Sun, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Singapore, for contributions to multimedia security

Myung Sunwoo*, Ajou University, Korea, for contributions to multimedia and communications

Dennis Sylvester*, University of Michigan, USA, for contributions to energy-efficient integrated circuits

Prabhat Varma, Blue Pearl Software Inc., USA, for contributions to system-on-chip test technology

Anthony Vetro*, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA, for contributions to video coding, three-dimensional television, and multimedia adaptation

Chin-Long Wey*, National Chip Implementation Center, Taiwan, for leadership in education and services in integrated circuits

Min Wu, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, for contributions to multimedia security and forensics

Guoliang Xue, Arizona State University, USA, for contributions to survivability and quality of service in computer networks


Congratulations to all the new CASS Fellows!