2020 NSF IUCRC ASIC center annual meeting

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Mon, 02/03/2020 - 7:00pm to Wed, 02/05/2020 - 12:00pm

2020 NSF IUCRC ASIC meeting will be held at the atrium of Chesterfield building as shown below.

Chesterfield Atrium

AGENDA

Day1 and Day2 meeting will be held in Chesterfield Building on February. 4-5, 2020

701 W Main St, Durham, NC 27701, USA

Day 0: Monday, February 3, 2020

7:00 PM   Reception, Location: Taberna Tapas (325 W Main St, Durham, NC 27701)

Day 1: Thursday, February 14, 2019 

8:00 AM    Registration, Continental Breakfast, Networking Time

8:50 AM    Group Photo

9:00 AM    Welcoming Remarks and Introduction of New Members (Yiran Chen, Center Director)

9:05 AM    Report of ASIC (Yiran Chen, Center Director)

9:25 AM    Report of Notre Dame Site (Yiyu Shi, Site Director)

9:30 AM    Report of Syracuse Site (Qinru Qiu, Site Director)

9:35 AM    Report of IAB (Elias Fallon, IAB Chair)

9:40 AM    Introduction of LIFE Evaluation (Todd Abraham, NSF Evaluator)

Project Reports and LIFE Evaluations – Part I

9:45 AM            D1: Advanced network pruning and quantization (Huanrui)

10:00 AM          D2: Fine-grained quantization for deep neural networks and its interpretation (Hsin-Pai Cheng)                                            

10:15 AM          Coffee Break

Project Reports and LIFE Evaluations – Part I (Continued)

10:30 AM          D3: Versatile, Privacy-preserving and efficient cloud-edge image rendering (Ang Li)

10:45 AM          D4: Reinforcement learning for datacenter scheduling (Yuhao Li)

11:00 AM          D7: Robust DNN model compression for noisy scenarios (Chang Song & Jingyang Zhang)  

11:15 PM           D8: A secure and privacy preserving cloud-based online learning system (Huanrui Yang)

11:30 PM           D10: Processing-in-memory architecture supporting GAN executions (Qing Yang)

11:45 AM          D11: Efficient attention-based model designed for modbile devices (Jiachen Mao)

9 minute presentation, 3 minutes Q&A, 3 minutes LIFE form completion

12:00 PM           Lunch

Project Reports and LIFE Evaluations – Part II

1:00 PM             D14: Machine learning for datacenter performance scheduling (Pengfei Zheng)

1:15 PM             N1: Representation power of quantized neural networks: from the complexity bound to the insight (Yukun Ding)

1:30 PM             N2: Intelligent P-QRS-T peak detection for ultra-low power implantable devices (Boyang Li)

1:45 PM             N3: Guide for hybrid quantization of deconvolution-based generators (Jinglan Liu)

2:00 PM             N5: Distribution based statistical convolutional neural networks with application to video object detection (Tianchen Wang)

2:15 PM             S1: Attribute-based object localization (Krittaphat Pugdeethosapol)

2:30 PM             S2: Biologically plausible spike-domain backpropagation for in-hardware learning (Amar Shrestha)

2:45 PM             S3: Fast prediction for UAV traffic/communication in a meteropolitan area (Qinru Qiu)

3:00 PM             Coffee Break

Proposed Project and LIFE Evaluations – Part III

3:15 PM             D1: Anomaly prediction and diagnosis in distributed systems (Benjamin Lee)

3:30 PM             D2: Server architectures for distributed shared memory (Benjamin Lee)

3:45 PM             D3: Efficient and secure online learning system with local smart sensor Data (Huanrui Yang)

4:00 PM             D4: A machine learning based pre-placement wirelength estimator (Zhiyao Xie)

4:15 PM             N1: Software defined FPGA hardware and co-exploration for real-time applications (Weiwen Jiang)

4:30 PM             N2: Hardware-aware neural network competency awareness (Yiyu Shi)

4:45 PM             N3: Uncertainty aware training for emerging device based in-memory computing (Yiyu Shi)

9 minute presentation, 3 minutes Q&A, 3 minutes LIFE form completion

5:00 PM             S1: Attribute-based object localization (Krittaphat Pugdeethosapol)

5:10 PM             S2: Biologically plausible spike-domain backpropagation for in-hardware learning (Amar Shrestha)

5:20 PM             S3: Fast prediction for UAV traffic/communication in a meteropolitan area (Qinru Qiu)

5 minute presentation, 2 minutes Q&A, 3 minutes LIFE form completion

5:30 PM            Description of Evening and Day 2 Activities (Yiran Chen, Center Director)

5:35 PM             Poster Session– light refreshments will be served

6:30 PM             Adjourn. Travel directly to restaurant.

7:00 PM             Dinner at Rue Cler, 401 E Chapel Hill St, Durham

Day 2: Tuesday, February 5, 2020

8:00 AM            Continental Breakfast, and Networking Time

9:00 AM            Welcome Back and Day 1 Summary (Yiran Chen)

9:05 AM            LIFE Form Review and Discussion – Open Session (for all attendances)

10:05 AM          Coffee Break

10:20 AM          IAB Meeting (NSF, IAB members of 2020, center directors)

                        Voting

                        Bylaw discussion

11:30 AM          NSF Closed Session with Industry (NSF and IAB)

12:00 PM           ADJOURN (Box lunch)