2020 NSF IUCRC ASIC center annual meeting

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)