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IoT: From Vision to Reality
Magdy Bayoumi, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette

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Biography: Magdy A. Bayoumi is the Z.L. Loflin Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair Professor at The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette). He was the Director of CACS, 1997 – 2013 and Department Head of the Computer Science Department, 2000-2011. Dr. Bayoumi has been a faculty member in CACS since 1985. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt; M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis; and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Windsor, Canada.

Dr. Bayoumi has graduated more than 60 Ph.D. and about 175 Master’s students. He has published over 500 papers in related journals and conferences. He edited, co-edited and co-authored 10 books in his research interests. He has been Guest Editor (or Co-Guest Editor) of ten Special Issues in VLSI Signal Processing, Learning on Silicon, Multimedia Architecture, Digital and Computational Video, and Perception-on-a-Chip, SoC, and Machine to Machine Interface. He has given numerous invited lectures and talks nationally and internationally, and has consulted in industry. He is an IEEE fellow.                                              

Dr. Bayoumi was the chair of an international delegation to China, sponsored by People-to-People Ambassador, 2000. He received the French Government Fellowship, University of Paris Orsay, 2003-2005 and 2009. He received the United Nation Fellowship, Egypt, 2002-2003. He was a Visiting Professor at King Saud University.

Dr. Bayoumi has served in many editorial, administrative, and leadership capacities in IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society, for the last 25 years. He has been involved in many conferences, serving in different capacities. He has been the general chair of more than ten conferences/workshops.

IoT: Design Challenges and Opportunities
Danielle Griffith, Texas Instruments

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Biography: Danielle Griffith has been with Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas since 2003 and is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Low Power RF group. She develops circuits and techniques for reducing cost, power consumption, and circuit board area for wireless connectivity products that support standards such as Bluetooth Low Energy and Zigbee. Her current focus areas are low power oscillators and MEMS circuitry. She has published 28 papers, 24 of them in IEEE journals or conferences. She has written a book chapter titled "Synchronization Clocks for Ultra-Low Power Wireless Networks" which was published by Springer as a part of the book "Ultra-Low-Power Short-Range Radios". Danielle holds 11 issued US patents and has given multiple university and IEEE conference tutorial and workshop sessions. She was a member of the IEEE RFIC Technical Program Committee for conferences years 2014 and 2015, and has been a member of the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference Technical Program committee since conference year 2015. Danielle received the B.S.E.E. and M.Eng. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge in 1996 and 1997, respectively.

IoT: No more Moore? Let's break the law!
Wolf Richter, President, EPIC Semiconductor

Abstract: If everybody tells the same story, then it's time to start new adventures! For a short time let the ARMy of boring "me-too" behind and discover a new realm of possibilities in the melting pot of digital and analog circuits. Experience a new form of "Inherent Artificial Intelligence", self-powered contactless "Smart-by-Nature" sensing circuits (beyond RFID & NFC), as well as new ideas for MEMS and Charge Coupled Devices (CCD). How about a kind of "Alma-Mater-on-Chip", a vast cluster of "teachers" and "students", realized with "EPIC's nCP nanoCloudProcessors", to outsmart even Quantum computers? Wolf Richter talks & demonstrates (live on stage) what's possible today, to give you "Epic" ideas for tomorrow!

Biography: Wolfgang is both an entrepreneur and an inventor and is devoted to pioneering communications technologies and services.  Wolfgang has more than 30 years of technology development experience and a track record of economically outstanding innovations.  Wolfgang-Henry has authored more than 150 patents and has won awards at Expo 2000, Austria microsystem 2005 and Echelon 2007.  He was the German Economy Award winner for Best Innovation and his innovations also led to an Ernst & Young entrepreneurship award in 2007. His last venture has been acquired by Microchip. 

Machine Learning Accelerators for IoTs
Ram Krishnamurthy, Intel Corp.

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Biography: Ram Krishnamurthy received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Regional Engineering College, Trichy, India, in 1993, M. S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1995, and Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1998. He has been with Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon, since 1998, where he is Senior Principal Engineer and directs the high performance and low voltage circuits research group at Circuits Research Lab. In this role, he leads research in high performance, energy efficient and low voltage circuits for microprocessors and SoCs. He holds 105 issued patents with over 50 patents pending and has published 150 conference/journal papers and 3 book chapters on high-performance energy-efficient microprocessor design. He serves as Intel's representative on the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) technical advisory board for circuits. He served as associate editor of IEEE transactions on VLSI systems, guest editor of IEEE journal of solid-state circuits and on the technical program committees of ISSCC, CICC, and SOCC conferences. He serves on industrial advisory board of Oregon State University and State University of New York at Buffalo ECE departments. He served as Technical Program Chair/General Chair for the 2005/2006 IEEE International Systems-on-Chip Conference and presently serves on the conference's steering committee. Krishnamurthy has received the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference Distinguished Technical Paper Award in 2012, IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference Best Paper Award in 2012, Outstanding Industry Mentor Award from SRC thrice in 2002, 2011 and 2015, Intel Awards for most patents filed in 2001 and most patents issued in 2003, Alumni recognition award from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009, and MIT Technology Review's TR35 Innovator Award in 2006. He has received the Intel Achievement Award, Intel Corporation's highest technical award, twice - in 2004 and 2008 for development and technology transfer of novel high-performance execution core arithmetic circuits and special-purpose hardware encryption accelerators. He is an IEEE Fellow and distinguished lecturer of IEEE solid-state circuits society.

last venture has been acquired by Microchip. 

IoT System Level Challenges and Applications    
Ramalingam Sridhar, SUNY at Buffalo

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Biography: Ramalingam  Sridhar  received  a  B.E.  (Honors)  degree in  Electrical  and  Electronics  Engineering  from Guindy  Engineering  College,  University  of  Madras  in  1980,  MS  and  PhD  in  Electrical  and  Computer  Engineering from Washington State University in 1983 and 1987 respectively.Since 1987 he has been  with the Univ ersity at Buffalo, The State University of New York where he is an Associate Professor in  the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests are in Wireless and sensor network security, pervasive and RFID systems, secure  architect ures,  Embedded  technologies,  deep  submicron  VLSI  systems,  Clocking  and  Synchronization,  and  memory  circuits  &  architecture. He  was  an  IEEE  CAS  Distinguished  Lecturer.  He  has  served  as  Program  Chair  and  General  Chair  of  ASIC/SoC  Conference  and  has  served  i n  the  editorial  board  of   many journals and technical committee of numerous conferences in wireless systems and VLSI.