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Revealing Common Behaviors in Heterogeneous Populations
March, 21, 2018 , 14:30Signal Processing and Systems (SP&S) Andrey Zhitnikov Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion on: Revealing Common Behaviors in Heterogeneous Populations In many areas of neuroscience and biological data analysis, it is desired to reveal common patterns among a group of... Read MoreRead more about: Revealing Common Behaviors in Heterogeneous Populations
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“Science at the Bar” To Mark International Women’s Day
March, 20, 2018 , 20:00“Science at the Bar” To Mark International Women’s Day Eight Haifa bars will host leading Technion researchers on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 20:00 Flexible aircrafts, artificial intelligence, human-machine interfaces, computer vision, urban planning as an instrument for social change,... Read MoreRead more about: “Science at the Bar” To Mark International Women’s Day
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Cascading Denial-of- Service Attacks on Wi-Fi Networks
March, 07, 2018 , 11:30ceClub: The Technion Computer Engineering Club Speaker: Professor David Starobinski Affiliation: Boston University On: Cascading Denial-of- Service Attacks on Wi-Fi Networks We unveil the existence of a vulnerability in Wi-Fi (802.11) networks, which allows an adversary to remotely launch a... Read MoreRead more about: Cascading Denial-of- Service Attacks on Wi-Fi Networks
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Thermal and noise effects in nanometer CMOS-SOI devices and circuits
March, 05, 2018 , 14:30Electro-optics and Microelectronics Seminar Graduate Seminar Speaker: Maria Malits Affiliation: Electrical Eng., Technion Nowadays, CMOS-SOI is emerging as a promising solution to continue the CMOS scaling allowing low-power, high temperature and “system on chip” applications as well as CMOS-SOI-MEMS/NEMS unique... Read MoreRead more about: Thermal and noise effects in nanometer CMOS-SOI devices and circuits
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ACRC – Power Semiconductors IC Systems
March, 04, 2018 , 08:00The course conveys a solid understanding of the use of modern semiconductor technologies in power electronic applications. Based on the relevant figures of merit of Si, GaN and SiC based power semiconductors, aspects of power device characterization and modeling, circuit... Read MoreRead more about: ACRC – Power Semiconductors IC Systems
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Coding and Capacity for Cloud-RAN Downlink Channels
February, 28, 2018 , 14:30Communication and Information Theory Speaker: Professor Gerhard Kramer Affiliation: Alexander von Humboldt Professor TUM, Technical University of Munich The downlink of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) can be modeled as a diamond network. The baseband unit (BBU) is connected... Read MoreRead more about: Coding and Capacity for Cloud-RAN Downlink Channels
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MT-CGRA: A fast, energy efficient dataflow GPGPU
February, 27, 2018 , 13:00Graduate Seminar Speaker: Dani Voitsechov Affiliation: Electrical Eng., Technion Over the last decade, GPUs have been successfully deployed to accelerate a wide array of highly parallel general purpose applications ranging from machine learning tasks such as image classification, speech recognition... Read MoreRead more about: MT-CGRA: A fast, energy efficient dataflow GPGPU
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Optical Similaritons in passive Fiber Bragg Gratings
February, 27, 2018 , 11:30Electro-optics and Microelectronics Seminar Graduate Seminar Speaker: Dror Oskar Affiliation: Electrical Eng., Technion Optical similaritons are pulses, which are evolved in fiber amplifiers with a positive group velocity dispersion. The interplay between fiber nonlinearity and dispersion causes, under certain conditions,... Read MoreRead more about: Optical Similaritons in passive Fiber Bragg Gratings
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A General Approach to Multi-Armed Bandits Under Risk Criteria
February, 26, 2018 , 12:30Machine Learning Seminar Graduate Seminar Speaker: Asaf Cassel Affiliation: Electrical Eng., Technion Different risk-related criteria have received recent interest in learning problems, where typically each case is treated in a customized manner. In this work we provide a more systematic... Read MoreRead more about: A General Approach to Multi-Armed Bandits Under Risk Criteria
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Insights on Image Memorability and its Prediction
February, 26, 2018 , 11:30Graduate Seminar Speaker: Shay Perera Affiliation: Electrical Eng., Technion This talk addresses the prediction of memorability of a given image. We study the relation between deep networks for image classification and memorability prediction. Our study gives rise to three main... Read MoreRead more about: Insights on Image Memorability and its Prediction
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Optimal power flow solution using clustered networks
February, 15, 2018 , 17:00Graduate Seminar Speaker: Raz Feldman Affiliation: Electrical Eng., Technion The optimal power flow problem is a fundamental problem in power system studies. It is generally nonlinear, nonconvex, contains several different objectives, and may include of thousands of decision variables, making... Read MoreRead more about: Optimal power flow solution using clustered networks
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Risk Averse Multi-Armed Bandits
February, 12, 2018 , 12:30Machine Learning Seminar Graduate Seminar Speaker: Asaf Cassel Affiliation: Electrical Eng., Technion It is well known that risk is a subjective concept with no agreed upon measure. As such, recent works in stochastic multi-armed bandits consider various notions of risk... Read MoreRead more about: Risk Averse Multi-Armed Bandits
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The 40th Anniversary of the Lempel-Ziv algorithm
February, 05, 2018 , 14:30Special Lecture and Ceremony Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Lempel-Ziv algorithm Beyond compression: Lempel-Ziv in Learning and Prediction Speaker: Prof. Meir Feder The celebrated Lempel-Ziv compression method has an innovative algorithmic aspect – compression by string matching. In addition, it has... Read MoreRead more about: The 40th Anniversary of the Lempel-Ziv algorithm
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Sparse NOMA: A Closed-Form Characterization
February, 01, 2018 , 14:30Communication and Information Theory סמינר בתקשורת ותורת האינפורמציה Dr. Benjamin M. Zaidel The Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan On: Sparse NOMA: A Closed-Form Characterization Understanding fundamental limits of the various technologies suggested for future 5G and... Read MoreRead more about: Sparse NOMA: A Closed-Form Characterization
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ACRC Research Day
January, 31, 2018 , 16:00Dear all, We would like to warmly invite you to attend the ACRC 2018 research day which will be held on: Date: Wednesday, 31 January 2018 Place: Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, room 1003 Meyer bld., Technion Doors opening: 16:00... Read MoreRead more about: ACRC Research Day
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Breaking the barriers of MRI by exploiting signals structure
January, 31, 2018 , 14:30Signal Processing and Systems (SP&S) Seminar Speaker: Dr. Lior Weizman Affiliation: Research affiliate in both Technion & Oxford Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an interdisciplinary field involving physics, engineering, chemistry, mathematics, and neuroscience. It is the best imaging modality for... Read MoreRead more about: Breaking the barriers of MRI by exploiting signals structure
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Improving Semantic Classification in Deep Learning Models
January, 30, 2018 , 11:30Pixel Club Speaker: Yakir Matari Affiliation: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Technion on: Improving Semantic Classification in Deep Learning Models We consider the image classification problem using deep models. Most of the works in the recent years consider only the... Read MoreRead more about: Improving Semantic Classification in Deep Learning Models
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RAPToR: A Resampling Algorithm for Pseudo-Polar based Tomographic Reconstruction
January, 28, 2018 , 15:30Signal Processing and Systems (SP&S) Seminar Shahar Tsiper* Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion On: RAPToR: A Resampling Algorithm for Pseudo-Polar based Tomographic Reconstruction Computerized Tomography (CT) is the most widely used imaging modality in medicine today. Despite signicant... Read MoreRead more about: RAPToR: A Resampling Algorithm for Pseudo-Polar based Tomographic Reconstruction
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Signal Processing Challenges in Massive MIMO Systems
January, 28, 2018 , 14:30Signal Processing and Systems (SP&S) Seminar Shahar Stein* Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion on: Signal Processing Challenges in Massive MIMO Systems Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication is a promising technology for increasing spectral eciency in wireless networks. Two of... Read MoreRead more about: Signal Processing Challenges in Massive MIMO Systems
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Heavy-tail phenomena in the large deviations of random matrices
January, 23, 2018 , 11:30Probability seminar Guest Lecture Speaker: Fanny Augeri Affiliation: Weizmann Institute of Science In this talk, I will be concerned by the problem of the large deviations of the spectrum of Wigner matrices. More precisely, I will focus on understanding the deviations... Read MoreRead more about: Heavy-tail phenomena in the large deviations of random matrices