Schedule

Main Venue: B02 CSL

Registration and Welcome
Time Title Speaker Status
8:30 AM - 8:55 AM Breakfast and Registration    
8:55 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome    
Session 1: Communications and Information Theory
Time Title Speaker Status
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Power Line Communication Dr. Don Shaver
Texas Instruments
Invited
Keynote
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM Break
 
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM Using information theory to analyze statistically causal influences in networks of simultaneously recorded neurons Christopher Quinn
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM On the efficiency of broadcasting in multi-channel multi-interface wireless networks Xavier Franco
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM Break
 
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM Feature extraction for universal hypothesis testing via rank-constrained optimization Dayu Huang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM Sorting of Permutations by Cost-Constrained Transpositions Farzad Farnoud
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
Lunch - Day 1
Time Title Speaker Status
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM Lunch, 301 CSL
 
Session 2: Decision and Control
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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM A State-Space Approach to Stochastic Decentralized Control Prof. Sanjay Lall
Stanford University
Invited
Keynote
2:00 PM - 2:10 PM Break
 
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM Consensus in a Restaurant Behrouz Touri
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM Separated flow control in diffusers using pneumatic and plasma based actuators Nachiket Kale
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM Break
 
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM Ensemble Control: steering a continuum between configurations Aaron Becker
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM Hybrid Learning in Games with applications to Network Security Quanyan Zhu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
Poster Session and Reception in CSL 301
Time Title Speaker Status
3:40 PM - 5:30 PM Poster session and Reception, 301 CSL

Day 2

Venue: B02 CSL

Breakfast
Time Title Speaker Status
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast    
Session 3: Signal Processing
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9:00 AM - 10:00 AM A Signal-Processing Approach to Modeling Vision, and Applications Prof. Sheila Hemami
Cornell University
Invited
Keynote
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM Break
 
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM How Far will Depth Take Us? Daniel Kubacki
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM A Novel Brain-Computer Interface based on Event-Related Error Potentials David Steines
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM Break
 
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM Nanosat Payload Instrumentation for Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Gravity Waves John Westerhoff
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM Playing Checkers with your Mind: An Application of a SSVEP-Based Brain-Computer Interface Aadeel Akhtar
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
Lunch - Day 2
Time Title Speaker Status
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM Lunch, 301 CSL
 
Session 4A: Systems and Hardware Design
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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Rethinking Parallel Execution for Future Multicore Processors Prof. Guri Sohi
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited
Keynote
2:00 PM - 2:10 PM Break
 
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM Easy and efficient high-performance computing on FPGAs Alex Papakonstantinou
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM Automatic parameterized verification of distributed algorithms Taylor Johnson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM Break
 
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM Stochastic Processors: Design, Analysis and Challenges Parasara Sridhar Duggirala
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM Hauberk: Silent Data Corruption Error Detector for GPGPU Keun Soo Yim
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
Session 4B: Decision and Control (in parallel with Session 4A), 301 CSL
Time Title Speaker Status
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM Application of positive system theory to robust control design Takashi Tanaka
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM Energy management of a hydraulic hybrid passenger vehicle Tim Deppen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM Incorporating intent inference and feedback control into the design of brain-machine interfaces for navigating vehicles Abdullah Akce
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student
Panel Discussion
Time Title Speaker Status
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Panel Discussion