CEMSE Weekly Updates - April 14, 2025 Tue, Apr 15 2025 Newsletter Upcoming Events Stay informed about the upcoming events and the latest news from CEMSE. Upcoming Events GaN-based VCSELs and Future of Semiconductor Lasers Tatsushi Hamaguchi, Professor, Innovation Center for Semiconductor and Digital Future Apr 20, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 This lecture covers the history, breakthroughs, and future of nitride-based blue and green surface-emitting lasers, from both industry and academic viewpoints. Towards Full Information Transformation in Deep Learning: A Study in Neural Machine Translation and Vision on Next-Generation Language Foundation Models Dr. Liang Ding Apr 20, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L3 R3223 This seminar will present LLM advancements to address alignment and efficiency challenges in neural machine translation, aiming to balance decoding speed and translation quality towards building sufficient, efficient, and trustworthy next-generation language models for diverse real-world applications. Adaptive Unbound Resilient Electronics for Organic and Reconfigurable Architectures Realizing Fully Flexible 3D-IC Systems for Extreme, Evolving, and Embedded Environments Muhammad Hussain, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, United States Apr 20, 12:00 - 13:00 B2 L5 R5220 This talk reviews recent advances across flexible electronics, dissolvable packaging, liquid metal-enabled systems, NFC-powered devices, wearable sensors, and swarm-capable microsystems. The Earliest Arrival of Quantum Utility David Keyes, Senior Associate to the President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Apr 21, 12:00 - 13:00 B9, L2, R2325 The earliest advantageous uses of quantum computing will take the form of a quantum processing unit (QPU) attached to a traditional supercomputer. Supercomputers of the not too distant future will have thousands of GPUs and thousands of CPUs as today, along with one or more QPUs with thousands of qubits. Bridging the Digital Divide Gap: Next-G Approach Towards Connecting the Unconnected Fahad Salem Alqurashi, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Apr 21, 13:00 - 14:30 B 4/5, L0, R0215 This dissertation investigates next-generation technologies, including hybrid free-space optics (FSO) and radio frequency (RF) communication systems, to bridge the digital divide in underserved remote areas, addressing multifaceted constraints like economic viability, technical feasibility, and socio-economic inequalities, with a focus on real-world applications. Advancing Security Red-Teaming in Cyber-Physical Systems via AI-Driven Side-Channel Analysis Tao Ni, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Apr 23, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L3 R3223 cybersecurity IoT cyber-physical systems This talk will systematically reveal security and privacy vulnerabilities in cyber-physical systems by characterizing contactless side-channel attacks on various components and proposing effective defense methods using hardware-software co-design and AI-driven techniques, while also outlining future research directions for developing secure and privacy-preserving CPS platforms.
