2024 TEXAS ANALOG CENTER OF EXCELLENCE SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

Symposium Chair: Murat Torlak
Poster Session Chairs: Moon Kim, Hoi Lee, and Sam Shichijo

October 21, 2024

           MORNING SESSION                                      8:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. CDT
8:30 a.m. Registration and Morning Refreshments
9 a.m. Symposium Opening: Murat Torlak – Professor, UT Dallas
9:10 a.m. Invited Speaker: Power-Efficient Short-Reach Electrical Links for the AI Era
Tod Dickson – Principal Research Scientist, IBM
9:55 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Accelerating Multiphysics System Analysis in the AI era
Ben Gu, Corporate VP of Multiphysics System Analysis Group, Research & Development, Cadence Design Systems

10:40 a.m. 

Coffee Break
10:55 a.m. Panel Session: The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Analog/Mixed Signal and RF Integrated Circuit Design
Moderated by Ramesh Harjani, Professor, University of Minnesota
Panelists: Mike Chen, USC | David Pan, UT Austin | Kaushik Sengupta, Princeton | Ben Gu, Cadence Design Systems | Sachin Sapatenkar, University of Minnesota | Emily Naviasky, IBM | Ibrahim Khalil, NXP | Dan Radack, IDA
                  LUNCH                                                        12:15 p.m. – 12:55 p.m. CDT
           AFTERNOON SESSION                                     12:55 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. CDT
12:55 p.m. Center Overview:
Ken K. O – Director of TxACE and Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair, UT Dallas
1:25 p.m. Students Poster Previews
1:45 p.m. Poster Session
3:00 p.m. Invited Speaker: Emergin Chip-Scale Terahertz Systems for Sensing, Metrology and Security Applications
Ruonan Han, Associate Professor, MIT
3:45 p.m. Fundamental Analog Overview
Pavan Hanumolu, Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
4:30 p.m. Student Poster Awards and Closing Remarks:
Sam Shichijo and Ken K. O

ERIK JONSSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS