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