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SUMMARY:ECE Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series: Jinjun Xiong\, Founding Dean\, College of AI\, Cyber and Computing - UT-San Antonio
DESCRIPTION:Scaling Earthly AI to Help Children with Speech and Language Service Needs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract:We are standing on the brink of an extraordinary transformation. Artificial intelligence is not just a reshaping technology\, it also reshapes possibility. Yet even as this technological renaissance accelerates\, our society faces many deep and urgent challenges. For example\, nearly 3.4 million children in the U.S. require speech and language services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and are at risk of falling behind in their academic and social-emotional development without timely intervention by Speech and Language Pathologists (SLPs). Unfortunately\, there is a significant shortage of SLPs\, making it almost impossible for SLPs to provide individualized services for children. Through the recently established National AI Institute for Exceptional Education\, we envision a transformative approach to address this challenge. We aim to develop advanced AI technologies to scale SLPs’ availability and services. In this talk\, I will discuss the rationale behind the Institute’s vision\, the technical approaches we are taking\, and the corresponding research challenges we must overcome. I will contextualize these efforts in an ultimate research goal of transforming the current AI innovation ecosystem to truly democratize AI for a better society. This also opens up new opportunities for collaboration with a broad research community in areas of foundational AI\, workload acceleration\, system characterization and optimization\, and AI automation. \n\n\n\nJinjun Xiong\n\n\n\nBio:Dr. Jinjun Xiong is founding dean of the College of AI\, Cyber and Computing at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio)\, and holds the Microsoft President’s Endowed Professorship with the Department of Computer Science and Department of Computer Engineering. Dr. Xiong also serves as the Scientific Director for the $20 million National AI Institute for Exceptional Education\, and the AI lead for the $10 million IES Center for Early Literacy and Responsible AI. Prior to UT San Antonio\, Dr. Xiong was Empire Innovation Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University at Buffalo (UB)\, Director for the UB’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science\, and Senior Researcher and Program Director for AI and Hybrid Clouds Systems at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He was the former co-founder and co-director for the IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR)\, the success of which in 5 years has led to the 10-year $200M expansion of the center to the IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute. His research interests are on across-stack AI systems research\, including AI applications\, algorithms\, tooling and computer architectures. Many of his research results have been adopted in IBM’s products and tools. He published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in top AI conferences and systems conferences. His publication won 9 Best Paper Awards and 10 Nominations for Best Paper Awards. He also won top awards from various international competitions\, including the championship award for the IEEE GraphChallenge on accelerating sparse neural networks in 2020\, and the First Place Awards for the 2019 DAC Systems Design Contest on designing an object detection neural network for edge FPGA and GPU devices\, respectively.
URL:https://live-uw-engineering.pantheonsite.io/event/ece-distinguished-speaker-seminar-series-jinjun-xiong-founding-dean-ut-san-antonio/
LOCATION:2355 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, 53711
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SUMMARY:ECE SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS SEMINAR SERIES: Dr. Alex Honghyuk Kim
DESCRIPTION:Development of Novel III–V Semiconductor Heterostructures: Overcoming Physical Limits\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Honghyuk Kim\n\n\n\nAbstract: Recent advances in the epitaxial growth of III–V compound semiconductors have enabled high-performance electronic and photonic devices. However\, conventional III–V and III–N material systems remain fundamentally limited by intrinsic physical and chemical constraints\, including substrate-dependent lattice and bandgap properties. These limitations hinder progress in emerging applications such as neuromorphic photonics\, monolithic integration with silicon photonics\, and full-color micro-LED arrays. In this talk\, strategies to overcome these intrinsic limitations will be discussed\, with a focus on the development of novel III–V compound semiconductor material systems enabled by precise control of lattice mismatch\, phase stability\, and miscibility gaps. The role of metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) in kinetic material design will be highlighted\, together with the realization of chemically and physically metastable III–V heterostructures beyond conventional epitaxial limits. \n\n\n\nBio: Alex Honghyuk Kim is an Assistant Professor in the School of Semiconductor Convergence Engineering at Hanyang University\, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison\, where his research focused on the epitaxial growth of III–V compound semiconductors for advanced optoelectronic applications. His research interests include MOVPE-based epitaxy of III–V compound semiconductor materials\, metastable heterostructures\, and the design and characterization of advanced optoelectronic devices. Prior to joining Hanyang University\, he held research positions at Lumileds LLC\, Northwestern University\, and the Korea Photonics Technology Institute. He has authored and coauthored over 30 peer-reviewed journal papers and currently serves as a co-principal investigator on multiple nationally funded semiconductor research projects.
URL:https://live-uw-engineering.pantheonsite.io/event/ece-semiconductor-materials-seminar-series-dr-alex-honghyuk-kim/
LOCATION:2355 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, 53711
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