The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department consistently engineers opportunities to showcase student research and facilitate department-wide collaboration. On April 15, the ECE Department hosted its second “ECE Blitz” of the semester to highlight the department’s exceptional, wide-ranging student research and to give students a chance to receive thoughtful feedback from faculty and peers.
Similar to the first Blitz, the event featured the presentations of six student researchers:
- Osama Yousuf, “Accelerating LLMs using In-memory Computing” (Advisor: Prof. Adam)
- Yingnan Zhao, “High-performance and Energy-efficient Graph AI Accelerator” (Advisor: Prof. Louri)
- Zhiqiang Yi, “A Hybrid-Domain Floating-Point Compute-in-Memory Architecture for Efficient Acceleration of High-Precision Deep Neural Networks” (Advisor: Prof. Cao)
- Haoyu He, “Revelio: Revealing Important Message Flows in Graph Neural Networks” (Advisor: Prof Huang)
- Emily Grob, “Look-Ahead Robust Network Optimization with Generative State Predictions” (Advisor: Prof. Lan)
- HamidReza Imani, “QoS-Efficient Serving of Multiple Mixture-of-Expert LLMs Using Partial Runtime Reconfiguration” (Advisor: Prof. El-Ghazawi)
Organized by Professors Ahmed Louri, Payman Dehghanian, and Weidong Cao, this Blitz differed from the first in that, following the student presentations, the department hosted a poster session for students and faculty to interact with additional student research. The poster session gave the ECE community a chance to engage with one another’s research in a more hands-on way and facilitated thought-provoking discussions, said Louri.
The event counted towards the ECE program’s colloquium requirement, but its benefits extend far beyond fulfilling a program requirement.
“I think it’s a good opportunity to interface. The ECE Department has such a wide scope, and it’s interesting to hear what other people are doing. Just hearing other people’s ideas will give you a shift in perspective that you can try to apply to your own research. Sometimes you need something to push that creativity, and events like this help,” said Juliana Curry, an ECE PhD student whose research was displayed at the poster session.
The April Blitz was the last for the semester, but look out for more Blitz events in the fall!