EECS RESEARCH STUDENTS SYMPOSIUM - 2021

Day 1 - May 7, 2021. Friday

Time

Speaker

Title

Session 1 | 8.55 - 10.00 | Welcome + Plenary Talks Watch Recording
Chair : Prof. Mahesh Mehendale, Texas Instruments and Adjunct Professor, IISc

08.55 - 9.00

Prof. Y. Narahari

CSA, IISc

Welcome

9.00 – 10.00

Madhav Marathe

University of Virginia

Computational Epidemiology: Challenges and Opportunities

10.00 – 10.15

Break

Session 2 | 10.15 - 12.45 | Faculty Talks Watch Recording
Chair : Prof. K. J. Vinoy, ECE, IISc

10.15 - 10.40

Phani Motamarri

CDS, IISc

Towards fast and accurate exascale quantum-mechanical
calculations for material modelling using finite-element
discretization and mixed-precision arithmetic

10.40 - 11.05

Chaya Ganesh

CSA, IISc

Computational integrity: succinct proofs in cryptography

11.05 – 11.30

Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

ECE, IISc

Graph Neural Networks

11.30 - 11.55

Vishnu Mahadeva Iyer

EE, IISc

An Approach Towards an Extreme Fast Charging Station Architecture
for Electric Vehicles

11.55 – 12.20

Arup Polley

ESE, IISc

Integrated Sensor Systems

12.20 – 12.45

Jishnu Keshavan

RBCCPS, IISc

Data-Augmented Control of Visual Autonomous Systems Watch Recording

12.45 – 13.30

Lunch Break

Session 3 | 13.30 - 16.30 | Cluster Talks

13.30 - 16.30 Ï
Session-3A Cluster: AI & Machine Learning
Session Chairs:
Foundations of AI - Aditya Gopalan (ECE), IISc
Invited Talks - Chiranjib Bhattacharyya (CSA), IISc
AI and Signal Processing - A. G. Ramakrishnan (EE), IISc View Details & Recording Links
Session-3B Cluster: Nanodevices, VLSI Circuits and Microsystems (part 1/2)
Session Chairs:
Mayank Shrivastava (ESE), IISc
Dipanjan Gope (ECE), IISc View Details & Recording Links
Time Speaker Title Recording
13:30 - 14:00 Martin Kuball,
University of Bristol, UK
Thermal Management of Electronics and Beyond
– GaN & Gallium Oxide
Link
14:00 - 14:30 Matteo Meneghini,
University of Padua, Italy
GaN Power Transistors & Dynamic-Ron: Challenges
& Perspectives
Link
14:30 - 14:40 Mehak Mahajan,
ECE
CDW induced phase transition in layered heterostructures Link
14:40 - 14:50 Sarthak Das,
ECE
Excitons in flatlands Link
14:50 - 15:00 Ansh,
ESE
Electro-Thermal Stress Induced Material Reconfiguration &
Device Perturbations in monolayer 2D-TMD Transistors
Link
15:00 - 15:10 Sanchali Mitra,
ESE
Theory of nonvolatile resistive switching in monolayer
molybdenum disulfide with passive electrodes
Link
15:10 - 15:20 Tripti Jain,
ESE
Learning-based Classification of magnetic and non-magnetic
2D materials
Link
15:20 - 15:30 Q&A Students 1-5
15:30 - 16:00 Harald Gossner,
Intel Corporation, Germany
Rethink ESD Robustness for Modular Technologies Link
16:00 - 16:30 Yogesh Chauhan,
IIT Kanpur
Modeling and Simulation of FinFET and Nanosheet Transistors
for Advanced Technology Nodes
Link
Session-3C Cluster: Security and Cryptography
Session Chairs:
Himanshu Tyagi (ECE), IISc
Chaya Ganesh (CSA), IISc View Details & Recording Links

16.30 – 17.00

Break

Session 4 | 17.00 - 18.00 | Plenary Talk Watch Recording
Chair : Mr Rostow Ravanan, Former CEO, Mindtree

17.00 – 18.00

Lalitesh Katragadda

Founder, Indihood

The Coding Revolutionary

Session 5 | 18.00 - 19.00 | Plenary Talk Watch Recording
Chair : Dr. Ramesh Hariharan, CTO, Strand Life Sciences

18.00 – 19.00

Milind Tambe

Harvard University & Google Research India

Multiagent reasoning for social impact:
Results from deployments for public health and conservation