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  April 2025 Newsletter

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Announcements

•  April 15: Towards Long-Form Video Representation Learning: Sparse Representations, Leveraging Domain knowledge and Video-Large Language Models - Virtual, IEEE San Diego and Buenaventura Computer Society(CS)

•  April 24: Volunteers Needed: Annual Industry & Education Summit - Student Project Showcase - In Person, Ventura County Office of Education

•  April 29: OCCS GET Series: AI for Research & Development (AI4R&D): Revolutionizing Innovation and Value Creation in R&D- Virtual and in Person, IEEE Orange County and Buenaventura Computer Society(CS)

•  May 6: Algorithms to Implement Diversity Coding for Link Failures in Networks - Virtual, IEEE San Fernando Valley and Buenaventura Computer Society(CS)

•  June 3: Machine Learning in NextG Networks via Generative Adversarial Networks - Virtual, IEEE San Fernando Valley and Buenaventura Computer Society(CS)

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Announcements

April 15, 2025

Algorithms to Implement Diversity Coding for Link Failures in Networks
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM PT

Speaker: Dr. Subarna Tripathi of Intel Labs - Visual Algorithm Research group

Register at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/478569

In this talk, exciting advancements of Dr. Tripathi's research group, Visual Algorithm Research, at Intel Labs will be shared. In the first part of the talk, several video representations methods such as sparse graphs and sparse transformers that are equipped with long-form reasoning capability will be covered. In the second part, the focus is on the group's research addressing egocentric use cases and several associated algorithmic advancements. The talk will be concluded with Dr. Tripathi's team recent work around video large language models.

About the speaker:

Dr. Subarna Tripathi is a research scientist at Intel Labs, working in computer vision and machine learning. She leads a team of talented researchers working on long-term video understanding & generation, multimodal and structured representation learning. As a co-chair of AI strategic research sector, she helps oversee Intel's global academic investment in AI. She is serving as one of Intel's Center Lead Liaison (CLL) for a JUMP2.0 center, CoCoSys and Artificial Intelligence Hardware (AIHW) Technical Advisory Board Member.

She received her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California San Diego with Professor Truong Nguyen and Professor Serge Belongie as her PhD advisors. She is an alumna of Video processing group at UC San Diego and SE(3) computer vision group at Cornell Tech. She has been an area chair of WiML since 2017 and a reviewer of CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, WACV, AAAI, ICLR, IEEE journals. Before joining Intel, she worked in STMicroelectronics in its Advanced System Technology (AST) group for 6.5 years on computer vision and video processing domains. Prior to that she worked in Interra Systems on video analyzer.

Dr. Tripathi received her MS Research from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science and Engineering) from Kalyani Govt. Engineering College. She is from Kalyani, a beautiful town in West Bengal, India.


April 24, 2025

Volunteers Needed: Annual Industry & Education Summit - Student Project Showcase

Register at: https://forms.gle/qPc1fYbFyP1dvRkFA

You are invited to the Annual Industry + Education Student Showcase, featuring career technical education high school students from throughout the county presenting projects from innovation + design, manufacturing, fabrication, and more. They are looking for industry partners who would like to see what students have been learning and making and at the same time be part of a student's journey through the discovery process.

The event is on April 24, 2025, 9:15 am - 1:30 pm PDT. However, the day is broken up into 1 and 2-hour increments. There are three ways to participate: Judge, Guest Speaker, or Table Facilitator at lunch. The time slots are below.

  Rotation 1 Judge:                           9:15 am - 11:00 am
  Rotation 1 Guest Speaker:              9:15 am - 11:00 am
  Rotation 2 Judge:                           10:15 am - 11:45 am
  Networking Lunch Table Facilitator:  11:15 am - 12:45 pm

Location: VCOE Conference Center, 5100 Adolfo Rd, Camarillo, CA 93012

Presented by: Ventura County Office of Education

Flyer (PDF): https://www.ieee-bv.org/flyer/2025-04-vcoe


April 29, 2025

AI for Research & Development (AI4R&D): Revolutionizing Innovation and Value Creation in R&D 

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM PT

Speaker: Has Patel, Infologic

Register at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/477340

Integrating AI into R&D processes presents a promising future, offering significant innovation and value-creation opportunities across industries. McKinsey estimates generative AI could add $2.6 to $4.4 trillion in annual value, with R&D and Product Innovation use cases among the highest contributors.

This talk will delve into the practicality of the AI4R&D model, addressing challenges in the R&D lifecycle, such as information overload, experiment design, AI risk management, and research commercialization “Valley of Death.” Following the widely accepted and federally developed Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) methodology, strategies for integrating AI throughout the research-to-commercialization lifecycle will be discussed to increase efficiency and value creation.

Attendees will learn how AI can streamline processes, enhance decision-making, and accelerate innovation. The presentation will also introduce AI-focused workforce development, the future of AI, and strategies for developing and implementing AI-powered projects.

About the speaker:

Mr. Has (Hasmukh) Patel is passionate about research and development (R&D) and innovation management. He has gained extensive experience across various sectors, including roles at Bell Laboratories, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, and B.P. Chemicals before founding Infologic. Over fifteen years at Infologic, he supported U.S. Defense RDT&E organizations and developed several innovation management models, presenting them at defense and corporate events. He is researching the AI-powered Innovation and Value Creation in R&D (AI4R&D™) model.

As a committed advocate, Mr. Patel volunteered for the U.S. Department of Commerce's NIST Generative A.I. Public Working Group (NIST GAI-PWG). He represented Infologic at the Department of Defense's Manufacturing Readiness Levels (MRLs) working group, the UCLA-managed Advanced Manufacturing USA Institute—CESMII, and the USC-led Advanced Manufacturing Partnership for Southern California (AMP SoCal). He also judges various business planning competitions and the A.I. Innovation Challenge, highlighting his dedication to fostering innovation.

Presented by: IEEE Orange County Computer Society, co-sponsored by Buenaventura Computer Society


May 6, 2025

Algorithms to Implement Diversity Coding for Link Failures in Networks
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM PT

Speaker: Ender Ayanoglu, Professor, UCI
Register at:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/466460

Diversity coding is a form of network coding for link failure recovery in communication networks. Since it employs coding, there is no feedback signaling, and that feature makes it very fast. One approach, Diversity Coding Tree, employs mixed integer programming and results in very fast restoration. Another approach is called Coded Path Protection and employs integer linear programming and has the advantage of small extra capacity. This latter technique is based on former work that considers a communication network as consisting of bidirectional links. This technique employs a mixed integer linear programming formulation and results in restoration times as fast as Diversity Coding Tree with reduced extra capacity.


June 3, 2025

Machine Learning in NextG Networks via Generative Adversarial Networks
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM PT

Speaker: Ender Ayanoglu, Professor, UCI
Register at:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/466461

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) implement Machine Learning (ML) algorithms that can address competitive resource allocation problems together with detection and mitigation of anomalous behavior. In this talk, we discuss their use in next-generation (NextG) communications within the context of cognitive networks to address i) spectrum sharing, ii) detecting anomalies, and iii) mitigating security attacks. GANs have the following advantages. First, they can learn and synthesize field data, which can be costly, time consuming, and non-repeatable. Second, they enable pre-training classifiers by using semi-supervised data. Third, they facilitate increased resolution. Fourth, they enable recovering corrupted bits in the spectrum. The talk will provide basics of GANs, a comparative discussion on different kinds of GANs, performance measures for GANs in computer vision and image processing as well as wireless applications, several datasets for wireless applications, performance measures for general classifiers, a survey of the literature on GANs for i)–iii) above, some simulation results, and future research directions. In the spectrum sharing problem, connections to cognitive wireless networks are established. Simulation results show that a particular GAN implementation is better than a convolutional auto encoder for an outlier detection problem in spectrum sensing.

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