September 5, 2017
IEEE Entrepreneurs Mixer - Founder Institute Tech Accelerator Program
Pizza and Networking: 6:00 PM
Interactive Session: 6:30 PM
Facilitator: Jeff McKenzie
Free admission. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2017-09-ent
Abstract
The Founder Institute Mission: to ‘Globalize Silicon Valley’
and empower entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million
jobs. It is an idea-stage accelerator that helps founders launch enduring
tech companies through structure, mentorship, and a global network. The
Founder Institute has a success rate of 80% for startups launched. If you are
up to the challenge, the founder Institute offers a 14-week comprehensive
step-by-step curriculum that will provide you the structure, mentorship, and
network needed to launch an enduring company.
Since 2007 aspiring entrepreneurs have used the Founder
Institute program to form and improve their business ideas, develop their
marketing strategy, create an advisory board, recruit co-founders, improve
their pitch, launch a product, prepare to raise capital, bootstrap to
profitability, generate revenue, and more. In this session you will learn how
the Founder Institute can provide you the structure, mentorship, and network
needed to launch an enduring company.
About the Facilitator
Mr. Jeff McKenzie is CEO & President of McKenzie
Systems Engineering Associates (MSEA). Jeff has an innovative way of getting
things done fast, accurately and on-time to go beyond customer expectation
and tasking requirements. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering from Michigan State University.
MSEA was founded and launched as a small business in 2001.
Since 2001 MSEA has supported several Prime Contractors, serving multiple
weapon systems programs at Naval Based Ventura County. The company provides
engineering services for Radar Systems, Integrated Project Management, and
Combat Systems Engineering. One of his career highlights was sailing around
South America on the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). For the past five years his
company has worked on the newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Gerald
R. Ford (CVN 78).
Mr. McKenzie is also the CEO of the Rhodes Fest Concerts
Foundation. Rhodes Fest Concerts Foundation produced the documentary called
“Down The Rhodes: The Fender Rhodes Story”. It featured prominent keyboard
players and artists. He has produced and coproduced musical festivals over
the last few years.
Jeff McKenzie serves on the Board of Directors for several
different organizations including the Gold Coast Founder Institute, the
Oxnard College Foundation. Jeff currently serves as the Director of Investor
Relations for Conscious Youth Promoting Health & Environmental Resilience
(CYPHER).
Location
Hub101
Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship
31416 Agoura Road
Westlake Village, CA 91361
(map)
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Entrepreneurship
Group
September 6, 2017
High-performance stand-alone mixed-signal deep neural network accelerator for
AI-based applications
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Speaker: Farnood Merrikh Bayat
Free admission. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2017-09-raia
About the Speaker
Dr. Farnood Merrikh Bayat of UCSB and CTO of Mentium
Technologies Inc.
Dr. Farnood Merrikh Bayat received his M.Sc. and first Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. He then
joined the Computer Engineering Department of University of California Santa
Barbara to earn his second Ph.D. where he later served as a PostDoc for two
years.
Dr. Merrikh Bayat has worked in the fields of signal
processing, fuzzy logic, approximate computing, analog circuit design,
nanoelectronics and neuro-fuzzy computing systems but his current research
interests are in the design and hardware implementation of high-performance
deep neural networks and neuromorphic systems based on nanoelectronics memory
devices such as memristor and floating-gate (flash) transistor. Notably, he
was the lead scientist for the first successful demonstration of large-scale
neural network hardware based on integrated floating-gate transistors.
Location
CLU – Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center, 2nd Floor, Room
253
California Lutheran University
130 Overton Court
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
(map)
Parking: Free parking is available in the lot east of
the Gilbert building. Additional free parking is available in the lot on the
southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef. Do not park in the faculty/staff/reserved
lots.
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Robotics and
Automation/Industry Applications Chapter
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September 26, 2017
MIMO Radar: Fundamentals, Sparse Sensing and its Application in Autonomous
Driving (Part I)
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Speaker: Shunqiao Sun
Free admission. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2017-09-edcas
Abstract
Radar not only has found widespread application in advanced
driver assistance systems (ADAS) but also is one of the key technologies to
enable environmental perception in autonomous driving. Compared with LiDAR
and camera, radar technology provides reliable measurements of range,
velocity and angle information of obstacles surrounding vehicle in all kinds
of weather conditions. Unlike the traditional phased-array radar system which
transmits via its antenna array a single waveform with different phase shift,
multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar can transmit multiple waveforms
that may be chosen freely. As compared to traditional radar system with the
same number of transmit and receive antennas, MIMO radar achieves
significantly improved spatial resolution by exploiting waveform diversity.
Due to its advantages, MIMO radar technology has been widely used in
designing millimeter-wave radar sensors for ADAS and self-driving cars.
The Part I talk will focus on the fundamentals of MIMO radar
as well as novel MIMO radar approaches with the emerging sparse sensing
techniques. This talk will cover the radar basics, MIMO radar architecture
and waveform design, sparse sensing methods in MIMO radar including
compressive sensing (CS) based MIMO radar as well as novel MIMO radar
approach using matrix completion (MC).
The Part II talk (October) will focus on the role of radar
in autonomous driving and various aspects of automotive radar signal
processing techniques. This talk will cover the radar system requirements and
architecture for autonomous driving, principles of frequency-modulated
continuous-wave (FMCW) radar, high resolution angle finding methods, “smart”
radar sensors with machine learning, as well as unique problems associated
with automotive radars for autonomous driving such as pedestrian detection.
About the Speaker
Dr. Shunqiao Sun received his Ph.D. degree in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey in Jan. 2016. He is currently with the radar core team of Delphi
Electronics & Safety, Agoura Hills, CA, where he is working on advanced
radar signal processing and machine learning algorithms for self-driving
cars. In the past, he held internships at Cisco Systems and Mitsubishi
Electric Research Labs (MERL). His research interests lie at the interface of
statistical and sparse signal processing with mathematical optimizations,
MIMO radar, machine learning, and smart sensing in complex environments. Dr.
Sun is winner of the 2016 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
Robert T. Hill Best Dissertation Award for his thesis “MIMO Radars with
Sparse Sensing”.
Location
Skyworks Solutions
649 Lawrence Drive
Newbury Park, CA 91320
(Not the main building; please use link to arrow that
pinpoints building)
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura ED/CAS, ComSoc, and
AESS Chapters
Flyer
(PDF)
September 27, 2017
Revolutionary Decision-making Genomic Tests to Target Mutations in
Cancer-related Genes
Dinner (optional): Available at 6:00 PM for $12,
payable at the door.
Presentation (free): 7:00 PM
Speaker: André de Fusco
Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2017-09-embs
About the Speaker
André de Fusco is a 20-year technology entrepreneur with
hands-on experience leading early-stage through IPO companies in various high
technology application segments. In addition to his current interest in
developing technology for personalized medicine and molecular diagnostics as
chief executive officer of Cynvenio, he was previously president and chief
executive officer of Sabeus, Inc., a provider of fiberoptic systems to the
energy industry; director and president of Neven Vision, Inc., a novel facial
biometrics company (later acquired by Google); and president and chief
executive officer of VOIP transmission equipment manufacturer ACT Networks,
Inc., (NASDAQ: ANET), which he joined from Nortel Europe.
From 2002 to 2007, Mr. de Fusco chaired the technology
committee of the American Electronics Association (now TechAmerica) and
served as an AEA’s industry delegate to China. He currently serves on the
advisory board of directors of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at
Massachusetts General Hospital.
Mr. de Fusco holds a B.A. in political science from the
University of California, Los Angeles and a certificate in general management
from Anderson’s School of Business.
Location
CLU – Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center, 2nd Floor, Room
253
California Lutheran University
130 Overton Court
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
(map)
Parking: Free parking is available in the lot east of
the Gilbert building. Additional free parking is available in the lot on the
southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef. Do not park in the faculty/staff/reserved
lots.
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society Chapter
October 7, 2017
Girls Make Tech with Heart – IEEE Buenaventura Fall STEM Event
Use science, technology, engineering and math to care for the people you
love.
10:00 AM to 2:30 PM
Event is free of charge. Capacity limited to 120 girls
and 120 parents. Lunch will be provided.
Registration required: www.ieee-bv.org/stem
Girls in middle school (typically age 10 to 14) will
become scientists and engineers for a day. The workshops will include
experiments with imaging, virtual reality, sensors, bioengineering, or
robotics.
Parents can attend a concurrent program with a mix of
hands on experiences that can be duplicated at home and discover the future
that awaits their daughters in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
(STEM). The parents program will conclude with a visit to the classrooms to see
what the kids have learned.
Girls can participate without parents attending. All girls
will be under the supervision of mentors.
This event is organized by the IEEE Buenaventura Section,
with the gracious hospitality of La Reina High School and Middle School in
Thousand Oaks.
Share ideas and build projects that improve the lives of
your family and friends.
Location
La Reina High School and Middle School
106 West Janss Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Register
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Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Section
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