August
3, 2016
Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques for Cognitive
Radio
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Yahia Tachwali
Meetings are free and open to the public. Please register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-08-raia
Abstract
Artificial
intelligence and machine learning techniques are increasingly used in modern
systems to improve its performance, usability and efficiency. Cognitive radio
technology offers radios that are aware of its wireless environment and has
the ability to learn and adapt to its by changing its operating parameters.
A
typical machine learning system is comprised of a preprocessing stage,
followed by a feature extraction stage and a classification/decision making
system. This presentation discuss the design and implementation of those
stages for cognitive radio applications.
About the
Speaker
Yahia Tachwali, Ph.D. is a Research and
Development Engineer at Keysight Technologies. He worked as a postdoctoral
researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in the Broadband Wireless
Networking Lab under the supervision of Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz. He received
his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of
Oklahoma in 2010. His doctoral research focused on building cognitive radios
in small form factor platforms and investigated the use of compressive
sensing techniques to perform efficient spectrum sensing operations. He has
authored more than 20 journal articles and conference papers in the field of
signal processing for cognitive radio applications. His research interests
are: cognitive radio networks, the design and implementation of DSP
algorithms on software radio platforms, spectrum sensing, machine learning,
reconfigurable wireless systems, and compressive sensing techniques.
Location
CLU
Swenson Center, Room 101
California
Lutheran - Main Campus
141 Faculty Street
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Parking: Visitors may park on CLU
streets after 7 PM without a permit. Before 7 PM, we recommend that you
park in the G1
visitor lot on the southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef, and walk to
the Swenson building. Do not park in the faculty/staff lots, and do not
park in the areas marked “Homeowner Parking Only”.
Presented By: IEEE Buenaventura
Robotics and Automation/Industry Applications Chapter
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August
10, 2016
How to Create the Best Team for Your Startup Company
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Darrell Gooden
$5 for IEEE members, $15 for nonmembers. Register and pay at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-08-ent
Abstract
Even
startups that manage to raise millions in seed funding can crash before they establish
themselves as a viable organization if they hire the wrong team. There is an
art to select the right skills and the individuals who have the most
appropriate experience to support the growth the burgeoning company to
success. Our speaker will discuss the attributes required on a startup team,
the signs that the synergy is working or failing and the art to evolve the
team as the company is growing.
About the
Speaker
Dr. Darrell Gooden has previously held
positions as Transformation Manager and Strategic Planner with the US Navy.
He has over 15 years of experience as a certified Spiral Dynamics Integral
practitioner and is a founding member along with Dr. Don Beck of the Center
for Human Emergence. He is on the faculty of the Adizes Graduate School (AGS).
He is also a Certified Adizes Associate and has presented the Adizes
Methodology at conferences and seminars that includes the World Future
Society and Beijing’s Conference on Human Capital Strategy. Darrell has also
presented on topics such as Innovation and Lean Six Sigma in different
countries around the world. He leads seminars and consults as an expert in
organizational change management. Dr. Gooden’s focus over the last 20 years
has been in the areas of cultural transformation and technology management.
Darrell
Gooden has a PhD in Organization Transformation from the Adizes Graduate
School, a Master of Science Degree in Technology Management from Pepperdine
University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management of Information
Systems from the University of Redlands, CA.
Location
CLU
Ahmanson Science Center, Room 100
California
Lutheran - Main Campus
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Parking: Visitors may park on CLU
streets after 7 PM without a permit. Before 7 PM, we recommend that you
park in the G1
visitor lot on the southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef, and walk to
the Swenson building. Do not park in the faculty/staff lots, and do not
park in the areas marked “Homeowner Parking Only”.
Presented By: IEEE Buenaventura
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August
17, 2016
Amgen - Working With External Innovators
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Syed Kazmi
$5 for IEEE members, $15 for nonmembers. Register and pay at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-08-ent2
Abstract
Roughly
50 percent of Amgen’s late-stage pipeline comes from external innovation. The
Amgen’s Business Development team plays a critical role in expanding the
company's growth by identifying outside ideas with strong commercial
potential that target Amgen's mission to cure serious illnesses.
About the
Speaker
The
talk will be presented by Mr. Syed Kazmi,
Executive Director of Transactions, Amgen Business Development. The Business
Development Team interfaces with external innovators, fund early stage work
through Amgen Ventures, and integrates new partners and concepts into the
Amgen overall strategy.
Location
CLU
Swenson Center, Room 101
California
Lutheran - Main Campus
141 Faculty Street
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Parking: Visitors may park on CLU
streets after 7 PM without a permit. Before 7 PM, we recommend that you
park in the G1
visitor lot on the southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef, and walk to
the Swenson building. Do not park in the faculty/staff lots, and do not
park in the areas marked “Homeowner Parking Only”.
Presented By: IEEE Buenaventura
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August
25, 2016
CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS)
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Thomas S. Pagano
Meetings are free and open to the public. Please register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-08-ips
Abstract
The
CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS) will measure upwelling infrared
radiation of the Earth in the MWIR region of the spectrum from space on a
CubeSat. The observed radiances can be assimilated into weather forecast
models and be used to retrieve lower tropospheric temperature and water vapor
for climate studies. Multiple units can be flown to improve temporal
coverage or in formation to provide new data products including 3D motion
vector winds.
CIRAS
incorporates three new instrument technologies. The first is a 2D array of
High Operating Temperature Barrier Infrared Detector (HOT-BIRD) material,
selected for its high uniformity, low cost, low noise and higher operating
temperatures than traditional materials. The detectors are hybridized to a
commercial ROIC and commercial camera electronics. The second technology is
a black silicon blackbody calibration source, with surface emissivity better
than carbon nanotubes and more robust to surface contact. The third
technology is an MWIR Grating Spectrometer (MGS) designed to provide imaging
spectroscopy for atmospheric sounding in a CubeSat volume. The MGS has no
moving parts and is based on heritage spectrometers including the OCO-2. The
spacecraft will be a commercially available CubeSat. The integrated system
will be a complete 6U CubeSat capable of measuring temperature and water
vapor profiles with good lower tropospheric sensitivity. The CIRAS is the
first step towards the development of science instruments requiring infrared
measurements while reducing the cost of the payload, spacecraft and launch.
Examples of science results and imagery obtained from NASA satellites as they
relate to weather forecasting, and research in climate and atmospheric
composition will be presented.
About the
Speaker
Mr. Thomas S. Pagano is the Project
Manager for the AIRS/AMSU/HSB Suite of instruments on the EOS Aqua
Spacecraft. He was the lead engineer responsible for the calibration of the
AIRS instrument in orbit. Prior to joining JPL in 1997, he was the Chief
Systems Engineer on the MODIS instrument development program at Raytheon SBRS
since 1985. He has a BS in Physics from UC Santa Barbara, and an MS in
Physics from Montana State Univesity. He holds 2 US patents and is author of
numerous papers on space remote sensing systems.
Location
CSUCI
Del Norte Hall, Room 1500
CSU Channel Islands
Camarillo, CA 93012
Parking: Please
register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-08-ips . Parking
free of charge in designated IEEE parking lot.
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura
Photonics Society Chapter
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August
30, 2016
The Things we Ought to Know About Digital Communications: Part 3 of 3
Multipath
Limitations, Coherence, Fading and Enabling Techniques for MIMO, Diversity
Gain, and Spectral Re-Use in the Future
Pizza and Networking: 6:00 PM
Presentation: 6:30 PM
Presenter: Bernard Sklar
Meetings are free and open to the
public. Please register at
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Abstract
The
emergence of digital communications has been a critical part of the
information age, and as wireless telecommunications in particular adopts a
number of strategic technologies for the 4G and 5G standards, we push up
against fundamental limitations in bandwidth and spectral efficiency, peak
throughput and datarates, performance at cell edge and highly mobile
environments, and challenges for low latency and overall energy efficiency.
In order to understand these seemingly complex interdependent physical
limitations of how we communicate, this series of 3 lectures attempts to
start from the fundamentals and develop them through the advanced state-of-the-art
of digital communications of today, all with an intuitive and clear
explanation for the basis of why things work the way they do, and what we are
doing to push the envelope in coming generations of digital comm.
Third in a
three-part series of lectures
Tuesday, May 17: Part I : Fundamentals
of Digital Communications, Modulation, and Capacity and Why Things Are the
Way They Are
Tuesday, July 19: Part II:
Modulation, Bandwidth, Power, Spectrum and How Error Tolerance and Coding
Schemes Make it All Work
Tuesday, August 30:
Part III: Multipath Limitations, Coherence, Fading and Enabling
Techniques for MIMO, Diversity Gain, and Spectral Re-Use in the Future
About the
Speaker
Bernard Sklar, PhD, President, Communications
Engineering Services, Tarzana, California. Dr. Sklar was previously at
The Aerospace Corporation and has acquired over 50 years of experience in the
electronics industry in a wide variety of technical design and management
positions. He has worked at Republic Aviation Corporation, Hughes Aircraft
Company, and Litton Systems, and has taught communications at both the
University of Southern California and UCLA. He is currently associated with
the University of Cape Town, South Africa, as an External Examiner. He also
has taught at other universities and has presented numerous short courses
throughout the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Dr. Sklar has
published and presented scores of technical papers, is the recipient of the
1984 Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society for his tutorial
series on digital communications, and is the author of Digital
Communications: Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition (Prentice-Hall,
2001). He is a past chairman of the Los Angeles Council IEEE Education
Committee.
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
Communications Society Chapter
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