Silicon Valley Engineering Council

Edge-Intelligent AIoT Systems: Enabling Scalable and Privacy-Aware Intelligent Applications
2026-03-27 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Bldg: Scullen Conference Room (Pangborn Hall 110), 620 Michigan Avenue N.E, 20064, District of Columbia, United States, 20064, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/549200
The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming sensing infrastructures into large-scale distributed cyber-physical systems. However, conventional IoT architectures remain largely cloud-centric, relying on continuous data transmission and centralized processing. Such designs introduce fundamental challenges in energy consumption, communication bandwidth, latency, and privacy exposure, particularly as the number of connected devices continues to grow. This talk introduces the emerging paradigm of the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), where intelligence is embedded directly within sensing devices through edge computing and TinyML techniques. By enabling machine learning inference on resource-constrained microcontrollers, AIoT systems can transform traditional sensors into autonomous, context-aware intelligent nodes capable of performing real-time decision making. Beyond presenting representative AIoT systems and applications, this talk also examines broader research challenges shaping the future of AIoT systems, including platform fragmentation, intelligent sensor deployment, secure federated learning, and the need for autonomous and scalable IoT architectures. In particular, we discuss how edge-intelligent AIoT systems can support emerging digital twin frameworks, enabling event-driven monitoring and scalable healthcare applications while reducing continuous data streaming. The presentation concludes with an overview of modern development pipelines for deploying machine learning models on edge devices using frameworks such as TinyML toolchains, highlighting future research opportunities in distributed intelligent sensing systems.
Speaker(s): Minhee,
Bldg: Scullen Conference Room (Pangborn Hall 110), 620 Michigan Avenue N.E, 20064, District of Columbia, United States, 20064, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/549200

Designing Your Early Career: LinkedIn, Resume & Interview Strategy That Works
2026-03-27 18:00 - 18:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/541336
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Designing Your Early Career: LinkedIn, Resume & Interview Strategy That Works
Breaking into today’s competitive job market requires more than technical excellence. It requires clarity, positioning, and the ability to communicate your value with confidence.
In this practical and engaging session, career strategist Shima Ghaheri shares how hiring managers actually evaluate candidates — and how students and early-career professionals can strategically present their academic work, projects, internships, and experiences to stand out.
Participants will learn how to:
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Build a LinkedIn profile that signals clarity and direction
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Structure resumes around measurable impact rather than task lists
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Approach interviews with preparation and strategic storytelling
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Translate technical competence into compelling professional narratives
Designed specifically for college students and entry-level professionals, this session offers actionable tools to move from being “qualified on paper” to being selected with confidence. By making hiring systems more transparent, the session aims to reduce opportunity gaps and empower participants to compete through preparation, clarity, and strategy.
Whether you are preparing for internships, full-time roles, or your next career move, this session will equip you with frameworks you can implement immediately.
Co-sponsored by: IEEE SFV
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/541336

SCV-EPS AdCom Meeting (March 2026)
2026-03-28 09:30 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/544928
Monthly AdCom meeting:
1. Welcome – Hualiang
2. Symposium status update – Annette/Paul/Hualiang
3. Education outreach status – Masha/Azmat/Hualiang
4. Chapter Storage – Hualiang XXXX NOT
5. Monthly talk preparation – Chandan/Luu
6. Chapter website update – XXXX NOT Venkatesh/Claire/Paul
7. Senior member advancement – Dwayne
Xxxx NOT
8: Election 2026
9: Open discussion – All
Agenda:
Monthly AdCom meeting:
1. Welcome – Hualiang
2. Symposium status update – Annette/Paul/Hualiang
3. Education outreach status – Masha/Azmat/Hualiang
4. Chapter Storage – Hualiang XXXX NOT
5. Monthly talk preparation – Chandan/Luu
6. Chapter website update – XXXX NOT Venkatesh/Claire/Paul
7. Senior member advancement – Dwayne
Xxxx NOT
8: Election 2026
9: Open discussion – All
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/544928

Leadership Hike
2026-03-28 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hayward, 6000 California City Blvd, California City, CA, United States
Hike at Green Belt Trail
Hayward, California, United States

From Pipelines to Swarms: Rethinking Automation in AI-Native Commerce
2026-03-31 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/546413
3rd Lecture of IEEE CS San Diego's 2026 Invited Seminar Series (Virtual)
Co-sponsored by: Media Partner: Open Research Institute (ORI)
Speaker(s): Amit Kumar
Agenda:
– Invited talk from Amit Kumar Padhy
– Q/A Session
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/546413

Tech Talk: Transforming enterprise quality engineering practices
2026-03-31 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/548913
The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the IEEE Computer Society invites to our free and open Virtual Tech Talks (no IEEE membership required):
Eventpage: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transforming-enterprise-quality-engineering-practices-tickets-1985250279026?aff=oddtdtcreator
Speaker: Jyotheeswara Reddy Gottam ((https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/in/gjreddy/&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1774063921225418&usg=AOvVaw3p1OTEbWpnyMYwpkfkEjs-))
Title: The Triple Threat: Transforming enterprise quality engineering practices with Generative AI, Predictive Analytics, and Self-Healing Automation
Abstract: Modern software teams face mounting pressure to release high-quality applications faster while managing increasing system complexity and continuous delivery expectations within modern CI/CD pipelines. Traditional testing approaches often struggle to keep pace with rapid code changes, expanding regression suites, and the rising cost of maintaining automation frameworks. These challenges frequently lead to delayed releases, increased testing costs, and defects escaping into production.
This presentation explores how the “Triple Threat” of AI-driven testing technologies—generative AI for test script creation, machine learning–based predictive defect analytics, and self-healing automation frameworks—is transforming enterprise quality engineering practices.
First, generative AI accelerates test development by automatically generating test cases, scripts, and data from requirements, user stories, or code changes, significantly reducing manual scripting effort. Second, predictive defect analytics powered by machine learning analyzes historical defect patterns, code churn, and previous test outcomes to identify high-risk components and prioritize testing efforts where failures are most likely to occur. Third, self-healing automation frameworks intelligently adapt to UI or API changes, minimizing brittle test failures and reducing the costly maintenance typically associated with large automated test suites.
When deployed together, these technologies reinforce one another: generative AI expands test coverage, predictive analytics focuses testing on the most critical risk areas, and self-healing automation ensures test suites remain resilient despite frequent application updates. Applied across API testing, functional testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing, this integrated approach enables organizations to modernize their testing strategy while improving reliability.
The combined impact allows enterprises to reduce testing costs by up to 40%, accelerate release cycles by 30%, and improve defect detection rates by over 50%, demonstrating how AI-driven testing can deliver measurable improvements in both quality and delivery speed across enterprise software systems.
Bio: Jyotheeswara Reddy Gottam is a Software Engineering Leader with over a decade of experience in the retail and e-commerce industry. Currently a Senior Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech, he leads end-to-end testing strategies for high-traffic marketplace platforms, driving scalability, reliability, and performance for systems handling millions of daily transactions. He specializes in Gen AI, ML, AI agents, RAG, test automation, performance engineering, and CI/CD enablement. Throughout his career, he has architected scalable automation frameworks, reduced regression cycles significantly, improved release velocity, and ensured platform stability during peak traffic events. He has also led cross-functional initiatives across payments, inventory, personalization, and mobile platforms.
Speaker(s): Jyotheeswara Reddy Gottam
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/548913

AMA (Ask me Anything) with Prof. Ethem Alpaydın
2026-04-02 10:00 - 11:55 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/537179
Synopsis:
Please feel free to check out the work and thoughts of Prof. Ethem Alpaydın, Ph.D., https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/ethem-alpaydn-10375/ on Google Scholar at https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22Ethem+Alpayd%C4%B1n%22&btnG=, and generally on the Internet.
Then, please feel free to submit your questions to Prof. Ethem Alpaydın
– via Twitter by using the hashtag #ProfAlpaydinAMA and tagging @vishnupendyala
– emailing vspendyala(at)hotmail(dot)com with #ProfAlpaydinAMA in the subject
Selected questions will be answered by Prof. Alpaydin during the session. The audience may be able to ask follow-up questions during the session, using the Chat feature.
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By registering for this event, you agree that IEEE and the organizers are not liable to you for any loss, damage, injury, or any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or economic loss or damage (including loss of opportunity, exemplary or punitive damages). The event will be recorded and will be made available for public viewing.
Co-sponsored by: Vishnu S. Pendyala, SJSU
Speaker(s): Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala, Prof. Alpaydın
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/537179

Heat-Assisted Magnetic-Recording: Characterization of Media Properties
2026-04-02 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Quadrant Corp., 1120 Ringwood Ct., San Jose, California, United States, 95131, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/544920
Pierre-Olivier Jubert of Western Digital will review the design and characterization of media used in heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR).
Speaker(s): Pierre-Olivier,
Agenda:
6:30 – 7:00 Socializing and Networking at Quadrant
6:55 Zoom session will be online with Waiting Room
7:00 – 7:45 Lecture begins, online and in person
7:45 – 8:00 Questions and Answers
Quadrant Corp., 1120 Ringwood Ct., San Jose, California, United States, 95131, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/544920

AI & The Future of Platform Engineering
2026-04-02 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/547313
The technology industry is rapidly crossing a critical threshold. We are moving beyond AI as a passive Copilot (a tool that simply advises engineers) and entering the era of AI as an active Agent. These new agents are capable of autonomously diagnosing issues and executing changes directly within global production environments.
However, granting AI write-access to mission-critical infrastructure introduces a new class of systemic business risk. Without the right safeguards, autonomous systems can make unpredictable decisions or be manipulated, leading to cascading operational failures. The transition to autonomy requires technology leaders to fundamentally rethink their Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and security strategies.
In this session, the speakers bridge the gap between strategic leadership and architectural rigor. Attendees will receive a comprehensive blueprint for safely managing the transition to AI-operated infrastructure, ensuring their systems remain highly intelligent and fundamentally incorruptible.
The Dual-Track Roadmap
This session provides a comprehensive framework to navigate the era of Agentic SRE, divided into two distinct tracks:
Track 1: The Management Imperative (Strategy)
Quantifying the ROI of Autonomy: Learn how to balance the efficiency gains of autonomous systems against operational costs and underlying model risks.
Defining Agentic Oversight: Establish the critical cultural and operational boundaries between decisions that require human approval and tasks that can be safely fully automated.
Track 2: The Security Blueprint (Architecture)
Pioneering the IARA Framework: A high-level overview of the Incorruptible Autonomy Reference Architecture, a 7-pillar security model for safely deploying AI agents.
Architecting Trust: Discover how to grant AI systems temporary, just-in-time permissions to prevent unauthorized access and severely limit the blast radius of any potential errors.
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/547313

Validating Quantum State Preparation Programs
2026-04-04 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Room: 401-F Conference Room, Bldg: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St NW, Washington, DC, District of Columbia, United States, 20001, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/545578
Quantum Computers are expensive to build, take time to run, and are prone to noise and faults which reduce qubit reliability. Quantum software programmers can benefit from ways to validate whether or not quantum programs behave as expected without running or simulating a full program. This talk will present the Quantum State Preparation Program Validation Framework (QSV), a framework that uses property-based testing to validate whether or not quantum programs meet user-specified properties.
Speaker(s): Anshu Sharma,
Room: 401-F Conference Room, Bldg: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St NW, Washington, DC, District of Columbia, United States, 20001, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/545578

Spring Speaker Series Start
2026-04-06 17:00 - 2026-04-07 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stanford, California, United States, 94305
Continuation of Stanford IEEE Speaker Series
Stanford, California, United States, 94305

SCV/OEB SSIT Chapter Meeting: Future of Work in the Age of AI
2026-04-07 18:00 - 19:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | Room: 2116, Bldg: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation (SCDI), Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95050, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/547984
April 7 6PM-7:30PM Member Techical Meeting at Santa Clara University – with Pizza:
This meeting will explore the Future of Work with speakers who will address the technical and business workforce environment given the changes that have transpired with the increasing use of generative and agentic AI. Our speakers include Claudionor Coelho, Chief AI Officer at Majestic Labs ai as well as a to be named leader in AI business process applications.
The format will include conversation over pizza and formal speakers from 6:45-7:15, concluding with open disucssion.
Agenda:
AGENDA – Various types of Pizza and drinks will be served
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Introductions
– Panel The Future of Work: Claudionor Coelho, Cheif AI officer at Zscaler
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Open Discussion
Room: 2116, Bldg: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation (SCDI), Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95050, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/547984

Towards Building Natural Conversational Agents
2026-04-09 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/545402
In this presentation, I will present some of the recent progresses in building conversational agents, with a focus on the speech modality. I will introduce desirable properties of such systems and explain some of the key concepts, core ideas, and main technologies developed in practical systems.
Speaker(s): , Dong Yu
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/545402

Using Architectural Simulation to Investigate Chiplets for Scalable and Cost Effective HPC Beyond Exascale
2026-04-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/539463
[]Chiplets have become a compelling approach to scaling and heterogeneous integration e.g. integrating workload-specific processors and massive bandwidth memory systems into computing systems; integrating die from multiple function-optimized process nodes into one product; integrating silicon from multiple businesses into one product. Chiplet-based products have been produced in high volume by multiple companies using proprietary chiplet ecosystems. Recently, the community has proposed several new standards (e.g., UCIe) to facilitate integration and interoperability of any compliant chiplet. Hyperscalers (e.g., Google, Amazon) are actively designing high volume products with chiplets through these open interfaces. Other communities are exploring the end-to-end workflow and tooling to assemble chiplet-based products. High performance computing can benefit from this trend. However, the performance, power, and thermal requirements unique to HPC, present many challenges to realizing a vision for affordable, modular HPC using this new approach. Architectural modeling and simulation will play a critical role in pathfinding for this new potential direction for HPC beyond Exascale.
Speaker(s): John Shalf,
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/539463

Characteristics of Successful Tech Hubs and Start-ups: Lessons for Engineers
2026-04-10 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bldg: Davidson Engineering Building, San Jose State Unversity, San Jose, California, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/545434
Silicon Valley is commonly acknowledged as the tech capital of the world. How did Silicon Valley come into being, and what can we learn for our own careers? The story goes back to local Hams trying to break RCA's tube patents, Stanford "angel" investors, the sinking of the Titanic, WW II and radar, and the SF Bay Area infrastructure that developed –these factors pretty much determined that the semiconductor and IC industries would be located in the Santa Clara Valley, and that the Valley would remain the world’s innovation center as new technologies emerge –digital, then software, biotech, VR, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, LLMs –and be the model for innovation worldwide.
This talk will give an exciting and colorful history of development and innovation that began in Palo Alto in 1909. You'll meet some of the colorful characters –Cyril Elwell, Lee De Forest, Bill Eitel, Charles Litton, Fred Terman, David Packard, Bill Hewlett, Bill Shockley and others –who came to define our worldwide electronics industries through their inventions and process development. You'll understand some of the novel management approaches that have become the hallmarks of its tech startups. In this talk, the key Silicon Valley attributes will be illustrated and analyzed, for consideration by engineers interested in creating their own start-ups and high-tech businesses, working for them, or simply understanding them.
Speaker(s): Paul Wesling,
Bldg: Davidson Engineering Building, San Jose State Unversity, San Jose, California, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/545434

Polymer-based transducers – a green world of opportunities
2026-04-10 18:50 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/552485
The talk will explore some of the research projects in the Adaptive Microsystems (AdaMist) lab led by Dr. Cretu, with an emphasis on a common vision and strategy. Polymer-based transducers, fabricated using green, rapid and low-cost processes, have been used for inertial and ultrasonic transducers. MEMS accelerometers with piezoelectric polymers show the promise of novel microfabrication technologies, while photosensitive polymers (SU-8) are the base of a new generation of CMUT (Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer) arrays. Poly-CMUT applications, from custom small probes for biomedical imaging to industrial applications like nondestructive testing and monitoring, open a new world of opportunities.
Speaker(s): Edmond Cretu,
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/552485

Conversational AI: Practical Challenges in Talking to People
2026-04-14 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 925 Thompson Place, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94085, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/541387
This is a hybrid in-person and online event. Pre-registration is required for either.
Conversational AI systems today speak with remarkable confidence, often giving the impression of understanding and reasoning. However, teams deploying these systems often quickly encounter familiar problems: drift, hallucinations, contradictory answers, and conversations that quietly lose their original purpose. Why do systems that seem so capable end up behaving so unpredictably?
In this talk, Elena Gostrer will examine these behaviors from a practical, product-engineering perspective. Rather than exploring model internals, this talk will focus on what actually happens when humans interact with probabilistic language models – and why traditional software assumptions fail in conversational settings.
Elena will also discuss what architectural patterns teams are adopting to keep in control, and she’ll highlight why combining generative AI with explicit structure, state, and constraints is becoming essential. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of why conversational AI breaks, what helps it behave more reliably, and how to think differently about designing human-AI interactions.
Speaker(s): Elena Gostrer,
925 Thompson Place, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94085, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/541387

Optical Sampling Thermoreflectance for 3D Heterogeneous Integration
2026-04-15 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/551389
Th[]e transition to 3D heterogeneous integration has fundamentally changed the thermal characterization problem. Buried heat sources, anisotropic thin-film materials, through-silicon vias, and multilayer stacked structures require measurement techniques with sub-micron spatial resolution, depth sensitivity, and a temporal range — capabilities that infrared thermography and Raman spectroscopy cannot reliably deliver at this level of structural complexity. This session presents optical sampling thermoreflectance as a practical, commercially available solution, with real measurement data from a university lab and an industrial FA environment.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/551389

Spring Speaker Series 2
2026-04-15 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stanford, California, United States, 94305
Continuation of Speaker Series at Stanford IEEE.
Stanford, California, United States, 94305

Advancing Clean Energy: Ontario's Darlington New Nuclear Project
2026-04-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/547687
Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington New Nuclear Project (DNNP) is at the forefront of deploying Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology in Canada, anchored by the GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300. As North America’s first commercial, grid-scale SMR, DNNP plans up to four units totaling 1,200 MW. The project introduces advanced safety features, including natural circulation cooling, integral isolation valves, and passive heat removal, while supporting thousands of jobs and boosting Ontario’s economy. A collaboration between OPG, GE Vernova Hitachi, AtkinsRéalis, and Aecon-Kiewit, DNNP strengthens Ontario’s clean energy leadership and sets a model for SMR deployment globally. With construction underway, DNNP will help meet rising electricity demand, advance electrification, and deliver reliable, carbon-free power, showcasing nuclear innovation’s vital role in climate action and economic growth.
Speaker: Michael Takla, Ontario Power Generation
Event Moderator: Dr. Maike Luiken, PhD, SMIEEE, IEEE-HKN, FEIC, FCAE, is managing director, R&D, at a start-up company, Carbovate Development, and Adjunct Research Professor, Western University, Canada.
Speaker(s): Michael Takla, Maike Luiken
Agenda:
We were given written permission to rebroadcast the Canadian earlier program which will be on April 1 at 9:00am.
The SCV Section Life Members Affinity Group program will be at the more convenient time on Apr 15, 2026 at 07:00 PM Pacific Time
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/547687

Labelled Deductive Systems for Logical Validation of LLM Output
Valley Research Park, 319 N Bernardo Ave, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
**TALK LOGISTICS:**
Monday, April 20, 2026
6:30 registration, food, networking.
7:00 SFbayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:10 to 8:15 or 8:30 presentation
The Zoom and YouTube links will be provided here about 2-3 days before the event
SFbayACM will support a local audience at VRP in Mountain View
**TALK DESCRIPTION:**
Large language models (LLMs) often generate fluent but in-correct or unsupported statements, commonly referred to as hallucinations. We propose a hallucination detection frame-work ValidLLP4LLM based on a Labeled Logic Program (LLP) architecture that integrates multiple reasoning paradigms, including logic programming, argumentation, probabilistic inference, and abductive explanation. By enriching symbolic rules with semantic, epistemic, and contextual labels and applying discourse-aware weighting, the system prioritizes nucleus claims over peripheral statements during verification. Experiments on three benchmark datasets and a challenging clinical narrative dataset show that LLP consistently outperforms classical symbolic validators, achieving the highest detection accuracy when combined with discourse modeling. A human evaluation further demonstrates that logic-assisted explanations improve both hallucination detection ac-curacy and user trust. The results suggest that labeled symbolic reasoning with discourse awareness provides a robust and interpretable approach to LLM verification in safety-critical domains.
**SPEAKER BIO:**
Prof. Boris Galitsky has contributed linguistic and machine learning technologies to Silicon Valley startups as well as companies like eBay and Oracle for over 25 years. His information extraction and sentiment
analysis techniques assisted several acquisitions, such as Xoopit by Yahoo, Uptake by Groupon, Loglogic by Tibco, and Zvents by eBay. His security-related technologies of document analysis contributed to the acquisition of Elastica by Semantec.
As an architect of the Intelligent Bots project at Oracle, he developed a discourse analysis technique used for dialogue management and published in the book Developing Enterprise Chatbots. He also published a two-volume monograph, “AI for CRM”, based on his experience developing Oracle Digital Assistant. He is an Apache committer to OpenNLP, where he created OpenNLP. Similarity component, which is a basis for a semantically enriched search engine and chatbot development.
His exploration and formalization of human reasoning culminated in the book AQ1 Computational Autism broadly used by parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and rehabilitation personnel. His
focus on the medical domain led to another research monograph, “Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Applications and Management”. He is a now a lead researcher at Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Russia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-galitsky-342109204/
#ACM #SFbayACM #AI #GenAI #DataScience #LLM
#Hallucinations #LogicProgramming #NLP #Discourse #Benchmark

APEC 2026 Download - Highlighting Evolving Landscape of Power Electronics
2026-04-21 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bldg: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95053
Join us at Santa Clara University for the APEC 2026 Download Event, hosted by the IEEE PELS San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. This engaging session brings together engineers, researchers, and industry professionals to explore the most impactful moments and innovations presented at the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) 2026.
The event will highlight key takeaways from technical sessions, including emerging trends in wide bandgap semiconductors, advances in high-efficiency power conversion, AI-driven design optimization, and next-generation energy systems. Attendees will gain valuable insights into cutting-edge research and real-world applications shaping the future of power electronics.
In addition, we will cover standout keynote sessions, offering perspectives from industry leaders on the evolving landscape of power electronics. The program aims to foster knowledge sharing, networking, and discussion within the local power electronics community.
Student Highlights:
Students are especially encouraged to attend! This is a great opportunity to:
– Discover cutting-edge topics that can inspire your coursework, senior projects, or research direction
– Learn directly from experts about industry expectations and emerging career paths in power electronics
– Network with professionals and local engineers from leading companies in Silicon Valley
– Gain exposure to real-world applications beyond the classroom
Whether you attended APEC or want a curated overview of its most important developments, this download event is an excellent opportunity to stay informed, get inspired, and expand your professional network.
Bldg: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95053

Quarterly social meeting and program
2026-04-22 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bldg, Livermore, CA, United States
Reserve this date for a social gathering and a program of general interest to be determined. IEEE member fee is subsidized.
Agenda:
Social meeting, presentation, and lunch. Select from buffet or order from menu depending on the number of registrations.
Bldg: Golf course restaurant, not pro shop, Beeb's Sports Bar and Grill, 915 Club House Drive, Livermore, California, United States

Diamond Semiconductor Device Design & Fabrication
2026-04-23 11:30 - 13:10 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bldg: ==> Use corner entrance: Kifer Road / San Lucar Court ==> Do not enter at main entrance on Kifer Road, EAG Labs, 810 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, California, California, United States, 95051
Diamond Semiconductor Device Design & Fabrication
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Abstract:
Diamond Quanta: making diamond as available as silicon
Speaker:
Adam Khan
Founder & CEO
Diamond Quanta
AGENDA:
Thursday April 23, 2026
11:30 AM: Networking, Pizza & Drinks
Noon — 1 pm: Seminar
Please register on Eventbrite before 9:30 AM on Thursday April 23, 2026
$4 IEEE members $6 non IEEE members
(discounts for unemployed and students )
Bldg: ==> Use corner entrance: Kifer Road / San Lucar Court ==> Do not enter at main entrance on Kifer Road, EAG Labs, 810 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, California, California, United States, 95051

SCV-EPS AdCom Meeting (APRIL 2026)
2026-04-25 09:30 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/549396
Monthly AdCom meeting:
1. Welcome – Hualiang
2. Symposium status update – Annette/Paul/Hualiang
3. Education outreach status – Masha/Azmat/Hualiang
4. Chapter Storage – Hualiang XXXX NOT
5. Monthly talk preparation – Chandan/Luu
6. Chapter website update – XXXX NOT Venkatesh/Claire/Paul
7. Senior member advancement – Dwayne
Xxxx NOT
8: Election 2026
9: Open discussion – All
Agenda:
Monthly AdCom meeting:
1. Welcome – Hualiang
2. Symposium status update – Annette/Paul/Hualiang
3. Education outreach status – Masha/Azmat/Hualiang
4. Chapter Storage – Hualiang XXXX NOT
5. Monthly talk preparation – Chandan/Luu
6. Chapter website update – XXXX NOT Venkatesh/Claire/Paul
7. Senior member advancement – Dwayne
Xxxx NOT
8: Election 2026
9: Open discussion – All
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/549396

THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE MACHINE. THE RIGOR OF THE ROAD!!
2026-04-26 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | SEMI Headquarters, 673 South Milpitas Blvd.,, Milpitas, CA, 95035
This technical forum brings together OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, semiconductor leaders, researchers, and innovators to address the challenge of fragmentation and define a unified, future-ready mobility stack.
Who Should Attend:

Automotive engineers and architects
Safety and cybersecurity specialists
Semiconductor and embedded systems professionals
Researchers in autonomous vehicles and AI safety
Technical decision-makers from OEMs and suppliers
Students in Automotive, Compute, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering

We would be delighted if you could join us and participate in shaping the future of intelligent transportation.
WHEN: Tuesday, May 12, 2026 5:00 – 7:30PM
WHERE: SEMI HQ – 673 S Milpitas Blvd, Milpitas, CA
IEEE-VTS_260512_ speaker_finalREGISTRATION:
In-Person: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/551666
Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/5h3ccejs

Power Distribution in Heterogeneous Integrated Packaging for Data Center Computing
2026-05-07 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/546237
[]Join us for an insightful webinar with Francesco Carobolante, founder of IoTissimo® LLC and an EPS Distinguished Lecturer, as he explores the critical challenges and innovative solutions that advanced packaging can provide to address the "Power Wall". With over 30 years of industry experience and a tenure at Intel’s Corporate Strategy Office, Francesco will delve into the Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap (HIR) perspective on scaling high-power AI processors. This session will analyze how signal BW and energy requirements dictate the options available for architecting the package structure, including Vertical Power Delivery, integrated voltage regulators and advanced thermal management techniques. Discover how these architectural shifts are enabling the next generation of data center performance.
Speaker(s): Francesco Carobolante,
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/546237

From Process to Performance: Challenges in uOLED and uLED Electronics Manufacturing
2026-05-12 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/533601
As uOLED and uLED technologies transition from research to high-volume manufacturing, system performance is increasingly constrained by process variability rather than design intent. Electrical, thermal, and mechanical decisions made during manufacturing directly translate into optical non-uniformity, efficiency loss, and reliability challenges. Understanding these process-to-performance linkages is critical for building scalable, high-performance emissive display systems.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/533601

The Intelligence of the Machine.. The Rigor of the Road!!
2026-05-12 17:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | SEMI, 673 S Milpitas Blvd, Milpitas, California, United States, 95035
IEEE Event Agenda – Tuesday May 12, 2026
🔹 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Registration, Refreshments, Food & Networking (Meet & Greet)
Featured Speakers & Sessions
🔹 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM
Topic 1: Industry Talk – Standardizing Automotive Firmware for SDVs
Experts from Mercedes-Benz, Arm, and Athos Silicon will discuss the urgent need for a standardized, secure, and vendor-agnostic firmware foundation.
Key focus areas:
– Overcoming fragmented firmware ecosystems
– UEFI as a scalable automotive standard
– Enabling functional safety, cybersecurity, and interoperability
– Supporting chiplet-based and next-gen ADAS architectures
Speakers:
– François Piednoël – (https://www.linkedin.com/in/francoispiednoel/)
– Sachin Athanikar – (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachin-athanikar-18ba5914/)
– Dong Wei (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dongweimba/)
🔹 6:15 PM – 6:45 PM
Topic 2: Academic Keynote – Safe Embodied AI: From Theory to Deployment
Prof. Ding Zhao (Carnegie Mellon University)
Topics include:
– Rare-event safety in autonomous systems
– Safe reinforcement and imitation learning
– Generalizable and adaptive AI safety
– Future of trustworthy embodied AI at scale
Speaker:
– Ding Zhao – (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ding-zhao-01130730/)
🔹 6:45 PM – 7:15 PM
Topic 3: Industry Talk – Static Safety Is Dead: Continuous Risk & Compliance for SDVs
Akshay Chalana (CEO & Co-founder, Saphira AI)
Modern vehicles evolve continuously through software updates, AI-driven functionality, and increasing connectivity—yet safety and cybersecurity practices remain largely static.
This talk explores:
– What breaks when traditional safety assumptions no longer hold
– Real-world ADAS/autonomy failure propagation: dataset bias, requirement drift, and system boundary ambiguity
– Cross-domain challenges between safety and cybersecurity
– A new model for continuous, system-aware risk assessment and compliance
– Treating compliance artifacts as live infrastructure integrated into development pipelines
This session provides a practical path to maintaining certification-grade rigor while operating at software velocity.
Speaker:
– Akshay Chalana – (https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshaychalana/)
🔹 7:15 PM – 7:30 PM
Q&A and open discussion – Aditi Ramadwar
About This Technical Forum
This technical forum brings together OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, semiconductor leaders, researchers, and innovators to address the challenge of fragmentation and define a unified, future-ready mobility stack.
Who Should Attend:
– Automotive engineers and architects
– Safety and cybersecurity specialists
– Semiconductor and embedded systems professionals
– Researchers in autonomous vehicles and AI safety
– Technical decision-makers from OEMs and suppliers
– Students in Automotive, Compute, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering
We would be delighted if you could join us and participate in shaping the future of intelligent transportation.
Speaker(s): Francois, Wei , Sachin, Zhao, Akshay
SEMI, 673 S Milpitas Blvd, Milpitas, California, United States, 95035

Spring Speaker Series 3
2026-05-17 17:00 - 2026-05-18 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stanford, California, United States, 94305
