X-ray Microscopy of Magnetic Nanostructures
2026-03-19 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
Silicon Metasurfaces for DNA Synthesis
Abstract:
Ready access to long, accurate, and diverse synthetic DNA is essential for the rapid growth of synthetic biology — a field that genetically programs living cells with new functions. Modern microarray-based DNA synthesizers can generate diverse pools of oligonucleotide (single stranded DNA) sequences in parallel. However, each sequence is produced in limited quantity, and their yields decline with increasing oligo length due to cumulative synthesis errors. These limitations complicate downstream sequence segregation and gene assembly. Attempts to address these challenges by enlarging and spacing synthesis sites farther apart reduce the total number of sequences that can be generated simultaneously, thereby compromising synthesis diversity.
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In this talk, I will introduce B-MOS (Metasurface Oligonucleotide Synthesizer for Engineered Biology) — a novel platform that integrates silicon nanophotonics with solid-phase DNA synthesis to overcome these challenges.
B-MOS employs dielectric metasurfaces composed of arrays of high-index and low loss silicon nanoantennas (metasurfaces) patterned on glass as optically programmable synthesis sites. The unique optical signature of each metasurface — its spectral and polarization response — is lithographically encoded into the geometry and orientation of the silicon nanoantennas. Under global illumination, only the metasurface tuned to the wavelength and polarization of the laser absorbs the optical energy and transduces it into highly localized heat to site-selectively activate the synthesis reactions. Tuning the laser enables switching between the synthesis sites without moving parts or complex optical projection systems that lead to alignment errors.
As these nanostructures support sharp (high-Q) optical resonances, crosstalk between the synthesis sites is minimized. These sharp resonances allow the dense spectral packing of independently addressable synthesis within the tunable range of the laser, thereby maximizing synthesis diversity.
Using temperature as a programmable biochemical control knob, I will demonstrate site-selective enzymatic incorporation of fluorescent nucleotides onto surface-bound DNA using the enzyme terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase. I will further discuss how integrating B-MOS with microfluidics can enable post-synthesis site-selective amplification and spatial segregation of oligo strands for reliable gene assembly.
Finally, I will outline how B-MOS can be extended to RNA and peptide synthesis as well as other enzyme-driven processes. By resonant nanophotonics with programmable biochemical control, B-MOS establishes a scalable physical foundation for high-precision biomolecular manufacturing and next-generation molecular technologies.
Speaker:
Dr. Punnag Padhy
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
AGENDA:
Thursday March 19, 2026
11:30 AM: Networking, Pizza & Drinks
Noon — 1 pm: Seminar
Please register on Eventbrite before 9:30 AM on Thursday March 19, 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

Characterizing 2nd Law Efficiency of AI Datacenters
2026-03-19 17:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zio Fraedo's, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, California, United States, 94523
Datacenter workload fluctuations challenge the design and operation of our critical grid infrastructure. Significant gaps exist in assessment of these fluctuations as to their lifetime and short-term impact on the infrastructure and environment. Some mitigation approaches focus on throttling the datacenter workload, thus impacting the performance. Other approaches include use of alternate generation sources or energy storage systems. While disparate, these approaches are reactive and lack foresight and the intelligence to plan and strategize for optimal power management. We introduce an approach to quantify the transitional entropy generated during datacenter power fluctuations as a metric to evaluate datacenter performance using power demand measurements. A comparative assessment is provided between a BESS optimized datacenter and a regular datacenter to demonstrate the reduction of irreversibilities due to power fluctuations. Workloads are used to characterize the datacenter power demand at the point of interaction with utility. This approach can be scaled from datacenters to servers to chips.
Speaker(s): Ratnesh K Sharma,
Agenda:
No-host social at 5:30pm
Presentation at 6:00pm
Dinner at 7:00pm
Presentation continues at 7:45pm
Adjourn by 8:30pm
Zio Fraedo's, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, California, United States, 94523

Understanding Tier 4 Emissions for Generator Sets
2026-03-19 17:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zio Fraedo's , 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, California, United States, 94523
Stationary generator sets operated in regions governed by a local environmental review board may be subject to strict emissions regulations. Many of these areas, known as non-attainment zones, have enacted clean air requirements that adhere to the EPA’s Tier 4 standard, effective in 2015. For these stringent applications, Cummins provides Tier 4 gensets that reduce the exhaust constituents to the industry’s lowest emissions standard. This presentation will offer insights on how to design a reliable system that meets local and national code requirements.
Speaker(s): Shen Yoon,
Agenda:
No-host social at 5:30pm
Presentation at 6:00pm
Dinner at 7:00pm
Presentation continues at 7:45pm
Adjourn by 8:30pm
Zio Fraedo's , 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, California, United States, 94523

IEEE EDS Webinar: A device to circuit framework for BTI, HCD aging
2026-03-20 11:45 - 12:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/546751
Overview
Webinar EDS SCV/SF event, Topic: "A device to circuit framework for BTI, HCD aging ", Presenter: Dr. Souvik Mahapatra
"A device to circuit framework for BTI, HCD aging" Lecture by Dr. Souvik Mahapatra
The Electron Devices Society Santa Clara Valley/San Francisco joint Chapter is hosting Dr. Souvik Mahapatra.
When: Friday, March 20th, 2026 – 11:45AM to 1:15PM (PDT)
11:45AM – 12PM: Introduction
12PM-12:45PM: Lecture
12:45PM-12:55PM: Q&A
1PM Adjourn
Where: Zoom
This is an online event ONLY and attendees can participate via Zoom. The Zoom meeting link will be sent a few days before the event to registered attendees.
Contact: ieeescveds at gmail.com
Speaker: Dr. Souvik Mahapatra
Abstract:
The benefit of performance gain per power is shrinking at advanced technology nodes. Several factors are responsible for this – including increased thermals, parasitics and aging issues. The traditional approach of treating aging as an afterthought with blanket guardbanding requires careful attention. In this talk we will propose a physics based device aging framework and its implementation in a circuit aging simulation platform. The framework can handle circuit aging under actual mission profiles (input activity and turbo-throttle conditions). Several possible approaches towards realistic / functional input based aging aware design modifications will be explored.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/546751

Edge AI Meets Wireless Systems: Implications for Connectivity, Architecture, and RF Design
2026-03-23 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Room: 4021, Bldg: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95054, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/539764
Speaker(s): Roberto Morabito,
Room: 4021, Bldg: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95054, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/539764

Giving LLMs a Map: Building Smarter GenAI with GraphRAG
Valley Research Park, 319 N Bernardo Ave, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
**TALK LOGISTICS:**
Monday, March 23, 2026
(remote speaker, audience can be either in person or remote on Zoom. Please RSVP and indicate if you will be local or remote)
6:30 registration, food sponsored by Neo4j, networking. Neo4j contacts will be attending.
7:00 SFbayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:10 to 8:15 or 8:30 based on Q and A – 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
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**TALK DESCRIPTION:**
Generative AI is powerful, but without the right data and retrieval strategies, results can quickly break down. This session will explore how GraphRAG combines knowledge graphs with retrieval-augmented generation to deliver more accurate, context-rich AI applications. Through live demos and code, we will walk through building a GenAI solution end to end using Neo4j and Python. Learn how to construct knowledge graphs from unstructured and structured data, make key design decisions around schema and chunking, and implement multiple retrieval strategies—including vector search, vector plus Cypher, and text-to-Cypher approaches. Then, pull all these skills together in a conversational agent built with Neo4j and LangChain. Come to this session and leave with practical techniques for designing knowledge graphs, choosing the right retriever for a use case, and applying GraphRAG patterns you can adapt to your own GenAI projects.
A good starting point for code to be discussed is in the examples in: [https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j-graphrag-python](https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j-graphrag-python)
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**SPEAKER BIO: (presenting remotely)**
Jennifer Reif is a Developer Advocate at Neo4j, speaker, and blogger with an MS in CMIS. An avid developer and problem-solver, she has worked with many businesses and projects to organize and make sense of widespread data assets and leverage them for maximum business value. She has expertise in a variety of commercial and open source tools, and she enjoys learning new technologies, sometimes on a daily basis! Her passion is finding ways to organize chaos and deliver software more effectively. See also https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmhreif/

Augmented Intelligence for End-to-End Design
2026-03-25 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Room: Conf SJ5-1 Lake Tahoe, Bldg: Building 6, 2655 Seely Ave, Cadence, san jose, California, United States, 95134
Chiplet and disaggregated architectures are rapidly becoming mainstream across applications from edge to server. Yet the resulting design complexity exceeds the capabilities of today’s tools, flows, and methodologies—particularly when aiming for highly optimized solutions at scale.
Augmented Intelligence, the combination of human expertise and machine intelligence, offers a transformative approach to this challenge. By assigning strategic, high-level decision-making to engineers and delegating computationally intensive, iterative tasks to AI, this framework enables multi-level and multi-domain optimization. The result is the ability to generate a far greater number of custom-optimized designs with the same resources—delivering competitive products with higher quality and faster time-to-market.
At Intel, in collaboration with partners, we have developed and deployed Augmented Intelligence solutions spanning silicon to system design and hardware to software design. These efforts have demonstrated efficiency gains exceeding 90% in critical areas. In this talk, I will share practical examples and key insights from several years of applying Augmented Intelligence to end-to-end design, highlighting how human–AI collaboration is reshaping the path to innovation.
There will not be any recording. Please attend in person.
Speaker(s): Olena Zhu,
Agenda:
5:30-6:15pm: Light Dinner/Social
6:15: Chapter Admin and then Presentation
Room: Conf SJ5-1 Lake Tahoe, Bldg: Building 6, 2655 Seely Ave, Cadence, san jose, California, United States, 95134

Co-Packaged Optics: Heterogeneous Integration of Chiplets in Switches, Photonic ICs and Electronic ICs
2026-03-26 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/539468
[]Co-packaged optics (CPO) are heterogeneous integration packaging methods to integrate the optical engine (OE) which consists of photonic ICs (PIC) such as the photodiode laser, etc. and the electrical engine (EE) which consists of the electronic ICs (EIC) such as the laser driver, transimpedance amplifier, etc. as well as the switch ASIC (application specific IC). The advantages of CPO are: (a) to reduce the length of the electrical interface between the OE/EE (or PIC/EIC) and the ASIC, (b) to reduce the energy required to drive the signal, and (c) to cut the latency which leads to better electrical performance. In the next few years, we will see more implementations of a higher level of heterogeneous integration of switch, PIC and EIC, whether it is for performance, form factor, power consumption or cost. The content of this lecture:
— Silicon Photonics
— Data Centers
— Optical Transceivers
— Optical Engine (OE) and Electrical Engine (EE)
— OBO (on-board optics)
— NPO (near-board optics)
— CPO (co-packaged optics)
— 3D Integration of the PIC and EIC
— 3D Heterogeneous Integration of PIC and EIC
— 3D Heterogeneous Integration of ASIC Switch, PIC and EIC
— 3D Heterogeneous Integration of ASIC Switch, PIC and EIC with Bridges
— 3D Heterogeneous Integration of ASIC Switch, EIC and PIC embedded in Glass-core Substrate
— Various Forms of CPO
Speaker(s): John Lau,
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/539468

SCV WIE March 2026 ExCom Meeting
2026-03-26 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/550619
Shalini Lakshmana is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: SCV WIE Mar ExCom Meeting
Time: Mar 26, 2026 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Every month on the 26 of the month, 36 occurrence(s)
Monthly: https://zoom.us/meeting/tJArfumopzkpHtaky1j5fYpqwMUeY7hSmBWs/ics?icsToken=DLAvxr8efHNhT92mFgAALAAAAICuIz08PSYY6dBYKGdyAmG9V8apUVN2a4qZ15xYs4WT3mV-sSkt5z2I4R9S5HnEoBhV7EWs81CyNNkybzAwMDAwMQ&meetingMasterEventId=GF3_gS3WTzuUZDIP3DGSlw
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/94690092342?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 946 9009 2342
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Agenda:
– New member introductions
– Past Events
– Upcoming Events
– Other agenda items
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/550619

SCV-EPS AdCom Meeting (March 2026)
2026-03-26 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/549397
Monthly AdCom meeting:
AGENDA and location for chapter ExCom/ AdCom
Agenda:
Monthly AdCom meeting: [agenda and location limited to chapter AdCom
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/549397

Spring STEM Workshop: Team Race Car Building
2026-03-27 09:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 27709 Tyrrell Ave, Hayward, California, United States, 94544
Come join our Spring STEM Youth Workshop where you'll get hands-on experience with build a car servos, learn the mechanics behind it and race an obstacle course/ track!
For students who enjoy the creative side of STEAM projects, we will also offer a Creative Arts session where participants can design race car logos, team slogans, and other artistic elements to support their race car teams.
Because we have limited space available, registration will be first come, first served. If we receive more registrations than we can accommodate, we will notify families by email.
How to Register
• Use the QR code on the attached flyer to complete the registration form or from the Link.
• Pay the registration fee by visiting (http://www.gtcdc.org/).
• Click on the Donate button, select Givelify and specify that your payment is for the “2026 Spring STEM Workshop.”
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Dear Parents and Guardians,
Looking for something meaningful and and stimulating for your children to do in between the holidays? We invite you and your family to join us for an inspiring Spring STEM Workshop: Team Racing and Car Building at Glad Tidings, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) educational experience designed specifically for students from underrepresented communities. This in-person event will be held at 27709 Tyrrell Ave, where you can meet other curious minds and learn from experienced instructors. Don't miss out on this opportunity to explore the wonders of STEM in a supportive and engaging environment. Register now to secure your spot!
Scholarships available, please email: benita.mclarin@gladtidingscogic.org
Event Details
Where: Glad Tidings Family Life Complex
When: 3/27, 9am to 3:00pm.
Who: Students aged 8–17 (parents encouraged to attend)
Why STEM Education Matters for Your Child
STEM education is more than just learning about technology or engineering—it’s about developing critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills that are essential in today’s world. By exposing your child to STEM:
– Help them discover new interests and talents.
– Prepare them for high-paying and rewarding careers.
– Show them that they can be creators, innovators, and leaders.
Schedule:
9:00 AM- 9:30 AM | Breakfast Available· Light Breakfast including cereals, fruit and juice for children· Coffee and pastries for volunteers· Meals Catered by Divine Purpose Catering
9:30 – 10 AM | Welcome & Kickoff
– Welcome
– Event Overview
– Review of safety rules
– Introduction of volunteers, experiment leads, and technology demonstrators
– Brief explanation of how technology connects to cooking (Instant Pot sensors, microwaves & magnetrons)
10 AM | Presentation #1
10:20 AM- 12PM | Build Car and Logo Art Design
12:00 – 12:40 PM | Lunch
1:00 – 2:45 PM | Finish Car Building, and Test obstacle course/ race track
2:45 – 3:00 PM | Closing, Photos & Thank You
Our Program’s Commitment
Through our partnership with the IEEE Oakland-East Bay Section, TryEngineering, and Glad Tidings, we are dedicated to fostering a supportive and inclusive environment. Here’s why this program is unique:
Mentors Who Care: STEM professionals from your community will guide your child every step of the way.
– Hands-On Learning: Engaging activities like designing bridges, building robots, and creating LED circuits make learning exciting.
Equity in Education: Our goal is to provide access and opportunity to all children, particularly those in underrepresented communities.
Parent Involvement
We understand the vital role parents play in their child’s success. During the event, you’ll:
– See firsthand how STEM activities boost confidence and teamwork.
– Learn about free and affordable resources to continue your child’s STEM journey.
– Meet other parents who share the same goal of empowering their children.
Don’t Miss Out!
This is a chance to show your child that their dreams matter and that they belong in STEM fields. Secure your spot today!
Register by March 23th
To ensure we have the proper supplies and resources, please RSVP by end of day March. 23, so we can better plan the workshop.
Together, let’s inspire a generation of problem solvers, innovators, and dreamers. We look forward to seeing you there!
Warm regards,
Aaron Lin, IEEE
Benita McLarin, Glad Tidings
Co-sponsored by: Glad Tiding International
27709 Tyrrell Ave, Hayward, California, United States, 94544

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
