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SUMMARY:Biodegradable Electronics in the Semiconductor Era
DESCRIPTION:[]\nCo-Sponsored by the OEB/SCV SSIT Chapter and the SCV/OEB/SF EPS Chapter\nThe semiconductor era has transformed modern life\, yet\, as electronic technologies become increasingly pervasive\, their environmental footprint\, short product lifecycles\, and growing contribution to global e-waste present a critical challenge. In this context\, biodegradable electronics is emerging as a complementary paradigm for specific classes of future devices where transient operation\, material sustainability\, and responsible end-of-life are essential.\nThis talk will examine how biodegradable electronics can be positioned within the broader semiconductor ecosystem through innovations in functional materials\, low-temperature processing\, flexible device platforms\, and sustainable integration strategies. Particular emphasis will be placed on biodegradable and bio-derived substrates\, piezoelectric and conductive material systems\, as well as their relevance to packaging\, sensor platforms\, and distributed electronic applications. The discussion will highlight how principles from semiconductor science and engineering can be extended beyond the chip toward greener system-level design\, including interface materials\, encapsulation\, and degradation-aware architectures.\nSpeaker(s): Shweta Agarwala\,\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/558051
URL:https://svec.org/event/biodegradable-electronics-in-the-semiconductor-era/
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SUMMARY:Women Engineering Legends: A Pioneering Legacy
DESCRIPTION:A Panel Discussion by some of the co-editors and authors of Springer Nature Publishing's\nWomen Engineering Legends 1952-1976\nSpeaker(s): Debra\, Jan\nAgenda:\nAgenda\n– Introductions\n– Inspiration\n– Chapter Reviews\n– Summary\n– Conclusions\n– Give-Aways\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/554759
URL:https://svec.org/event/women-engineering-legends-a-pioneering-legacy/
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SUMMARY:Watts at Stake: Silicon Valley’s Energy Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:Santa Clara Valley IEEE Power & Energy and Industry Applications Societies invites you to a Cal Alumni of Silicon Valley Energy Forum\nJoin us in person June 16 in Palo Alto for a half day energy forum:\nTime: 10:00 AM TO 2:00 PM PST\nCost: $30 LESS 25% IEEE discount\nRSVP Registration is at the Cal Alumni site: [](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/energy-at-a-crossroads-a-cal-alumni-of-silicon-valley-energy-forum-tickets-1988570674418)\nHint: Enter the code CASVJUNE25 during Eventbrite registration in the “discount code” box at the bottom of the Eventbrite/payment page for and click “apply” before completing payment.\nNote: 7 day cancellation period begins Tuesday June 9. The Eventbrite site needs your title and company name for badges\, but it is your option to join the Cal Alumni mailing list.\nPES/IAS Chapter Page: (https://r6.ieee.org/scv-pesias/%20)\nReservation URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/energy-at-a-crossroads-a-cal-alumni-of-silicon-valley-energy-forum-tickets-1988570674418\nAbout the talk:\nCalifornia sits at the center of three colliding forces: surging electricity demand driven by data centers and electrification\, rising costs that are squeezing households and businesses\, and wildfire risk that is reshaping how utilities build\, maintain\, and protect the grid.\nWhat does this mean for rates\, reliability\, and the future of the state's energy system? And what can actually be done about it?\nCal Alumni of Silicon Valley is hosting a half-day energy forum bringing together academic research\, alumni perspectives\, and industry experience. Professor Severin Borenstein\, Faculty Director of the Energy Institute at Haas\, will deliver a keynote on how data centers are affecting electricity markets and what practical steps exist to make energy more affordable. An alumni panel will explore energy topics from across the Cal community. And PG&E will present on the wildfire mitigation strategies they are deploying to protect California's grid.\nWhether you work in energy\, tech\, policy\, or are simply a ratepayer who wants to understand what is driving your bill\, this is a conversation worth being part of.\nDate: Tuesday\, June 16\, 2026\nTime: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.\nLocation: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP\nAddress: 1400 Page Mill Rd\, Palo Alto\, CA 94304\n(https://r6.ieee.org/scv-pesias/)\nSpeaker(s): Prof. Borenstein\,\nAgenda:\n10:00 – 10:30 a.m.: Arrival\, seating\, and light refreshments\n10:30 – 11:15 a.m.: Keynote by Professor Severin Borenstein\n11:15 – 12:00 p.m.: Alumni Panel Discussion\n12:00 – 1:00 p.m.: Lunch hosted by Morgan Lewis\n1:00 – 1:45 p.m.: PG&E presentation\n1:45 – 2:00 p.m.: Closing remarks and networking\nBldg: Morgan Lewis & Brockius\, 1400 Page Mill Rd\, Palo Alto\, California\, United States\, 94304
URL:https://svec.org/event/watts-at-stake-silicon-valleys-energy-crossroads/
LOCATION:Bldg: Morgan Lewis & Brockius\, 1400 Page Mill Rd\, Palo Alto\, California\, United States\, 94304
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SUMMARY:Santa Clara Valley EMC Chapter: Testing and Compliance Seminar at the New CKC Laboratories!
DESCRIPTION:[]\nJoin us for a day of technical insights\, professional networking\, and a first look at the CKC Laboratories new facility in Fremont!\nEnjoy free technical seminars hosted by Randy Clark and Steve Behm\, along with a catered lunch compliments of\n[]\nStick around for your chance to win over $500 in prizes\, including a JBL speaker\, Igloo cooler\, SF Giants tickets\, and gift cards!\nThere is no charge to attend\, but you must register by Friday\, June 12!\nIEEE members and non-members are welcome!!\nSpeaker(s): Randy Clark\, Steve Behm\nAgenda:\n10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Coffee & Check-In\n11:00 AM – 11:45 AM | Nerve Stimulation Seminar hosted by Randy Clark\, CKC Labs\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Catered Lunch Courtesy of ETS-Lindgren & Facility Tour\n1:15 PM – 2:00 PM | Grounding & Shielding Seminar hosted by Steve Behm\, CKC Labs\n2:00 PM | Closing Comments and Raffle\nCKC Laboratories\, Inc.\, 46025 Warm Springs Blvd\, Fremont\, California\, United States\, 94539
URL:https://svec.org/event/santa-clara-valley-emc-chapter-testing-and-compliance-seminar-at-the-new-ckc-laboratories/
LOCATION:CKC Laboratories\, Inc.\, 46025 Warm Springs Blvd\, Fremont\, California\, United States\, 94539
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SUMMARY:Tech Talk: GPU-Free Real-Time Utility Asset Anomaly Detection
DESCRIPTION:The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the IEEE Computer Society invites to our free and open Virtual Tech Talks (no IEEE membership required):\nSpeaker: Lakshmana Rao Koppada ((https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakshmana-koppada/&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1781490549069271&usg=AOvVaw11bsPeQi6ednCxDVhnMelu))\nTitle: GPU-Free Real-Time Utility Asset Anomaly Detection with IBM Granite TSPulse-R1\nAbstract: Utility enterprises operate geographically distributed critical assets—such as pumps\, tanks\, flow meters\, and substations that demand continuous health monitoring to avert service disruptions\, environmental hazards\, and substantial economic losses. Conventional centralized cloud-based Enterprise Asset Management systems incur high latency\, excessive bandwidth consumption\, and reliance on GPU acceleration\, thereby impeding real-time response in connectivity-constrained environments. This paper introduces a GPU-free edge-to-cloud architecture for real-time anomaly detection that exploits the compact IBM Granite TSPulse-R1 time-series foundation model (approximately 1 million parameters). The framework executes lightweight CPU-only inference on edge gateways and transmits only concise anomaly summaries via Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT)\, realizing over 99.9% bandwidth reduction relative to raw data transfer. A novel sensor-weighted reconstruction error scoring mechanism prioritizes the most discriminative sensors\, enhancing zero-shot multivariate detection performance. Rigorous evaluation on the Water Treatment dataset\, a real-world industrial control system benchmark featuring 51 sensors and a 12.53% anomalous timestep ratio\, demonstrates an average inference latency of 710.3 ms per 512-timestep chunk\, a ROC-AUC of 0.717\, and tolerance-adjusted recall exceeding 0.945 at ±20 timesteps. Scalability analysis reveals near-linear latency growth with increasing sensor counts and chunk sizes\, confirming feasibility on resource-constrained edge devices. The proposed architecture delivers a scalable\, cost-effective\, and resilient predictive maintenance solution for critical infrastructure\, providing a practical GPU-independent alternative to traditional cloud-centric paradigms while supporting robust operation in distributed utility networks.\nBio: Lakshmana Rao Koppada (IETE Fellow\, Senior Member IEEE\, Professional Member of BCS) is a Digital Transformation Leader and Technical Architect at PwC with over 16 years of experience delivering large-scale enterprise modernization programs. Specializing in IBM Maximo\, cloud platforms\, and Red Hat OpenShift\, he integrates AI/ML\, IoT\, and predictive analytics to improve asset reliability and operational efficiency. He has led global digital transformation initiatives for Fortune 500 organizations across utilities\, pharmaceuticals\, manufacturing\, energy\, and data center industries. A published researcher and certified IBM Maximo/MAS architect\, he actively contributes to international technology conferences and innovation initiatives in AI-driven enterprise systems.\nSpeaker(s): Ram Sekhar Bodala\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/563073
URL:https://svec.org/event/tech-talk-gpu-free-real-time-utility-asset-anomaly-detection/
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SUMMARY:Startup: Personal Data Sovereignty in Building a Native Trustable Cloud
DESCRIPTION:Designing prompt-engineered AI systems with CDN-native edge inference\, routing\, and secure delivery \nLOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid\, in person or by zoom\, you choose)\nValley Research Park\n319 North Bernardo Avenue\nMountain View\, CA CA 93043\nDon’t use the front door. When facing the front door\, turn right along the front of the building. Turn left around the building corner. The 2nd door should be open and have a banner and event registration. \nIf you want to join remotely\, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:\n[Zoom](https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/92225957844?pwd=E1L50oEkTFvwai73PYfGoqsPdi9xIL.1) (updated 6:55 pm)\nJoin via YouTube:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO72Hb30fKw \nAGENDA\n6:30 Door opens\, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)\n7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events\, introduce the speaker\n7:15 Speaker Presentation\n8:30 – 8:45 finish\, Volunteer recruiting Q&A \nJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on: \n### **Abstract** \nCurrent cloud storage infrastructure is owned and controlled by corporations that set terms\, hold data\, and define access. This talk presents an alternative architectural pattern: a distributed\, community-contributed cloud where individuals own their data\, stored across volunteer-contributed nodes with no single point of corporate control. \nWe present a working implementation built on Python Flask microservices\, Docker containerization\, and MySQL\, demonstrating four core capabilities: \n1. Visual Personal Data Organization: A 5×5 grid interface that maps personal data across five dimensions of life\, featuring a built-in public/private boundary and bilingual (English/Chinese) support. Gmail label integration allows existing personal taxonomies to be imported automatically as data tags.\n2. Microservices Architecture: Defined service boundaries—including identity/authentication\, personal archive storage\, and an ontology service for tag mapping—designed for independent deployment across distributed volunteer hardware.\n3. Volunteer Node Lifecycle Protocol: Unlike traditional distributed systems\, this architecture is designed for planned voluntary participation. Volunteers agree to an SLA before joining. If a volunteer leaves\, a grace period ensures all primary data is migrated before release. The system also handles unexpected failures via automatic replica promotion and manages growth through automatic rebalancing.\n4. Personal Archive Management: Activation of a personal agent to serve as the Archive Manager. \nWe will demonstrate the use of Kubernetes orchestration for real volunteer nodes across public cloud and community hardware. This includes email routing\, family heritage storage\, and social group management\, providing a complete personal data sovereignty stack owned entirely by its community. \n### **Keynote Takeaways** \n* **Observe the usability of such a wall between authorship data\, private data and archived data .**\n* **Explore hardware and software backdoor tolerance on cloud implementation.**\n* **Understand volunteer node ownership duty and rights**\n* **Prominence of joining the development team with comments\, labor\, or financial support**\n* \n**Why This Talk Is Different**\n**Most ACM Bay Area talks focus on published open technologies and experiences. This session goes into native cloud owned and operated by geographically closed in-person friends and relatives.** \n**Speaker Bios**:\n**Venkata Gopi Kolla** – **Software Engineer with 10 years of experience in distributed systems\, and large-scale multi-tenant infrastructure\, global CDN and edge platforms\, where he has led traffic routing\, security enforcement\, caching\, and performance optimization across Akamai\, Cloudflare\, and CloudFront to deliver reliable\, high-throughput enterprise SaaS at internet scale. He is currently focused on edge-optimized delivery and security for generative and agentic AI workloads. He has been a committed volunteer at ACM San Francisco Bay Professional Chapter since 2025.**\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/venkata-gopi-kolla-8265a427/\n—\nValley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104\,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs\, wet labs\, and high power labs sized from 125-15\,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms\, conference rooms\, outdoor dining spaces\, and recreational spaces. \nAs a plug-and-play lab space\, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand\, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.\nhttps://www.valleyresearchpark.com/
URL:https://svec.org/event/startup-personal-data-sovereignty-in-building-a-native-trustable-cloud/
LOCATION:Valley Research Park\, 319 N Bernardo Ave\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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SUMMARY:Twisted Signals for ISAC via OAM Vortex Beams
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Electromagnetic waves are characterized by their amplitude\, frequency\, and state of polarization — also referred to as spin angular momentum (SAM)\, associated with circular polarization and recognized for over two centuries. In contrast\, over the past three decades\, growing attention has been directed toward orbital angular momentum (OAM)\, which arises from helical (twisted) phase fronts and provides an additional degree of freedom through its orthogonal modal structure. In this talk\, we explore the use of OAM for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC)\, with the goal of enhancing spectral efficiency and spatial resolution in automotive scenarios. Unlike conventional uniform circular array (UCA)-based implementations\, our approach employs a uniform linear array (ULA) with traveling-wave antennas to synthesize multiple Laguerre-Gaussian vortex beams. The proposed system embeds communication data within radar waveforms while enabling joint estimation of target position and velocity using radar-only frames. An OAM-based mode-division multiplexing strategy is used to separate sensing and communication functionalities\, ensuring reliable parameter recovery. We conclude with perspectives on the future of ISAC systems.\nBio:\nKumar Vijay Mishra (S’08-M’15-SM’18) obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and M.S. in mathematics from The University of Iowa in 2015\, and M.S. in electrical engineering from Colorado State University in 2012\, while working on NASA’s Global Precipitation Mission Ground Validation (GPM-GV) weather radars. He received his B. Tech. summa cum laude (Gold Medal\, Honors) in electronics and communication engineering from the National Institute of Technology\, Hamirpur (NITH)\, India in 2003. He is a Senior Fellow at the United States DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory; Research Scientist at the Institute for Systems Research\, The University of Maryland\, College Park under the ARL-ArtIAMAS program; 2026 BEL Endowed Visiting Chair Professor in Radar Systems at the Indian Institute of Science\, Bangalore; Technical Adviser to Singapore-based automotive radar start-up Hertzwell; and honorary Research Fellow at SnT – Interdisciplinary Centre for Security\, Reliability and Trust\, University of Luxembourg. Previously\, he had research appointments at the Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE)\, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Bengaluru; IIHR – Hydroscience & Engineering\, Iowa City\, IA; Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs\, Cambridge\, MA; Qualcomm\, San Jose; and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.\nDr. Mishra has served as the Distinguished Lecturer (DL) of various societies: IEEE Communications Society (2023-2024)\, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) (2023-2024\, 2025-2026)\, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2023-2025\, 2025-2027)\, and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (2024-2025). He has been a Virtual DL of IEEE Future Networks Initiative (2022) and Traveling Lecturer of Optica (2025-). He is the recipient of the IEEE AESS Harry Rowe Mimno Award (2026)\, SAE International Award for Excellence in Innovation (2025)\, IEEE Signal Processing Society Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award (2024)\, Special Mention for the IEEE AESS M. Barry Carlton Award (2023)\, IET Premium Best Paper Prize (2021)\, IEEE T-AES Outstanding Editor (2021\, 2023\, 2024\, 2025)\, U. S. National Academies Harry Diamond Distinguished Fellowship (2018-2021)\, American Geophysical Union Editors' Citation for Excellence (2019)\, Royal Meteorological Society Quarterly Journal Editor's Prize (2017)\, Viterbi Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015\, 2016)\, Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017)\, DRDO LRDE Scientist of the Year Award (2006)\, NITH Director’s Gold Medal (2003)\, and NITH Best Student Award (2003). He has received Best Paper Awards at IEEE MLSP 2019 and IEEE ACES Symposium 2019.\nSpeaker(s): Vijay\,\nAgenda:\nTBD\nSunnyvale\, California\, United States\, 94086\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/561889
URL:https://svec.org/event/twisted-signals-for-isac-via-oam-vortex-beams/
LOCATION:Sunnyvale\, California\, United States\, 94086\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/561889
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SUMMARY:2026 GET-AI SERIES: 3 . Practical AI for Everyday Productivity
DESCRIPTION:As Generative AI rapidly moves from experimentation into everyday workflows\, professionals across technical and business roles are discovering new ways to improve productivity\, accelerate decision-making\, and reduce repetitive work. From software engineering and product management to communication\, research\, and operations\, AI assistants are increasingly becoming practical collaborators in day-to-day work.\nFollowing our May session on “Security in AI\,” the IEEE Orange County Computer Society GET-AI Series continues with a practical and demo-driven June session focused on how AI is transforming productivity across the modern workplace.\n—————————————————————\n🔒 June Focus: Practical AI for Everyday Productivity\n[]\nAs AI becomes integrated into modern workflows\, organizations and individuals are leveraging AI tools to automate repetitive tasks\, generate content\, analyze information\, accelerate software development\, and streamline collaboration.\nThis session combines business and engineering perspectives to demonstrate how AI assistants and coding copilots are reshaping the way teams think\, build\, communicate\, and operate.\n—————————————————————\nSession 1: AI Productivity in Everyday Workflows (45 mins)\nMost professionals spend a significant portion of their workweek on repetitive tasks such as drafting emails\, writing documents\, debugging code\, summarizing meetings\, analyzing feedback\, or preparing presentations.\nThis session demonstrates how AI assistants such as Claude can act as practical productivity partners across both technical and non-technical workflows.\nThrough live demonstrations\, attendees will explore real-world scenarios including:\nEngineering Productivity\n– Understanding legacy code\n– Debugging production issues faster\n– Generating features from natural language requirements\n– Writing unit tests and pull request summaries\nBusiness & Product Productivity\n– Converting rough notes into structured PRDs\n– Extracting insights from customer feedback\n– Drafting stakeholder communications\n– Preparing executive presentations and interview guides\nThe session concludes with a live audience challenge where a real attendee workflow problem will be solved interactively using AI.\n👉 Takeaway: Learn practical prompting techniques and AI workflows that can immediately improve day-to-day productivity.\n—————————————————————\nSession 2: AI-Assisted Engineering & Modern Software Development (45 mins)\nAI is rapidly reshaping how engineers design\, build\, review\, deploy\, and operate software systems. This session explores how AI is evolving from a coding assistant into a practical engineering copilot across the software delivery lifecycle.\nTopics include real-world usage of:\n– Codex\n– Cline\n– MCP-enabled development workflows\n– GitHub\, Bitbucket\, and Confluence integrations\nThe session also explores how AI can accelerate:\n– Pull request reviews\n– Design documentation\n– Architecture visualization using Mermaid and draw.io\n– Test generation\n– Troubleshooting and debugging\nA key focus will be AI-assisted spec-driven development\, where AI helps bridge business requirements\, technical specifications\, implementation\, and deployment workflows.\nThe discussion includes:\n– Productivity gains and engineering trade-offs\n– Reliability considerations\n– Human oversight and governance\n– Practical lessons from enterprise adoption\nRather than focusing on theoretical AI concepts\, this session emphasizes practical engineering workflows and actionable techniques that architects\, developers\, and technical leaders can immediately apply.\n👉 Takeaway: Understand how AI-assisted engineering workflows are transforming modern software delivery and learn practical approaches for enterprise adoption.\n—————————————————————\nAbout the Organizer\nPradyumna Kodgi\nPrincipal Product Manager | Oracle Health & AI\nIEEE Senior Member | Vice Chair\, IEEE EMBS – Orange County\nMember\, IEEE AI Agentic Systems & AI Policy Committees\n📍 California\, USA\n📧 pkodgi@ieee.org\n🔗 linkedin.com/in/pkodgi\nCo-sponsored by: Pradyumna Kodgi\nSpeaker(s): Pranay\, Venkatesh\nAgenda:\nAI-Powered Productivity: Practical AI for Everyday Productivity\nAI is rapidly transforming how we work—from writing emails and generating reports to building applications\, analyzing data\, and accelerating software delivery. As AI assistants evolve into intelligent copilots integrated into everyday workflows\, the question is no longer just what AI can generate—but how we can use it effectively to improve productivity and decision-making.\nIn this interactive session\, we move beyond AI hype and explore how modern AI tools are being used in practical\, real-world scenarios across both technical and business environments.\n🔍 What You’ll Explore\n– How Generative AI is reshaping modern work and productivity\n– The role of LLMs\, AI copilots\, coding agents\, and prompt-driven workflows\n– Practical applications of AI across engineering\, product management\, communication\, and operations\n– How AI-assisted tools can accelerate development\, documentation\, research\, collaboration\, and decision-making\n💡 What Makes This Session Different\nThis is not just a theoretical overview—you’ll see AI productivity workflows demonstrated live through practical\, real-world examples.\nThrough interactive demos and walkthroughs\, attendees will experience how AI can:\n– Generate applications from natural language prompts\n– Assist with coding\, debugging\, and documentation\n– Transform rough ideas into structured business artifacts\n– Accelerate repetitive tasks and operational workflows\n🛠️ Practical Takeaways\nYou’ll walk away with actionable techniques and frameworks you can immediately apply\, including:\n– Writing more effective prompts\n– Using AI assistants in day-to-day workflows\n– Leveraging coding copilots and AI productivity tools\n– Combining human expertise with AI-assisted automation\n🎯 Who Should Attend\n– Software engineers and developers\n– Architects and technical leaders\n– Product managers and business professionals\n– Students and AI enthusiasts\n– Anyone interested in improving productivity using AI\n✨ What You’ll Walk Away With\n– A practical understanding of modern AI productivity workflows\n– Real-world examples of AI-assisted engineering and business operations\n– Hands-on insights into prompt-driven application development\n– Strategies to responsibly integrate AI into everyday work\nAs AI becomes increasingly integrated into modern workflows\, productivity is no longer just about working harder—it’s about learning how to effectively collaborate with intelligent systems. This session will help you understand how AI can become a practical copilot for modern work.\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/561306
URL:https://svec.org/event/2026-get-ai-series-3-practical-ai-for-everyday-productivity/
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SUMMARY:Search 360°: From Query Understanding to LLM-Enhanced Retrieval
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid event on Zoom and YouTube \nIf you want to join discussion remotely\, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:\n[https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/94932457090?pwd=SzCaJbWEJpzEpJl7wYa1aSrHa8G15r.1](https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/94932457090?pwd=SzCaJbWEJpzEpJl7wYa1aSrHa8G15r.1)\nJoin via YouTube:\nhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=t15Ca-KblbE \nAGENDA\n6:30 pre-sign in to test and chat\n**7:00** SFBayACM upcoming events\, introduce the speaker\n7:15 speaker presentation starts\n8:15 – 8:30 finish\, depending on Q&A \nJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion in person at VRP \n**Description:**\nSearch systems are evolving rapidly\, powered by advances in deep learning\, embeddings\, and now large language models. This talk offers a 360° view of modern search architectures: from query understanding and candidate generation to pre-ranking\, ranking\, and re-ranking. We’ll explore how hybrid retrieval (sparse + dense)\, multi-task learning\, and LLM-assisted query understanding are redefining search quality and personalization. Attendees will gain a systems-level understanding of how each layer contributes to relevance\, diversity\, and user satisfaction\, and where to focus next for scalable innovation. \n**Audience:**\nAI practitioners interested in understanding how modern search systems work end-to-end. Also suitable for product engineers and researchers. Beginner to intermediate level: designed for attendees familiar with basic ML and data concepts\, but not requiring deep expertise in search or ranking systems. \n**Speaker Bio:**\nGauri Sarode is a Machine Learning Engineer at foodtech where she builds large-scale personalization and search systems that shape the customer discovery experience. With an M.S. in Computer Science from New York University\, Gauri combines academic depth with real-world production experience. She holds multiple certifications in Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation.\n**LinkedIn:** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaurisarode/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaurisarode/)\n— \nValley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104\,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs\, wet labs\, and high power labs sized from 125-15\,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms\, conference rooms\, outdoor dining spaces\, and recreational spaces. \nAs a plug-and-play lab space\, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand\, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.\nhttps://www.valleyresearchpark.com/
URL:https://svec.org/event/search-360-from-query-understanding-to-llm-enhanced-retrieval/
LOCATION:Online event
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SUMMARY:Center for Advanced Signal and Image Sciences (CASIS) 29th Annual Workshop
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to host LLNL’s 30th Center for Advanced Signal and Image Sciences (CASIS) workshop. The workshop returns with a full 2-day in-person schedule on Wednesday and Thursday\, June 24-25\, 2026.\nWe encourage a broad range of technical topics at the workshop and being non-archival apart from original work\, we are also considering intermediate results from ongoing efforts as well as recently published publications for presentation as a talk and/or a poster. The goal of the workshop is to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and network with peers across disciplines to foster collaboration and build community. Please submit your abstract by Friday\, May 15\, 2026. Authors will be notified of the review decisions one week later on May 22\, 2026.\nApart from the regular presentation track we will feature parallel tutorials\, hands-on mini workshops and a dedicated student track to introduce career opportunities at LLNL.\nThe workshop will be held in-person at the (https://uclcc.org/) and requires pre-registration until June 18\, 2026. As this is a 2-day whole-day workshop\, we will provide coffee and snacks in morning and afternoon breaks as well as a lunch on both days. As this is our 30th anniversary\, we will also host a Happy Hour following the regular program on Wednesday\, June 24\, 2026.\n(https://engineering.llnl.gov/centers/casis/workshops)\nThis year’s workshop features presentations in the following tracks\, moderated by the Program Chairs:\n– AI/Machine Learning (PhanNguyen\, Kowshik Thopalli)\n– National Ignition Facility (Eugene Kur\, Christopher Miller)\n– Non-Destructive Evaluation (Seemeen Karimi\, Harry Martz)\n– Quantum Sensing & Quantum Computing (Kristi Beck)\n– Remote Sensing\, Non-Invasive Imaging & Inverse Problems (Sean Lehman\, Viacheslav Li)\n– Robotics & Automation (Aldair Gongora\, Abhik Sarkar)\n– Student Track: All topics (Poster only) (Ted Bauman\, Min Priest)\nBecome part of this great experience and submit your talk proposal at https://engineering.llnl.gov/centers/casis/workshops before May 15\, 2025!\nCheck out (https://www.llnl.gov/article/53041/annual-workshop-brings-together-signal-image-science-community) for last year’s amazing event to see what to expect!\nThe no-fee CASIS Workshop is sponsored by the (https://engineering.llnl.gov/) and held at the (https://uclcc.org/). It is organized by the (https://engineering.llnl.gov/centers/casis)\, and is a joint meeting with the local chapters of the (https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/oeb/SigProc/sigproc.html) and (https://r6.ieee.org/sfoeb-cs/). supported by the (https://r6.ieee.org/oeb/).\nCo-sponsored by: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Center for Advanced Signal and Image Sciences\nBldg: Building 661 L-794\, University of California Livermore Collaboration Center\, 7000 East Ave\, Livermore\, California\, United States\, 94550
URL:https://svec.org/event/center-for-advanced-signal-and-image-sciences-casis-29th-annual-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Bldg: Building 661 L-794\, University of California Livermore Collaboration Center\, 7000 East Ave\, Livermore\, California\, United States\, 94550
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SUMMARY:Efficient Stochastic Machine Learning at the Edge
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will talk about some hardware/software work my group has done in the area of stochastic computing-based machine learning acceleration. Stochastic computing or SC is an approximate\, stream-based computing paradigm enabling extremely area-efficient implementations of basic arithmetic operations such as multiplication and addition. I will talk about the suitability of the SC to the machine learning/event processing workloads\, how to deal with its inherent approximate nature and briefly discuss few chip prototypes that leverage both logic and in-memory implementations of SC-based accelerators for dense as well as a sparse compute.\nSpeaker(s): Puneet Gupta\,\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/561732
URL:https://svec.org/event/efficient-stochastic-machine-learning-at-the-edge/
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/561732
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260625T180000
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SUMMARY:Systematically Managing Complexity in Power Electronics Modeling and Design
DESCRIPTION:Power electronics is a foundational technology that drives a wide range of important and emerging applications including cloud computing\, wireless communications\, robotics\, and smart energy systems. By systematically managing the increased complexity in materials\, circuits\, and systems\, new opportunities are created to greatly advance the functionality and performance of power electronics systems.\nThis speech provides a few examples to illustrate the potential of managed complexity in power electronics design. These include: 1) modular and scalable architecture for systematically managed complexity in high performance circuits; 2) artificial intelligence and machine learning for systematically managed complexity in passive component modeling. This managed complexity approach addresses key challenges in emerging applications by overcoming traditional design barriers from new angles and redefining how power electronics are conceived and implemented in complex systems.\nSpeaker(s): Minjie Chen\nMurata Electronics North America\, Inc.\, 1732 North First Street #500\, San Jose\, California\, United States\, 95112
URL:https://svec.org/event/systematically-managing-complexity-in-power-electronics-modeling-and-design/
LOCATION:Murata Electronics North America\, Inc.\, 1732 North First Street #500\, San Jose\, California\, United States\, 95112
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