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Key Insights to Career Management

28 October, 9:00 am EDT

With 45 years experience in the field and as an IEEE Member, John McDonald brings invaluable knowledge and insights to grow professionally. Learn the ins and outs of networking, mentorship, and strategic career planning in this essential session.


Speaker Bio:

John D. McDonald, P.E., IEEE Life Fellow, is Smart Grid Business Development Leader for GE Power's Grid Solutions business. John has 47 years of experience in the electric utility transmission and distribution industry.

John received his BSEE and MSEE (Power Engineering) degrees from Purdue University, and an MBA (Finance) degree from the University of California-Berkeley. John is a Life Fellow of IEEE, and was awarded the IEEE Millennium Medal, the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering Award, the IEEE PES Substations Committee Distinguished Service Award, and the IEEE PES Meritorious Service Award.

John is Past President of the IEEE PES, past member of the IEEE Global Public Policy Committee, and the Past Chair of the IEEE PES Substations Committee. John was the IEEE Division VII Director and on the IEEE Board of Directors. John was on the Board of Governors of the IEEE-SA (Standards Association), focusing on long-term IEEE Smart Grid standards strategy. John is currently on the IEEE Foundation Board of Directors. John received the 2009 Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University. John teaches a Smart Grid course at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Smart Grid course for GE, and substation automation, distribution SCADA and communications courses for various IEEE PES local chapters as an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer. John has published one hundred fifty papers and articles in the areas of SCADA, SCADA/EMS, SCADA/DMS and communications and has co-authored five books.

Abstract:

GPU/accelerator architectures have greatly improved the training and inferencing speed for neural-network-based machine learning models. As major industry players race to develop ambitious applications such as self-driving vehicles, unstructured data analytics, human-level interactive systems, and human intelligence augmentation, major challenges remain in computational methods as well as hardware/software infrastructures required for these applications to be effective, robust, responsive, accountable and cost-effective. These applications impose much higher levels of data storage capacity, access latency, energy efficiency, and throughput. In this talk, I will present a vision for building a new generation of computing components and systems for these applications.

Speaker’s Bio:

Wen-mei W. Hwu is a Professor and holds the Sanders-AMD Endowed Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the director of the IMPACT research group (www.crhc.uiuc.edu/Impact). He co-directs the IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR) and serves as one of the principal investigators of the NSF Blue Waters Petascale supercomputer. For his contributions, he received the ACM SigArch Maurice Wilkes Award, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award, the ISCA Influential Paper Award, the IEEE Computer Society B. R. Rau Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM. Dr. Hwu received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Description

The Low Power Image Recognition Challenge (LPIRC) 2019 is a one-day workshop that will extend the successes of LPIRC from the past four years, identifying the best computer vision solutions that can simultaneously achieve high accuracy and energy efficiency. Since the first competition, held in 2015, the winners’ solutions have improved 24x in the ratio of accuracy divided by energy.

The live-stream of LPIRC will feature presentations from researchers and last year's winner (all times PDT):

09:30-09:40 - Welcome by Organizers and Summary of Online Challenge

09:40-10:30 - 2018 competition winners will give a talk on their winning solutions — Amazon's Tao Sheng, and Expasoft's Alexander Goncharenko and Sergey Alyamkin

10:30-11:10 - Invited Talk: Rethinking the Computations in Computer Vision (and the Hardware that Computes Them) - UC Berkeley's Kurt Keutzer

11:10-13:40 - Live-stream will shut down temporarily

13:40-14:00 - Invited Talk: Visual Wake Words Challenge - Google's Aakanksha Chowdhery and Pete Warden

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