Ubiquitous Wearable and Implanted Sensing: A Fully Wireless Solution
With the rapid proliferation of smart sensing devices, the imminent challenges that need to be addressed are power delivery and data communication. My research contributions primarily focus on developing wireless battery-free technology that targets implantable…
Network Topologies for Large-scale Datacenters: It’s the Diameter, Stupid!
We discuss the history and design tradeoffs for large-scale topologies in high-performance computing. We observe that datacenters are slowly following due to the growing demand for low latency and high throughput at lowest cost. We…
DoWhy – A library for causal inference
For decades, causal inference methods have found wide applicability in the social and biomedical sciences. As computing systems start intervening in our work and daily lives, questions of cause-and-effect are gaining importance in computer science…
Keynote: Inside Microsoft Azure Datacenter Architecture
Mark Russinovich is Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s global enterprise-grade cloud platform. A widely recognized expert in distributed systems and operating systems, Mark earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.…
Leading Science and Technology: India Next?
We all understand the importance of economic growth and social development programs for India. Do we consider research and innovation equally important? No… The talk will start with presenting reasons why India should aspire to…
The moral risk in Machine Learning
Fireside Chat with Cynthia Breazeal
Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and directs the Personal Robots Group. She is also founder and Chief Experience Officer of Jibo, Inc., a personal robotics and…
Living, Learning and Creating with Social Robots
Social robots are designed to interact with people in an interpersonal way, engaging and supporting collaborative social and emotive behavior for beneficial outcomes. In a time where citizens are beginning to live with intelligent machines…