Industry Collaboration

Our department has several collaborations with important industries. Thanks to ECE's broad set of applications, our innovative researchers, and our proximity to many important industries in the Southern California region.

Murali Annavaram

We work with many industry partners on scalable machine learning systems and computer system architecture.

Companies I collaborate with or support my research:
Intel, Meta, Micron, Samsung

Main industry contacts:
Brian Hirano, Vijay Rao

Peter Beerel

Advances in asynchronous design for large scale VLSI systems. Particular applications include machine learning acceleration and radiation-hardened designs.

Companies I collaborate with or support my research:

Niobium Systems

Main industry contacts:
Georgios Dimou, CTO, Niobium Systems

Paul Bogdan

Our goal is to minimize the data communication while accounting for intrinsic functional interdependence and balancing the workloads among cores to improve the overall performance.

Companies I collaborate with or support my research:
Intel

Main industry contacts:
Nesreen Ahmed, Principal Scientist, Intel Labs

Andreas Molisch

Collaborations in the area of channel measurement and modeling, in particular for mmWave and THz frequencies. Investigation of theory, channels, and deployment aspects of distributed MIMO.

Companies I collaborate with or support my research:
General Motors, KDDI, Samsung Research America

Main industry contacts:

Kosuke Yamazaki, Senior Manager, Wireless Communications System Laboratory, KDDI

Fan Bai, Electrical and Control Systems Laboratory, Research and Development and Planning, General Motors Corporation

Shri Narayanan

Research and development on computational media intelligence, robust multiparty speech interactions, and

inclusive and trustworthy human centered AI. Investigation of automated methods to analyze language ability in children with autism.

Companies I collaborate with or support my research:
Amazon, Apple, Disney, Google

Main industry contacts:

Prem Natarajan, Alexa AI Vice President of natural understanding

Doug Fidaleo, Disney Research Imagineering at The Walt Disney Company

Apple: Raphe Bernier, Shirley Ren

Hartwig Adam, Director of Engineering, Google AI

Krishna Nayak

Collaborations in the area of medical imaging.

Companies I collaborate with or support my research:
GE Healthcare, HeartVista Inc, Siemens Healthineers

Main industry contacts:

Suchandrima Banerjee, Director of Neuro MRI at GE Healthcare

Juan Santos, President at HeartVista Inc

David Carpenter, Director R&D Collaborations, MR NE Zone at Siemens

Antonio Ortega

New graph-based methods for video compression. Rate-distortion optimization for user generated content. Processing and compression of point cloud data.

Companies I collaborate with or support my research:
Google, KDDI Research, YouTube

Main industry contacts:

Google: Debargha Mukherjee

KDDI: Sei Neito

YoutTube: Balu Adsumilli