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. 

Image

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 

 

 

Image

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
Image

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
Image

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
Image

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
Image

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
Image

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
Image

Viktor Prasanna

Accelerator design for FPGAs, Curriculum development (Intel Mindshare), algorithms for advanced architectures.
 

Companies I collaborate with or support my research:
Intel, Xilinx

Main industry contacts:

Patrick Lysaght, senior director at Xilinx
 
Fabrizio Petrini, Intel Labs
Image

Joshua Yang

Scientific study of memristive materials for computing

Companies I collaborate with or support my research:
TetraMem Inc.
 
Main industry contacts:

Glenn Ge, CEO
 

 

Published on April 27th, 2022Last updated on April 27th, 2022