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In this talk, we review sample results based on our recent work in the areas of machine learning over networks and edge intellligence. In particular, we touch upon our work on communication-efficient federated learning and its applications. In the first part of the talk, we shed light on topics pertaining to federated learning. First, we overview a second-order federated learning algorithm, coined Fed-Sophia, with communication and computation efficiency merits. Next, we introduce our recent work on second order state synchronization (SOSS) to address the limitations of Fed-Sophia with non-IID data. Afterwards we overview MIRA which proposes a novel approach of federated multi-task learning for fine-tuning LLMs. In the second part of the talk, we shift focus to edge intelligence applications in digital health with particular focus on CVD prediction. Finally, we present our work on architecting, designing and demonstrating a system prototype for multi-tier intelligence for IoT. Speaker(s): Dr. Tamer ElBatt Agenda: 3 PM to 4 PM: Networking 4 PM to 4:45 PM: Presentation 4:45 PM to 5:30 PM: Q&A 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM: Networking Room: 1308, Bldg: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95053

In this talk, we review sample results based on our recent work in the areas of machine learning over networks and edge intellligence. In particular, we touch upon our work on communication-efficient federated learning and its applications. In the first part of the talk, we shed light on topics pertaining to federated learning. First, we overview a second-order federated learning algorithm, coined Fed-Sophia, with communication and computation efficiency merits. Next, we introduce our recent work on second order state synchronization (SOSS) to address the limitations of Fed-Sophia with non-IID data. Afterwards we overview MIRA which proposes a novel approach of federated multi-task learning for fine-tuning LLMs. In the second part of the talk, we shift focus to edge intelligence applications in digital health with particular focus on CVD prediction. Finally, we present our work on architecting, designing and demonstrating a system prototype for multi-tier intelligence for IoT. Speaker: Tamer ElBatt joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at The American University in Cairo (AUC) as an associate professor in July 2017. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) from Cairo University, Egypt in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and his PhD degree in ECE from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, in 2000. From 2000 to 2009, he was with HRL Labs, United States, Argon ST (now part of The Boeing Company), United States, and Lockheed Martin ATC, the United States at various positions. From 2009 to 2017, he was with the EECE Department, Cairo University, as an assistant professor and later as an associate professor (currently on leave). He held a joint appointment with Nile University, Egypt, from 2009 to 2017 and served as the director of the wireless center (WINC) from 2012 to 2017. In Fall 2019, ElBatt had been promoted to professor. His research has been supported by NTRA, ITIDA, QNRF, FP7, H2020, GM, Microsoft, Google, Vodafone Foundation, and DARPA and is currently supported by the NTRA, ITIDA, and ASRT. He has published 130 publications and holds seven issued US patents and one WIPO patent. He was a visiting professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Sabanci University, Turkey and University of Padova, Italy. He is the recipient of the 2014 Egypt’s state incentive award in Engineering Sciences, the 2012 Cairo University incentive award in Engineering Sciences and the Google faculty research award in 2011. His research interests lie in the broad areas of performance analysis, design and optimization of wireless, mobile and IoT networks. Room: BE-330, Bldg: Basking Engineering Building, Baskin Engineering School of Engineering, 606 Engineering Loop, Santa Cruz, California, United States, 95064, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/574528

San Francisco Science Exploratoirum After Dark Exhibition. Unplug and play with 650+ interactive exhibits exploring science, art, and perception. Encounter the unexpected with programming that invites you into the worlds of the thinkers and creators changing our communities. Journey through total darkness in our twisting, turning, world-famous Tactile Dome. Get inquisitive and grab a drink. With 75,000 square feet of conversation starters, you'll never run out of things to talk about. Pier 15 Embarcadero at, Green St, San Francisco, California, United States, 94111

San Francisco Science Exploratoirum After Dark Exhibition. Unplug and play with 650+ interactive exhibits exploring science, art, and perception. Encounter the unexpected with programming that invites you into the worlds of the thinkers and creators changing our communities. Journey through total darkness in our twisting, turning, world-famous Tactile Dome. Get inquisitive and grab a drink. With 75,000 square feet of conversation starters, you'll never run out of things to talk about. Pier 15 Embarcadero at, Green St, San Francisco, California, United States, 94111

Abstract: AI is changing more than how quickly work gets done. It is changing who does the work, how tasks are delegated, and how teams should be organized. As AI becomes capable of generating designs, code, analysis, documentation, and ideas in minutes, managers face a new challenge: deciding what to delegate to AI, what to keep with people, and where human judgment remains essential. In this talk, Sean Murphy explores how engineering and design managers can rethink delegation and the design of teamwork in an AI-enabled organization. Rather than simply inserting AI into existing workflows, managers need to reconsider roles, responsibilities, review processes, and collaboration. The talk will examine practical ways to divide work between people and AI, keep humans accountable for important decisions, and redesign workflows as AI capabilities continue to evolve. Attendees will leave with three practical strategies for navigating uncertainty, experimenting safely with AI, and building teams that combine the speed of AI with human experience, creativity, and judgment. Speaker(s): Sean Murphy, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/574868

As AI and HPC workloads scale exponentially, traditional network fabrics are hitting a critical bottleneck. Legacy Ethernet simply wasn’t built for the ultra-low latency and zero-loss tolerances demanded by next-generation clusters. This talk will provide an engineering-first primer on UltraEthernet—the industry’s collaborative answer to modern data center scaling. Rip Sohan will dissect the architectural gaps of legacy networks, analyze the new data plane building blocks, and unpack the specification’s advanced congestion control and reliability mechanisms. He will also explore how UltraEthernet integrates with existing RDMA ecosystems. Attendees will leave with a definitive mental model of the fabric designed to power the future of compute. Speaker(s): Rip Sohan, 925 Thompson Place, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94085, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565084

This IEEE Global Emerging Technology “GET” PHIT Pre-Summit Training Day Workshop is being hosted in partnership with the UC Irvine Public Health Informatics & Technology (PHIT) Program as part of its UCI PHIT Workforce Development Series and UCI PHIT Industry Summit. An Amazon Web Services Workshop for Public Health Informatics & Technology Students and Professionals The UCI “GET” PHIT training workshop (Amazon Web Services Workshop) focuses on the use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Public Health professionals. It consists of four x 90-minute workshops on the use of AWS tools and frameworks, including AWS HealthLake, FHIR, and SageMaker Studio for Data Science and AI. Welcome to this full-day training on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Public Health Informatics & Technology (PHIT). This program is designed to give public health students, professionals and technologists a hands-on, practical introduction to the AWS tools and services most relevant to their work — from setting up a cloud workstation and exploring core AWS frameworks, to working with healthcare-specific data standards like FHIR and platforms like AWS HealthLake. Throughout the day, sessions will build on one another, moving from foundational setup to applied topics like geospatial visualization, data management, and agentic AI coding tools. The day is organized into four 90-minute sessions, with breaks and lunch built in for networking and informal discussion. We'll close with a look at advanced and emerging topics, including AWS Bio Discovery and infectious disease modeling, giving participants a glimpse of where cloud-based public health research is headed. Whether you're new to AWS or looking to deepen your technical toolkit, this agenda is designed to leave you with practical skills you can apply directly to public health informatics work. The workshop is led by (https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-butler-embeddedengineer/), a former AWS Partner Solutions Architect and Corporate Trainer, along with (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianjosephhagerty/), a UCI Physics & Math graduate who began his career at Beckman Instruments in Beckman’s Scientific & Clinical Instruments Divisions. Speaker(s): , Paul Butler Agenda: AGENDA: Session 1 — 9:00am -10:30am PDT (90 minutes) - Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Public Health Informatics & Technology (PHIT); - Setting up your AWS Workspace & Workstation with introduction to AWS Toolchains & Frameworks for PHIT; BREAK/NETWORKING: 10:30am to 11am PDT (30min) Session 2 — 11:00am - 12:30pm (90 minutes) - Introduction to AWS HealthLake for Data Science and AWS FHIR: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources for PHIT; - Visualizing Public Health data with Geospatial tools; LUNCH: 12:30am to 1:30pm PDT (60min) Session 3 — 1:30pm - 3:00pm (90 minutes) - Introduction to PHIT Data Management with Amazon Quick; - Agentic Coding and AI with AWS Kiro, Bedrock & SageMaker Studio; BREAK/NETWORKING: 3:00pm to 3:30pm PDT (30min) Session 4 — 3:30pm - 5:00pm (90 minutes) - Advanced Topics: Introduction to Amazon Bio Discovery for PHIT Research and Infectious Disease Modeling; topics subject to change to suit needs; Room: 1030, Bldg: Samueli College of Health Sciences (COHS) , 856 Health Sciences Road, Irvine, CA 92697-3950, University of California, Irvine, IRVINE, California, United States, 92697-3950, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/571476

Dr. Stan Trout of Spontaneous Materials will discuss how changing tariffs, domestic sourcing requirements, and global market forces are reshaping the permanent magnet industry and what these trends mean for its future. With nearly 50 years of experience in permanent magnets, magnetic materials, and rare-earth technologies, Dr. Trout is widely recognized as a leading authority in the field. For more information, see (https://scvmag.org/event/20260910/) Speaker(s): Dr. Stan Trout Quadrant Corp, 1120 Ringwood Ct., San Jose, California, United States, 95131, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/567538

Modern AI does not understand pixels or words. It understands latent structure. As these invisible representations become the language through which humans and machines communicate, they will fundamentally redefine how we create, discover, and collaborate. This lecture reveals the mathematics behind these hidden spaces and explores why they may become the most important interface between human intelligence and artificial intelligence. This lecture explores the evolution of latent representations from Variational Autoencoders, which first learned meaningful probabilistic embeddings, to Generative Adversarial Networks, which demonstrated photorealistic generation while exposing challenges in stability and control, and finally to diffusion models and Stable Diffusion, which combine exceptional image quality with unprecedented controllability and robustness. Beyond the algorithms, the talk examines how latent representations are transforming human-AI interaction. By enabling AI systems to reason, generate, and collaborate through shared abstract representations, they are reshaping creativity, scientific discovery, healthcare, education, and engineering. Understanding these hidden spaces offers not only insight into how modern AI works, but also a glimpse into a future where humans and intelligent machines communicate and co-create in entirely new ways. Note: - You will require a Zoom account (free to obtain) to join the meeting. This requirement is to avoid Zoom bombing. Please sign in using the email address tied to your Zoom account, not necessarily the one you used to register for the event. - By registering for this event, you agree that IEEE and the organizers are not liable to you for any loss, damage, injury, or any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or economic loss or damage (including loss of opportunity, exemplary or punitive damages). The event will be recorded and will be made available for public viewing. Co-sponsored by: Vishnu S. Pendyala, SJSU Speaker(s): Dr. Narayan Srinivasa, IEEE Fellow , Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/570049

This webinar explores how the shift toward asynchronous generation impacts traditional protection schemes within the context of Fiji's islanded power grids. Participants will examine critical challenges such as reduced system inertia and limited fault current, along with modern solutions that help maintain grid stability and protection reliability. Co-sponsored by: University of California, Riverside Speaker(s): , Mr. Krishneel Prasad Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/574384

IEEE SCV-OEB SSIT Chapter Meeting IEEE P3469 Standard Will Enable an Accounting Method For Carbon Content in a Supply Chain Join us for a Member Technical Meeting on how the proposed IEEE P3469 Standard could enable more accurate and auditable accounting of carbon emissions across complex supply chains. Speaker Tom Coughlin, President of Coughlin Associates and Co-Chair of this SSIT standards activity, will introduce the e-liability accounting method and explain how it addresses common challenges in current carbon accounting practices, including double-counting and reliance on estimates. He will also discuss how organizations can apply the method to track lifecycle emissions across their products and services, along with the current progress toward establishing it as an IEEE standard. Tom Coughlin is a digital storage analyst and business and technology consultant with more than 40 years of experience in the data storage industry. He is an IEEE Fellow, 2024 IEEE President, Past President of IEEE-USA, Past Director of IEEE Region 6, and Past Chair of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section. IEEE members and guests are welcome at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, September 15, at Santa Clara University. Venue details will be confirmed. Speaker(s): Tom Coughlin Agenda: Agenda - Challenges in current carbon accounting, including double-counting and estimates - How e-liability accounting tracks supply chain and company emissions - How IEEE P3469 enables accurate and auditable lifecycle emissions data - Current use of the e-liability method and IEEE standard development status - Open Q&A and discussion — bring your questions Room: SCDI 3116 - Classroom, Bldg: Discovery and Innovation (SCDI) building, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95053, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/570636

Power Flow Analysis: A Practitioner’s Perspective Power flow analysis is one of the fundamental tools used by power system engineers to plan and operate reliable electric grids. This presentation will provide a practitioner’s perspective on how power flow studies are performed and used in real-world power system planning. Dr. Hilary Brown, P.E., Director of Integrated Planning Delivery at Xcel Energy, will discuss how engineers use large-scale power system models to evaluate system performance, perform contingency and N-1 reliability analysis, identify transmission and voltage violations, and develop mitigation strategies. The presentation will also explore methods for controlling real and reactive power flows, including generator controls, shunt compensation, regulating and phase-shifting transformers, and FACTS technologies. The presentation will conclude with a broader discussion of how technical solutions must be considered alongside regulatory, economic, land-use, and other practical constraints when planning the power grid. The event will include approximately 45 minutes of presentation followed by questions and discussion. Speaker: Dr. Hilary Brown, P.E., Director, Integrated Planning Delivery, Xcel Energy Hosted by: IEEE Sacramento Valley Section – Power & Energy Society Chapter This virtual technical meeting is open to IEEE members, students, professionals, and others interested in electric power systems. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/576612

Brain-Scale Intelligence with Atomic-Scale Technology: From 2D Materials to Monolithic 3D AI Computing What becomes possible when we scale computing vertically rather than relying on ever-smaller transistors? This talk introduces PhantaField’s approach to connecting atomic-scale materials engineering with AI chip architecture—using low-temperature two-dimensional semiconductors to bring memory and computation closer together. The talk begins with NanoGalaxy, PhantaField’s 12-inch plasma- and photon-enhanced metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) platform. Designed to grow two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides, including MoS₂, at temperatures below 450 °C, NanoGalaxy combines plasma activation and in-situ ultraviolet illumination to support low-temperature growth and defect control. We will discuss how this approach addresses the thermal constraints of back-end-of-line integration and opens a path to building successive layers of active devices above existing circuitry. We will then introduce Sophon, PhantaField’s monolithic 3D AI accelerator architecture. Its 64-tier reference design interleaves logic and memory above a mature 28 nm silicon base, targeting 330 GB of embedded DRAM and 2.1 PB/s of local weight bandwidth. Connecting materials, manufacturing, and architecture, the presentation will examine the device-performance requirements, integration challenges, and potential system-level benefits of this approach. The central theme is a path toward brain-scale intelligence through atomic-scale technology—not simply by scaling with more electricity, but by rethinking how computation and memory are built together. Read More: (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature15387)(https://www.phantafield.com/whitepaper) Speaker: Dr. Xuejun Xie Founder & CEO PhantaField Inc AGENDA: Thursday September 17, 2026 11:30 AM: Networking, Pizza & Drinks Noon -- 1 pm: Seminar Please register on Eventbrite before 9:30 AM on Thursday September 17, 2026 $4 IEEE members $6 non IEEE members (discounts for unemployed and students ) Bldg: ==> Use corner entrance: Kifer Road / San Lucar Court ==> Do not enter at main entrance on Kifer Road, EAG Labs, 810 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, California, California, United States, 95051

PG&E's Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) platform provides a method to better integrate and manage distributed energy resources and flexible loads on the grid. This presentation will provide insights and lessons learned regarding deploying a DERMS to help large customer sites like front of the meter batteries and large EV charging stations connect flexibly and more quickly to a constrained grid. Speaker(s): Rustom Dessai, Agenda: No-host social at 5:30pm Presentation at 6:00pm Dinner at 7:00pm Presentation continues at 7:45pm Adjourn by 8:30pm Zio Fraedo’s, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, California, United States, 94523

[] Microelectronics serve as the structural backbone for both global economic competitiveness and as our national defense strategy and forms the technical foundation for a wide array of applications. These include high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, communications networks, and integrated sensing ecosystems. Next-generation microelectronic technologies are shifting away from traditional 2D silicon scaling by embracing 3D Heterogeneous Integration (3DHI), which vertically stacks and interconnects diverse materials. This leap enables unprecedented processing power, miniaturization, and energy efficiency crucial for advanced computing, sensing and communication systems. This talk will focus on this grand vision as well as recent advances in the next-generation microelectronics and manufacturing for sensing and communication systems. It will highlight challenges and opportunities for innovations to address traditional physical scaling limits. Speaker(s): Hasan Sharifi, Bldg: HAMP 2102, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/564441

The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the IEEE Computer Society invites to our free and open Virtual Tech Talks (no IEEE membership required): Speaker: Shravya Kanchi Title: Data Challenges in ML-based Security Tasks Abstract: Machine learning classifiers are widely used for security tasks, and efforts to improve them have largely focused on algorithmic advances, while the data challenges that limit their performance have received far less attention. This talk asks a simple question: can Generative AI address these data challenges? We augment training datasets with synthetic data produced by GenAI techniques to improve classifier generalization, evaluating the approach across 7 diverse security tasks using 6 state-of-the-art GenAI methods, and introduce Nimai, a novel scheme that enables highly controlled data synthesis. We find that GenAI can significantly improve security classifiers, with gains of up to 32.6% even in severely data-constrained settings of roughly 180 training samples, and that it enables rapid adaptation to concept drift after deployment with minimal labeling. We also share where it breaks down: some GenAI schemes fail to initialize on certain security tasks, and task characteristics such as noisy labels, overlapping class distributions, and sparse feature vectors hinder the benefit. The talk closes with what these findings mean for building the next generation of GenAI tools for security. This work was accepted at ACM Asia CCS 2026 and is available at (https://www.google.com/url?q=http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06092&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1789963223372342&usg=AOvVaw3HOPUVBQUJ6HQ8xxfIrVSC). Bio: Shravya Kanchi is an Applied AI Scientist at Kai Cyber Inc. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, USA, advised by Dr. Daphne Yao. Her research sits at the intersection of security and generative AI, spanning LLM safety, synthetic data generation for security applications, adversarial machine learning, and automated security testing frameworks. Her work has been published at IEEE S&P, ACM Asia CCS, and ACSAC. She previously earned a Masters by Research in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad, India and a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIIT Sri City, India. She works hands-on with LLMs, GANs, and diffusion models applied to security-specific challenges, with an emphasis on practical defenses and evaluation-driven systems. Speaker(s): Shravya Kanchi Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/577937

Santa Clara Valley IEEE Power & Energy and Industry Applications Societies Join us for a presentation and discussion on: Critical Power Systems: Design & NEC Requirements Speaker: Tyler Shewbert, P.E., Field Application Engineer, Eaton’s Bussmann Division Cost: IEEE Members $30, Non-Members $40 by 9/17 (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/570048) Date: September 23, 2026, 5:30 to 8:30 PM Place: Delta/Marriott Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Road, Santa Clara CA 95054. About the Talk This presentation provides an overview of National Electrical Code (NEC) requirements for Critical Power Systems. It will highlight how these systems support life safety, business continuity, and mission-critical operations. Topics include: - The differences between 700 (Emergency Systems), 701 (Legally Required Standby Systems), systems, including permitted loads, transfer requirements, and operational expectations. - NEC requirements for selective coordination of overcurrent protective devices and the impact on system reliability and fault isolation. - Separation requirements for emergency and standby feeders, wiring methods, raceways, and equipment locations. - Generator considerations. - Battery energy storage systems (BESS) and UPS applications for critical power continuity. - Grounding and bonding considerations for separately derived systems and transfer switch configurations. - An overview of Article 708 Critical Operations Power Systems (COPS) Attendees will gain a clear understanding of NEC compliance requirements and practical design strategies that improve system reliability, maintainability, and resiliency. This presentation will be of value to contractors, consulting engineers, AHJs, and facility engineers, Registration required: After 9/17, registration will be non-refundable due to hotel final meal commitment. Parking validation required, please note your license plate. (https://r6.ieee.org/scv-pesias/) and (https://r6.ieee.org/scv-pesias/event/critical-power-systems-design-nec-requirements/) We look forward to seeing you there! Speaker(s): Tyler Shewbert Agenda: Agenda: 5:30 Check in, Meet and Greet 6:30 Dinner buffet 7:00 Talk 8:00 Q&A 8:30 Conclude Room: Parking validation required, note license plate, Bldg: Delta/Marriott Hotel Santa Clara-Silicon Valley, 2151 Laurelwood Road, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95054