2020 CICC Forums
The forums are special sessions of invited papers.
Thank you to SiFive for Sponsoring the Forum sessions!

Monday, March 23
Session 4 Forum: Electronics for Vehicles of the Future
Mar 23, 2020 | 10:00 AM-12:10 PM
Room: Michelangelo
4-1 -Edge Computing and Resilient Hardware in Future Mobile and Autonomous Systems
- Vijay Janapa Reddi, Harvard
4-2 -High-Performance Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) for ADAS
- Adam Sherer, Cadence
4-3 – Electronics for Vehicles of the Future – Gate Drivers with Integrated Power Management
- Sri Navaneeth Easwaran, Texas Instruments
4-4 – LIDAR Technology
- Ron Kapusta, ADI
Session 9 Forum: IP Blocks: Challenges for Next Decade Complex SoCs
Mar 23, 2020 | 2:00 PM-3:45 PM
Room: Olympia
9-1 – Hardware Specialization for Next-Generation Computer Vision SoCs
- Paul Whatmough, Arm ML Research Lab
9-2 – Challenges and Solutions for Domain-Specific Custom Silicon
- Shubu Mukherjee, SiFive
9-3 – Data Converter IPs for Next-Generation Automotive Radar and LiDAR SoCs
- Denis Daly, Omni Design Technologies, Inc.
Tuesday, March 24
Session 19 Forum: Journey of a Startup
Mar 24, 2020 | 1:30 PM-3:15 PM
Room: Olympia
19-1 – A Venture Capitalist’s View of the Journey of a Start-Up
- Jennifer Ard, Intel Capital
19-2 – Accelerating Artificial Intelligence with Light
- Darius Bunandar, Chief Scientist, Lightmatter
19-3 – Self Powered Wireless Sensors for the Industrial Internet of Things: From Academic Projects to Full Solution Products
- Benton Calhoun, Co-Founder & Co-CTO, Everactive
19-4 – Sifive: A Startup with a Mission to Democratize Access to Custom Cores and Silicon
- Krste Asanovic, Co-Founder and Chief Architect, SiFive
Session 21 Forum: Advances in 5G and Wireless Systems
Mar 24, 2020 | 3:30 PM-5:35 PM
Room: Olympia
21-1 – Antenna-Electronics Co-Design ― Multi-Feed Antennas Based Mm-Wave Front-Ends for On-Antenna Power Combining, Active Load Modulation, and Polarization Division Duplexing
- Taiyun Chi, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University
21-2 – Full-Duplex Radio Transceivers
- Sudip Shekhar, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
21-3 – Resource Management in Wireless Networks via Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Dr Hosein Nikopour, Intel Labs
21-4 – TBD
- Michael Thompson, Cadence Design Systems