Schedule

April 19, 2024 (Virtual)

Start time	Session			Presentation/Paper Title
9:30am	Keynote Speaker #1 (Virtual)	Dr. Eren Kurshan		Rebuilding AI: Hardware and Systems Approach for Next Generation AI and AGI



10:30am	Session #A-I Virtual Special Session Emerging topics in Hardware Security I Session Organizers Dr. Ava Hedayatipour and Dr. Soheil Salehi	Paper #	82 Optimizing ASCON Permutation in Multi-Clock Domains with Chisel: Resource Efficiency and Critical Path Reduction Mohamed El-Hadedy, Russell Hua, Kazutomo Yoshii and Wen-Mei Hwu California State Polytechnic University Pomona, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Argonne National Laboratory	Session # B-I Virtual Special Session From Bits to Protection using Emerging Techniques: Machine Learning and Hardware Security Session Organizer Dr. Hadi M Kamali	Paper #	75 Hardware Attacks on ReRAM-based In-Memory Artificial Intelligence Accelerators Masoud Heidary, Biresh Kumar Joardar University of Houston
10:50am			81 Automated Hardware Logic Obfuscation Framework Using GPT B. Saber Latibari, S. Ghimire, M. A. Chowdhury, N. Nazari, K. I. Gubbi, A. Sasan1, H. Homayoun, and S. Salehi University of California Davis, University of Arizona			68 From Full-Custom to Gate-Array ASIC for Hardware IP Protection Hadi Mardani Kamali University of Central Florida
11:10am			77 Securing IoMT with K3S and Hybrid Cryptography: Advancing Embedded System Security through Post-Quantum Approaches Mohamed E Aly, P. V. Ankunda, J. Ung, Wen-Mei Hwu California State Polytechnic University Pomona, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign			73 Unraveling Sensor Correlations in Multi-Sensor Wearable Devices for Smart Anomaly Detection R.Yasaei, A. A. Zargari, M. A. Faruque and F. Kurdahi University of Arizona, University of California Irvine
11:30am	Break
11:40am	Session # A-II Virtual Special Session Efficient IoT designs and applications Session Organizers Dr. Benham Askarian and Dr. Tooraj Nikoubin	Paper #	79 A Comprehensive Comparison of IoT Soil Moisture Sensors for Agricultural Applications S. Grant, A. Harden, K. Coggins, D. Parker, F. Tabei and B. Askarian West Texas A&M University	Session #B-II Virtual Special Session Emerging topics in Hardware Security II Session Organizers Dr. Ava Hedayatipour and Dr. Soheil Salehi	Paper #	67 Efficient Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) Design on FPGA Sonia Akter, Kasem Khalil and Magdy Bayoumi University of Louisiana at Lafayette, University of Mississippi, Assiut University
12:00pm			36 Activation Functions Integration for Accelerating Multi-Layer Graph Convolutional Neural Networks Mahdieh Grailoo, Tooraj Nikoubin, Oscar Gustafsson and Jose Nunez-Yanez Linkoping University, The University of Texas at Dallas			80 Securing Photovoltaic Panels: A Survey R. Mahto and J. Dofe California State University Fullerton
12:20pm			Integrating IoT and Machine Learning for Enhanced Monitoring and Control in Aquaponics S. Grant, A. Harden, K. Coggins, F. Tabei and B. Askarian West Texas A&M University			74 Reconfigurable Run-time Hardware Trojan Mitigation for Logic-Locked Circuits J. Maynard and A. Rezaei California State University Long Beach
12:40pm						78 Enhancing System Security via Physical Unclonable Functions via Pneumatic Digital Logic C. Nwakeze, S. Ahrar, A. Ahmed, and A. Hedayatipour California State University Long Beach
1:00pm	End of Day 1

April 20, 2024

Start time	Session			Presentation/Paper Title
8:30am	Registration and breakfast
9:15am	Welcome and opening remarks
9:30am	Keynote Speaker # 3	Prof. Jason Cong		Space and Time Co-Optimization in Electronic Design Automation



10:30am	Break
10:40am	Session #A-III Resarch Paper Session Making hardware design easy Session Chair: Prof. Benjamin Carrion Schaefer	Paper #	47 Investigating the Effect of Hyper-Parameter Settings on Simulated Annealing-based High-Level Synthesis Design Space Exploration Baharealsadat Parchamdar and Benjamin Carrion Schaefer The University of Texas at Dallas	Session #B-III Resarch Paper Session Optimizing circuit design Session Chair: Prof. Jungkwun Kim	Paper #	60 Physical Modeling of Perimeter-Gated SPADs in Standard Deep Submicron CMOS Processes Sajid Hasan and Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat Florida International University
11:00am			49 VeriPy: A Python-Powered Framework for Parsing Verilog HDL and High-Level Behavioral Analysis of Hardware Md Imtiaz Rashid and Benjamin Carrion Schaefer The University of Texas at Dallas			40 Tuning an Acoustic Metamaterial Using Iso-geometric Analysis and Evolutionary Shape Optimization Tahsin Khajah and K. Parys The University of Texas at Tyler, USDA
11:20am			76 TinyML Powered Drone in Agriculture Application Y. S. H. Annadata, V. Moganarengam and T. Nikoubin The University of Texas at Dallas			22 Learnings from Electrical and Functional Interoperability Validation of a PCIe Gen4 16Gbps High-Speed Serial Link in Server Platforms Sudeep Puligundla, Xiaoqing Wang, Sitaraman Iyer, Eric Lee, Christopher Daffron, Moises Puga Nathal and Chad Neill Intel Corporation
11:40am			66 SMOOT: Saliency Guided Mask Optimized Online Training (Virtual) Ali Karkehabadi, Houman Homayoun and Avesta Sasan The University of California Davis			62 Analytical Modeling of Perimeter Gated SPAD-based LiDAR Sensor Nahin Irfan and Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat Florida International University
12:00pm	Lunch Break
1:00pm	Industry Presentation	Sarmad Dahir		Stratus High-Level Synthesis enables full-flow hardware design automation and optimization



2:00pm	Keynote #3	Prof. Ioannis Savidis		AI/ML for EDA: The Current and Future of Learning Algorithms in Analog and Digital Physical Design



3:00pm	Student Poster Competition
4:00pm	Session #A-IV Research Paper Session Towards efficient electric vehicles design Session chair: Prof. Jungkwun Kim	Paper #	16 Effect of Forced Heat Convection on Heat Transfer for Bipolar MVDC Power Cables in Envisaged Wide-Body All-Electric Aircraft Md Asifur Rahman, Anoy Saha and Mona Ghassemi The University of Texas at Dallas	Session #B-IV Research Paper Session Machine learning in circuit design and optimization of embedded systems Session chair: Prof. Prabha Sundaravadivel	Paper #	10 Identification of Optimal Time Domain Features for Machine Learning based Fault Classification Mutlu Mete and Vehbi Akin Texas A&M Commerce, Murphy High-School
4:20pm			28 An Optimal Approach to Fabricate MVDC Multilayer Insulation Systems as Flat Samples for Wide-Body All-Electric Aircraft Saikat Chowdhury, Arian Azizi, Anoy Saha, Md Asifur Rahman, Mona Ghassemi and Jane Lehr The University of Texas at Dallas, University of New Mexico Albuquerque			33 Multi-Modal Interactions of Mixed Reality Framework Danah Omary and Gayatri Mehta University of North Texas
4:40pm			21 NASA N3-X Aircraft DC Power System Design Farzana Islam and Mona Ghassemi The University of Texas at Dallas			11 Investigating the Impact of Signal Resolution on Machine Learning based Multi-Class Fault Detection Mutlu Mete and Vehbi Akin Texas A&M Commerce, Murphy High-School
5:00pm	Networking Reception

April 21, 2024

Start time	Session			Presentation/Paper Title
8:30am	Registration and breakfast
9:30am	Keynote Speaker # 4	Prof. Sung Jin Kim		Nanophotonics: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research for Biomedical and Energy Applications



10:30am	Session #A-V: Research Paper Session Novel circuit desigs Session chair: Prof. Ifana Mahbub	Paper #	59 pH-Responsive Microneedle Actuator Array For Precise Wound Healing: Design, Actuation, Light Filtering, and Evaluation Mahsa Rastegar Pour, Jun Ying Tan, Rana Saha, Albert Kim and Jungkwun Kim University of North Texas	Session #B-V: Virtual Special Session: Flexible sensors and systems with applications in healthcare, precision agriculture, and environmental monitoring	Paper #	69 Unveiling Piezoelectric Properties of CsPbCl3 Perovskite for Flexible Nanogenerator Design A. A. Khan, M. M. Rana, M. Almadhoun, M. H. Bagheri, M. F. Al Fattah and D. Ban University of Waterloo
10:50am			64 A Comparative Study of 3D Printed Bowtie and Monopole Antennas for Ka-Band Md Mufassal Ahmad, Jun Ying Tan, Cheolbok Kim and Jungkwun Kim University of North Texas			70 Chemically Functionalized High-Performance Lead Free Piezoelectric Nanogenerator for flexible electronics M.M. Rana, A. A. Khan, M.H. Baghari, M.R. Islam. S. Tabassum and D. Ban University of Waterloo
11:10am			34 A 2.98 dB NF, 2.52 mW Low Noise Amplifier for a Brain Neuromodulation Implant Sakib Reza and Ifana Mahbub The University of Texas at Dallas			71 3D printed Shape Memory Allow Wire Embedded Actuator M. N. Islam, M. B. Gonzalez, S. Tabassum and K.M. M. Billah The University of Texas Tyler, University of Houston
11:30am			53 Broadband, Reconfigurable Transmit-Reflect-Array (TRA) With 1-Bit Phase Shift and Bidirectional Beam Steering Thinh Le, Son Vu and Hung Luyen University of North Texas			72 Signal Conditioning Circuit for 3D Printed Flexible Strain Sensor for Hand Orthosis Application S. Mohapatra and Y. Tadesse The University of Texas at Dallas
11:50am			58 A Novel PAM4 Duobinary Optical Receiver (virtual) Ahmed Abdel-Aziz, Mostafa Ahmed and Mohamed El-Nozahi Ain Shams University
12:10pm	Lunch Break
1:10pm	Session #A-VI: Research Paper Session Transmission Lines Design an optimizations	Paper #	55 Location of Shield Wires for Unconventional High-Capacity Transmission Lines Saikat Chowdhury, Babak Porkar and Mona Ghassemi The University of Texas at Dallas	Session #B-VI: Resarch Paper Session: Efficient embedded systems and applications	Paper #	15 A Biomimetic Ankle-Foot Prosthesis for Improving Postural Balance in Lower Limb Amputees: A Proof-of-Concept Study Sirsendu Sekhar Mishra, Deepak Joshi and Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
1:30pm			54 A Test System Meeting Requirements under Normal and Contingency Conditions at Multiple Loadings for Transmission Expansion Planning Bhuban Dhamala and Mona Ghassemi The University of Texas at Dallas			6 An Efficient Hardware Design of CoAP Protocol for The Internet of Things (virtual) Kasem Khalil, Tamador Mohaidat, Mahmoud Darwich, Ashok Kumar and Magdy Bayoumi University of Mississippi, University of Mount Union, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
1:50pm			17 Nanodielectric Fluids for Power Transformer Cooling and Insulation: A Review Sai Pavan Kalakonda and Mona Ghassemi The University of Texas at Dallas
2:10pm	Conference closing and award ceremony