Monday May 21st

12:30 -  1:00  Registration

1:00   -  1:10  Welcome - Steven Cross, Executive Vice President for Research; Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Adjunct Professor, College of Computing & Ernest J. Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology

1:10   -  1:30  IEN Host Overview, Event Agenda & Opening - Oliver Brand, Executive Director, Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology; Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Session I - Emerging Paradigms of Computing Session I Chair: Arijit Raychowdhury, ON Semiconductor Professor; Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

1:30   -  2:15 James D. Meindl Distinguished Keynote Lecture
"Beyond von-Neumann Computing - A Hardware Perspective" Spike Narayan, PhD., Director of Science & Technology, IBM Research - Almadea

2:20   -  2:50 “Design and Benchmarking of Beyond-CMOS Devices” Azad J. Naeemi - Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

2:50   -  3:10  Break & Networking

3:15   -  3:45  “Challenges in Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems” Marilyn Wolf - Professor; Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar; Rhesa “Ray” S. Farmer, Jr., Distinguished Chair in Embedded Computing Systems, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

3:50   -  4:20  “Inverse Problems and Machine Learning in Modern Signal Processing” Justin Romberg - Schlumberger Professor; Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Research Center for Machine Learning (ML@GT); Associate Chair for Research, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

4:20   -  4:50  “Communication-centric Computing for Deep Learning”  Tushar Krishna - Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

5:00   -  7:30  Student Poster Session, Reception & Networking

Tuesday May 22nd

8:00   -  8:45  Registration and Breakfast

8:45   -  8:55  Day 2 Event Start & Session Introduction - Eric M. Vogel, Deputy Director, Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology; Associate Director for Shared Resources of the Institute for Materials; Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Session II - Advanced Flexible Electronics for Biosensors and Bioelectronics
Session II Co-Chairs: W. Hong Yeo, Assistant Professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering & Bioengineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Suresh Sitaraman, Regent’s Professor; Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

9:00   -  9:45  James D. Meindl Distinguished Keynote Lecture
“Soft Electronic and Microfluidic Systems for the Human Body" John A. Rogers - Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University

9:50  - 10:20 “Sampling Interstitial Fluid from Skin Using a Microneedle Patch for Biomarker Detection” Mark Prausnitz - Regents’ Professor; J. Erskine Love Jr. Chair, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Director of the Center for Drug Design, Development and Delivery, Georgia Institute of Technology

10:20 -10:35  Break & Networking

10:35 -11:05 “Non-Invasive Technologies for Physiological Sensing and Modulation” Omer Inan - Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

11:05 -11:35  “Flexible Tech for Improving Hearing and Balance”  Pamela Bhatti - Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

11:35 -12:05  “Designing Multi-Functional Electrodes for Next-Generation Energy Storage Devices” Seung-Woo Lee - Assistant Professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

12:05-12:50  IEN Hosted Luncheon

12:55 - 1:00 Session III Introduction & Keynote Introduction

Session III - The Promises and Challenges of High Performance Electronics Everywhere
Session III Chair: Eric M. Vogel, Deputy Director, Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology; Associate Director for Shared Resources of the Institute for Materials; Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

1:00  -  1:45 James D. Meindl Distinguished Keynote Lecture
"There is More than One Way to Expand on Computing” Gregory Abowd - Regents’ Professor; J. Z. Liang Chair, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

1:50  -  2:20  “Unlocking the Potential of 4D Printing with Printable Interactivity” Tico Ballagas, Ph.D., Senior Manager, Immersive Experiences Lab, HP Labs

2:20  -  2:35  Break & Networking

2:40  -  3:10   “High Performance Electronics: Can Carbon Compete with Silicon?” Bernard Kippelen - Joseph M. Pettit Professor; Director, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics; Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

3:10  -  3:40   “Single-crystalline Semiconductors and Devices at a Massive Scale? Michael Filler - Traylor Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology 

3:40  -  4:10   “3D-/4D-Printed Autonomous Wireless Flexible Modules for IoT, Smart Skin and Smart City Applications” Manos Tentzeris - Ken Byers Professor in Flexible Electronics; Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

4:10  -  4:15  Conference Wrap Up - Oliver Brand & Eric M. Vogel