{"678068":{"#nid":"678068","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ECE Students Take Home Top Honors at TECHCON 2024","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE) students took home top awards at the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) TECHCON 2024 in Austin, Texas this fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. candidate Zishen Wan won the Best Presentation Award, while fourth-year electrical engineering student Avanish Narumanch placed top three in the Undergraduate Research Awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWan presented his research, \u201cHeterogeneous 3D Integrated CIM for Factorization with Holographic Perceptual Representations,\u201d which aims to improve AI systems\u0027 ability to perceive and reason by disentangling complex sensory signals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The research enhances AI systems\u0027 ability to disentangle complex sensory signals, which is critical for advancing perception and reasoning in future cognitive AI systems.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong with the award, Wan was one of just four students selected to present their research to the SRC director and keynote speaker.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research presents a heterogeneous 3D integrated in-memory compute engine to breakdown complex object representations. The technology is able to store and recognize complex patterns through holographic perceptual representations, which holds detailed information similar to that of a hologram.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis process can store a lot of information in a way that mimics human perception.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system uses a technology called \u0022memristors,\u0022 which are tiny devices that can remember and adjust their electrical resistance depending on the task. These memristors have built-in stochasticity or non-volatility, combined with volatile memory as a heterogeneous system, enabling more effective simulation of natural systems and better handling of uncertainty in computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe results have been very promising. Wan\u2019s design has shown a five-order magnitude increase in factorization capacity. It\u2019s also more efficient, packing in five and a half times more computing power into almost six times less space than 2D designs, while using 20 percent less energy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENarumanch was recognized for his research on ways to achieve faster and more energy-efficient memory devices. It focused on spintronic memory devices, which are non-volatile, low-power, and scalable electronic devices that use electron spin to store information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the project was to reduce switching time and energy consumption without sacrificing reliability.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoth students completed the research through the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.src.org\/program\/jump2\/cocosys\/\u0022\u003EJUMP 2.0 COCOSYS Center.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWan\u2019s work was in collaboration with senior research engineer \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/mohamed-ibrahim\u0022\u003EMohamed Ibrahim\u003C\/a\u003E, Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/tushar-krishna\u0022\u003ETushar Krishna\u003C\/a\u003E, and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/arijit-raychowdhury\u0022\u003EArijit Raychowdury\u003C\/a\u003E, along with fellow ECE Ph.D. students Che-Kai Liu (co-first author), Hanchen Yang, and Samuel Spetalnick.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the latest of many awards his work has received, which include being named a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/12\/wan-selected-machine-learning-and-systems-rising-star\u0022\u003E2023 Machine Learning and Systems Rising Star\u003C\/a\u003E and 2024 Cyber-Physical Systems Rising Star.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENarumanch worked on his research under the guidance of ECE Ph.D. candidate Md Nahid Haque Shazon, who works in ECE \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/azad-j-naeemi\u0022\u003EProfessor Azad Naeemi\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nrl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ENanoelectronics Research Lab.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESRC TECHCON is the annual flagship technical conference hosted by the SRC. The conference draws top researchers, scientists, and a large field of students from across the United States and world to present cutting-edge research in the field of semiconductor electronics.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. candidate Zishen Wan was recognized for his novel AI perception system design, while Avanish Narumanch was recognized as one of the top undergraduate researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ph.D. candidate Zishen Wan was recognized for his novel AI perception system design, while Avanish Narumanch was recognized as one of the top undergraduate researchers."}],"uid":"36558","created_gmt":"2024-10-31 19:35:36","changed_gmt":"2024-10-31 19:37:16","author":"zwiniecki3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675501":{"id":"675501","type":"image","title":"Shimeng Deans Professor.jpg","body":null,"created":"1730403343","gmt_created":"2024-10-31 19:35:43","changed":"1730403343","gmt_changed":"2024-10-31 19:35:43","alt":"Zishen Wan and Avanish Narumanchi","file":{"fid":"259129","name":"Shimeng Deans Professor.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/31\/Shimeng%20Deans%20Professor.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/31\/Shimeng%20Deans%20Professor.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1027778,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/10\/31\/Shimeng%20Deans%20Professor.jpg?itok=R13ZYn0N"}}},"media_ids":["675501"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172976","name":"SRC TECHCON"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZachary Winiecki\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["zwiniecki3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}