Agenda

May 19-21, 2025 | BWRC Summer Research Retreat 

Tentative agenda. Check back for updates.

Monday, May 19, 2025 

5:00pm

Registration

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Attendee Dinner

8:00pm

Hosted wine and beer reception (Posters will be available)

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

8:00am-9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am – 9:10am

Introduction and Center Updates

9:10am – 9:15am

New Faculty Introduction

Aditya Varma Muppala

9:15am – 9:30am

Faculty Presentation

Rikky Muller

9:30am – 9:45am

MRDust II: A Fully Wireless Physiological Pressure Sensing Implant with Communication & Localization via Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Rebekah Zhao

9:45am – 10:00am

Student Research Summary

Lucas Lahann

10:00am – 10:15am

Microwave Pilot Tone: Coil Array with Integrated RF Mixing for Efficient Motion Sensing

Naz Khairallah

10:15am – 10:30am

Towards Trustworthy AI with Learned, Compositional Neural Safety Certificates

Matthew Low

10:30am-10:40am

Break

10:40am-10:55am

Faculty Presentation

Sophia Shao

10:55am-11:10am

Student Research Summary

Sophia Shao student

11:10am – 11:25am

Student Research Summary

Sophia Shao student

11:25am – 11:40am

Update on BFG: An Open-Source Silicon Compiler for Reconfigurable Fabrics

Arya Reais-Parsi

11:40am – 12:55pm

Lunch

1:00pm – 3:30pm

Activities (Kayaking/Biking)

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Flash Talks

4:30pm-6:30pm

Poster Session: Heavy Hors D’oeuvre & Refreshments

6:30pm-9:00pm

Dinner & Keynote: Smartphones and Sensors and Data, Oh My 

Sam Sheng (Google)

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

8:00am-9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am – 9:15am

Faculty Presentation

Borivoje Nikolic

9:15am – 9:30am

Student Research Summary

Di Wang

9:30am – 9:45am

Substrate: A Framework for Designing Highly Configurable AMS Circuit Generators

Rahul/Rohan Kumar

9:45am – 10:00am

Student Research Summary

Jose Guajardo 

10:00am – 10:15am

Faculty Presentation

Jun-Chau Chien

10:15am-10:30am

High Speed Coherent Transceivers for Intra-Data Center Co-Packaged Optical Interfaces

Antroy Roy Chowdhury

10:30am-10:45am

Student Research Summary

Sunjin Choi

10:45am-11:00am

Electronic-Photonic System for Massive-MIMO Applications

Hyeong-Seok Oh

11:00am – 11:15am

A 0.7pArms Electrochemical Readout IC for Monitoring Antibody Concentrations in Upstream Biomanufacturing

Wei Foo

11:15am-11:30am

Break

11:30am-12:00pm

Industry Feedback and Best Student Poster(s) Award

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Lunch / Board of Advisors Meeting

1:00pm

Bus Pick-Up

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