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Join us on October 4th at SVEC’s Legends of Engineering for a roundtable discussion featuring Hall of Fame inductees: Ronjon Nag, PhD, Chandrakant Patel, PE and Suhas Patil, ScD, Co-Founder of Cirrus Logic and TiE. IEEE members use the coupon code: SVECSOCIETY15. For more details follow this link
The 27th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’25)
ISQED’26 stands as the leading conference at the intersection of multiple disciplines within electronic design. A pioneer and leading multidisciplinary conference, ISQED accepts and promotes papers related to the manufacturing, design and EDA. The Call for Papers is open. ISQED is soliciting proposals for special sessions. These should aim at offering a complementary experience to the regular sessions and are of general interest to the audience of ISQED. Ongoing research projects can be presented at ISQED under the Work in Progress (WIP) category. This provides a unique opportunity to authors to receive early feedback on their current work. All past Conference proceedings & Papers have been published in IEEE Xplore digital library and indexed by Scopus.
All paper submission end September 17th. Don’t miss the opportunity to participate.
IEEE Local Chapter Events
9/16, 9:00 am, CTSoc/EMBS, Wearable Technologies Conference USA, Mountain View. Discover the latest wearable technology breakthroughs and connect with the industry’s top minds! Speakers: multiple, see agenda
9/17, 6:00 pm, CS, Panel discussion – From Prompt to Production: Operationalizing Agentic LLM Systems, Virtual. This panel brings together leading voices from AI research, infrastructure engineering, and real-world application domains to discuss how agentic LLM systems are moving from lab experiments to production-grade deployments. Speakers: Yubin Kim, Gautam Solaimalai,, Shaleen Kumar Gupta, Vishal Jain. Rahul Raja, Harsh Varshney.
9/17, 7:00 pm, LMAG/PES/IAS, It’s a Bit More Than Warming, Virtual. What we must know to prevent oceanic extinctions, especially of O2 producers & CO2 sequesters, on track to occur by 2050.Speaker: Dr. Alexander Cannara.
9/18, 12:00 pm, EPS, Digital Twins for Printed Electronics for 3D Packaging, High-performance Sensors, and High-capacity Batteries, Virtual. The manufacturing process for printed electronics, can suffer from process drifts and does not have an active feedback loop to fix errors. In this research, we develop a digital twin for aerosol jet 3D printing, a jetting-based method to create printed electronics to address this concern. Speaker: Prof. Rahul Panat.
9/18, 5:30 pm, IAS, Developing a Vehicle-to-Grid Strategy: Standards, Charging Considerations & More, Pleasant Hill. Charging as well as discharging EVs, also known as vehicle-to-grid (V2G) unlocks a range of benefits for drivers, utilities, as well as the broader community. Speaker: Frances Bell .
9/19, 8:00 am, PES/IAS, Reimagining the Future of the Electric Grid, Santa Clara. The Santa Clara University School of Engineering invites you to a full day of presentations from experts in academia and industry on the future of the electric grid. Speakers: multiple, see agenda.
9/23, 11:00 am, CS, AUTOMATED PUBLIC TRANSIT (AI Talks #24), Virtual. This presentation explores the evolution of automated transportation within public transit systems, focusing on ADASTEC’s real-world deployments and technology. Speaker: Dr. Ali Ufuk Peker.
09/23, 7:00 pm, CS, Managing Secrets at Scale & Natural Language Interaction Protocol, Virtual. A common natural language interaction protocol can potentially replace the plethora of mobile applications that exists today, providing a universal application layer protocol. Speaker: Ranjan Sinha.
9/24, 6:50 pm, MEMS, 3D Micro/Nanoprinted Soft Robots: From Super Mario Bros to Endovascular Surgery, Virtual. Recent breakthroughs in 3D micro/nanoprinting hold unique promise to overcome past barriers and enable new frontiers for fundamental and applied research. We will present advances made in the Bioinspired Advanced Manufacturing (BAM) Laboratory. Speaker: Prof. Ryan D. Sochol.
09/25, 11:30 am, NANO, Re-engineering the World with Self-Assembly, Sunnyvale. I will discuss ongoing work towards a new type of nanoscale building blocks in which DNA can be flexibly replaced with other materials such as metals and semiconductors. Speaker: Grigory Tikhomirov.
9/30, 5:00 pm, CIS/CS, OCCS GET Series: Deploying AI Systems in Healthcare & Real-World MLOps at Scale, Virtual. In this session: The first talk bridges the gap between ML experimentation and production. The second talk delves into the deployment of agentic AI systems in healthcare. Speakers: Vivek Bharti, Babul Sahu.
10/2, 6:30 pm, TEMS, Custom Silicon Beyond GPUs—Scaling Intelligence into the AGI Age, Santa Clara. Memory access is now slower and more energy-hungry than computation itself. This talk explores how custom silicon—such as AWS Trainium, Google TPU, Cerebras WSE, and Groq LPU—is designed to overcome these barriers. Speaker: Asheesh Goja.
10/4, 2:00 pm, PES, Folsom Powerhouse Visit, Folsom. Join us for a fascinating visit to the historic Folsom Powerhouse, a landmark in hydroelectric power that once lit up Sacramento.
10/8, 5:00 pm, SVTH, A Recent History of Silicon Valley Technologies and Companies, Hybrid. Panel discussion with Prof. John Hennessy, Alan J Weissberger, and Tom Coughlin about the history of technologies and companies in Silicon Valley since the late 1970s.
10/8, 6:00 pm, CS, IEEE Day event: Sensing the Pulse of a Data Stream in Real Time, Virtual. This talk explores some foundational techniques that enable efficient, real-time analytics with minimal memory requirements. Speaker: Dr. Vishnu S Pendyala.
10/9 9:30 am, EPS, Lessons from the Origin and Growth of Silicon Valley: Impacts on Tech Hubs and on the IEEE, Virtual. This non-technical talk will give an exciting and colorful history of development and innovation that began in Palo Alto in 1909. Speaker: Paul Wesling.
10/14, 7:00 pm, 3D Modeling for Cardiac Surgical Planning, Hybrid. This presentation will discuss 3D modeling techniques that provide a complete pipeline from medical image segmentation to 3D anatomic models and blood flow simulations. Speaker: Dr. Alison Marsden.
10/15, 11:00 am, LMAG, Quarterly Social Meeting and Program, Livermore. Details to come.
10/16, 12:00 pm, CTSoc/EMBS, Brain Machine Interface: Challenges and Opportunities Virtual. Next-generation brain machine interfaces will benefit from an implantable neural recording IC. To meet design targets an architectural paradigm shift is needed. This talk, we will delve into specific challenges to achieve intended targets. Speaker: Dr. Dante G. Muratore.
10/16, 7:00 am, IAS, VENDOR TABLE for Grounding and Ground Fault Protection Seminar Pleasanton. Vendor table will be one 6-foot exhibit table. Vendor table includes one (1) attendee ticket. A power strip will be available upon request.
10/16, 7:00 am, IAS, Grounding and Ground Fault Protection Seminar, Pleasanton. This one-day Technical Seminar will cover the fundamentals of grounding, bonding, and ground fault protection. The seminar will serve as a primer for engineers and a refresher for experienced engineers. Speakers: see agenda.
10/16, 12:00 pm, CTSoc/EMBS, Brain Machine Interface: Challenges and Opportunities Virtual. Next-generation brain machine interfaces will benefit from an implantable neural recording IC. To meet design targets an architectural paradigm shift is needed. This talk, we will delve into specific challenges to achieve intended targets. Speaker: Dr. Dante G. Muratore.
10/23, 12:00 pm, EPS, The New Role of Solder Joints for AI and HPC Interconnects, Virtual. This seminar revisits the fundamentals of solder joint evolution, exploring why it has been so effective for thirty years and the inherent limitations now emerging. . Speaker(s): Tae-Kyu Lee.
11/12, 5:00 pm, CS, AMA (Ask me Anything) with Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. Alice Smith, Virtual. Send your questions in advance when registering. Speaker: Prof Alice Smith.
11/13, 12:00 pm, EPS, AI-Enhanced Multimodal Approaches for Electronics Metrology and Failure Analysis. Virtual. The rapid growth of 3D advanced packaging introduces new challenges in inspection and failure analysis. Our work advances an AI-powered multimodal inspection framework that couples physics-informed machine learning with structured data infrastructure. Speaker: Dr. Navid Asadi.
11/20, 7:30 am, EPS, IEEE Symposium on Reliability for Electronics and Photonics Packaging, Hybrid. This symposium will focus on quantified reliability, accelerated testing and probabilistic assessments of the useful lifetime of electronic, photonic, MEMS and MOEMS materials, assemblies, packages and systems in electronics and photonics packaging. Speakers: multiple, see agenda.
Calendar View of IEEE Events
If you have missed an event search it in the calendar above and contact the organizing chapter for a life recording or look for it on the chapter‘s archive page.
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