Keynote Speakers
We invite you to learn about the talks, meet the keynote speakers and the highest-level topics that will take place during Andescon 2022
Abstract
In this talk, we will introduce deep attention-based models (transformers), using natural language processing concepts.
Next, we will apply transformers to time series in astronomy for the classification of supernovae events, and compare results with state-of-the-art machine learning models such as recurrent neural networks and random forests. Finally, we will apply transformers to the detection of sleep spindles in electroencephalograms (EEG).
Keynote Speaker:
Pablo A. Estévez (M98–SM04-FM17) received the B.Sc. and the Prof. Eng. degrees in electrical engineering (EE) from the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, in 1978 and 1981, respectively, and the M.Eng. and Dr. Eng. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Prof. Estévez is a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Chile. He was president of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2016-2017). He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence.
Prof. Estévez is an IEEE Fellow. He is the recipient of the 2019 IEEE CIS Meritorious Service Award and the 2019 IEEE Latin-America Eminent Engineer Award. Prof. Estévez served as conference chair of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), held in July 2016, in Vancouver, Canada, and general co-chair of the 2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, IEEE WCCI 2018, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in July 2018. Prof. Estévez has co-authored more than 150 articles in journals and conferences (Google Scholar h-index = 32). His research areas of interest include Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Information Theory with applications to Astronomy, Medicine, and Energy.
Abstract
The presentation will focus on the main elements to consider when designing secure IoT systems. It includes motivation, details of safe protocols and good design practices. Each parameter that affects the design of secure IoT systems and how to control their good performance is included in detail. A distributed ledger and Blockchain model applied to mass deployment IoT solutions, its limitations and benefits, will be presented.
At the same time, the different communication technologies and their impact on IoT security issues were analyzed.
The IoT Security presentation program includes:
Motivation
Weaknesses
Trusted protocols
OWASP Approaches
Secure Boot
IoT Cyber Security Alliance framework
NIST IEEE IoXT Frameworks reference framework
ISOIEC RISKS; GSMA 5G risks associated with communications
Good practices Design
Blockchain and IoT, its limitations and benefits
Keynote Speaker:
- IEEE TEMS Society Board Member 2020-2023
- IoT & AI initiative at R9 Organizing committee Chair 2022
- IEEE Smart Cities Education committee Vice Chair 2021-2022
- IEEE Transdisciplinary IoT committee member 2021-2022
- IEEE Future Directions Board Member 2022-2023
- Member of the IEEE Industry Engagement IEC 2022-2023 committee
- Member of the technical committees of IEEE TEMS: Technical Activities, Conferences and Education 2020-2022
- Guest speaker for CyberLAC Internet Society community
- Expert invited by ITU on Smart Cities and Digital Adoption Initiatives
Abstract
This keynote presents the application of a Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) using a self-excited induction generator (SEIG) coupled to the grid with a Predictive Direct Power Controller (PDPC), applying an optimal space vector selection technique in the inverter bridge. The self-excitation of the induction generator is obtained with a Direct Torque Controller (DTC) which allows controlling the machine’s space vector flux and electric torque. On the other hand, the power system coupling is with a Direct Power Controller (DPC), that selects the voltage space vectors required to minimize the active and reactive power errors to a given reference. The advantage of the optimum DPC scheme proposed in this work is the fast adjustment of the active and reactive powers to the power references. This is achieved without using the classic PLL. This WECS system has been modeled and experimentally proved in an emulator developed in the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana-Cuenca. The tutorial explains and demonstrates the operation and programming of the DPC for grid connection of WECS or PV systems and of the DTC to control the induction generator without self-excitation.
Keynote Speaker:
Jose M. Aller was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1958. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, in 1980, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 1993. He has been a Lecturer for 42 years at the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela. During 2001-2005, he was the General Secretary of the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela. He was a Visiting Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2000 and 2007. He is currently a Full Time Professor of electrical machines and electromagnetism in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Politecnica Salesiana, Cuenca, Ecuador during the last six years. Dr. Aller has published more than 120 papers in the field of power electronics, electrical machines, machine monitoring and alternative energy power systems. His research interests include space-vector applications, electrical machine control, power electronics, WECS, photo-voltaics systems and monitoring of electrical machines.
Abstract
An important way to understand the operation of computer and electronic circuits and systems is to analyze how these circuits and systems were really implemented. It will be shown the evolution of integrated circuits design approaches, based on the analysis of the implemented architecture (organization) of several microprocessors. We will take a journey through the interior of several chips, using photos taken with an optical microscope. Most of the photos were done after taken out the metal layer using an acid. This procedure allows to get more colorful photos where it is easier to identify the transistors and the connections between them. It will be shown some design solutions from the physical level to the system level, solutions observed through the reverse engineering of microprocessors, such as the Z8000, and which are not described in the literature. The Z8000 presents a very interesting internal architecture solution that will be presented in the talk. Some images got when testing circuits using an e-beam microscopes will be shown. These images allow to see which locations in the chip are at logical level 1 or zero. Visualization tools are becoming more and more important to navigate in a chip using different zoom levels. Also, it will be shown the use of visualization tools to understand how EDA algorithms and tools perform in the physical synthesis process. For example, in the placement of logic cells of circuits, in the beginning all cells are placed in the center of the chip. Then, the placement tool will move the cells, searching for a final destination. This movement of cells can be seen in real time, helping the tool designer improve the algorithm by seeing how it is working.
Keynote Speaker:
Ricardo Reis received a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1978, and a Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG), France, in 1983. Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Montpellier in 2016. He is a full professor at the Informatics Institute of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. His main research includes physical design automation, design methodologies, fault tolerant systems and microelectronics education. He has more than 700 publications including books, journals and conference proceedings. He was vice-president of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) and he was also president of the Brazilian Computer Society (two terms) and vice-president of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society. He is an active member of CASS and he received the 2015 IEEE CASS Meritorious Service Award. He was vice-president of CASS for two terms (2008/2011). He is the founder of the Rio Grande do Sul CAS Chapter, which got the World CASS Chapter of The Year Award 2011, 2012, and 2018, and R9 Chapter of The Year 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2020. He is a founder of several conferences like SBCCI and LASCAS, the CASS Flagship Conference in Region 9. He was the General or Program Chair of several conferences like IEEE ISVLSI, SBCCI, IFIP VLSI-SoC, ICECS, PATMOS. Ricardo was the Chair of the IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Steering Committee, vice-chair of the IFIP WG10.5 and he was Chair of IFIP TC10. He also started with the EMicro, an annually microelectronics school in South Brazil. In 2002 he received the Researcher of the Year Award in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. He is a founding member of the SBC (Brazilian Computer Society) and also founding member of SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society). He was member of CASS DLP Program (2014/2015), and he has done more than 80 invited talks in conferences. Member of IEEE CASS BoG and IEEE CEDA BoG. Member of the IEEE IoT Initiative Activity Board. Chair of the IEEE CASS SiG on IoT. Ricardo received the IFIP Fellow Award and the 2022 ACM/ISPD Lifetime Achievement Award.
Abstract
Many communities around the world lack basic needs including access to electricity, access to clean water, access to the Internet and access to education. About 13% of the population lives in poverty, a number that has grown due to the Covid 19 pandemic. Yet, there are opportunities to address these challenges through the use of technology when applied in collaboration with communities. In this talk, we will describe how to engage with a community to develop and execute a sustainable, technology-based intervention that can improve the lives of people in underserved communities. A number of case study examples will be described.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Pritpal Singh is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Villanova
University. He received his BSc in Physics from the University of
Birmingham in England in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Applied
Science/Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware
in 1984.
Dr. Singh has been working in solar energy research for over 40 years, working right from the cell
level to the systems level. He teaches postgraduate courses in power electronics, renewable energy
systems, sustainable product development for low resource settings and information,
communication, and energy technologies for development (ICET4D). He ran his own solar
business in India for five years and has consulted for the US Department of Energy and two private
companies on solar electric systems. He has worked with UNICEF in Nicaragua, Burundi and
Zimbabwe giving workshops on renewable energy and entrepreneurship. He has recently worked
on humanitarian projects in Ecuador in renewable energy and connectivity with colleagues from
the Escuela Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Dr. Singh served as the IEEE
Special Interest Group for Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Education Subcommittee Chair
from 2017 – 2019 and is presently the Chair of the 2022 Partnerships Committee of the IEEE
Humanitarian Activities Committee. He served as the Technical Chair for the 2020 IEEE Global
Humanitarian Technology Conference and will serve as Co-Chair and host of the 2023 IEEE
Global Humanitarian Technology Conference.
Abstract
Ultrasound is widely used in clinical practice because of its unique advantages when compared to other radiological methods, such as its relative low cost, portability and safety. However, ultrasound image quality is much lower than the one in tomographic methods (CT and MR) and is heavily dependent on operator skill and training. We have been developing different techniques to improve ultrasonic imaging, i.e., quantitative ultrasound (QUS), which provide new sources of image contrast and are operator and system independent. In this lecture, we will discuss the theoretical underpinnings of QUS, experimental implementation and experimental and clinical results. Emphasis will be given to recent developments on inverse problems formulations for QUS imaging for the estimation of backscatter and attenuation coefficients.
Keynote Speaker:
ROBERTO LAVARELLO received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in 2000, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He is currently a full professor at the Department of Engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the director of the Medical Imaging Laboratory, the M.SC. in Biomedical Engineering, and the Ph.D. in Engineering programs from the same institution. His research is primarily focused on the reconstruction and processing of images for the non-invasive assessment of pathological conditions. He is a senior member of IEEE and a former Fulbright scholarship recipient. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2010-2012) and is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control and the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and an editorial board member for the IEEE Open Access Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology. He has served as IEEE EMBS Peru Section Chapter chair (2014-2016), the R9 representative at the IEEE EMBS AdCom (2017-2021), the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging steering committee chair (2020-2021), and the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Steering Committee chair (2020-2021), and is currently the Vice President Elect – Student and Member Activities EMBS, the co-chair of the backscatter coefficient group of the the AIUM/QIBA Pulse-Echo Quantitative Ultrasound Biomarker committee. and a member of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing, the IEEE SPS Technical Committee on Bio Imaging and Signal Processing, and the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium.