Conference Program
The Future of Signal Processing
Monday, October 23, 2017, 8:00 a.m. – 4 p.m., MIT (map)
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| 8:00-8:45 a.m. | Coffee |
| 8:45-9:00 a.m. | Opening Remarks Prof. Martin Schmidt, Provost, MIT |
| 9:00-9:35 a.m. | The Ever-Expanding Physical Boundaries of Signal Processing Prof. Martin Vetterli, President, Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
| 9:35-10:10 a.m. | Signal Processors and the U.S. Navy: Enduring Partners Admiral John Richardson, Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy |
| 10:10-10:30 a.m. | Short break |
| 10:30-11:05 a.m. | Signals and Signal Processing: The Invisibles and the Everlastings Prof. Min Wu, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Distinguished-Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland |
| 11:05-11:40 a.m. | Signal Processing with Quantum Computers Prof. Isaac Chuang, Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, and Senior Associate Dean of Digital Learning, MIT |
| 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Lunch A box lunch will be provided. In your lunchbox, you'll find an envelope with four cards in it. Bring these cards back to your seats promptly after lunch for a magical surprise! |
| 12:35-12:40 p.m. | Your Role in the Future of Signal Processing Magician Joel Acevedo |
| 12:40-1:05 p.m. | Future of Low-Power Embedded Signal Processing Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan, Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Dean, School of Engineering, MIT |
| 1:05-1:30 p.m. | Synthetic Biology and Signal Processing in Living Cells Prof. Ron Weiss, Professor of Biological Engineering and Director of the Synthetic Biology Center, MIT |
| 1:30-1:55 p.m. | Physics 101 for Data Scientists Prof. Richard Baraniuk, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University; Founder and Director of OpenStax College |
| 1:55-2:15 p.m. | Short break |
| 2:15-2:40 p.m. | Signals: Representation and Information Prof. Meir Feder, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Information Theory Chair, Tel Aviv University |
| 2:40-3:05 p.m. | Exposing and Removing Information: Some New Mathematics for Signal Processing Dr. Petros Boufounos, Senior Principal Research Scientist and Sensing Team Leader, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories |
| 3:05-4:00 p.m. | Panel discussion: The Venn Diagram Between Data Science, Machine Learning, and Signal Processing Moderator: Prof. Alan Oppenheim, Ford Professor of Engineering, MIT Panelists: Prof. Asu Ozdaglar, Interim Department Head, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT Prof. Ron Schafer, Professor Emeritus, Georgia Tech; Adjunct Professor, Stanford University Prof. Yonina Eldar, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technion Prof. Victor Zue, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT Prof. Alexander Rakhlin, Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania |
| 4:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks |