The officers of the Oregon/SW Washington Chapter of the Industry Applications Society invite you to join us Wednesday evening, October 16, 2024 for our dinner, meeting, and technical presentation.  We appreciate the support of all who attend our dinners and presentations.  We will be meeting this month at MEGI Engineering in Lake Oswego. This location is easy to access by car from the Interstate 5 Kruse Way/Lake Oswego exits. Ample free parking and entrance at the East side of the building.

The cost for dinner is  with food from Famous Dave’s BBQ. There is no charge to attend the presentation only.  Our IAS Chapter always offers free dinners for local PSU, OSU, George Fox, U of P, OIT and WSUV Electrical Engineering Students who attend our meetings. This is an excellent networking opportunity for students as our meetings are attended by many professionals in consulting, industrial engineering, and electrical equipment manufacturing.

IEEE SSCS Oregon Chapter October Meeting and Seminar

Join us for a talk from SSCS Distinguished Lecturer Prof. Makoto Nagata from Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, on Monday, October 21st, 2024. The seminar will be held from 11:00am to 12:00pm (PST) via a Hybrid format. Please register for the meeting link and information.

Topic:

Secure Packaging, Tamper Resistance, and Supply Chain Security of IC Chips

Abstract:

Semiconductor products are potentially compromised for theft, falsification or invalidation by adversarial attempts and even due to unexpected disturbances. This talk provides an overview of physical security threats among semiconductors, and then discusses a broad range of countermeasure techniques. Secure packing exploits vertical structures using post wafer process technologies such as through Si vias, Si backside membranes and Si interposers for proactive prevention from destructive or nondestructive intrusions. Tamper resistance is achieved at the IC level with analog techniques to protect digital functionality. Supply chain security uses hardware Trojan free design verification as well as authentication strategies. Silicon examples will be demonstrated.

Speaker Biography:

Makoto Nagata (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, in 2001. He was a Research Associate at Hiroshima University from 1994 to 2002, an Associate Professor at Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, from 2002 to 2009, where he was promoted to a Full Professor in 2009. His research interests include design techniques targeting high-performance mixed analog, RF and digital VLSI systems with particular emphasis on power/signal/substrate integrity and electromagnetic compatibility, testing and diagnosis, 2.5D and 3D system integration, as well as their applications for hardware security and hardware safety, and cryogenic electronics for quantum computing.

Dr. Nagata is a Senior Member of IEICE. He has been a member of a variety of technical program committees of international conferences, such as the Symposium on VLSI Circuits (2002–2009), Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (2007–2009), Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (2005–2009), International Solid-State Circuits Conference (2014-2022), European Solid- State Circuits Conference (since 2020), and many others. He chaired the Technology Directions subcommittee for International Solid-State Circuits Conference (2018-2022) and served for an Executive Committee Member (2023-present). He was the Technical Program Chair (2010–2011), the Symposium Chair (2012–2013), and an Executive Committee Member (2014–2015) for the Symposium on VLSI circuits. He was the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) AdCom member (2020-2022), the distinguished lecturer (2020-2021, and 2024-present), and currently serves as the chapters vice chair (2022-) of the society. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (since 2015).

AI Assisted Materials Exploration and Design: Perspectives and Some Reflections

with Prof. Dr. Xiaoying Zhuang, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Lecturer

Date/Time: November 12th, 2024 @12:00-1:30 PM PT

Location: Virtual

Abstract:

Artificial intelligence opens grand avenue and possibilities in areas such as speech recognition, autonomous driving, medicine and health care, market analysis, financial trading and so on. Many of the applications mentioned in the context of the economy, weather forecasting, and related fields are heavily data-driven. AI and machine learning show advantages in these domains precisely because they can analyze vast amounts of data to identify patterns, correlations, and trends that may not be immediately apparent. 

Different from pure data-driven area, in Engineering and Science, AI is transforming research with domain specific physical and mathematical knowledge. Materials exploration and design could be accelerated by orders of magnitude, which cannot be conceived decades ago. In this talk, I will give an overview of research actives and interesting examples that I have carried out with my team for 2D materials exploration with various thermal, optical, mechanical and electrical properties. 2D materials have attracted widespread attention in recent years.

Apart from seeing the benefits from AI, future researchers are also faced with redistribution of resources and shifting of career opportunities. How will the AI impact educational sector and our communities? Will AI impair or benefit the analysis, reasoning, deduction, and derivation abilities of the next generation researchers or students? Seemingly similar but not inaccurate or erroneous information can miseducate the new hands and be disseminated without supervision. How shall we reflect at this time point and think forward?