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Year: 2023

MiCareerQuest Southwest 2023

MiCareerQuest Southwest 2023 Tuesday, November 14 at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi. Aws Khalil and Feeza Khan Khanzada represented the ECE department of UM-Dearborn. MiCareerQuest Southeast expects 7,000 high school students, 500 teachers and counselors, 1,000 exhibitor volunteers, 200 MiCareerQuest volunteers, and 100 special guests.

New Bimian: Feeza Khan Khanzada

I received my B.E and M.E in Computer Systems Engineering from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan. I started my PhD degree in Fall 2023 in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan– Dearborn. Prior joining the PhD program, I have worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Bath, UK and Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. My research interests lies in Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, and Artificial intelligence.

New Bimian: Elahe Delavari

I received my B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran, in 2018 and my M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering Digital Electronics from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, in 2020. I started my PhD degree in fall 2023 in electrical, electronics, and computer engineering at the University of Michigan– Dearborn. I am a member of the Bio-Inspired Machine Intelligence (BIMI) Laboratory. My research interests are Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Computer Vision and Artificial intelligence.

New Bimian: Jose Gonzalez-Belmonte

Research Area: Autonomous Vehicles, User Psychology

Career Focus: Academia – Interactive Software, Machine Learning, User Psychology

Current Employer: Lawrence Technological University

Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Bio: Jose is a former software developer for Elm Park Labs, experienced in developing augmented and virtual reality applications using Unity and Unreal Engine.

He is an alumnus of Lawrence Tech’s Computer Science and Game Software Development program with a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Intelligent Systems. He is the program coordinator and lead faculty of the Game Software Development concentration within the department of Math and Computer Science, as well as the lead advisor for LTU Expo.

Jose is pursuing a Doctorate in Computer and Electrical Engineering under the mentorship of Dr. Jaerock Kwon.

IBRO 2023

Attended the 11th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience hosted by SENC at the Granada Exhibition and Conference Centre from 9-13 September 2023 with a poster titled “Artificial Neural Network Controller Using Sensory Motor Contingency For Highly Automated Mobility.”

Poster.pptx

A New GPU Workstation for Deep Learning

Finally, a new GPU workstation for deep learning arrived.

Specifications:

  • Operating system: Ubuntu 22.04: Includes Lambda Stack for managing TensorFlow, PyTorch, CUDA, cuDNN, etc.
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5975WX: 32 cores, 3.6~4.5GHz, 128 MB cache, PCIe 4.0
  • GPU: 2x NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation: 48GB memory, 18176 CUDA cores, 568 Tensor cores
  • System memory: 256 GB: DDR4-3200 UDIMM
  • OS drive: 1x 1.92 TB M.2 NVMe
  • Data drive: 1x 3.84 TB U.2 NVMe: Data center SSD, 1 DWPD, PCIe 4.0
  • Onboard networking: 2x 10 Gbps RJ45 Ethernet ports, 1x dedicated IPMI port

Pacifica with Dataspeed DBW

As the internal procurement processes are near to finalization, my Ph.D. student, Aws, and I paid a visit to Dataspeed. After productive discussions regarding the purchase (remember that the original quote is more than 1.5 years old), Dr. Micho showed a Pacifica equipped with the company’s Drive-by-Wire systems.

We are even more excited now after the cool demonstrations, which show several advanced new features. Thank you, Dataspeed, for your time and effort to host us.