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MATRIX Spring Seminar Series – Matthew Mattina

On Friday, January 29th, MATRIX is pleased to host Matthew Mattina from ARM for our initial spring seminar. Mr. Mattina is the ARM Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director of their Machine Learning Research Lab. He is also a member of the MATRIX advisory board. This seminar will be held via Zoom at the following link. Additional information about the seminar may be found below –

Tiny but powerful: Hardware for High Performance, Low Power Machine Learning

Matthew Mattina

Arm

January 29, 2021, 11 AM – Noon CST

tinyurl.com/MATRIXSpringSeminar

This talk will cover the emerging “tinyml” paradigm and give some tinyml example applications and benchmarks. We’ll look at what makes TinyML particularly challenging, and how neural network models and hardware can be co-designed to meet these challenges.

Speaker Biography:

Matthew Mattina is the Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director of Machine Learning Research at ARM, where he leads a global team of machine learning researchers developing advanced hardware, software, and algorithms. Prior to joining ARM in 2015, Matt was Chief Technology Officer at Tilera, where he was responsible for overall company technology, processor architecture, and strategy. Prior to Tilera, Matt was a CPU architect at Intel and invented and designed the Intel Ring Uncore Architecture. Matt has been granted over 30 patents relating to CPU design, multicore processors, on-chip interconnects, and cache coherence protocols. Matt holds a BS in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.

ACM UTSA Student Chapter Open House

Please join the ACM Student Chapter at UTSA on Wednesday, 1/27 at 5:15 PM CST for their spring semester open house event. The event will be held via Zoom at the following link. You can find out more information regarding the ACM student organization in this video. Please contact Tiba Al Anssari with any further questions at membershipofficer@acmutsa.org 

The Past, Present, and Future of VR: Grandfather of VR Dr. Thomas Furness

Please join the Youth AI Lab on Sunday, 1/10 at 7:30 PM CST for a presentation by Dr. Thomas Furness. Entitled “The Past, Present, and Future of VR: Grandfather of VR Dr. Thomas Furness,” the presentation will cover Dr. Furness’ personal VR journey and his vision for the future of the technology. More details may be found at the following link.

TACC@MATIRX – Deep Learning Workshop

Speaker: Amina Ann Qutub, Ph.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering, UTSA

Speaker: Guannan Zhang, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory