The CSL Social Hour Organizing Committee is very excited to announce this week’s special social hour talk by CSL professors – Prof. Naresh R. Shanbhag and Prof. Andrew C. Singer. They will provide an overview of SONIC ( Systems On Nanoscale Information fabriCs) center activities. The event will be held on Friday, December 2 at 3:00PM in CSL 369.
Bio: Naresh R. Shanbhag is the Jack Kilby Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since January 2013, he is the founding Director of the Systems On Nanoscale Information fabriCs (SONIC) Center funded by DARPA and SRC under the STARnet program. He was the co-founder and CTO of Intersymbol Communications, an optical communications IC start-up company (2000-07), and was the lead architect of VDSL chip-sets at AT&T Bell Labs (1993-95). He is an IEEE Fellow.
Bio: Andrew C. Singer is the Fox Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the Director of the Technology Entrepreneur Center and Special Advisor to the Dean for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering. He is Associate Director of the Systems On Nanoscale Information fabriCs (SONIC) Center. He was the co-founder and CEO of Intersymbol Communications, an optical communications IC start-up company (2000-07), and co-founder and CEO of OceanComm, an undersea wireless communications company. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Important: The Video-of-the-Month is due by noon, Thursday, December 1. The link to upload your videos is: go.illinois.edu/bestvideo.