- March 26, 2025, 3:30 pm US/Central
- Prof. Tony Levi, University of Southern California
- Charles Thangaraj
Electronics’ profound contribution and impact on everyday life is well understood and appreciated, but what about the future? The commonly adopted ad-hoc and incremental search for materials, devices, and application-specific functionality should be replaced by automated methods. While system synthesis and fabrication tools capable of full-stack optimal design and implementation from atoms to applications remain an elusive objective, my talk will illustrate some elements necessary to achieve such a goal. This includes the automated discovery of non-intuitive material properties and geometries at the device level, the special role of symmetries, the level of abstraction, the application’s architecture selection, and the co-evolution of system design with low-latency manufacturing. And there are, as I hope to show with examples, exciting opportunities for new perspectives and understanding along the way.