Speakers

Speakers

Communications 2025

Communications and Information Technology 2025
Dinner Keynote Speakers - Tuesday, October 16, 2012
David Siegel, Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles
Ehud Heyman, Ph.D., Dean, The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Lunch Keynote Speaker - Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Henry Samueli, Ph.D., Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Broadcom Corporation

Introductory Talk: The Future of Communications 2025 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Gregory N. Washington, Ph.D, Dean, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine

Cloud and Mobile Technologies
Session Chair: Israel Cidon, D.Sc., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Session Keynote: Hamid Jafarkhani, Ph.D, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine
Amir Boag, Ph.D., Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Israel Cidon, D.Sc., Jordan and Irine Tark Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Franco De Flaviis, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine
Eran Socher, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Micro and Nanotechnologies for Information Processing
Session Chair: Chen S. Tsai, Ph.D., UC Irvine

Session Keynote: Kang L. Wang, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Raytheon Chair in Electrical Engineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA
Peter J. Burke, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine
Koby Scheuer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Yosi Shacham, D.Sc., Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., The Henry Samueli Endowed Chair and Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine

Communication, Interface and Media
Session Chair: Yosi Shacham, D.Sc., Tel Aviv University

Session Keynote: Joseph Klafter, Ph.D., President, Tel Aviv University
Alex Bronstein, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Deva Ramanan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine
Padhraic Smyth, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Computer Science, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine
Avishai Wool, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Industry Panel Discussion -- Living and Working in the Hyper-connected World
Moderator: G.P. Li, Ph.D., Director of Calit2, UC Irvine

Panelists
William Cain, Ph.D., Vice President of Technology, Western Digital
Sherman Chen, Ph.D., Vice President of Technology, Broadcom
Nelson Nahum, Co-Founder and CEO, Zadara Storage
Shafi Syed, Executive Vice President Engineering and Co-Founder, Corent

October 16-17, 2012

The Rose Project

Western Digital