ECE 598 NS: Machine Learning in Silicon

Course Description

Description: This course will introduce the design and implementation of robust and energy-efficient machine learning systems on nanoscale CMOS, with particular focus on emerging sensor-rich energy-constrained embedded platforms such as wearables, IoTs, autonomous vehicles, and biomedical devices. Algorithm-to-architecture mapping techniques to reduce energy consumption will be studied and applied to machine learning algorithms to optimize energy. Energy, delay and behavioral models of machine learning kernels in nanoscale silicon operating at the limits of energy efficiency (low-SNR fabrics) will be developed, and the impact of errors due to low-SNR circuit operation on system behavior will be studied. Statistical Shannon-inspired error compensation techniques based on estimation and detection techniques will be discussed and compared with conventional fault tolerance and error resiliency techniques. Click here for topical outline: https://www.ece.illinois.edu/academics/courses/profile/ECE598NS-120168
Syllabus: ECE598 NS Syllabus
Prerequisite: ECE482 or equivalent. Students should be familiar with programming in MATLAB. HDL (VHDL/Verilog) programming experience is desirable.
Time and Place: 9:30am-10:50am, TuTh, 3015 ECE Building

Instructor

Professor Naresh Shanbhag
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Web page: http://shanbhag.ece.illinois.edu/
Office Hours: Friday 11:00am-noon, 414 CSL
Email: shanbhag@illinois.edu

TAs

Topical TA Office Hours: Wednesday 4:00pm-5:00pm, 325 CSL
Topical TA for “LMS and Preliminaries”: Ameya Patil, adpatil2@illinois.edu
Topical TA for “Single-stage Classifiers”: Charbel Sakr, sakr2@illinois.edu
Topical and Web TA: Yingyan Lin, yingyan@illinois.edu

Announcement

2016/8/19: Welcome to ECE598 NS!
2016/8/31: Tomorrow's lecture will be moved to Friday (only for this week) from 9:30am-10:50am in 141 Coordinated Science Laboratory.
2016/09/02: Homework 1 has been posted, and it is due on Friday(5pm), Sep. 16th.
2016/09/17: Homework 2 has been posted, and it is due on Friday(5pm), Sep. 30th.
2016/09/18: The video for the make-up lecture on Friday, Sep. 16th has been posted.
2016/09/29: There will be no lecture for next Thursday, Oct. 6th. Midterm I will be held in the week of Oct. 17th.
2016/09/30: Homework 3 has been posted, and it is due on Friday(5pm), Oct. 14th.
2016/10/25: The meeting with Prof. Shanbhag to discuss project proposal will be held on Friday (Oct. 28) from 9:30am to 11am at 414 CSL. Please bring along a one-page project proposal for discussion. Prof. Shanbhag will have a one-on-one meeting with each of you for about 10mins on a first-come, first served basis.
2016/10/26: Midterm solution has been posted.

Contact

414 Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1308 West Main Street, Urbana, IL 61801-2307, USA
Tel:(217) 244-0041
Fax:(217) 300-3600