Pulse 2023

Pulse 2023 The Official Page for Pulse, the annual tech conference for students, by students. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Register at :
https://tinyurl.com/registerforpulse The ECE Pulse Board invites you to our annual technical conference. This conference focuses on technical talks from leading engineering companies about their research and latest technologies. For more info, visit pulse.ece.illinois.edu or contact us at [email protected]. Like our Page to receive conference updates!

Join Prof. Robles Granda for a hands-on workshop focused on leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for real-world appli...
03/24/2025

Join Prof. Robles Granda for a hands-on workshop focused on leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for real-world applications. This session will cover how to integrate LLMs into apps and services using APIs from platforms like Hugging Face, OpenAI, and more. Participants will learn:
• How to use pre-trained LLMs via APIs for various tasks
• Best practices for prompt engineering and fine-tuning models
• Deploying LLM-powered applications for chatbots, summarization, and more
• Ethical considerations and scalability of AI solutions
Whether you’re a developer, researcher, or AI enthusiast, this workshop will equip you with practical skills to integrate LLMs into innovative applications.
📍 Location: ECEB 1013
📅 Date & Time: March 25, 5:00 PM

*NOTE: ROOM IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE Join Prof. Robles Granda for a hands-on workshop focused on leveraging Large Language M...
03/22/2025

*NOTE: ROOM IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Join Prof. Robles Granda for a hands-on workshop focused on leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for real-world applications. This session will cover how to integrate LLMs into apps and services using APIs from platforms like Hugging Face, OpenAI, and more. Participants will learn:
• How to use pre-trained LLMs via APIs for various tasks
• Best practices for prompt engineering and fine-tuning models
• Deploying LLM-powered applications for chatbots, summarization, and more
• Ethical considerations and scalability of AI solutions
Whether you’re a developer, researcher, or AI enthusiast, this workshop will equip you with practical skills to integrate LLMs into innovative applications.
📍 Location: ECEB 1002
📅 Date & Time: March 25, 5:00 PM

Introducing our keynote speaker for today : Nitin Nangare!! Nangare has been collaborating a great deal with UIUC in his...
02/12/2025

Introducing our keynote speaker for today : Nitin Nangare!!
 
Nangare has been collaborating a great deal with UIUC in his various roles at Marvell most recently mentoring a Ph. D student with your program. He’s excited to give a robust talk that builds off of Chris’s content from last year with a bit more of a technical focus. He is targeting speaking to some of Marvell’s recent research and growth in AI and Channel modelling for optical / ethernet / storage channels and their applications now in LLMs.

Get ready for our first tech talk tomorrow hosted by Suresh Sankaralingam, the Associate VP of Advanced Design Verificat...
02/11/2025

Get ready for our first tech talk tomorrow hosted by Suresh Sankaralingam, the Associate VP of Advanced Design Verification at Astera Labs! The talk will be held on February 11th from 6-7PM in ECEB 3013 and we look forward to seeing you there :)

Here are a few of the topics that will be covered tomorrow:

Concept to Production - Who does what in Silicon Engineering
• Design, Verification, Emulation, Physical Design, DFT, Packaging, Software and Firmware Development, System Validation
• Al assistance in Design and Verification (Formal, Dynamic Testcase generation, Coverage profiling and analysis)
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• Hyperscale Infrastructure (Elastic Grid for instance/memory/storage/license, SLURM,
Parallel Cluster)
• Left Shifting Software Development and Performance Tuning in Pre-silicon (Scalable
Emulation platforms, Virtual Host platforms)

Next up in our line of speakers we have Illinois Vrashank Shukla! Vrashank received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineerin...
02/10/2025

Next up in our line of speakers we have Illinois Vrashank Shukla! Vrashank received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013 and joined the TI Analog Technology Development team where he was involved in the Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) verification methodology and tools.

Vrashank currently is a Systems Engineer/Product Definer in the Transceiver
Interfaces product line responsible for product definition and roadmap for Automotive and Industrial products such as Controller Area Network (CAN), Local Interconnect Network (LIN), and products that integrate the power management with CAN/LIN interfaces.

Outside of work, he enjoys playing tennis, Indian classical music, playing
with his two young kids and cooking.

Introducing our Women in Tech Day speaker: Jennifer Bernhard!! A Donald Biggar Willett Professor in the ECE Department, ...
02/10/2025

Introducing our Women in Tech Day speaker: Jennifer Bernhard!!

A Donald Biggar Willett Professor in the ECE Department, Bernhard joined the ECE faculty in 1999 and has been an integral member of the faculty and College leadership, with an exceptional record of excellence in research, teaching and service in the department, college and campus.

She is the first woman to hold the position of Department Head in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Introducing our one of the amazing speaker for our tech conference: Shawn Crowley! Shawn will be presenting a keynote re...
02/10/2025

Introducing our one of the amazing speaker for our tech conference: Shawn Crowley! Shawn will be presenting a keynote regarding his role as a University Relations personal from Marvell and giving students insights into the company. Make sure to stop by for his talk on February 12th!

To finally wrap up Pulse, we are ending the day with our software competition followed by Mia Za’s. Register for the com...
02/08/2025

To finally wrap up Pulse, we are ending the day with our software competition followed by Mia Za’s. Register for the completion with the link in our bio and check out our competitions post to learn more about prizes and types of competitions being hosted. Thanks for hoping us!

Here’s the schedule for our 4th day of Pulse : Women in Tech day. Make sure to stop by our TI tech talk and hear from Pr...
02/08/2025

Here’s the schedule for our 4th day of Pulse : Women in Tech day. Make sure to stop by our TI tech talk and hear from Professor Bernhard during her keynote speech. Finish off the days with some complimentary Papa Del’s Pizza. Make sure to register via the link in the bio to learn about more about Pulse and register for events!

Check out Wednesday’s schedule for Pulse week!! We’ll be hosting our Texas Instruments coffee chats and keynote speaker ...
02/06/2025

Check out Wednesday’s schedule for Pulse week!! We’ll be hosting our Texas Instruments coffee chats and keynote speaker from Marvell. Enjoy dinner from Signature Grill and finish off the night by attending our design competition!! For a full schedule update be sure to check out the Pulse Google calendar in our description.

Check out Tuesdays Schedule for Pulse week!! We’ll be hosting our first coffee chats with Tesla and .uiuc in addition to...
02/06/2025

Check out Tuesdays Schedule for Pulse week!! We’ll be hosting our first coffee chats with Tesla and .uiuc in addition to featuring tech talks from Astera Labs. We’ll be ending the night with dinner from Chipotle. For a full schedule update be sure to check out the Pulse Google calendar in our description.

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