July
9, 2025
Quantum
Threats to Cryptography and Counter Measures
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM PT
Speaker: Dr. William Blair
Register at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/49055
Join us for an exciting session as our speaker—Dr William
Blair--an expert in quantum computing and cryptography—walks
us through the emerging quantum threat landscape. Learn how
quantum algorithms like Shor's and Grover's challenge
today's cryptographic systems, and how the industry is
responding with next-gen, quantum-resistant solutions. This
talk will demystify core concepts in quantum computation and
introduce NIST's new cryptographic standards like ML-KEM and
ML-DSA, offering practical insights into securing
communication systems in the post-quantum era. Don't miss
this opportunity to get up to speed on one of the most
pressing shifts in cybersecurity.
In this talk, we will provide an overview of the quantum
threat to contemporary cryptographic schemes, including a
basic overview of Quantum Computation and how major
algorithms, including Shor's and Grover's algorithms, weaken
widely used cryptography. An overview of counter measures to
these attacks, including background on new cryptographic
schemes standardized by the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST), will demonstrate how to secure
communications and computer systems using algorithms that
are believed to be resistant to quantum computers. These
include the ML-KEM and ML-DSA standards, which rely on
Module Learning with Errors (MLWE) to securely agree on
ephemeral encryption keys and implement digital signatures,
respectively. Alternative approaches, which achieve quantum
resistance via Learning with Rounding (LWR) and
cryptographic hash functions, will be briefly outlined as
well.
About
the Speaker
William Blair is a security researcher working in Washington
DC. He is primarily interested in language-based, operating
system, and hardware security. Since working on Oracle's
Cryptography Review Board while at Oracle Labs, and before
that interning at IBM Research, he has developed an interest
in post-quantum cryptography. His research experience
includes working on the GraalVM team at Oracle Labs, which
involved supply chain security, control-flow integrity,
hardware side-channel defenses, static binary analysis, and
fuzz testing language runtimes. During graduate school, he
had the opportunity to work on the Cyber Hunting at Scale
(CHASE) DARPA program while interning with the Cyber
Security Intelligence (CSI) group at the IBM Thomas J.
Watson Research Center, and the Space and Time Analysis for
Cybersecurity (STAC) DARPA program while at Boston
University. He holds a PhD, MS, and BA in Computer Science
from Boston University.
July
17, 2025
Amazing
Antennas
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM PT
Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship(HUB101), Westlake
Village
Speaker: Dr. Robert (Bob) L. Eisenhart, IEEE Life
Fellow
Register at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/491883
This presentation is aimed at 99.9 % of the population who
know nothing about antennas and would like to enjoy learning
a bit about them. An engineering background is neither
necessary nor required, however, the subject is certainly
aimed at the STEM oriented audience. There are only a few
equations at a high school Algebra level and are used to
show fundamental relationships. Most of the discussion is
about individual antennas with a few slides showing how
antenna arrays are used to improve performance. Come see
what the electric fields inside a microwave oven look like
and how to deal with them. What kind of an antenna in an
air-to-air missile is used to track a moving target? Join
the fun.
About
the Speaker
A 1960 Distinguished Army ROTC graduate with a Bachelor's in
Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Bob
served two years of active duty with the U.S. Army Security
Agency in Arlington, Virginia, followed by three years in
the reserves in Frankfurt, Germany. At the Agency, he
managed critical Electronic Monitoring Equipment, earning a
special Letter of Commendation from the Assistant Secretary
of Defense for his impactful work in Europe. After earning a
Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Michigan in
1970, he joined Hughes Aircraft Company, focusing on
Research & Development and retiring as Chief Scientist
after 23 years. He subsequently established Eisenhart
Associates, providing consulting services on microwave
circuits and antennas until 2018. Within IEEE, Dr. Eisenhart
served in multiple leadership roles over two decades,
notably as General Chairman of the 1999 International
Microwave Symposium. Elected an IEEE Fellow in 1995 and Life
Fellow in 2005, he received the Microwave Theory and
Techniques Society's prestigious Microwave Pioneer Award in
1999. His career focused on design, and he shared his
expertise through numerous seminars at companies and
universities.
August
8, 2025
IEEE
Buenaventura Section Mixer + NASA Mission to Asteroid Psyche
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PT
Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship(HUB101), Westlake
Village
Speaker: Dr. Timothy Weise, NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ieee-buenaventura-section-mixer-nasa-mission-to-asteroid-psyche-registration-1439884907519
Join the IEEE Buenaventura Section for the Annual Summer
Mixer. Connect with fellow engineers and learn about the
Psyche mission.
Psyche is the first mission to explore an asteroid with a
surface that contains substantial amounts of metal rather
than rock or ice. The mission will improve our knowledge of
iron cores, a previously unexplored building block of planet
formation.
Mission Manager Dr. Weise will give an overview of the
NASA mission Psyche named after the Metal asteroid Psyche.
About the Speaker
Dr. Timothy Weise is a senior mission operations leader at
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, currently serving as
Mission Manager for the Psyche mission to a metal-rich
asteroid. With over 25 years of experience, he has played
key roles on missions including Dawn and InSight, leading
teams through spacecraft operations and deep space
navigation.
He holds a Ph.D. in Astronautics from USC and degrees in
Aeronautical Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Agenda
6:00 - 7:15 PM Reception and Networking: Stonefire Grill
buffet
7:15 - 8:15 PM Psyche Mission – A Journey to the Metal World
August
19, 2025
The
Sketches of Infinite Data and Algorithms for Real-Time Data
Insights
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PT
Speaker: Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala, San Jose State
University
Register at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/482936
How are machine learning algorithms able to answer questions
from any nook and corner of the World Wide Web? How are
trending hashtags from the near infinite microblog posts,
unique visitors and other distinct counts in the near
infinite website traffic determined? How do blogging
websites avoid recommending articles a user has previously
read? In general, how can we answer complex queries about
enormous data streams without storing them entirely, in
real-time? The answer often lies in clever approximation
algorithms and data "sketches" that capture essential
properties using vastly reduced space. The relentless flow
of data in modern systems indeed presents significant
challenges. These data streams are often too large to store
and too fast to process exhaustively with traditional
methods. This talk introduces key sketching and
approximation techniques that help generate real-time data
insights by processing data streams.
About
the Speaker
Vishnu S. Pendyala, PhD, is a faculty member in Applied Data
Science and an Academic Senator with San Jose State
University, current chair of the Santa Clara Valley Chapters
of IEEE Computer and Computational Intelligence Societies,
Area 4 Coordinator for Region 6, and a Distinguished
Contributor of the IEEE Computer Society. As a past ACM
Distinguished Speaker, researcher, and industry expert, he
gave nearly 100 talks and tutorial sessions in various
forums such as faculty development programs, the 12th IEEE
GHTC, IEEE ANTS, 12th IACC, 10th ICMC, IUCEE, 12th ACM IKDD
CODS and 30th COMAD to audiences at venues such as Stanford
University, Google, University of Bolton, Computer History
Museum, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Lima, Peru,
IIIT Hyderabad, KREA, IIT Jodhpur, University of Hyderabad,
IIT Indore, IIIT Bhubaneswar. Some of these talks are
available on YouTube and IEEE.tv. He is a senior member of
the IEEE and ACM. He has over two decades of experience in
the software industry in the Silicon Valley, USA. His book,
"Veracity of Big Data," is available in several libraries,
including those of MIT, Stanford, CMU, the US Congress and
internationally. Two other books on machine learning and
software development that he edited are also well-received
and found place in the US Library of Congress and other
reputed libraries. Dr. Pendyala taught a one-week course
sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development
(MHRD), Government of India, under the GIAN program in 2017
to Computer Science faculty from all over the country and
delivered the keynote in a similar program sponsored by
AICTE, Government of India in 2022. Dr. Pendyala served on a
US government's National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal
review panel in 2023. He received the Ramanujan memorial
gold medal and a shield for his college at the State Math
Olympiad. He also played an active role in the Computer
Society of India and was the Program Secretary for its
annual national convention.
August
21, 2025
Silverplate
Project, Weaponization of the Atomic Bombs
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM PT
Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship(HUB101), Westlake
Village
Speaker: Dr. Robert (Bob) L. Eisenhart, IEEE Life
Fellow
Register at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/491884
A discussion of Scientific and Engineering accomplishment to
cause an abrupt end to WWII in the Pacific. This story is
the event's 80 years Anniversary to the month of the
Japanese surrender. The presentation is a brief overview of
the People, Places and Events that had to do with taking a
complex laboratory experiment and turning it into what was
used as a weapon of war, culminating in the Japanese
surrender in WWII. Did you know that the two atomic bombs
dropped on Japan were totally different designs? And that
the plane with the second bomb barely made it? Lot's of
interesting stuff.
About
the Speaker
Dr. Bob Eisenhart has a deep connection to the military
through family and his own service. Born in San Antonio,
Texas, into an Air Force family, his passion for military
aviation, especially the B-29 bombers that helped end
WWII—action his father was directly involved in—shaped his
early interests. A 1960 Distinguished Army ROTC graduate
with a Bachelor's in Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Bob served two years of active duty with the U.S.
Army Security Agency in Arlington, Virginia, followed by
three years in the reserves in Frankfurt, Germany. At the
Agency, he managed critical Electronic Monitoring Equipment,
earning a special Letter of Commendation from the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for his impactful work in Europe. After
earning a Doctorate in Engineering from the University of
Michigan in 1970, he joined Hughes Aircraft Company,
focusing on Research & Development and retiring as Chief
Scientist after 23 years. He subsequently established
Eisenhart Associates, providing consulting services on
microwave circuits and antennas until 2018. Within IEEE, Dr.
Eisenhart served in multiple leadership roles over two
decades, notably as General Chairman of the 1999
International Microwave Symposium. Elected an IEEE Fellow in
1995 and Life Fellow in 2005, he received the Microwave
Theory and Techniques Society's prestigious Microwave
Pioneer Award in 1999. His career focused on design, and he
shared his expertise through numerous seminars at companies
and universities.
August
29, 2025
IEEE
SCV WIE AI Summit 2025
3:15 PM - 8:00 PM PT
Register at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/479108
In an era where AI technologies are rapidly transforming
industries and redefining possibilities, it is crucial to
explore both the innovations driving this change and the
responsibilities that come with it. Today, we will delve
into a diverse array of topics that highlight the
multifaceted nature of AI and its profound impact on our
lives.
Our sessions will cover the latest developments in Large
Language Models and Foundation Models, exploring efficient
fine-tuning, multilingual adaptation, and the role of LLMs
as knowledge bases. We will also examine the evolution of AI
agents, focusing on autonomous task completion, multi-agent
collaboration, and the integration of external knowledge for
robust decision-making.
In the realm of Vision and Multimodality, we will explore
the integration of text, image, and video understanding, as
well as advanced techniques like zero-shot learning and
self-supervised learning. Our discussions on MLOps for LLMs
will provide insights into best practices for training,
deploying, and evaluating large models.
We will also address the critical areas of
Knowledge-Grounded Reasoning, On-Device Learning, and the
ethical dimensions of AI, including bias mitigation, privacy
preservation, and the detection of misinformation.
Talk tracks are broadly classified but not limited to,
1. Large Language Models (LLMs) & Foundation Models
2. AI Agents
3. Vision & Multimodality
4. MLOps for LLMs
5. Knowledge-Grounded & Reasoning
6. On-Device Learning for LLMs and Multi-Modal AI
7. Ethics, Bias & Fairness
Agenda
3:15-3:30 Registration
4:00-4:15 IEEE SCV WIE Welcome Message
4:15-4:30 Keynote Message
4:30-5:30 Sessions
5:30-6:15 Networking and Refreshments
6:20-7:50 Lightning Talks
7:50-8:00 Networking and Wrap-up
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