BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260831T032604Z UID:86B8AD80-5607-4191-81BF-3A315AA42DC7 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260902T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260902T140000 DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, we review sample results based on our recent wor k in the areas of machine learning\nover networks and edge intellligence. In particular\, we touch upon our work on communication-efficient federate d learning and its applications.\n\nIn the first part of the talk\, we she d light on topics pertaining to federated learning. First\, we overview a second-order federated learning algorithm\, coined Fed-Sophia\, with commu nication and computation efficiency merits. Next\, we introduce our recent work on second order state synchronization (SOSS) to address the limitati ons of Fed-Sophia with non-IID data. Afterwards we overview MIRA which pro poses a novel approach of federated multi-task learning for fine-tuning LL Ms.\n\nIn the second part of the talk\, we shift focus to edge intelligenc e applications in digital health with particular focus on CVD prediction. Finally\, we present our work on architecting\, designing and demonstratin g a system prototype for multi-tier intelligence for IoT.\n\nSpeaker:\n\nT amer ElBatt joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE ) at The American University in Cairo (AUC) as an associate professor in J uly 2017. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in Electronics and Communica tions Engineering (ECE) from Cairo University\, Egypt in 1993 and 1996\, r espectively\, and his PhD degree in ECE from the University of Maryland\, College Park\, USA\, in 2000.\n\nFrom 2000 to 2009\, he was with HRL Labs\ , United States\, Argon ST (now part of The Boeing Company)\, United State s\, and Lockheed Martin ATC\, the United States at various positions. From 2009 to 2017\, he was with the EECE Department\, Cairo University\, as an assistant professor and later as an associate professor (currently on lea ve). He held a joint appointment with Nile University\, Egypt\, from 2009 to 2017 and served as the director of the wireless center (WINC) from 2012 to 2017. In Fall 2019\, ElBatt had been promoted to professor. His resear ch has been supported by NTRA\, ITIDA\, QNRF\, FP7\, H2020\, GM\, Microsof t\, Google\, Vodafone Foundation\, and DARPA and is currently supported by the NTRA\, ITIDA\, and ASRT. He has published 130 publications and holds seven issued US patents and one WIPO patent.\n\nHe was a visiting professo r at Politecnico di Torino\, Italy\, Sabanci University\, Turkey and Unive rsity of Padova\, Italy. He is the recipient of the 2014 Egypt’s state i ncentive award in Engineering Sciences\, the 2012 Cairo University incenti ve award in Engineering Sciences and the Google faculty research award in 2011. His research interests lie in the broad areas of performance analysi s\, design and optimization of wireless\, mobile and IoT networks.\n\nRoom : BE-330\, Bldg: Basking Engineering Building\, Baskin Engineering School of Engineering\, 606 Engineering Loop\, Santa Cruz\, California\, United S tates\, 95064\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/574528 LOCATION:Room: BE-330\, Bldg: Basking Engineering Building\, Baskin Enginee ring School of Engineering\, 606 Engineering Loop\, Santa Cruz\, Californi a\, United States\, 95064\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/5745 28 ORGANIZER:westphal@ieee.org SEQUENCE:4 SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecturer Series: Machine Learning over Networks: From Fundamentals to Applications URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/574528 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>In this talk\, we review sample results ba sed on our recent work in the areas of machine learning<br>over networks a nd edge intellligence. In particular\, we touch upon our work on communica tion-efficient federated learning and its applications.</p>\n<p><br>In the first part of the talk\, we shed light on topics pertaining to federated learning. First\, we overview a second-order federated learning algorithm\ , coined Fed-Sophia\, with communication and computation efficiency merits . Next\, we introduce our recent work on second order state synchronizatio n (SOSS) to address the limitations of Fed-Sophia with non-IID data. After wards we overview MIRA which proposes a novel approach of federated multi- task learning for fine-tuning LLMs.</p>\n<p><br>In the second part of the talk\, we shift focus to edge intelligence applications in digital health with particular focus on CVD prediction. Finally\, we present our work on architecting\, designing and demonstrating a system prototype for multi-ti er intelligence for IoT.</p>\n<p>Speaker:&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Tamer ElBatt join ed the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at The America n University in Cairo (AUC) as an associate professor in July 2017. He rec eived his BSc and MSc degrees in Electronics and Communications Engineerin g (ECE) from Cairo University\, Egypt in 1993 and 1996\, respectively\, an d his PhD degree in ECE from the University of Maryland\, College Park\, U SA\, in 2000.</p>\n<p>From 2000 to 2009\, he was with HRL Labs\, United St ates\, Argon ST (now part of The Boeing Company)\, United States\, and Loc kheed Martin ATC\, the United States at various positions. From 2009 to 20 17\, he was with the EECE Department\, Cairo University\, as an assistant professor and later as an associate professor (currently on leave). He hel d a joint appointment with Nile University\, Egypt\, from 2009 to 2017 and served as the director of the wireless center (WINC) from 2012 to 2017. I n Fall 2019\, ElBatt had been promoted to professor. His research has been supported by NTRA\, ITIDA\, QNRF\, FP7\, H2020\, GM\, Microsoft\, Google\ , Vodafone Foundation\, and DARPA and is currently supported by the NTRA\, ITIDA\, and ASRT. He has published 130 publications and holds seven issue d US patents and one WIPO patent.</p>\n<p>He was a visiting professor at P olitecnico di Torino\, Italy\, Sabanci University\, Turkey and University of Padova\, Italy. He is the recipient of the 2014 Egypt&rsquo\;s state in centive award in Engineering Sciences\, the 2012 Cairo University incentiv e award in Engineering Sciences and the Google faculty research award in 2 011. His research interests lie in the broad areas of performance analysis \, design and optimization of wireless\, mobile and IoT networks.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR