2018 Annual Report of the Nanoelectronics and Gigascale Systems Technical Committee IEEE Circuits and Systems Society TC Chair: Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA TC Chair Elect: Meng-Fan (Marvin) Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan TC Secretary: Antonio Rubio, Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain Members that have submitted 2017-2018 reports: Joseph S. Friedman, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, (J.S.Friedman) Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, Utah University, USA, (PE. Gaillardon) Hai Li, Duke University, USA, (H.Li) Daniel Ielmini, Politechnico de Milano, Italy, (D. Ielmini) Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, Portland State University, USA, (M. Ch-Jeske) Sorin Cotofana, Delft University, Holland, (S. Cotofana) Chua-Chin Wang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, (CC.Wang) Lan-Da Van, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, (LD.Van) Omid Kavehei, University of Sidney, Australia, (O.Kavehei) Qiangfei Xia, University of Massachussets Amherst, (Q.Xia) Themis Prodromakis, University of Southmapton,UK, (T.Prodromakis) Antonio Rubio, Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain, (A.Rubio) Shuenn-Yuh Lee, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, (SY.Lee) Georgios Sirakoulis, DEmocritus University of Thrace, Greece, (G. Sirakoulis) Tuo-Hung Hou, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, (TH.Hou) Weisheng Zhao, Beihang University, China, (W. Zhao) Zhang Feng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, (Z.Feng) Meng-Fan (Marvin) Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (M.Chang) Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Purdue University (S. Gupta) Qiaoyan Yu, University of New Hampshire, USA (Q. Yu) Thanos Stouraitis, University of Patras, Greece (T. Stouraitis) 1 I. Organizers: Conferences, Workshops, Panels, Special Sessions, Tutorials, etc. Specify the role. J.S.Friedman, Organized special session at ISCAS 2018 PE Gaillardon TPC member: DAC’17, DATE’18, ICCAD,’17 ISCAS’17, DSD’18, Nanoarch’17, ISVLSI’17 Track co-chair: DATE’18 Special session chair: IWLS’17 Special session organizer: DATE’18, ISCAS’17 Tutorial organizer: DATE’18 H.Li Steering committee, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2016- Steering committee, IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems (iNIS), 2015- Steering committee, ACM International Conference on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2015- General chair/co-chair, International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2018. General vice-chair, IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2018 TPC chair, IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC), 2017. Program chair/co-chair, ACM SIGDA Ph.D. Forum, co-located event with Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2017. Program chair/co-chair, ACM SIGDA summer school (DASS), co-located event with Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2017. Neuromorphic Computing Workshop, 2017. Special session chair, International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems (iNIS), 2017. Special session chair, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2017. D. Ielmini Organized the special session ‘Computing with memory devices’, P.-E. Gaillardon and D. Ielmini, at ISCAS 2017, May 28-31, 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA. Tutorial ‘Memristive devices, circuits, systems and applications’ at ISCAS 2017, May 28-31, 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA. Tutorial on “Embedded memory technologies,” IEEE International Conference on IC Design and Technology (ICICDT), Otranto, Italy, June 4-6, 2018. Tutorial on “Physics of emerging devices,” 2017 International Memory Workshop (IEEE-IMW, 2017), Monterey, CA, USA, May 14-17, 2017 Tutorial on “Resistive memory: switching mechanisms, models, and applications in 2 computing,” 2017 SIE Meeting, Palermo, Italy, June 19-23, 2017. Participated in the Technical Subcommittee of IEDM 2017 for Memory Technology Participated in the Technical Committee of Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE), Member of the Technical Committee M. Chrzanowska-Jeske 2017 ISCAS Baltimore, 28-31 May, a. Track co-chair, b. session chair 2018 ISCAS Florence 27-30 May a. Track co-chair, b. session chair c. 2018 LASCAS, 25-28 February, 2018 a. Technical Program Committee b. Session chair c. Steering Committee member 2017 ICECS, Steering Committee S. Cotofana NANOARCH 2018 (14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures), General Chair GLSVLSI 2018 (Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI), Track Chair NGCAS 2017 (1st New Generation of Circuits and Systems), TPC Member NANOARCH 2017 (13th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures), TPC Member ISCAS 2017 (IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems) Review Committee Member CC.Wang 2017 Taiwan-Philippines Joint Workshop, General Chair (Organizer) 2017 Taiwan Inter-discipline Engineering Special Project Contest, General Chair (Organizer) Q. Xia Organizer, Neuromorphic Hardware sessions at EIPBN’18 Organizer, Memristors for Ubiquitous Computing Environments, ISCAS’18 NSF panelist, ECCS Division 2018 T. Prodromakis International Conference on Memristive Materials, Devices & Systems (MEMRISYS), April 2017, Athens, Greece – General Chair "Tutorial: Memristive Materials and Neuromorphic Devices”, ISCAS 2017, Baltimore, US. A. Rubio IOLTS 2017 General Chairman 3 DCIS 2017 Genral Chairman NANOARCH 2018, Program Chair SY.Lee Publicity Co-Chairs: 2018 IEEE NEWCAS conference (2017/9/26-2018/6/27) G. Sirakoulis General Co-Chair of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH 2018), Athens, Greece. General Co-Chair of the Forth (4th) Pan-Hellenic Conference in Electronics and Communications (PACET 2017), Xanthi, Greece. Special Sessions & Phd Forum Chair of the 27th International Symposium on Power and Timing, Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS 2017). Special Sessions Co-Chair of the 6th and 7th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST 2017, 2018). Publication Chair of the International Conference on Memristive Materials, Devices & Systems (MEMRISYS 2017). TH. Hou Symposium Organizer, Symposium A4. Advanced Technologies for Memory Devices and Flexible Electronics, IUMRS International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA), Taipei, 2017. W. Zhao Special session at DATE Special session at ISCAS Z. Feng ISCAS conference, technical program committee VLSI-DAT conference, technical program committee S. Gupta Co-organizer of tutorial on “Emerging Computational Devices, Architectures and Computational Models” in 31st International Conference on VLSI Design & 17th International Conference on Embedded Systems, 2018 (Organized with Vijay Narayanan and Arijit Raychowdhury) Organizer of special session on “Design Opportunities and Challenges in Non-Volatile Technologies” in ISQED 2017. Q. Yu General Co-chair for IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, 2017 Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Special Issue on Reliability-aware Design and Analysis Methods for Digital Systems: from Gate to System Level, 2017. 4 Program Chair for Workshop for Women in Hardware and Systems Security (WISE), 2018 Vice-chair for the "Security Track" in Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2018 Track chair for the track System Design and Security in IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2018 Special session in ISVLSI 2018: Shall We Jointly Address VLSI Reliability and Security? Tutorial in HOST 2018: A Whitebox Introduction to Fault Attacks M. Chang 1. Focus session organizer: 2017 IEDM 2. Tutorial Co-Chair, 2018 IEDM (Executive Committee) T. Stouraitis Thanos Stouraitis, Chair, Industry Forum & Exhibition, IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE Thanos Stouraitis, Liaison, IEEE ISCAS 2019, Sapporo, May 26 – 29, 2019. 5 II. Invited talks: plenary sessions, keynotes, invited lectures, tutorials, … J.S. Friedman J.S. Friedman D. Querlioz, A. F. Vincent, A. Mizrahi, D. Vodenicarevic, J. S. Friedman, N. Locatelli, J. Grollier, “Neuromorphic Computing with Stochastic Spintronic Devices,” 62nd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Nov. 2017 (invited). J. S. Friedman, “Spintronic Logic: From Switching Devices to Computing Systems,” Proc. SPIE Spintronics X, Aug. 2017 (invited). D. Querlioz, A. F. Vincent, A. Mizrahi, D. Vodenicarevic, N. Locatelli, J. S. Friedman, J.-O. Klein, J. Grollier, “Neuromorphic Computing with Stochastic Spintronic Devices,” SPIE Spintronics X, Aug. 2017 (invited). J. S. Friedman, “Spintronic Computing System Integration,” Seiden Frontiers in Engineering and Science Workshop on Beyond-CMOS: From Devices to Systems, June 2017 (invited). PE Gaillardon Keynote: ISVLSI’17 Tutorial: DATE’18 Tutorial: ESSDERC’17 Tutorial: MemoCIS Training School Invited Talk: Lyon Institute of Nanotechnologies Invited Talk: Brigham Young University Invited Talk: EPFL Invited Talk: D43D Invited Talk: Technion Invited Panelist: SLIP H. Li A public speech on “Running Sparse and Low-precision Neural Networks: An Interactive Play Between Software and Hardware,” organized by Santa Clara Valley Chapter of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Santa Clara, CA, March 8, 2018. A keynote on “Enhance the Reliability and Scalability of Memristor-based Neuromorphic Systems,” International Workshop on Variability, Modeling and Characterization (VMC), co- located with International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Irvin, CA, November 16, 2017. A tutorial on "An Overview of Neuromorphic