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Pizza will be served following the presentation - all students and faculty are welcome to attend!

Abstract:
Consistently developing and delivering (D&D) innovative products is the only way for companies to survive and compete well in this fast moving technology age. Developing requires sound engineering knowledge while delivering requires total commitment from a team to take a paper concept and produce a high volume product. The foundation of D&D begins here at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where you have a great opportunity to learn the latest engineering concepts from the best and to work as a team in solving tough problems. These are the two most important tools you need to become successful in inventing the "next" big thing for the society.

Biography:
Dr. Thanh Tran has over 25 years of experience in audio, video, computer and communication systems design and applications and is a manager of New End Equipment Engineering at Texas Instruments (TI) Inc. At TI, he is leading a team to develop reference designs and frameworks and to create device architectures and specifications for high speed DSPs (C6455, DM648) and HD SOCs (DM6467 and DM644x). He has held other senior design positions at Compaq Computer, ReplayTV, Eagle Wireless Incorporated, Bose Corporation and Zenith Electronics Corporation. Tran is an IEEE Senior member and serves on the IEEE SOC Conference Organizing Committee, the IEEE Consumer Electronics Technical Program Committee, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ECE Board of Directors. He currently holds 22 issued patents and has published more than 16 contributed articles. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Rice University where he teaches digital/analog audio, video and embedded systems design courses since 2003. Tran received a BSEE degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois in 1984 and Master of Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering degrees from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas in 1995 and 2001 respectively. His Ph.D. dissertation, direct sequence spread spectrum techniques, led to patented clock distribution methods and a startup company, VizionWare, in Austin, Texas.