This talk will explore the fundamentals of signal integrity (SI) in high-speed applications, with a focus on both frequency- and time-domain analysis. Attendees will gain a foundational understanding of how signal loss, crosstalk, and reflections affect system performance at high data rates. The presentation will also highlight recent advances in packaging techniques for broadband applications, including chiplets and advanced interconnects, and how these innovations help address challenges in high-frequency design. This session aims to bridge the gap between SI fundamentals and modern packaging technologies, offering a comprehensive overview for engineers and students working on broadband <a href="http://systems.At" target="_blank" title="systems.At">systems.At the end of the talk, the speaker will provide a summary of IEEE resources available to students and young professionals in the RF <a href="http://field.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="field.Speaker(s):">field.Speaker(s): Dr. Ahmed Abdelltif, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1

[]Join the IEEE Toronto Instrumentation & Measurement – Robotics & Automation Joint Chapter for a technical talk presented by Dr. Roya Fallah Firoozi from University of <a href="http://Waterloo.Monday" target="_blank" title="Waterloo.Monday">Waterloo.Monday, August 11, 2025 @ 1:00 – 2:00 PM (EST)Abstract: As a robot manipulates 3D objects and navigates within 3D scenes, it requires spatial reasoning to ensure safe planning. Recent advances in 3D scene representation, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and Gaussian Splatting, provide high-fidelity digital twins of arbitrary real-world environments from multi-view images. In the first part of the talk, Dr. Firoozi will discuss employing these 3D visual fields augmented to 3D vision-language fields using internet-scale semantic representations from Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for open-vocabulary robot <a href="http://planning.As" target="_blank" title="planning.As">planning.As the robot interacts with other dynamic agents in the scene (multi-agent settings), it also requires temporal reasoning to ensure safe interactive planning. In the second part of the talk, Dr. Firoozi will discuss safe and fault-resilient planning techniques across two categories of interactive planning: (i) Model Predictive Control (MPC), where the prediction and planning steps are decoupled, and (ii) more abstract approaches such as game-theoretic planning, where these steps are tightly coupled. While MPC offers computational efficiency, game-theoretic planning enables more complex modeling of agents' preferences and their mutual <a href="http://influences.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="influences.Speaker(s):">influences.Speaker(s): Roya Fallah Firoozi, Ph.D., Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/487494