Workshops

TBA

 

Dr. Vivek Varma is a business technology professional offering over 20 years of demonstrated career success in delivering technology-enabled business transformations to Fortune clients, and federal and state governments. He possesses extensive consulting and industry experience in the delivery of digital solutions, intelligent automation, and program management for Consumer and Industrial Products, Financial Services and Power and Utilities industries. He currently focuses on managing and delivering platform data services to global clients at NielsenIQ.

He is a Senior IEEE member and has presented his work at several international conferences. He has built and worked with world-class inter-disciplinary teams across US, India, Australia and Japan. He serves on the Boards of several volunteer organizations. He holds BS and MS degrees in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, and PhD from The University of Melbourne in building Decision Support System for Sustainable Development

Building Cloud Applications Using Distributed Architecture

 

Goal of the workshop is to familiarize participants with the cloud-based distributed architecture approach to build scalable and high-performance applications.

 

A few representative industry examples will be taken to demonstrate the practical application by utilizing market leading technology and tools.

 

Workshop will be of 2 hours duration and includes hands-on exercises for participants. Participants will need access to personal computer.

 

Basic understanding of developing software and programming concepts is necessary for full appreciation of the workshop material.

 

TBA

 

Dr. Lahdhiri received the degree of MS-EE in Communication Systems in 1990 and the PhD degree in Control Systems in 1995. Dr. Lahdhiri is currently working for General Motors LLC in Warren, Michigan, where he is holding the position of Strategy Leader for Real-Time Control Systems Simulations and Automation within the Global Validation Department.

 

Dr. Lahdhiri is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Michigan, licensed Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI), and Master Black Belt DFSS certified by General Motors LLC.

 

Dr. Lahdhiri authored and co-authored over 16 journal papers and 35 conference papers and his areas of interest include Control Systems, Systems Engineering, Real-Time Modeling and Simulation, and Engineering Management.

 

Dr. Lahdhiri is a Senior IEEE member and has been leading several activities within the IEEE organization. Currently, he is the IEEE Region 4 (Central USA) PACE Chair, member of the IEEE-USA Career Professional Development (CPD). Recently, Dr.Lahdhiri held the position of IEEE-USA Vice President of Career Member Services (2018-2019)

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Electronic Control Units Development: V-Cycle

 

This workshop introduces the V-Cycle for the development of Electronic Control Units (ECU) in industrial applications. The workshop will explain the different phases of the V-cycle: Starting with the requirements, Modeling, rapid-prototyping, Code generations, Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, and calibration.

 

Participants will learn basic techniques and tools used in the V-cycle. The workshop will include several examples related to automotive applications.