Events

Meeting with all the officers associated with the Ex-Com to discuss plans and activities for the year. Agenda: -Action plan from each officer. -Activity report for YTD. -Elections during 2026. -General issues. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/542803

This IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Mini-Colloquium (MQ) aims to strengthen the Centro Occidente Section (COS) of Mexico, with ENES Morelia, UNAM, and in particular the International Laboratory for Environmental Electronic Devices (LAIDEA), as a leading regional reference and coordinating node for training and capacity building in device compact modeling and integrated circuit (IC) design, with a strategic focus on emerging electron device technologies. The event will be hosted at LAIDEA, ENES Morelia, UNAM, which serves as the headquarter of the EDS Professional Chapter in the Centro Occidente Section. Beyond technical training, this Mini-Colloquium is conceived as a catalyst for regional collaboration and community building within the Centro Occidente Section. The event actively seeks to impulse cooperation and knowledge exchange among EDS members and prospective members from Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH), the EDS Student Chapter of TecNM Morelia, as well as academics and students from CBTis 94 Pátzcuaro and CBTis 149 Morelia. By integrating universities, technological institutes, and technical high schools, the MQ aims to broaden participation, strengthen the EDS ecosystem in the region, and increase EDS membership, particularly among students and early-career researchers. The EDS MQ addresses core EDS technical areas by covering fundamental principles, modeling methodologies, implementation practices, and national initiatives related to compact models for electron devices. Special emphasis is placed on organic electronics and oxide semiconductor transistors, which represent key enabling technologies for flexible, low-power, and application-oriented electronic systems. These emerging devices require adapted compact modeling approaches to enable their reliable integration into IC design workflows and system-level simulations, thereby bridging the gap between device physics and circuit-level applications. Co-sponsored by: EDS Centro Occidente Professional Chapter at ENES Morelia UNAM Agenda: The technical program includes four IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturers whose talks provide complementary perspective: 1. Prof. Dr. Edmundo Gutiérrez, “The Kutsari National Project and perspectives for IC design and compact modeling”. 2. Prof. Dr. Antonio Cerdeira, “Device compact modeling: Conceptual generalities, implementation strategies, and critical aspects”. 3. Prof. Dr. Magali Estrada del Cueto, “Advances and challenges in the compact modeling of organic transistors in Mexico”. 4. Prof. Dr. Fernando Guarín, “ChipPractice: hands-on IC design bootcamps and accessible microelectronic fabrication”. Room: Aula Magna C, Bldg: C, Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro No. 8701, ENES Morelia UNAM, Morelia, Michoacan de Ocampo, Mexico, 58190

In recent years, 3D human activity recognition and tracking has become an important topic in human-computer interaction. To preserve the privacy of users, there is considerable interest in techniques without using a video camera. In this talk, we first present RFID-Pose, a vision-assisted 3D human pose estimation system based on deep learning (DL). The performance of DL models depends on the availability of sufficient high-quality radio frequency (RF) data, which is more difficult and expensive to collect than other types of data. To overcome this obstacle, in the second part of the talk, we present generative AI approaches to generate labeled synthetic RF data for multiple wireless sensing platforms, such as WiFi, RFID, and mmWave radar, including a conditional Recurrent Generative Adversarial Network (R-GAN) approach and diffusion/latent diffusion based approaches. Next, we propose a novel framework that leverages latent diffusion transformers to synthesize high quality RF data, as well as a latent diffusion transformer with cross-attention conditioning to accurately infer missing joints in skeletal poses, completing full 25-joint configurations from partial (i.e., 12-joint) inputs utilizing received RF sensory data. Finally, we present our recent work TF-Diff, a novel training-free diffusion framework for cross-domain radio frequency (RF)-based human activity recognition (HAR) system, which enables effective adaptation with minimal target-domain data. Co-sponsored by: Instituto Tecnológico de Cuautla (TecNM-Cuautla) Speaker(s): Shiwen Mao Room: Emiliano Zapata, Bldg: H, Libramiento Cuautla-Oaxaca S/N, Colonia Juan Morales, Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico, 62745, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/542574

This talk shares practical lessons on technical writing and publishing drawn from personal experience, from writing a first conference and journal paper to building a sustained research program. It discusses what makes a strong paper —solid contributions, clear positioning, and effective communication— along with strategies for choosing research topics at different career stages, crafting compelling introductions, handling related work and references, and navigating venue expectations. The session also covers common pitfalls, submission logistics, and the review and rebuttal process, offering actionable guidance to help graduate students and early-career researchers write stronger papers and develop a coherent, impactful research trajectory. Co-sponsored by: Instituto Tecnológico de Cuautla (TecNM-Cuautla) Speaker(s): Shiwen Mao Room: Emiliano Zapata, Bldg: H, Libramiento Cuautla-Oaxaca S/N, Colonia Juan Morales, Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico, 62745, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/542605