Student Activities Program

Technical Program

10 minutes per candidate.

April 26: Student Presentations

10:00 AM-10:40 AM

Name Title of the talk
Yi He Resilient Deep Learning Accelerators
Deepak Krishnankutty Monitoring Instruction Level Events Via Side-channel Leakage Analysis
Yang Sun Novel Test Point Insertion Techniques and Applications for Pseudo-random Logic Test
Danielle Duvalsaint Measuring Security Metrics with Test

April 27: Student Presentations

9:50 AM-10:30 AM

Name Title of the talk
Trevor Kroeger On The Resiliency Of Physical Unclonable Functions Against Power Analysis Attacks
M Sazadur Rahman Protecting Intellectual Property Cores against Piracy
Prabuddha Chakraborty AI-Driven Assurance of Hardware IP against Reverse Engineering Attacks
SATANIK MITRA Towards Consumer Brand Perception From Online Reviews

Student Activities Program

Live Sessions

Live sessions will be managed using Zoom. The detailed schedule will be communicated soon. During the live sessions of the symposium, each paper will be allocated to a 10-minute slot that will be primarily used to answer questions from the audience. Each presenter will begin with a brief presentation of the paper and its main insights, which will serve as an introduction to the paper. This presentation should be no lengthier than 7 minutes to allow ample time to answer audience questions. Experience from recent online conferences suggests a large fraction of the audience would have already watched the 20-minute presentation or read the paper, so leaving sufficient time for questions is very important.

Judges:

(The judges’ names are to be added)

  1. Ujjwal Guin, Auburn University
  2. Haralampos Stratigopoulos, Sorbonne Université
  3. Sohrab Aftabjahani, Intel
  4. Rahul Kundu, NVIDIA

TTTC’s E. J. McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis

Named after Prof. E.J. McCluskey, a key contributor to the field of test technology, the 2022 TTTC’s Doctoral Thesis Award serves the purpose to promote the most impactful doctoral student work, to provide the students with exposure to the community and the prospective employers, and to support interaction between academia and industry in the field of test technology.

TTTC’s E.J. McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award will be given to the winning student of the doctoral student contest and his or her advisor.

The contest is held in two stages: semi-finals and finals.

In 2022, semi-finals will be held at the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), the IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), the IEEE Latin American Test Symposium (LATS), and the IEEE Asian Test Symposium (ATS). At each semi-final, a jury composed of academia and industrial experts will determine the winner, and the four winners will compete against each other in the finals, held at the International Test Conference (ITC) 2022.


Submission

All four semi-final sites are seeking submissions from active doctoral students working on test-related topics. An individual can only participate in the contest once in a lifetime. Prospective participants are encouraged to participate when they are close to thesis completion and have obtained sufficient results. Submissions to multiple regional sites are prohibited. Prospective contestants must submit a one-page (A4) summary of their thesis. (One additional page is allowed for figures and references). Submissions must include the names of the student, one advisor and start/end dates, and will undergo a selection process. Selected contestants will be given a short presentation slot in a designated technical session. The winner will be determined by the jury and announced during the event.


Submission is done by email through your local coordinator.

Key Date

Submission deadline: 1 March March 15 2022 (extended)

Please submit through the local coordinator Ujjwal Guin (ujjwal.guin@auburn.edu)

Download

Download the pdf version: Call for VTS Doctoral Thesis Award 2022 (74 downloads)

Contact Persons

Global coordinator: Michele Portolan (michele.portolan@imag.fr)
Chair of Student Activities : Ujjwal Guin (ujjwal.guin@auburn.edu)


Presentation information

Participants of the TTTC’s E. J. McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award are requested to prepare:

20-minute full talk prerecorded video for your thesis. This video will be made available for offline viewing at any time one week before the conference.

10-minute live talk given using Zoom. This talk will quickly present your paper and main insights at the beginning of your 15-minute presentation slot to favor the live discussion (see below).

The deadline to submit the 20-minute prerecorded video is April 15, 2022.

To submit your video, please name your files using the following format (all lowercase): [McCluskey]_[first_name]_[last_name]_video.mp4

Upload the video via the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/request/G9aEcUsWMrmpc17y2rra

In a virtual environment, it is important to establish a good engagement with the audience, so please budget enough time to work on the audiovisual material.

Important specifications on the format and content of the videos, along with instructions on how to record for those that need them, are provided later in this paragraph.

Video Permissions

Authors have the opportunity to make videos publicly available after the symposium. To authorize the VTS 2022 organizers to take this action, the corresponding author of each accepted paper must opt-in for the sharing and posting of the videos of the talks in the copyright form when submitting the camera-ready PDFs.

Please remember that while you grant VTS 2022 organizers the right to display and share your videos, you retain full ownership

Live Sessions

Live sessions will be managed using Zoom. The detailed schedule will be communicated soon. During the live sessions of the symposium, each paper will be allocated to a 15-minute slot that will be primarily used to answer questions from the audience. Each presenter will begin with a brief presentation of the paper and its main insights, which will serve as an introduction to the paper. This presentation should be no lengthier than 10 minutes to allow ample time to answer audience questions. Experience from recent online conferences suggests a large fraction of the audience would have already watched the 20-minute presentation or read the paper, so leaving sufficient time for questions is very important.

Registration

Each presenter should have a registered author at the normal IEEE member (50USD) or non-member (60USD) full fee – separate registrations are required. VTS 2022 will have the same very low registration fees for authors and non-author attendees.

Please register at ./registration/

Video Requirements

• Format: mp4
• Resolution: 720p (1280×720 pixels)
• Orientation: horizontal orientation (i.e., the width should be bigger than height)
• Aspect ratio: 16:9

Preparation to Record your Video:

There is no standard template for preparing the slides to use in your video. Please use your favorite one considering the video requirements listed above.

Please introduce yourself at the beginning of your presentation.

At the end of your presentation, please add and show a slide that includes your contact information and clearly display the following sentence:

This presentation and recording belong to the authors. No distribution is allowed without the authors’ permission.

How to Record your video

To improve the engagement, it is strongly recommended that you capture the video of the presenter during the presentation and display it in one of the corners of the frame.

The easiest way to record your presentation, including the presenter’s video, is using Zoom (https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362473-Local-Recordingn)

You can add your webcam to the recorded video by choosing the appropriate recording layout (https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360025561091-Recording-layouts#h_b91c2338-c2d1-48e8-9571-c8ab6eeb57e4)

An alternative to Zoom is to add narration to a PowerPoint presentation (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/video-record-presentations-2570dff5-f81c-40bc-b404-e04e95ffab33).

However, adding the presenter’s webcam to the presentation is a feature only available for Windows users in the presenter view pane. Once the narration is added, the presentation should be converted into an mp4 video (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/turn-your-presentation-into-a-video-c140551f-cb37-4818-b5d4-3e30815c3e83).

Please feel free to use the preferred option or any other software (e.g., [OBS](https://obsproject.com/), but make sure the software you choose can export mp4 files.

Recording Tips
• Try to minimize the surrounding noise by recording in a quiet room.
• Make sure the fans of your computer are spinning at the minimum speed, especially if you are using built-in microphones to record.
• Keep a constant distance from the microphone to avoid fluctuation in the audio level.
• Use a neutral background, such as a solid-colored wall or drape.