Calit2 – Increasing Interaction Between Industry and University Researchers

Presentation - Panel on Best Practices in University-Industry Research Collaborations

2008 Engineering Deans Institute (EDI)

“Strategic University-Industry Partnerships for Innovation”

American Society for Engineering Education

University of California, San Diego

March 31, 2008

Dr. Larry Smarr

Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Harry E. Gruber Professor,

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD

California’s Institutes for Science and Innovation A Bold Experiment in Collaborative Research

UCSBUCLA

California NanoSystems Institute

UCSF UCB

California Institute for Bioengineering, Biotechnology,

and Quantitative Biomedical Research

UCI

UCSD

California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Center for Information Technology Research

in the Interest of Society

UCSC

UCDUCM

www.ucop.edu/california-institutes

Calit2 Continues to Pursue Its Initial Mission:

Envisioning How the Extension of Innovative Telecommunications and Information Technologies

Throughout the Physical World will Transform Critical Applications

Important to the California Economy and its Citizens’ Quality Of Life.

Calit2 is a University of California “Institutional Innovation” Experiment on How to Invent

a Persistent Collaborative Research and Education Environment that Provides Insight into How the UC, a Major Research University, Might Evolve in the Future.

Calit2 Review Report: p.1

Calit2--A Systems Approach to the Future of the Internet and its Transformation of Our Society

www.calit2.net

Calit2 Has Assembled a Complex Social Network of Over 350 UC San Diego & UC Irvine Faculty

From Two Dozen DepartmentsWorking in Multidisciplinary Teams

With Staff, Students, Industry, and the Community

Integrating Technology Consumers and ProducersInto “Living Laboratories”

Two New Calit2 Buildings Provide New Laboratories for “Living in the Future”

• “Convergence” Laboratory Facilities– Nanotech, BioMEMS, Chips, Radio, Photonics

– Virtual Reality, Digital Cinema, HDTV, Gaming

• Over 1000 Researchers in Two Buildings– Linked via Dedicated Optical Networks

UC Irvinewww.calit2.net

$100M in Capital Required Greater than 2:1 Match from Industry and Grants

In Spite of the Bubble Bursting, Calit2 Has Partnered with over 130 Companies

Industrial Partners > $1 Million

Over $80 Million From Industry

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More Than 80 Have Provided Funds or In-kind

Calit2 Industry Partners:Driving Public-Private Innovation Throughout The U.S.

Our Focus is on

California Based

Companies

Developing SW Tools to Manage Portfolio

http://ri.calit2.net/industry/Jerry Sheehan, Calit2 Lead

Calit2 Research Intelligence Enables “Instant Access” to News on Partner Companies

“Real Time” Stock Performance Data

from Google Finance

“Real Time” Company Business News from

Google News and Topix

Company Abstract

Links to Company Web Pages

Choose any Calit2 Industrial Partner

http://ri.calit2.net/industry/Jerry Sheehan, Calit2 Lead

RSS Feeds and Email Alerts

Calit2 Works Closely with San Diego and Orange County Industrial Groups

Calit2 Industrial Partners Team with Academic Research and Education

• Funding Joint Research Projects• Endowing Chaired Professorships• Sending Staff to Live at Calit2• Supporting Graduate/Undergraduate Fellows• Providing Equipment to Calit2 Projects• Joining on Federal Grants• Granting Access to Industry Facilities• Using Calit2 Facilities• Commercialization of Faculty/Staff/Student Research• Co-Sponsoring Workshops/Conferences• Hosting Seminars or Lectures

UC Discovery GrantsCan Leverage Industrial Partner Funds

• Will Match Industrial Dollars on Joint Research Projects• Competitive Peer Review

http://ucdiscoverygrant.org

Machine Learning and Robotics: The Machine Perception Lab and Sony Electronics

• The MPL (a Calit2 Affiliated Research Group Housed in Calit2) Partnered with Sony Electronics Through the UC Discovery Program to Create Socially Perceptive Appliances

• The MPL Developed a Social Robot (RUBI) Which Interacted With Infants – Smile Detection was Identified as a Key Indicator

of Social Interaction

• The MPL RUBI Work Led to the Creation of a Smile-Learning Algorithm Which was Trained With a Data Set of Over 100,000 Individuals

• Sony Used This Technology as the Basis for the Sony Shutter Smile Technology Found in Their Latest Generation of Consumer Digital Camera Products

RUBI Interacting with Children

Sony Shutter Smile Technology

Source: Javier Movellan Institute for Neural Computation

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Companies Funding, Matched by UC Discovery Grants,Leads to New Disclosures and Federal Grants

• Goal: Basic Research to Enable Low Power 1000 GHz Logic Devices to be Developed– Joint UCSD, Intel/UC Discovery project

• Requires Calit2 Clean Room and Computing Resources:– Density Functional Theory Molecular Dynamics

to Determine Structure of Buried Oxide/Semiconductor Interfaces

– Scanning Tunneling Microscopy to Determine Oxide Bonding Structure on InGaAs and InAs

– Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy to Determine the Electronic Structure of the Interface

• Commercialization Status:– ~$600,000 in Intel/UC Discovery Funding – Calit2 Donated Computing Resources – SRC, DARPA/MARCO, NSF Funding of $1 Million– Three Patent Disclosures Submitted

Simulation of Al2O3/Ge Interface

STM image of In2O Forming Ordered Nanometer-Scale

Islands on InAs

Source: D. Winn, Jian Shen, J. Clemens, E. Chagarov, T. Song, A. Kummel

( Chemistry, Materials Science, NanoE)

Ericsson: A Calit2 Industrial Partner with Breadth and Depth

• Sponsored Research: Non-Exclusive Royalty Free– $ 6.2 Million with UC Discovery Match– 17 Professors, 17 Students, 4 Post-docs

• 27 Student Fellowships• Two Endowed Chairs; Two Faculty Fellowships• Collaborations

– Magnus Almgren: Taught Course in ECE– Jaap Harsten, Bluetooth Hands-On Course

• Infrastructure– Base Stations, Always Best Connected

• Help with– New Federal Grants: $22.5 Million– Inspired Two Startups

Microlink

Ericsson

UCSD

QUALCOMM: Innovation Resources and Strategic Relationship

• Chairs and Fellowships– Five Endowed Chairs– 50 Student Fellowships

• EVDO Base station and BREW• Collaborations

– Calit2 US-India Summit: – Co-Chairs Paul Jacobs and Frieder Seible

– Roberto Padovani, QUALCOMM CTO and Adjunct Professor in ECE in Residence at Calit2

– Workshop on Spectrum Allocation and Assignment Policy

• New Programs and Capabilities– Summer Undergraduate Research Program– Center for Information Theory and Applications

Part of the Original Pledge of Industrial Partner Funds Endowed Chairs Through Calit2

Larry Milstein, ECEEricsson

Alon Orlitsky, ECEQUALCOMM

Ramesh Rao, ECEQUALCOMM

Rajesh Gupta, CSEQUALCOMM

Peter Asbeck, ECEConexant/Skyworks

Only Three Years From Research to Market New Broadband Cellular Internet Technology

• First US Taste of 3G Cellular Internet– UCSD Jacobs School Antenna

– Three Years Before Commercial Rollout

• Linking to WiFi Mobile “Bubble”– Tested on Campus CyberShuttle

• Verizon Introduces in San Diego Rooftop Qualcomm 1xEV Access Point

www.calit2.net/news/2002/4-2-bbus.html

VerizonRollout

Fall 2003

CyberShuttle March 2002

InstalledDec 2000

Cooperative Test Beds Funded by Industry PartnersCalit2@UCSD’s Wireless Power Amplifier Lab

Power Transistor Tradeoffs

Si-LDMOS & GaN

Price & Performance

Power Amplifier Tradeoffs

WiMAX & 3GPP LTE

Efficiency & Linearity

Digital Signal Processing Tradeoffs

Pre-Distortion, Memory Effects & Power Control

MIPS & Memory

Northrop Grumman Space Technology is Driving a Multi-Campus Engagement

• Validation and Application Development of NGST Concept High Resolution Hyper-Spectral Instrument – Participants: NGST,

NASA-AMES, UCI, UCSD, SDSU

• Potential Applications:– Invasive Species

Detection– Coastal Water Quality

Monitoring– Vegetation Health and

Vigor Monitoring– Irrigation Demand

Forecasts

Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve: (Land Validation)

Over-flight data collect and ground/bay campaigns during 03/24 – 03/29 2008

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Calit2 Has Helped New Centers Form:UCSD Center for Networked Systems

ResearchInterests

ProjectProposals

Center Faculty

Member Companies

Center Students

http://cns.ucsd.edu/

Calit2 Has Helped New Centers Form:UCI Game Culture & Technology Lab

• Unique Partnership with Discovery Science Center and Santa Ana Unified School District

• Complementary K-8th Grade Science and Learning Games in Line with CA Teaching Standards

• Developed a Gaming Undergraduate Degree Concentration – Most Sought After Minor at UCI

• Offering “Joystick Corridor” Internships and Highly Developed Workforce

• International Gaming Research Partnership Developed with Daegu City, Korea

Calit2 Has Helped New Centers Form:UCSD Center for Algorithmic and Systems Biology

Federal Agency Source of Funds

Federal Agencies Have Funded $350 Million to Over 300 Calit2 Affiliated Grants

Creating a Rich Ecologyof Basic Research

50 Grants Over $1 Million

Broad Distribution of Medium and Small Grants

OptIPuter

Calit2 Review Report p.4,21

One Major Industrial Attractor Has Been Partnering on Innovative Federal Grants

• NSF Large Information Technology Research Proposal– Calit2 (UCSD, UCI) and UIC Lead Campuses—Larry Smarr PI– Partnering Campuses: SDSC, USC, SDSU, NCSA, NW, TA&M, UvA,

SARA, NASA Goddard, KISTI, AIST, CRC(Canada), CICESE (Mexico)

• Engaged Industrial Partners:– IBM, Sun, Telcordia, Chiaro, Calient, Glimmerglass, Lucent

• $13.5 Million Over Five Years—Now In the Fifth Year

NIH Biomedical InformaticsResearch Network

NSF EarthScope and ORION

See OptIPortalTonight

During Reception

IBM Support Creates the First Vendor OptIPuter

SIO IBM Ocean Supercomputer IBM Storage Cluster in Jacobs SOE

Extreme Switch with 2 Ten Gigabit Uplinks

NCMIR Streaming Microscope

PVFS on 24 Nodes24 Nodes Experimental

IBM OptIPuter Viz Cluster

SIO IBM 9Mpixel DisplaysNCMIR Tiled

Display

2004

Industrial Partners Provide Fabrication Access to Calit2 Faculty, Students, and Staff

• IBM is Providing UCSD Researchers with Access to Their State-of-the-Art Fabrication Processes in Si/SiGe HBT BiCMOS and RF CMOS Technologies

• The Projects Include– High Efficiency Power

Amplifiers for Next Generation Cell Phones

– Ultra-Wideband RF Front-Ends for 500 MB/sec Wireless Data

– Millimeterwave Wireless Communications at 24 and 60 GHz

IBM SiGe BiCMOS WiFi Power Amplifier with

World Record Efficiency

Source: Larry Larson, CWC, UCSD

IBM Supports the Development of Hybrid Computational Infrastructure to Support Brown’s Scalable City

• PI: Sheldon Brown, Director Cen. for Research in Computing and the Arts• Z/Series Mainframe Computers

– Providing Large Centralized Processing for Multi-User Virtual Worlds – Large Memory Footprint for Digital Cinema Development – Storage/Data Management Techniques for Distributed Development

• Cell Processor Servers--CPU Technology for Parallel, Vector Computation • Beijing University (PKU) Project Partner

– Distributing Application Development and Delivery Between US and China – Using High Speed Global Optical Network.– Preliminary Work Exhibited at Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007– IBM Provides Compute Infrastructure at Both UCSD and PKU for Project

• IBM Features This Work At Supercomputing 2007

See Scalable CityTonight

During Reception

First Trans-Pacific Super High Definition Telepresence Meeting Using Digital Cinema 4k Streams

Keio University President Anzai

UCSD Chancellor Fox

Lays Technical Basis for

Global Digital

Cinema

Sony NTT SGI

Streaming 4k with JPEG 2000 Compression ½ gigabit/sec

100 Times the Resolution

of YouTube!

See 4k ContentTonight

During Reception

4k = 4000x2000 Pixels = 4xHD

CWave core PoP

10GE waves on NLR and CENIC (LA to SD)

Equinix818 W. 7th St.Los Angeles

PacificWave1000 Denny Way(Westin Bldg.)Seattle

Level31360 Kifer Rd.Sunnyvale

StarLightNorthwestern UnivChicago

Calit2San Diego

McLean

CENIC Wave Cisco Has Built 10 GigE Waves on CENIC, PW, & NLR and Installed Large 6506 Switches for

Access Points in San Diego, Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Chicago and McLean

for CineGrid Members

Source: John (JJ) Jamison, Cisco

Cisco CWave for CineGrid: A New Cyberinfrastructurefor High Resolution Media Streaming

2007

In 2005, Movie Production Provided Employment for over 245,000 Californians, with an Associated Payroll Of More Than $17 Billion

The Two-Campus Calit2 NSF Grant in Responding to Crises and Unexpected Events

• Long Beach, CA Company Original Subcontractor and Co-PI

• Multiple Equipment Donations• Test-Bed Usage for Prototyping

and Evaluation• Internships and Training for

Students Leading to Employment

• Close Alliance with First Responders, to Meet their Specific Needs

Calit2 Irvine Engages40+ Companies

22 Government Agencies6 Universities

27 Investigators 70+ students

Establishing an Industry Interdisciplinary Program: Bi-Annual Automotive Software Workshop San Diego

Source: Ingolf Krueger, Calit2

• Over 10 Million Lines of Code in Your Car!

• Sponsors: Calit2, NSF, EU, DFG

• 50:50 Participation Industry/Academia

• Next Instance Planned For 2009

• Industry Participants Include:

90 % of all Auto Innovations are Now

Software-Driven

Bringing Engineering into Cyberspace:Second Life Simulator for Engineering Design of Unimodal SkyTran

• Unimodal Inc. – OC Based Company – Developing a Personal Rapid Transit System Called SkyTran– UniModal Needed to Develop and Test Software

That will Prevent Magnetic-Levitated Vehicles from Colliding as they Merge On and Off Roadway

• Calit2 Research Team Created Canto Bay in Virtual World Second Life to do Simulations and Modeling– Canto Bay and Calit2 Offers Solution by Building

a Simulated System in Canto Bay and Modeling the Logic-Control Layer

• Simulation Provides Feedback to Company Engineers About Design Decisions Before Deploying in Real World Later this Year

• Calit2 Research Team Gets Funding to Make Further Refinements in Simulation Research and for Student Support

Source: Christa Lopes, ICS, UCI

Nano3 FacilityCALIT2.UCSD

10,000 sq. feet State-of-the-Art Materials and Devices Laboratory

Calit2 Materials and Devices Laboratory:“Nano3”–NanoScience, NanoEngineering, NanoMedicine

Source: Bernd Fruhberger, Calit2

Provide Access to Companies via Recharge

See Nano3Tonight

During Reception

A-D ResearchFoundation

Nanotrope

Separation SystemsTechnology

ThermopeutiX

Calit2 is Creating a Nano-Bio-Info Innovation Laboratory

Donald Bren School of

Information and

Computer Science

INRF Partners Companies with University Researchers: 70 Past and Current Collaborating Companies

• Advanced Customs Sensors Inc.• Agilient• Alpha Industry/Network Device Inc.• AXT/Alpha Photonics Incorporated• Alpine Microsystems Incorporated• Auxora, Inc.• Bethel Material Research• Broadcom• Broadley-James Corp.• Cito Optronics, Inc.• Coherent, Inc.• Conexant• Coventor• DRS Sensors• Endevco

Friends USA• General Monitors• Global Communication Semiconductor• Hewlett Packard• Hitachi Chemical Research• IJ Research• Impco Technology• Intelligent Epitaxy Incorporated• International Technology Works• IOS • Irvine Sensors• Jazz Semiconductor• Linfinity Microelectronics• Maxwell Sensors• Metrolaser Incorporated

Microtek Lab Incorporated• MicroWave Technology• Moog, Inc. • Network Device• Newport Opticom

• NexGen Research Corporation• Northrop Grumman Corporation• Numerical Technologies

Ormet Corp.• Oplink Communications• Optical Crossing• Optinetrics• Optiswitch Technology• Physical Optics Corp.• Printronix• ProComm Enterprises• Rainbow Communications• Raytheon Systems• Rockwell• RF Integrated Corp.• Sabeus Photonics• Saddleback Aerospace• SAIC

Second Sight, LLC• Semco Laser Technology• Sequenom• Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.• Simax• Skyworks Solutions• SVT Associates• Tamarack Scientific, Inc.• Tanner Research, Inc.• Texas Instruments, Inc.• TRW• U Machines• Versa Technology• VSK Photonics• WIN Semiconductors• Xtal Technologies• Y Media Corporation

40 UCI Faculty from

a Dozen Departments

Creating Industrial University Centers of Excellence: Calit2@UCI Zeiss Electron Microscopy Center

• Zeiss Sets Up Scanning Electron Microscopy Demo Center in Calit2 Building – Showcase for Customers While Academic

Researchers have Access to Latest Technology– Calit2 UCI--Ideal Location, Near Airports and

Aerospace, Biomedical, Semiconductor and Energy Industries

– More Than $4M in Shared Equipment– Periodic Upgrades of Microscopes

• Peripheral Companies Join Living Lab– Edax, Oxford, Thermo Offer their Instruments – OC-Based Specimen Prep Company South Bay

Technology Offers Equipment and Expertise

• Enables Outreach and Training– Many Companies Use Services on Recharge Basis– ~ 100 UCI Students Trained on the SEMs

Calit2 Has Sought to Increase the Entrepreneurial Culture on Both Campuses

Guided waveoptics

Aqueousbio/chemsensors

Fluidic circuit

Free spaceoptics

Physicalsensors

Gas/chemicalsensors

Electronics (communication, powering)

Ivan Schuller holding the first prototype in 2004

I. K. Schuller, A. Kummel, M. Sailor, W. Trogler, Y-H Lo

Technology Transfer from Federally FundedResearch to New Companies

Developing Multiple Nanosensors on a Single Chip,

Integrated with Local Processing and Wireless Communications

Technology Transfer:RedX (Explosive Sensors), RheVision (Fauvation Optics)

2006

Company Spun Off FromUCSD MURI for Nanostructured Supersensors

XPAKXPro Kiosk

High-Throughput Hand Screening for Explosives

Explosives Detection on Surfaces

FIRST PRODUCTS SHIPPED FEBRUARY, 2007