Attention: University of Miami Faculty, Staff, and Students. Register for a free lecture and/or workshop by Dr. Peter Jamieson, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The presentation will highlight collaborative work with researchers from New Mexico State University and North Carolina A&T, showcasing results generated over the last four years. 

Dr. Jamieson’s research interests/expertise includes Genetic Algorithms, Agent Based Simulation – Acceleration, FPGA CAD and Architecture, Games, and Higher Education. He is a long-running collaborator with Prof. Lindsay Grace, Knight Chair of Interactive Media in the School of Communication.

 

1) LECTURE: Seeker’s Dilemma—Rethinking Research on Hardware Trojans

In this talk, Dr. Jamieson will provide an overarching discussion of what hardware trojans are concerning digital integrated chips (ICs), why we in the US need to think about them, and how we must rethink research in this space to tackle this challenging problem effectively. Key topics include:

• The Seeker’s Dilemma: Understanding this problem and its implications.
• Games in Research: Exploring how games might help address challenges in this space.
• AI Integration: Investigating the critical role AI will play as we advance research in this domain.

Thursday, January 23, 2025  | 12:30 – 1:30 PM
Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146

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Dr. Jamieson will also hold a workshop on 1/24. Spots are limited. If you are interested in attending, please email Vivian Orellana at vxo46@miami.edu.

2) WORKSHOP: Let’s Play: Enhancing Teaching through Board Games

This interactive workshop explores how board games can enhance teaching practices like scaffolding, technical vocabulary, and student-centered learning, providing a fun and reflective professional development experience.

Friday, January 24, 2025 | 2:30 – 5:00 PM
Location Details will be provided upon request.

Request to attend: vxo46@miami.edu

About Peter Jamieson

Dr. Peter Jamieson completed his doctorate and masters studies at the University of Toronto and his bachelor’s degree at the University of Ottawa, all in the field of Computer Engineering. Before joining Miami University’s department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, he was a research associate at Imperial College in London, U.K in a partnership with Nokia. Throughout these positions, Dr. Jamieson researched an array of topics including parallel systems, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) architecture and computer aided design (CAD), and low-power mobile computing. He helped develop an open-source tool called Verilog-to-Routing (VTR) that helps FPGA researchers and industrial partners such as Motorola and Toyota evaluate ideas related to FPGAs. Dr. Jamieson is the creator of another open-source tool Odin II, which is a Verilog synthesis tool fundamental to the VTR flow.

In 2009, Dr. Jamieson joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department and has focuses his research efforts in a number of synergistic directions. First, he continues his contributions in FPGA research, collaborating with other researchers around the world. In 2017-18, he joined researchers at Boston University to look into FPGAs as part of cloud computing. His focus was on how OpenCL can help design hardware for cloud applications, and he implemented a number of agent-based simulation applications in high performance computing (HPC) domain. Recently, his research focus is on Genetic Algorithms for solving optimization problems, accelerating audio encoders on FPGAs, improving overlay architectures implemented on top of FPGAs, and leveraging AI within each of these domains.

Dr. Jamieson’s research focuses on engineering education and serious games. He investigates how various technologies as related to computer engineering can impact higher education. For example, he has investigated how Arduino and RaspberryPi boards are used in undergraduate education, and how graph theory can be applied to providing evidence of learning in mind maps. He created a game, called verilogTown, that allows players to solve city traffic flow problems by writing the Verilog hardware control for the traffic lights.