Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boise State University

Happy Halloween from your friends in the ECE Department at Boise State!

Meet Abbie, undergraduate advisor for the ECE Department at Boise State

This fall, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Omiya Hassan taught a new course on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) hardware systems. Students worked all semester to develop devices that showcase the implementations and inference of optimized AI/ML on edge devices such as microcontrollers with a power consumption requirement of max 50mW.

“The outcome of this course was to equip students with the knowledge necessary to implement AI/machine-learning algorithms on resource-constrained hardware systems by focusing on optimization techniques to enhance energy efficiency,” said Hassan. “These projects helped students grasp the trade-offs between efficiency and accuracy. They also successfully deployed optimized AI/ML models on microcontrollers. As an instructor, I think it is an amazing success.”

Projects included gesture and voice control for remote sensing, an automated waste management system, and a robot that makes pancakes using the “Mixture of Experts (MoE)” machine learning model. The course culminated with live demonstrations of seven successful projects.

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