IEEE Computer Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter

08/11/2025

The Santa Clara Valley chapter and chair, Dr. Vishnu Pendyala were in the news recently for winning the IEEE Computer Society global best chapter award recently.

Leadership, Innovation Earn Santa Clara Valley Chapter Top IEEE Award.

06/11/2025

Yesterday's Chapter event is available on YouTube now!

Security & Privacy in AR/VR: New Threats & Defenses 🚨

AR/VR technology is transforming how we interact with the digital world, but with innovation comes new security and privacy risks.

Watch Professor Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, of California, Riverside, as he dives into groundbreaking research, uncovering attacks and vulnerabilities in Extended Reality (XR) systems—from side-channel exploits to multi-user manipulation and even interference causing motion sickness! 🤯

🔐 Learn how these threats impact users & what can be done to build more secure AR/VR experiences.

Talk moderated by the chapter chair, Dr. Vishnu Pendyala, San Jose State University, College of Information, Data and Society

AR/VR devices promise a new era of immersive computing, where our everyday experience is augmented with helpful information (Augmented Reality), or where we ...

07/29/2024

Networking opportunity: Attend a distinguished lecture by a Stanford University Adjunct Professor and meet this year’s awardees in person. Check out the details and register below.

Award Ceremony and Talk by Dr. Achintya Bhowmik, Adjunct Professor, Stanford School of Medicine on "Transforming Hearing Aids into Multifunctional Communication and Health Devices with AI", 12 August 2024 06:00 PM to 08:30 PM (US/Pacific), Location: AMD, 2100 Logic Dr, San Jose, California, United S...

07/06/2024

Met many stalwarts of the IEEE Computer Society from all over the world at the Global Chapter Summit last month, where I was invited to speak.

04/23/2024

The first in-person SCV chapter event of the year at , Milpitas included:

1. State of the chapter presented by the Chapter Chair, Dr. Vishnu Pendyala
2. Ethnocentric Bias using HCI, a talk by Dr. Nada Attar, San Jose State University.
3. Discovering the Nuances of Music with Machine Learning, presented by high school students and Kriti Pendyala

02/28/2024

How do we teach Large Language Models to be faithful problem solvers and perform reasoning from non-human feedback? Hear from Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty, IIT Delhi

Large Language Models, despite their astounding reasoning abilities, are not faithful problem solvers. While their abilities are strongly correlated with sca...

02/18/2024

Join Chinmay Nerurkar, Microsoft, Lakshmanan Sethu, Google, Ruchi Agarwal, Netflix, and Vishnu Pendyala, San Jose State University on this panel discussion on Revolutionizing Healthcare using

...Generative AI, personalized medicine, enhanced diagnostics, ethical dilemmas, mental health support, privacy-preserving practices, ...

01/27/2024

Congratulations to Dwith for successfully taking over as the editor of the Feedforward magazine of IEEE Computer Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter that I started 2 years ago and doing a splendid job bringing out the first issue (Vol. 3 No. 1) under his stewardship. I started many grand initiatives since the time I was an undergraduate student - Association of CSE Students (ACSES) at Osmania University - College of Engineering, JeeFier (Published Division G, District 4 of Toastmasters International), and alongwith others, Third Wave, CSIH Communique (publications of Computer Society of India [CSI] - Hyderabad Chapter), Visleshana (Flagship publication of SIGBDA, Computer Society of India), to name a few. All of them were highly successful under my leadership and I even won awards for some of them. But none of them exist today.

Over the years, I realized that having a succession plan is more important than succeeding in founding and handling the initiatives. I sincerely hope that Feedforward will exist for many more years and so will my other initiatives for the chapter like ICADS, the annual International Conference on Applied , the AMA series, and more.

Please let me know if you are interested in volunteering for the IEEE Computer Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter and read the current and past issues of the magazine here:
https://r6.ieee.org/scv-cs/magazines/

01/21/2024

In this IEEE.tv video, I played the role of a prompt engineer trying to help the knowledge models (panelists) avoid hallucinations, while they made sure there are no privacy leaks about the companies they are affiliated with :-).

With Chinmay Nerurkar, Microsoft, Lakshmanan Sethu, Google, and Ruchi Agarwal, Netflix

Lakshmanan Sethu from Google, Chinmay Nerurkar from Microsoft, and Ruchi Agarwal from Netflix, and Vishnu Pendyala from SJSU discuss information fabrication in Large Language Models. For past events visit https://r6.ieee.org/scv-cs An IEEE Computer Society Santa Clara Chapter event Event date: Novem...

01/14/2024

It is time for incorporating Data Science and AI into the U.S.

The US Congress is making history in unprecedented ways (https://apnews.com/article/santos-house-republicans-speaker-mike-johnson-809d2c0b4e261fe39c0f8c69cfd462e3). Time and again, the US Supreme court has been overturning its own rulings (https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/decisions-overruled/). How much can only people be trusted absolutely with governing the countries? Majority vote and fashionable trends may not always lead to common good. Any amount of referendum or plebiscite may not show but data is very likely to show how many homes were broken and how many became homeless in the last few decades owing to the laws passed from time to time, particularly those that liberalized the value system and favored individual liberties, short term gains over common good.

In this OpEd, I argue that it is time for data-driven methods and to figure in the U.S. constitution. In addition to the constitutional checks and balances currently in place, there should be an automated check based on data incorporated into the constitution. There is a need to call for a tricameral legislature, the third house being a set of big data technologies and artificial intelligence to vet the impact of the proposed bills and executive orders. The U.S. Constitution needs to be amended to enforce the additional check thereby setting an example to other countries in the world.

https://apple.news/A0WCzOrT7Txmp-fnltq_xhA

Pendyala is an assistant professor of applied data science at San Jose State University and is a public voices fellow of The OpEdProject. In a recent study, 71 percent of the government leaders said that using generative artificial intelligence in their operations will result in benefits that outwei...