AI meets hardware: ITIV provides impetus at ISVLSI 2025
The renowned IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI 2025) took place in Kalamata, Greece, from July 6 to 9, 2025. The conference brought together international experts from academia and industry to discuss current developments and future trends in Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI). The event was excellently organized and attracted a large number of participants. Next year, the symposium will take place in Kolkata (India).
The Institute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was strongly represented:
Prof. Jürgen Becker, Head of ITIV, took on the role of Chair of the Steering Committee and thus shaped the strategic direction of the conference. He was also part of the highly topical plenary session "European Chips Competence Centers: Status, Networking and Collaboration Opportunities", in which central European initiatives for semiconductor research and development were presented and discussed.
Together with Prof. Grace Li Zhang (TU Darmstadt), Dr.-Ing. Tanja Harbaum organized a Special Session on "Efficient AI Algorithms and Their Hardware Implementation". The session highlighted innovative approaches to the efficient implementation of AI algorithms at hardware level and was met with great interest by the participants.
Ms. Iuliia Topko, M.Sc., gave a much-noticed presentation on efficient AI integration using novel distributed and locally implemented learning methods entitled: "Hardware-Accelerated On-Device Learning: Training, Partitioning, and Compilation for Constrained Edge AI".
In addition, Dr. Harbaum was invited as a speaker and panelist at the SMART4Women event, which is dedicated to promoting diversity and equality in technical research. Her contributions emphasized the importance of female role models in the VLSI community and encouraged networking and exchange.
Further information on the conference can be found on the official website: ieee-isvlsi.org