Keynote Speaker
Title: On Sensorless Sensing for Internet of Everything
Speaker: Yunhao Liu
Abstract: Yunhao started working on IoT and Sensor Network since early 2000. In the past years, he and his team deployed the world first working sensor network system in the D. L. Coal Mine, the world second largest coal mine, one of the world earliest RFID localization systems called LANDMARC. They implemented the GreenOrbs prototype system in the campus woodland of Zhejiang Forestry University with 330 sensor nodes and each node with several sensors. The system scale reached 400 in April 2010. Later, the Tianmu Mountain deployment includes 200 nodes and was in continuous operation since August 2009 and lasted for more than three years. The deployment area is around 200,000 square meters. From 2011 through 2016, Yunhao and his team conduct TagSys system in the Beijing International Airport and more than 100 thousand RFID tags are used. In this talk, he is going to share the experience learned from large scale Sensor Network and IoT system deployments, and also discuss the concept Sensorless Sensing they proposed.
Speaker Biography: Yunhao Liu, ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow，Chair of ACM China Council，Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and ACM Transactions on Sensor Network. Yunhao was the Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems from 2011 through 2014. He served as TPC member for many leading conferences such as ACM MobiCom, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM MobiCom, and PC Co-Chair/Vice Co-Chair for IEEE ICDCS, IEEE MASS, IEEE ICPADS and etc. He was also General Co-Chair for IEEE RTAS 2012, WASA 2010, and Vice General Chair for WWW 2008. Yunhao has published more than 120 papers and received many best paper awards like ACM MobiCom 2014 Best Paper Award, IEEE DCOSS 2011 Best Paper Award, and IEEE ICPADS 2009 Best Paper Award. He also received many prestigious awards including ACM Presidential Award 2012, China National Natural Science Award 2011, and China National Distinguished Young Scholar Award 2011. Yunhao Liu received the BS degree in automation from Tsinghua University, China, in 1995, the MS and PhD degrees in computer science and engineering from Michigan State University, USA, in 2003 and 2004, respectively. He was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2004-2010, and Joined Tsinghua University as Professor in 2011. His research interests include RFID and sensor network, the Internet and P2P&Cloud Computing.
Title: Power Sensor Networks by Wireless Energy - Current Status and Future Trends
Speaker: Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University, USA, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, IEEE Fellow
Abstract: Traditional battery-powered wireless sensor networks face many challenges to meet a wide range of demanding applications nowadays due to their limited energy. Although energy harvesting techniques can scavenge energy from the environment to sustain network operations, dynamics from the energy sources may lead to service interruption or performance degradation when the sources are unavailable. Recent advances in wireless energy transfer have opened up a new dimension to resolve the network lifetime problem. In this talk, we present an overview of the wireless energy transfer techniques and recent developments to apply these techniques in various sensing applications. We also show how this novel technology can be integrated with classic data collection applications and envision future directions in this area.
Speaker Biography: Yuanyuan Yang received the BEng and MS degrees in computer science and engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the MSE and PhD degrees in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Dr. Yang is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science, and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University, New York, USA. Dr. Yang is internationally recognized for her contributions in networking and parallel and distributed computing systems areas. She was named an IEEE Fellow in 2009 " for contributions to parallel and distributed computing systems." Her current research interests include wireless/mobile networks, data center networking, cloud computing and mobile crowd sensing. Her research group currently develops wireless energy-charging algorithms and mobile data gathering mechanisms in wireless rechargeable sensor networks, data center networks and virtual machine placement algorithms in cloud computing networks and mobile crowd sensing systems. Dr. Yang is currently the Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. She has served as the Associated Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Computers, and an Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. She has published over 360 scientific papers in leading refereed journals, conferences and book chapters. She is an inventor/co-inventor of seven U.S. patents in the area of interconnection networks. She has served as a distinguished visitor of IEEE Computer Society. She received an IEEE Region 1 Award in 2002, the Best Paper Awards at the 18th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium in 2004, and the 7th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 2000, as well as a Distinguished Leadership Award from the 15th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks in 2006. She has served as a general chair, program chair or vice chair for several major conferences and a program committee member for numerous conferences. She has received many research grants as a Principal Investigator from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office. Her home page is at www.ece.stonybrook.edu/~yang.
