Long Feng Science Forum Seminar Series | Seminar #7

Dear All,

You are cordially invited to the seventh seminar of Long Feng Science Forum Seminar Series. It will be delivered by Prof. Jiangchuan LIU (Simon Fraser University) on September 21 (Wednesday). This seminar will discuss the "Towards Sustainable Edge and IoT: An Integral View from the Energy Perspective".

Seminar Information

Time & Date: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (Beijing Time), September 21 (Wednesday)

Host: Prof. Fangxin WANG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Speaker: Prof. Jiangchuan LIU, Simon Fraser University

Abstract: 

While the modern power grid is known to be reliable in urban cities, it is not and probably will never be the case for remote areas, e.g., northern Canada or the Gobi Desert in China. It is necessary to view energy supply as an integral part of sustainable edge computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), both for maintaining their services and for protecting the sensitive environment.

In this talk, based on our real-world experience in Canada and China, I will discuss sustainable edge and IoT design and deployment from the energy perspective. I will present our recent works on nonintrusive load monitoring and data-driven battery analysis and optimization, particularly on their integration with edge nodes in harsh environments. We also advocate the new paradigm that spatially decouples energy supply and sensing/computing modules and strongly believe that batteryless will be the future for tiny IoT devices. We accordingly present a series of our recent works on batteryless communication and sensing, including high-throughput and multi-hop backscatter, distribution excitation, multi-track acoustic sensing with ambient energy, etc.

Biography

Jiangchuan LIU

Professor

School of Computing Science

Simon Fraser University

Jiangchuan LIU is a Full Professor in the School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. He is a Fellow of The Canadian Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, and an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow. He is also a Distinguished Guest Professor at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School. In the past, he worked as an Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, a research fellow at Microsoft Research Asia, and an EMC-Endowed Visiting Chair Professor at Tsinghua University.

He received the BEng degree (cum laude) from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2003, both in computer science. He is a co-recipient of the inaugural Test of Time Paper Award of IEEE INFOCOM (2015), ACM SIGMM TOMCCAP Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award (2013), ACM Multimedia Best Paper Award (2012), and IEEE MASS Best Paper Award (2021).

His research interests include multimedia systems and networks, cloud and edge computing, social networking, online gaming, and the Internet of things/RFID/backscatter. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Network Sciences and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and IEEE Internet of Things Journal. He is a Steering Committee member of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and Steering Committee Chair of IEEE/ACM IWQoS (2015-2017). He was TPC Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM'2021 and IEEE Satellite’2022.

Participation

A. Zoom Online Meeting

Participation information will be notified by email. 

 B. CUHK(SZ) WeChat Channel

Please feel free to scan the QR code below to access  CUHK(SZ) WeChat Channel to participate in the live broadcasting:

C. Weizan Live Broadcasting Platform

Or visit the Weizan live broadcasting platform (Welcome to click "Read more" and access the platform):

https://wx.vzan.com/plug-ins/?v=637922847453656237#/FixupIndex/980009879?shareuid=415330463

点击以下链接，进入理工时刻：