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Prof. Lionel Ni, The Hong Kong Univ. of Science. & Technology., Hong Kong
Abstract and Biography Keynote 1: China’s National Research Project on Wireless Sensor Networks Prof Lionel Ni, Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Abstract: This talk will give an overview of the 5-year National Basic Research Program of China (also known as 973 Program) on Wireless Sensor Networks launched in September 2006 sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology. This national research project involving researchers from many major universities in China and Hong Kong with an aim to tackle fundamental research issues rose in three major application domains: coal mine surveillance, water pollution monitoring, and traffic monitoring and control. The distinctive feature of the project is that it will present a systematic study of wireless sensor networks, from node platform development, core protocol design and system solution development to critical problems. This talk will address the research challenges, current progress, and future plan. Biography: Lionel M. Ni is Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He also serves as Chief Scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), Director of HKUST China Ministry of Education/Microsoft Research Asia IT Key Lab, and Director of HKUST Digital Life Research Center. Dr. Ni earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 1980. A fellow of IEEE, Dr. Ni has chaired many professional conferences and served on the editorial board of many journals. He has directly supervised 34 Ph.D. students, won five best paper awards, and the 1994 Michigan State University Distinguished Faculty Award. He is a co-author of three books: "Interconnection Networks: An Engineering Approach" (Morgan Kaufmann 2002), "Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing" (Morgan Kaufmann 2006), and “Professional Smartphone Programming” (Wrox 2007). His research papers have been highly cited with over 5,000 citations according to scholar.google.com. Keynote 2:Optimize Parallel Embedded Systems
Dr. Edwin Sha, Professor,
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas,
USA Abstract: Intel is designing 80-core processors as parallel embedded systems are becoming popular. However, software designers are not yet ready for this change. People still wonder how to maximize parallelism of applications in order to fully use the resources, how to reduce the memory overhead that is becoming the most serious bottleneck for system performance, and how to reduce power consumption so the designed systems can be portable. There are many optimization problems in this area that deserve to conduct a lot of research, in particular, how to automatically parallelize loops and how to reduce the memory overhead. This talk will present some of our important research results developed in these years for various types of optimization problems in bus minimization, timing and parallelization optimization, code size, memory overhead and power consumption minimization, etc. Many of our techniques give the best known results available in literatures.
Biography: Dr. Edwin Sha received the Master and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, USA in 1991 and 1992, respectively. From August 1992 to August 2000, he was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Notre Dame, USA, and served as the Associate Chair since 1995. Since 2000, he has been a tenured full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). After serving as the Computer Science Division Head at UTD, he has been the leader of the computer systems group and a leading professor of the computer engineering program at UTD.
His research
interests are in embedded systems, parallel architectures,
compilers, scheduling, network architectures, computer and
network security. He has published more than 230 research
papers including more than 60 journal articles. He has been
serving as editors for many premier journals including several
IEEE Transactions, and as program committee members in
numerous international conferences. He received Oak Ridge
Association Junior Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award，Notre
Dame CSE Teaching Award, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing
Curriculum Award and NSFC Overseas Distinguished Young Scholar
(B). He also served as the program or general chairs for many
international conferences such as GLSVLSI, PDCS 2000, PDCS
2001, SecUbiq 2005, PDES 2005, EUC 2006, ESO 2006, EUC 2007,
ESO 2007, SEC 2008, etc. His projects have been mainly funded
by the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, AT&T, Texas
Instruments, Texas State, etc. His web page can be found in
http://www.utdallas.edu/~edsha
Keynote 3:
A Brief Introduction
to Loongson Processors. |