Location:
Faculty Hall
The Department of Computer Science and Automation was established in 1969 as the School of Automation. It initially began as a Centre and later acquired the status of a Department. The Department is celebrating its Golden Jubilee Year during August 01, 2019 to July 31, 2020. As part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, the Department is planning several events and initiatives. One of the initiatives is to organize the CSA Frontier Lecture Series to introduce the audience to a wide gamut of research themes in computer science. More details on the Golden Jubilee initiatives are available at: https://csa.iisc.ac.in/golden-jubilee/
Title : An Algorithmic View of Smart Living: The Next Frontier (click here for the poster)
Speaker : Sajal K. Das
Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair
Department of Computer Science
Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Venue: Faculty Hall, IISc
Date and Time: November 29, 2019 at 4pm
Abstract :
The advent of wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoTs) are making our lives increasingly dependent on a wide variety of cyber-physical systems (CPS) and smart services (e.g., smart energy, transportation, healthcare, agriculture, etc.), while aiming to improve quality of life. The availability of rich mobile devices like smartphones are also empowering humans to act as sensors to collect fine-grained information via crowd sensing, resulting in actionable inferences and decisions. This talk will first provide a “smart living” vision and highlight the underlying research challenges. Next, it will formulate fundamental problems related to sensor data fusion, coverage and connectivity, mobile charging, security, network lifetime and resource trade-off. Novel solutions will be designed based on randomized and approximation algorithms on graphs, optimization techniques, geometric probability theory, uncertainty reasoning, trust model and game theory. Case studies and experimental results will be presented where possible. The talk will be concluded with emerging applications of sensors and IoTs, followed by directions of future research.
Speaker Biography :
Sajal K. Das, whose academic genealogy includes Thomas Alva Edison, is a Professor of Computer Science and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, where he was the Chair of Computer Science Department during 2013-2017. Prior to that, he was a University Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and founding director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) at the University of Texas at Arlington. While serving the NSF as a Program Director during 2008-2011, Dr. Das spear headed a US-India collaboration program. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing, smart environments, CPS and IoTs, cyber security, distributed and cloud computing, social and biological networks, applied graph theory and game theory. He has contributed significantly to these areas, publishing over 300 journal articles, over 400 peer-reviewed conference papers, and 53 book chapters. A holder of 5 US patents, Dr. Das has directed numerous funded projects and coauthored 4 books: “Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols, and Applications” (John Wiley, 2005); “Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure: Foundations and Challenges” (Morgan Kaufman, 2012); “Mobile Agents in Distributed Computing and Networking” (Wiley, 2012); and “Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach” (Cambridge University Press, 2019). His h-index is 83 with more than 29,500 citations according to Google Scholar. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. A founder of IEEE PerCom, WoWMoM, SMARTCOMP and ACM ICDCN conferences, Dr. Das has served as General or Technical Program Chair of numerous conferences. He is a recipient of 10 Best Paper Awards in prestigious conferences like ACM MobiCom and IEEE PerCom, and received awards for teaching, mentoring and research including the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to sensor networks, and University of Missouri System President’s Award for Sustained Career Excellence. Dr. Das has mentored 43 PhD dissertations, 32 MS theses, and 10 postdoctoral researchers. He is an IEEE Fellow and currently holding a Satish Dhawan Visiting Chair Professor position at IISc.
