报告题目：Building Smart Living Environment using Internet of Things

报告人：美国加州大学Kwei-Jay Lin教授、Fadi J Kurdahi教授

时间：10月21日13:30

地点：理学楼报告厅（理学A101）

内容摘要：

With the popularity of sensing, actuation and wearable technology, Internet of Things (IoT) has become the next IT innovation battlefront. Many visionary companies have started to invest into this area by proposing, developing, acquiring and producing advanced IoT products such as smart thermostat (NEST), smart light (HUE), smart watch (AppleWatch), smart car (Google), etc. However, due to the diversity of embedded devices, application domains, and networking requirements, building IoT applications requires a stiff learning curve for most users due to a significant customization effort on sensors, embedded software, cyber-physical coordination, and backend service support. There is no standard platform for IoT development. This presents a big challenge for many service providers from all over the world.

We have developed a flexible IoT platform and middleware, called WuKong, that can help ease the development process for new IoT applications. The Wukong middleware supports the flow-based programming (FBP) model that can be used by users to easily define data and control workflows among virtual, conceptual sensing nodes. Users can also specify simple execution policies on when, where and how an FBP should run in the user’s living environment. The WuKong middleware then automatically and intelligently decides how to deploy an IoT application by mapping an FBP to physical devices in order to meet the functionality requirements under deployment policies. In this way, WuKong provides the system transformation to run and manage different IoT applications on the same set of physically distributed and diverse IoT devices.

报告人1简介：

Kwei-Jay Lin received the MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Lin is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of America. His research interests include service-oriented systems, IoT, M2M, real-time systems, business informatics, and cloud computing. In these areas, he has published multiple peer-reviewed scientific publications, in prestigious journals and top-rated conferences in IEEE and ACM. He is a co-editor-in-chief for Elsevier Journal of Innovation in Digital Ecosystems since 2014.He has been an editor-in-chief of Springer Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications since 2007 and of Software Publication Track, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Academia Sinica, Taiwan since 2005.He is also a member of editorial board, International Journal of Science and Engineering (IJSE) ,Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE ,2010, and Business & Information Systems Engineering (WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK), 2009.

报告人2简介：

Fadi J. Kurdahi received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,USA, in 1987. Since then, he has been a faculty at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, where he conducts research in the areas of Computer Aided Design of Systems-on-Chip, and serves as the Director of the Center for Embedded Computer Systems (CECS). His research interests include chip design, reconfigurable computing, embedded systems hardware and software, software-defined radio, system implementation of: multimedia, imaging, and wireless communication systems, architectures of mobile systems, cyber-physical systems and applications to sustainability, etc. He leads a major DARPA -funded research project with 15 researchers to develop a new breed of reconfigurable computing chips. He researched and developed computer-aided synthesis and evaluation tools for the automatic design of Application Specific, Very Large Scale Integrated(VLSI) systems. His research was disseminated in about 200 publications and has received numerous accolades. He serves on a several journal boards and conference committees. He also received the Distinguished Alumnus award from the American University of Beirut in 2008. He is a Fellow of the AAAS.