Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Abstract:
We may be at the cusp of a generation of systems which consist of sensors
and actuators connected by shared wireless networks, and involving
computational nodes as well as software services. At the fundamental
level, this gives rise to several problems such as how to conduct
in-network processing in sensor networks, how to synchronize clocks, or
how to control systems over lossy links. At the implementation level, in
order to facilitate the proliferation of these systems, it is important o
develop appropriate abstractions and a supporting middleware. We provide
an overview of the efforts in the Convergence Laboratory at the University
of Illinois.
Brief profile:
P. R. Kumar is currently Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois. He is a Fellow of the
IEEE. He received the Donald P. Eckman award of the American Automatic
Control Council in 1985. He is the recipient of the 2006 IEEE Field Award
in Control Systems. He is a coauthor of the book, Stochastic Systems:
Estimation, Identification and Adaptive Control, with Pravin P. Varaiya.
He has presented plenary lectures at conferences including the IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control, the SIAM Conference on Optimization,
the SIAM Annual Meeting, the International Symposium on Information
theory, and ACM SenSys. He serves on several editorial boards, including
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Foundations and Trends in
Networking, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Communications in
Information and Systems, Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems, and
Mathematical Problems in Engineering: Problems, Theories and Applications.
He has worked on problems in game theory, adaptive control, stochastic
control, simulated annealing, neural networks, machine learning, queueing
networks, manufacturing systems, scheduling, and wafer fabrication plants.
His current research interests are in wireless networks, sensor networks,
and the convergence of control, communication and computation.
URL: http://black1.csl.uiuc.edu/~prkumar/
Keynote 2, 8:30-9:30am, October 12, 2006
Key Technologies for the Next Generation Network
Speaker: Dr. Krishan Sabnani,
Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory
Bell Labs Research of Lucent Technologies
Brief profile:
Krishan Sabnani is Senior Vice President of the Networking Research
Laboratory at Bell Labs in New Jersey. For the past 23 years Krishan has
been a member of Bell Labs Research. Krishan has conceived and launched
several systems projects in the areas of Internetworking and wireless
networking, led successful transfers of research ideas to products in
Lucent and AT&T business units and conducted extensive personal research
in data and wireless networking. He has built organizations known for
technical excellence by recruiting and coaching the best people in the
industry.
Krishan has received the 2005 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award and the 2005 IEEE
W. Wallace McDowell Award - the only person ever to receive both awards.
Krishan is a Bell Labs Fellow. He is also a fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Association of
Computing Machinery (ACM). He received the Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper
Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 1991. Krishan will receive
the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award from Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT), New Delhi, India. He has also won the 2005 Thomas Alva Edison
Patent Award from the R&D Council of New Jersey. He holds 37 patents and
has published more than 70 papers.
In his personal research, Krishan has made major contributions to the
communications protocols area. He has designed several protocols such as
SNR, RMTP, and Airmail. He has also made significant contributions to
conformance test generation, protocol validation, automated converter
generation, and reverse engineering.
Krishan received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia
University, New York, in 1981. He joined Bell Labs in 1981.
URL: http://www.bell-labs.com/user/kks/
Dinner Speech, 7:00-9:00pm, October 11, 2006
Wireless Tales from a Globetrotting Professor
Speaker: Professor Vijay Bhargava
Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Brief profile:
Vijay K. Bhargava received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario in 1970, 1972 and 1974
respectively.
Vijay has held regular/visiting appointments at the Indian Institute
of Science, University of Waterloo, Concordia University, Ecole
Polytechnique de Montreal, UNIDO, NTT Wireless Communications Labs,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Indonesia, the Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology and the University of Victoria.
From 1984 to 2003 he was a professor at the University of Victoria and
served as the Founding Graduate Advisor of the department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Currently he is a professor and Head of the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia.
Vijay served as the Founder and President of "Binary Communications
Inc." (1983-2000). He has provided consulting services to several
companies and government agencies. He is a co-author (with D. Haccoun,
R. Matyas and P. Nuspl) of "Digital Communications by Satellite" (New
York: Wiley 1981), a coeditor (with S. Wicker) of "Reed Solomon Codes
and their Applications" (IEEE Press 1994) and a co-editor (with
V. Poor, V. Tarokh and S. Yoon) of "Communications, Information and
Network Security" (Kluwer: 2003). He serves as an Editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications.
URL: http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~vijayb
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