Professor Jian Tang, Syracuse University, USA.

Abstract: Sensors on (or attached to) smartphones can enable attractive sensing applications in different domains such as environmental monitoring, social networking, healthcare, etc. In this talk, I will introduce a new concept, Sensing-as-a-Service, i.e., providing sensing services using smartphones via a cloud computing system. A Sensing-as-a-Service cloud should meet the following requirements: 1) It must be able to support various smartphone sensing applications; 2) It must be able to support different (embedded or external) sensors; 3) It must be energy-efficient; 4) It must have effective incentive mechanisms that can be used to attract mobile users to participate in sensing activities. First, I will identify unique challenges of designing and implementing a Sensing-as-a-Service cloud and review existing systems and methods. Then I will present design of our unified cloud computing system for smartphone sensing and demonstrate it using the objective ranking application. In addition, future research directions will be discussed.

Professor Jian Tang is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. He received his Ph.D degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 2006. His research interests lie in the areas of Wireless Networking, Cloud Computing and Big Data. Dr. Tang has published over 80 papers in premier journals and conferences. He received an NSF CAREER award in 2009, and Best Paper Awards in the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) and the 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) respectively. He has been an editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2010 and for IEEE Internet of Things Journal since 2013. He served as a TPC co-chair for the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and the 2016 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC). He also served as a TPC member for many conferences including IEEE Infocom 2010-2016, ICDCS’2015, ICC 2006-2015, and Globecom 2006-2015.

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University of Waterloo
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