Events for 04-2019

Instructors/Speakers Prof. Kui REN School of Computer Science and Technology Zhejiang University China Abstract The vision of Internet of things (IoT) is the interconnected physical devices of various forms, embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, jointly perform sophisticated tasks ranging from data collection, exchange, and aggregation to task scheduling and system operation. IoT is expected to support abundant unprecedented services for the world and referred as “the infrastructure of the information society.” Penetrating into almost every critical aspect of the modern society, IoT, however, also poses critical security challenges. In this talk, I will discuss the uniqueness of these security challenges. Particularly, three topics will be covered in depth; that is, 1) The challenge of the device interfaces; 2) IoT ...

Instructors/Speakers Prof. Cheng LONG The School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE) Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore Abstract It is expected that by 2050, more than 2.5 billion people would reside in cities. While the urbanization has modernized many peoples’ lives, it causes big challenges such as traffic congestion, air pollution, energy consumption, etc. As part of the effort for solving these problems, people have been collecting and analyzing data that is being generated in the urban space, e.g., traffic data, mobility data, POI data, etc., for finding insights into the problems and/or serving citizens better decision making. Since the majority of the data involves the spatial and/or temporal dimensions, techniques for spatial and spatio-temporal data analytics are playing critical ...