PANel on smart computing
Topic: Benefits and Ethics of AI in making Computing “Smart”
Chair: Prof. Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway
Panel Members:
Biography: Chunming Rong
Prof. Chunming Rong is the chair of IEEE Cloud Computing. He works as the head of the Center for IP-based Service Innovation (CIPSI) at the University of Stavanger and also as adjunct Senior Scientist leading Big-Data Initiative at IRIS. He is co-founder and the Chair of the Board of Dataunitor.com – a new startup in Norway. He was the vice president of CSA Norway Chapter (2016-2017). His research work focuses on data science, cloud computing, security and privacy. He is an IEEE senior member and is honoured as member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) since 2011. He has extensive contact network and projects in both the industry and academic. He is also founder and Steering Chair of IEEE CloudCom conference and workshop series. He is the steering chair and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), and co-Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Cloud Computing (ISSN: 2192-113X) by Springer. Prof. Rong has extensive experience in managing large-scale R&D projects funded by both industry and funding agencies, both in Norway and EU.
Biography: Julie McCann
Prof Julie A. McCann is a Professor of Computer Systems in Imperial College London (IC), where she leads the Adaptive Embedded Systems Engineering Research Group, she is Director for the Imperial wide Centre for Smart Connected Futures, Co-Director of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Cities and she is CI for the NEC Smart Water Systems Lab and many other substantive projects with industry and academia with a focus on networking and sensing infrastructures to support environments such as smart cities, water and gas networks etc. She is CI on the EPSRC energy/water/food nexus WefWebs project where her focus is on precision farming and wine making.
Likewise, her NERC FUSE project designed and deployed a now patented sensing infrastructure for floodplain monitoring in Oxfordshire. Her research centres on highly decentralized and self-organizing scalable embedded frugal computing systems where one avoids a single point of failure to produce truly scalable solutions. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and is the Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Adaptive Autonomic Systems (TAAS), has been General and Technical chair for the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising systems (SASO) and IEEE SECON 2016, SMARTCOMP 2017 and has been on the programme committee for IEEE INFOCOM, ACM UBICOMP and many more. Julie has presented her work in A* conferences and keynoted at the Indian Science Conclave Congregation of Nobel Prize Winners, for the encouragement of disadvantaged kids into science and computing in 2008.
Biography: Mohan Kumar
Mohan Kumar has been the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at RIT since Fall 2013. Prior to joining RIT, he served as Professor and Director of the Computer Engineering program in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. During 1992-2000, he served as a faculty at the School of Computer Science, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. Mohan obtained his Ph.D and MTech degrees from the Indian Institute of Science in 1992 and 1985 respectively.
Kumar has received funding of over 7 million dollars as a PI or Co-PI in several completed and ongoing projects funded by the NSF, The Air Force Research Laboratory, Texas ARP, the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the Defense Science and Technology Organization (Australia). Published 180 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Supervised 17 PhD dissertations and 32 MS theses. Original research contributions include algorithms and mechanisms for: Opportunistic Distributed Computing; Service Composition in Pervasive and Dynamic Systems; Information Fusion in Sensor Systems, Pervasive and Sensor Systems Middleware; Caching and Prefetching in Mobile and Distributed Systems; Active Network Based Mobile IP Enhancements; Extended Hypercube Architectures for Parallel Processing; Parallelization of Artificial Neural Network Algorithms; and Dual-ported RAM based Communications in multi-processor systems. His H-index - 29; i10-index – 68.
He co-founded the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) and the Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal. He is now on his second term as the Chair of the Steering Committee for PerCom. During the summer of 2013, Kumar was on an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Summer Faculty Fellowship in 2013. He was visiting researcher/collaborator at the National Information and Communication Technologies Australia (NICTA) in 2012, Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Pisa, Italy in 2000, 2008 and 2010, the National University of Singapore in 2008, the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong in 2006, and the Texas A&M University in 1995.
Biography: Antonio Puliafito
Antonio Puliafito is a full professor of computer engineering at the University of Messina, Italy. His interests include distributed systems, networking, IoT and Cloud computing. He is acting as an expert in ICT for the European Commission since 1998. He is currently the President of the Centre on Information Technologies at University of Messina. He participated in several European projects such as Reservoir, Vision, CloudWave and Beacon. He has contributed in the development of several tools such as WebSPN, ArgoPerformance, GS3 and Stack4Things. He is member of the management board of the National Center of Informatics in Italy (CINI), with specific interests in Smart cities. He is in charge of the #SmartME crowdfunding initiative, to develop a smart city infrastructure in the city of Messina. He is one of the co-founder of the startup SmartME.io. He is author and co-author of more than 400 scientific papers.
Biography: Fred Sheu
As National Technology Officer at Microsoft Hong Kong, Fred Sheu supports policy decision and delivers technologically relevant and scalable solutions into Hong Kong market. His main objectives are to align IT value propositions to public policies in such areas as healthcare, education, the environment, and local social and economic development; and to promote a digital agenda in top policy areas, including innovation, security and privacy, technology neutrality, accessibility, and interoperability.
Prior to Microsoft, Fred worked with Hewlett Packard (HP) Enterprise where he was the General Manager of Software for HPE Hong Kong. Fred is an active veteran in Hong Kong ICT industry, he serves in councils of Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS), itSMF Hong Kong Chapter and the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation (HKITF).
Fred graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Computer Science (Hon) degree.
Biography: Stephen Yau
Stephen S. Yau is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, Arizona, USA. He served as the chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at ASU in 1994-2001. Previously, he was on the faculties of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and University of Florida, Gainesville.
He served as the president of the Computer Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and was on the IEEE Board of Directors, and the Board of Directors of Computing Research Association. He served as the editor-in-chief of IEEE COMPUTER magazine. He organized many major conferences, including the 1989 World Computer Congress sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and the IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) sponsored by IEEE Computer Society. He has served as a honorary chair and general co-chair of the IEEE World Congress on Services and co-located conferences on Service Computing, Cloud Computing, Web Services and Mobile Services. Currently, he is a honorary chair of the 2017 IEEEWorld Congress of Services, and the 2017 IEEE Smart World Congress.
His current research includes services and cloud computing systems, trustworthy computing, cybersecurity, software engineering, internet of things, and ubiquitous computing. He has received many awards and recognitions, including the Tsutomu Kanai Award and Richard E. Merwin Award of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Centennial and Third Millennium Medals, and the Outstanding Contributions Award of the Chinese Computer Federation. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana, all in electrical engineering.
Chair: Prof. Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway
Panel Members:
- Prof. Julie McCann, Imperial College London, UK
- Prof. Mohan Kumar, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
- Prof. Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
- Mr Fred Sheu, Microsoft Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong
- Prof. Stephen Yau, Arizona State University, USA
Biography: Chunming Rong
Prof. Chunming Rong is the chair of IEEE Cloud Computing. He works as the head of the Center for IP-based Service Innovation (CIPSI) at the University of Stavanger and also as adjunct Senior Scientist leading Big-Data Initiative at IRIS. He is co-founder and the Chair of the Board of Dataunitor.com – a new startup in Norway. He was the vice president of CSA Norway Chapter (2016-2017). His research work focuses on data science, cloud computing, security and privacy. He is an IEEE senior member and is honoured as member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) since 2011. He has extensive contact network and projects in both the industry and academic. He is also founder and Steering Chair of IEEE CloudCom conference and workshop series. He is the steering chair and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), and co-Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Cloud Computing (ISSN: 2192-113X) by Springer. Prof. Rong has extensive experience in managing large-scale R&D projects funded by both industry and funding agencies, both in Norway and EU.
Biography: Julie McCann
Prof Julie A. McCann is a Professor of Computer Systems in Imperial College London (IC), where she leads the Adaptive Embedded Systems Engineering Research Group, she is Director for the Imperial wide Centre for Smart Connected Futures, Co-Director of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Cities and she is CI for the NEC Smart Water Systems Lab and many other substantive projects with industry and academia with a focus on networking and sensing infrastructures to support environments such as smart cities, water and gas networks etc. She is CI on the EPSRC energy/water/food nexus WefWebs project where her focus is on precision farming and wine making.
Likewise, her NERC FUSE project designed and deployed a now patented sensing infrastructure for floodplain monitoring in Oxfordshire. Her research centres on highly decentralized and self-organizing scalable embedded frugal computing systems where one avoids a single point of failure to produce truly scalable solutions. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and is the Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Adaptive Autonomic Systems (TAAS), has been General and Technical chair for the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising systems (SASO) and IEEE SECON 2016, SMARTCOMP 2017 and has been on the programme committee for IEEE INFOCOM, ACM UBICOMP and many more. Julie has presented her work in A* conferences and keynoted at the Indian Science Conclave Congregation of Nobel Prize Winners, for the encouragement of disadvantaged kids into science and computing in 2008.
Biography: Mohan Kumar
Mohan Kumar has been the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at RIT since Fall 2013. Prior to joining RIT, he served as Professor and Director of the Computer Engineering program in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. During 1992-2000, he served as a faculty at the School of Computer Science, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. Mohan obtained his Ph.D and MTech degrees from the Indian Institute of Science in 1992 and 1985 respectively.
Kumar has received funding of over 7 million dollars as a PI or Co-PI in several completed and ongoing projects funded by the NSF, The Air Force Research Laboratory, Texas ARP, the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the Defense Science and Technology Organization (Australia). Published 180 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Supervised 17 PhD dissertations and 32 MS theses. Original research contributions include algorithms and mechanisms for: Opportunistic Distributed Computing; Service Composition in Pervasive and Dynamic Systems; Information Fusion in Sensor Systems, Pervasive and Sensor Systems Middleware; Caching and Prefetching in Mobile and Distributed Systems; Active Network Based Mobile IP Enhancements; Extended Hypercube Architectures for Parallel Processing; Parallelization of Artificial Neural Network Algorithms; and Dual-ported RAM based Communications in multi-processor systems. His H-index - 29; i10-index – 68.
He co-founded the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) and the Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal. He is now on his second term as the Chair of the Steering Committee for PerCom. During the summer of 2013, Kumar was on an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Summer Faculty Fellowship in 2013. He was visiting researcher/collaborator at the National Information and Communication Technologies Australia (NICTA) in 2012, Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Pisa, Italy in 2000, 2008 and 2010, the National University of Singapore in 2008, the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong in 2006, and the Texas A&M University in 1995.
Biography: Antonio Puliafito
Antonio Puliafito is a full professor of computer engineering at the University of Messina, Italy. His interests include distributed systems, networking, IoT and Cloud computing. He is acting as an expert in ICT for the European Commission since 1998. He is currently the President of the Centre on Information Technologies at University of Messina. He participated in several European projects such as Reservoir, Vision, CloudWave and Beacon. He has contributed in the development of several tools such as WebSPN, ArgoPerformance, GS3 and Stack4Things. He is member of the management board of the National Center of Informatics in Italy (CINI), with specific interests in Smart cities. He is in charge of the #SmartME crowdfunding initiative, to develop a smart city infrastructure in the city of Messina. He is one of the co-founder of the startup SmartME.io. He is author and co-author of more than 400 scientific papers.
Biography: Fred Sheu
As National Technology Officer at Microsoft Hong Kong, Fred Sheu supports policy decision and delivers technologically relevant and scalable solutions into Hong Kong market. His main objectives are to align IT value propositions to public policies in such areas as healthcare, education, the environment, and local social and economic development; and to promote a digital agenda in top policy areas, including innovation, security and privacy, technology neutrality, accessibility, and interoperability.
Prior to Microsoft, Fred worked with Hewlett Packard (HP) Enterprise where he was the General Manager of Software for HPE Hong Kong. Fred is an active veteran in Hong Kong ICT industry, he serves in councils of Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS), itSMF Hong Kong Chapter and the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation (HKITF).
Fred graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Computer Science (Hon) degree.
Biography: Stephen Yau
Stephen S. Yau is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, Arizona, USA. He served as the chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at ASU in 1994-2001. Previously, he was on the faculties of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and University of Florida, Gainesville.
He served as the president of the Computer Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and was on the IEEE Board of Directors, and the Board of Directors of Computing Research Association. He served as the editor-in-chief of IEEE COMPUTER magazine. He organized many major conferences, including the 1989 World Computer Congress sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and the IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) sponsored by IEEE Computer Society. He has served as a honorary chair and general co-chair of the IEEE World Congress on Services and co-located conferences on Service Computing, Cloud Computing, Web Services and Mobile Services. Currently, he is a honorary chair of the 2017 IEEEWorld Congress of Services, and the 2017 IEEE Smart World Congress.
His current research includes services and cloud computing systems, trustworthy computing, cybersecurity, software engineering, internet of things, and ubiquitous computing. He has received many awards and recognitions, including the Tsutomu Kanai Award and Richard E. Merwin Award of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Centennial and Third Millennium Medals, and the Outstanding Contributions Award of the Chinese Computer Federation. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana, all in electrical engineering.