From Smart Sensing to Smart Living: The Era of IoT, AI/ML and Data Science

Abstract:

We live in an era in which our physical and cyber environments are becoming increasingly intertwined and smarter due to the advent of pervasive sensing, wireless communications, computing and control technologies. The availability of wireless sensors, Internet of Things (IoT), and smart devices are also empowering us with fine-grained information and opinion gathering via mobile crowdsensing about events of interest, resulting in actionable inferences and decisions. This synergy has led to what is called cyber-physical-human (CPH) convergence in smart living environments (e.g., smart homes/cities, smart grid, smart transportation, smart manufacturing, smart health, smart agriculture, etc.), the goal of which is to improve human quality of life. However, CPH and IoT systems pose significant challenges due to the complexity, scale, heterogeneity, resource limitations, human behavior, security and privacy, dependability and trust issues. This talk will highlight unique research challenges in smart living systems followed by novel frameworks, models, and secure and trustworthy solutions based on a rich set of theoretical and practical design principles, such as AI/ML, data analytics, sensor fusion, uncertainty reasoning, information theory, prospect theory, reputation/belief models, and graph theory. Case studies with real-world datasets in smart energy, smart transportation, and smart health will be presented. The talk will be concluded with direction of future research.

Dr. Sajal K. Das is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair at Missouri University of Science and Technology, where he was Computer Science Department Chair in the past. He served the National Science Foundation as a Program Director in Computer and Network Systems Division.

Dr. Das’ interdisciplinary research expertise includes cyber-physical systems, IoT, cybersecurity, data science, machine learning, wireless sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing, smart environments, HPC/cloud/edge computing, computational systems biology, and applied graph theory and game theory. He made fundamental contributions to these areas and published extensively in top-tier journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He coauthored 59 book chapters and 4 books – Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols, and Applications; Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure: Foundations and Challenges; Mobile Agents in Distributed Computing and Networking; and Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach. A holder of 5 US patents, he directed over $22 million funded research projects. His h-index is 99 with 38,800+ citations.

Dr. Das is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal and serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. A founder of IEEE PerCom, WoWMoM, SMARTCOMP and ACM ICDCN conferences, he has served as General and Program Chair of major conferences in his areas. A recipient of 12 Best Paper Awards in flagship conferences like ACM MobiCom and IEEE PerCom, he received numerous awards for teaching, mentoring and research including IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement award for pioneering contributions to sensor networks and mobile computing, and University of Missouri System President’s Award for Sustained Career Excellence. Dr. 
Das has mentored 12 postdoctoral fellows, 50 Ph.D., 31 MS theses, and numerous undergraduate research students. He is a Distinguished alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and an IEEE Fellow.