Workshop on Network Technologies and Their Applications

Time: Friday afternoon beginning at 13:15, Dec.23, 2011
Address: Room 207, Building 9, Yuquan Campus, Zhejiang University

13:15-14:15
Title: Overview of Smart Grid Research at ADSC
Speaker: Prof. David Yau, Purdue University

14:20-15:20
Title: Network Modulation: A New Cross-Layer Design to Enhance Wireless Network Performance
Speaker: Lin Cai, University of Victoria

15:25-16:25
Title: Research Challenges in Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks
Speaker: Prof. Tian He, University of Minnesota

Bio of Speakers:

David K.Y. Yau received the B.Sc. (first class honors) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the M.S. and Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin, all in computer science. He is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. He is currently on leave at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore, where he serves as Distinguished Scientist and Director of the smart grid sub-program. Dr. Yau was the recipient of an NSF CAREER award for research in quality of service provisioning. His other areas of research interest are protocol design and implementation, wireless and sensor networks, network security, network incentives, and smart grids. Dr. Yau served as Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (2004--09); Vice General Chair (2006), TPC co-Chair (2007), and TPC Area Chair (2011) of IEEE Int'l Conf. Network Protocols (ICNP); TPC co-Chair (2006) and Steering Committee member (2007--09) of IEEE Int'l Workshop Quality of Service (IWQoS); and TPC Track co-Chair (Network/Web/P2P Protocols and Applications) of IEEE Int'l Conf. Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2012.

Lin Cai received her Master and PhD degrees (awarded Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies)  in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, in 2002 and 2005, respectively.  Since 2005, she has been an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria. Her research interests span several areas in wireless communications and networking, with a focus on network protocol and architecture design supporting emerging multimedia traffic over wireless, mobile, ad hoc, and sensor networks.
She has been a recipient of the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Grant in 2010, and the best paper awards of IEEE ICC 2008 and IEEE WCNC 2011. She has served as a TPC symposium co-chair for IEEE Globecom'10, and the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, International Journal of Sensor Networks, and Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN). She is a senior member of IEEE.

Tian He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin City. He received the Ph.D. degree under Professor John A. Stankovic from the University of Virginia, Virginia in 2004. Dr. He is the author and co-author of over 100 papers in premier sensor network journals and conferences with over 8500 citations. His publications have been selected as graduate-level course materials by over 50 universities in the United States and other countries. Dr. He has received a number of research awards in the area of sensor networking,including four best paper awards. Dr. He is also the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award 2009 and McKnight Land-Grant Professorship. Dr. He served a few program chair positions in international conferences and on many program committees, and also currently serves as an editorial board member for four international journals including ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. His research includes wireless sensor networks, intelligent transportation systems, real-time embedded systems and distributed systems, supported by National Science Foundation, IBM, Microsoft and other agencies.