CLOUD COMPUTING SEMINAR SERIES
TITLE: Enabling Resilient Cyber-Physical-Human-Infrastructures
SPEAKER: Prof. Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, USA
DATE/TIME: Nov 06, 2024, 4:00 PM
VENUE: #102 CDS Seminar Room
ABSTRACT
Advances in the Internet-of-Things, edge-to-cloud technologies and AI-driven data analytics have spurred the creation of smart communities and a variety of smart city applications. New modalities of information and new channels of communication can support the interconnection of physical components, software systems, data, and humans to provide novel services that enrich the lives of citizens and build resilience to unexpected events/disasters. In this talk, we will discuss our recent experiences with deploying emerging technologies for societal scale resilience – from smart assisted living facilities for the elderly, smart firefighting in urban high-rises, to robust city-scale water infrastructure systems. In particular, we highlight the role of data as we seek to design and operate these systems at scale and under duress. We illustrate how data originating from multiple sources at different layers (geophysical, built infrastructure, cyber-platforms and human sources) must be collected and exchanged over heterogeneous networks. We will discuss challenges in generating higher level semantic observations from the gathered data by composing model-driven and AI-driven methods – paving the way for resilient communities of the future.
BIO
Nalini Venkatasubramanian is currently a Professor in the School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California Irvine. She has had significant research and industry experience in the areas of distributed systems, adaptive middleware, pervasive and mobile computing, cyberphysical systems, distributed multimedia and formal methods and has over 350 publications in these areas. As the Co-Director of the Center for Emergency Response Technologies at UC Irvine, Nalini’s recent research has focused on enabling resilient, sustainable and scalable observation and analysis of situational information from multiple input sources; dynamic adaptation of the underlying systems to enable information flow under massive failures and the dissemination of rich notifications to members of the public at large. She is the recipient of the prestigious NSF Career Award, multiple Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Awards and best paper awards. Prof. Venkatasubramanian has served in numerous steering and organizing committees of conferences on middleware, distributed computing and cyberphysical systems and on the editorial boards of journals. She received and M.S and Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her research has been supported both by government and industrial sources such as NSF, DHS, ONR, DARPA, NIST, NASA, DOE, Novell, Hewlett-Packard and Nokia. Prior to arriving at UC Irvine, Nalini was a Research Staff Member at the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California.
Host: Prof. Jayant Haritsa & Prof. Yogesh Simmhan (CDS)
About: The IBM-IISc Hybrid Cloud Lab (IIHCL) hosted at IISc is curating the Cloud Computing Seminar series with guest speakers from Industry and Academia speaking about the latest technologies and research on Cloud and edge computing, distributed computing systems, and AI/ML/Big Data platforms. More details at: http://iihcl.iisc.ac.in .
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