Princeton Wireless Distinguished Seminar Series: Shyam Gollakota, University of Washington - Wednesday, Oct 27
Princeton Wireless Distinguished Seminar Series Speaker : Shyam Gollakota, University of Washington Title : Creating the Internet of Biological and Bio-Inspired Things Day : Wednesday, October 27, 2021 Time : 12:20 pm Location : Online - Please register here: [ https://princeton.zoom.us/j/97984650886 | https://princeton.zoom.us/j/97984650886 ] Hosts : Yasaman Ghasempour and Kyle Jamieson Abstract : Living organisms can perform incredible feats. Plants like dandelions can disperse their seeds over a kilometer in the wind, and small insects like bumblebees can see, smell, communicate, and fly around the world, despite their tiny size. Enabling some of these capabilities for the Internet of things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems would be transformative for applications ranging from large-scale sensor deployments to micro-drones, biological tracking, and robotic implants. In this talk, I will explain how by taking an interdisciplinary approach spanning wireless communication, sensing, and biology, we can create programmable devices for the internet of biological and bio-inspired things. I will present the first battery-free wireless sensors, inspired by dandelion seeds, that can be dispersed by the wind to automate deployment of large-scale sensor networks. I will then discuss how integrating programmable wireless sensors with live animals like bumblebees can enable mobility for IoT devices, and how this technique has been used for real-world applications like tracking invasive "murder" hornets. Finally, I will present an energy-efficient insect-scale steerable vision system inspired by animal head motion that can ride on the back of a live beetle and enable tiny terrestrial robots to see. Bio : Shyam Gollakota is a Torode Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He works across multiple disciplines at the University including Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, biology and the School of Medicine. His work has led to three startups, Jeeva Wireless, Sound Life Sciences and Wavely Diagnostics, has been licensed by ResMed Inc and is in use by millions of users. His lab also worked closely with the Washington Department of Agriculture to wireless track the invasive "murder" hornets, which resulted in the destruction of the first nest in the United States. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Career Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the SIGMOBILE Rockstar award, ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2020 and recently named as a Moore Inventor Fellow in 2021. He was also named in MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35, Popular Science ‘brilliant 10’ and twice to the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. His group’s research has earned Best Paper awards at MOBICOM, SIGCOMM, UbiComp, SenSys, NSDI and CHI, appeared in interdisciplinary journals like Science Translational Medicine, Science Robotics and Nature Digital Medicine as well as named as a MIT Technology Review Breakthrough technology of 2016 as well as Popular Science top innovations in 2015. He is an alumni of MIT (Ph.D., 2013, winner of ACM doctoral dissertation award) and IIT Madras.
Princeton Wireless Distinguished Seminar Series Speaker : Karthik Sundaresan, from Georgia Tech Title : Engineering Networks in the Sky: Challenges and Potential Day : Wednesday, November 10, 2021 Time : 12:20 pm Location : Online - Please register here: [ https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvf-moqD0qHdRppXRBejtRmcttFNsMW... | https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvf-moqD0qHdRppXRBejtRmcttFNsMW... ] Hosts : Yasaman Ghasempour and Kyle Jamieson Abstract : Advances in mobile (cellular) networks have ushered in an era of abundant connectivity. However, the stationary and expensive nature of their deployment has limited their ability to provide true "ubiquitous" connectivity under the 5G vision - especially to areas where connectivity is sparing or nonexistent (e.g. rural areas), has been compromised (e.g. disasters), or demands are extreme (e.g. venues/hotspots). The recent advances in un-manned aerial vehicle (UAVs) technology have the potential to change the landscape of wide-area wireless connectivity by bringing a new dimension - "mobility" to the cellular network infrastructure itself. By deploying base stations on each of the UAVs, service providers can now deploy and tear-down these mobile “networks in the sky” in an on-demand and flexible manner. This allows them to supplement static mobile networks in areas where additional connectivity is needed, or provide stand-alone connectivity in areas where existing mobile networks are either absent or compromised. However, realizing this vision of deploying heavy-weight cellular networks (e.g. LTE, 5G NR) on light-weight, resource- constrained platforms such as UAVs, faces several formidable challenges both in design and deployment. This is further complicated by the complex nature of cellular networks that involve multiple interacting components - radio access network (RAN), evolved packet core (EPC) network and backhaul transport network. In this talk, I will present our system "SkyLiTE"-- one of the first efforts to design and deploy an on-demand, end-to-end, multi-cell 5G network (on UAVs) that can self-configure itself in the sky. I will discuss how by bringing together innovations (both algorithms and systems) in wireless networking research, SkyLiTE is able to re-architect the various components (RAN, core and backhaul) of a cellular network and make it deployable on challenging UAV platforms. Beyond connectivity, I will also highlight the significant potential these “networks in the sky” offer for low latency, high bandwidth sensing services over large areas through sample applications designed for real-time tracking and 3D reconstruction. Bio: Karthikeyan (Karthik) Sundaresan is a Professor in the School of ECE, Georgia Tech. Prior to that he spent fifteen years in wireless and telecom research at NEC Labs America, Princeton. His research interests are broadly in wireless networking and mobile computing, and span both algorithm design as well as system prototyping. He is the recipient of ACM Sigmobile’s Rockstar award (2016) for early career contributions to mobile computing and wireless networking, as well as several best paper awards at prestigious ACM and IEEE conferences. He holds over fifty patents, and received business contribution awards for bringing research technology to commercialization at NEC. He also led the spin-out effort of an innovative, lab- grown research technology (TrackIO) for infrastructure-free tracking of first responders in GPS- denied environments. He has participated in various organizational and editorial roles for IEEE and ACM conferences and journals, and served as the PC co-chair for ACM MobiCom’16. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and an ACM distinguished scientist.
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Emily C. Lawrence