{"71660":{"#nid":"71660","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Applied Probability and Stochastics (APS) seminar-Sensor Web: Applications and Research Challenges","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Sensor Web: Applications and Research Challenges\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr. WenZhan Song, Associate Professor of Computer Science at\nGeorgia State University\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT: \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf Internet is viewed as the circulatory system connecting the world for information sharing, then Sensor Web can be said as the nervous\nsystem sensing the world: extracting timely information for efficientdecision support and quick corrective actions, where sensing,\ncomputing, communication and control play a critical role and need a\ntransformative study. Sensor web has found many important\napplications. In this talk, the speaker Dr. WenZhan Song will present\nhis research experiences, challenges and future plans in creating\nSensor Web systems for environment monitoring, smart grid and smart\nenvironment.\n\nDr. Song is a pioneer to apply sensor web technology to volcano\nmonitoring. During 2006-2009, within a NASA project, he led a team of\nWSU, JPL and USGS to create and demonstrate the first known space\nin-situ sensor web for volcano monitoring. With a recent funded NSF\ngrant, Song is leading a new team of GSU, UNC and MSU to create a new\nparadigm, VolcanoSRI (Volcano Seimic Realtime Imaging), for imaging\nthe tomography of an active volcano in real-time. A future effort aims\nto integrate seimic tomography, InSAR and deformation model to make\nthe fictional holographic projector known as Virgil in the film\n\u0022Supervolcano\u0022 (3:49) a reality. Dr. Song is also active in applying\nsensor web to smart grid and recently partners with Cornell and UC\nBerkerley to investigate key aspects of a computation and information\nfoundation of the smart grids. Our goal is to gain a foundational\nunderstanding of how information should be partitioned in time and\nspace; how it should be collected, distributed, compressed, and\naggregated. Song will be in charge of developing an open and scalable\nexperimental platform for its emprical study and validation. This\nplatform, known as SmartGridLab, will combine a hardware testbed with\na software simulator, allowing software virtual nodes to interact with\nphysical nodes in the testbed. Dr. Song has also been passionate with\napplying sensor web technology to deliver cost-effective healthcare at\nhome. Having good health increasingly means managing our long-term\ncare rather than sporadic treatment of acute conditions. Sensor web\nsystem can potentially emulate the monitoring funtions of homecare\nnurses.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. WenZhan Song is an associate professor of computer science at\nGeorgia State University. He established Sensorweb Research Laboratory\nin 2005 with the vision of transforming information acquisition and\nambient intelligence paradigms through sensor web technology. His\nresearch on sensor web system has received $6+ million research\nfunding from NSF, NASA, USGS and Boeing since 2005, resulting dozens\nof high-impact research publications. His research has been featured\nin MIT Technology Review, Network World, Scientific America, New\nScientist, etc. He was an assistant professor at Washington State\nUniversity - Vancouver during 2005-2010. He earned his PhD (2005) in\ncomputer science from Illinois Institute of Technology, and MS (2000)\nand BS (1997) from Nanjing University of Science and Technology. Dr.\nSong was a recipient of NSF CAREER Award (2010) and Chancellor\nResearch Excellence Award (2010) of WSU Vancouver. He is an IEEE\nSenior Member.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sensor Web: Applications and Research Challenges"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2011-10-20 14:39:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:56:24","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-10-28T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-10-28T15:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-10-28T15:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-10-28 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-10-28 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-10-28 19:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Goldberg\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}