ACM MobiSys 2021: IoT Day Speakers
Margaret Leinen
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Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and |
About the Speaker: Dr. Margaret Leinen is the Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Vice Chancellor for Marine Science of University of California at San Diego. She is an ocean biogeochemist and paleoceanographer whose research includes study of ocean carbon cycling and the role of the oceans in climate. Leinen is a member of the Executive Planning Group for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. During 2017 and 2018 Leinen was a US Department of State Science Envoy for the oceans to Latin America and the Pacific. She served as Assistant Director for Geosciences, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) from 2000-2007. She has also served as the President of the American Geophysical Union, President of The Oceanography Society and Chair of the AAAS Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Science and is a Fellow of all three societies and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Daniel Beutel
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Creator of Flower, Co-Founder Adap, Visiting Researcher University of Cambridge |
About the Speaker: Daniel designed and co-developed Flower (https://flower.dev), the first fully agnostic federated learning framework, which is being used at major academic and industrial research institutions. He is also one of the founders of the Hamburg-based startup Adap (https://adap.com) and has considerable experience in running and scaling engineering teams to deliver innovative projects for customers such as Porsche, Daimler, or BMW. Daniel has an MSc with distinction in Software Engineering from Oxford University.
Eliot Lear
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Principal Engineer Cisco Systems |
About the Speaker: With over 35 years of experience in the networking world, Eliot Lear serves as a Principal Engineer for Cisco Systems, where he focuses on new technologies and business development in the areas of network management, applications, and security. He his current focus is on IoT security and onboarding, where he has developed an architecture known as Manufacturer Usage Descriptions. He has managed large networks and operation centers, and set baseline capability standards for Cisco products. A senior member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Eliot is a past member of the Internet Architecture Board. Prior to joining Cisco in 1998 Eliot was the Internet Architect for Silicon Graphics, Inc. Eliot & his family reside in Switzerland.
Girish Chowdhary
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Associate Professor of |
About the Speaker: Girish Chowdhary is an associate professor and Donald Biggar Willet Faculty Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the director of the Field Robotics Engineering and Science Hub (FRESH) at UIUC and the Chief Scientist on the Illinois Autonomous Farm. Girish holds a joint appointment with Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Computer Science, he is a member of the UIUC Coordinated Science Lab, and holds affiliate appointments in Aerospace Engineering and Electrical Engineering. He holds a PhD (2010) from Georgia Institute of Technology in Aerospace Engineering. He was a postdoc at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2011-2013), and an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department (2013-2016). He also worked with the German Aerospace Center’s (DLR’s) Institute of Flight Systems for around three years (2003-2006). Girish’s work on AI and adaptive flight control has led to several key advances to flight-control and his Dave Ward memorial award by Aerospace Guidance and Controls committee. Girish is the author of over 90 publications in autonomy and robotics, and PI on NSF, AFOSR, NASA, ARPA-E, and DOE grants, and an ONR MURI. He is the winner of the Air Force Young Investigator Award, and several best paper awards, including a best systems paper award at RSS 2018 for his recent work on the agricultural robot TerraSentia. He is the co-founder of EarthSense Inc., working towards making sustainable farming profitable with ultralight field robots.
Andra Lutu
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Telefonica Research |
About the Speaker: Andra Lutu is an Associate Researcher at Telefonica Research in Madrid, Spain. Her main research interests lie in the areas of network measurements, interdomain routing and mobile networks. After receiving her PhD at UC3M and IMDEA Networks Institute in Spain, Madrid, she worked as a Postdoc Fellow at Simula Research Laboratory, where she was a main contributor to the H2020 MONROE project, building the first open European hardware infrastructure to perform measurements in operational mobile networks. As part of Telefonica Research, Andra is a recipient of an H2020 MSCA Individual Fellowship grant funding her work on Dynamic Interconnections for the Cellular Ecosystem (DICE).
Fadel Adib
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Doherty Chair of Ocean Utilization at MIT |
Anna Maria Mandalari
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Research Associate Imperial College London |
About the Speaker: Anna Maria Mandalari is a research associate in the Dyson School of Design Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London. She was a METRICS Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher affiliated with the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M). Her research interests are related to IoT, privacy, large-scale Internet measurements, Internet measurement platforms, middleboxes and new Internet protocols.
Anirudh Badam
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Principal Researcher Research for Industry group Microsoft Research |
About the Speaker: Anirudh Badam is a principal researcher in the Research for Industry group. He is interested in problems pertaining to system support for IoT/Edge+Cloud (project FarmBeats), new memory technologies (project Navamem), and battery systems (Battery Research at Microsoft). He has a PhD from Princeton University (2012) and an undergraduate degree from IIT Madras (2006) in computer science. He joined Microsoft Research in September 2012.
