Key Note Speech

Cross-Space Crowd Sensing: Concepts, Technologies, and Practices

Abstract: Crowd sensing is a new sensing paradigm that uses individual sensing capability to accomplish complex social sensing tasks. Human beings live and communicate in both cyber and physical spaces. Crowd sensing can be realized by actively recruiting participants in the cyber space and also opportunistically collecting crowd footprints in the cyber space. We propose a new concept named Cross-Space Crowd Sensing that aims at combining the different sensing capabilities in both cyber and physical spaces, and also fusing human implicit intelligence in understanding the sensory data. In this talk, I will introduce the definition of cross-space crowd sensing, main research challenges, and present our early works in this area.

Speaker:

Dr. Zhiwen Yu is currently a professor of the School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He has worked as an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at Mannheim University, Germany from Nov. 2009 to Oct. 2010, a research fellow at Kyoto University, Japan from Feb. 2007 to Jan. 2009, and a post-doctoral researcher at Nagoya University, Japan in 2006-2007. His research interests cover pervasive computing, context-aware systems, mobile social networks, and personalization. He has served as an associate/guest editor for a number of international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine, and ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. He is the General Co-Chair of SmartCity 2016, CPSCom 2015, General Chair of UIC 2014, the Program Chair of EUC 2013, HumanCom 2012, and UIC 2010, the Vice Program Chair of PerCom 2015, the Workshop Chair of UbiComp 2011. He has published around 130 scientific papers in refereed journals and conferences, e.g., ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, IEEE THMS, ACM TKDD, UbiComp, PerCom, etc. Zhiwen Yu is a senior member of IEEE, a distinguished member of CCF (China Computer Federation) and the vice chair of CCF Pervasive Computing Technical Committee. He received the Young Teacher Award founded by Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation in 2014, the CCF Young Scientist Award in 2011, the CPSCom'13/GPC'12/AMT'12/UIC'09 Best Paper Award, the Humboldt Fellowship in 2008, and the CCF Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2006.