Interdiscipline Research in Smart Buildings/Smart Cities: A Perspective from Computer Science
Speaker:
Dan Wang, Associate Professor
Department of Computing,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Date and Time
Monday, Nov 6th, 2017 at 14:15.
Location
Polacksbacken, ITC, room 2345.
Abstract
Smart buildings are important components for a city to be smart. In this talk, we show that computer scientists can contribute greatly in smart building research, from human comfort, condition-based maintenance and operations, to energy conservation. We show that we may even use big building data, to predict traffic congestion; and this can improve the overall smartness of the city. From another way round, smart building research has also call for the advances of computer science in IoT and data driven analytic models to match the emerging requirements. An interdisciplinary thinking is particularly needed.
Bio
Dan Wang
is currently an associate professor in Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests lie in networking architecture and QoS in general, but recently in smart buildings and smart energy. He has published extensively in conferences of INFOCOM, Sigmetrics, ICNP, e-Energy, Buildsys, ICDCS, and journals of TON, JSAC, TOSN, TMC etc. He won Global Innovation Award from TechConnect Washington DC in 2017. He got his Ph.D., MSc, BSc, from Simon Fraser University, Case Western Reserve University and Peking University, all in Computer Science.