AADDA 2018 Talks Overview

Title: Transitioning IoT Edge Networks to Smart Communities

Speaker: Prof. Anish Arora, Ohio State University

This talk shares experiences in designing and deploying IoT based cyber-physical systems for anti-poaching and sound complaint mitigation. We will cover aspects of low power design, robustness, data synthesis, scalability, and security of such systems. These aspects are essential to transitioning these systems, whether as point solutions for individual enterprises or as a part of open data systems that are emerging in the context of smart communities. The last part of the talk will describe Smart Columbus, a large effort aiming at providing diverse community services in Columbus OH, as a reference architecture for open system incorporation of IoT Edge Networks and other data sources.

Biography:

Anish Arora is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University, a faculty-in- residence in OSU’s Translational Data Analytics Institute, and a co-founder of The Samraksh Company. Arora has engaged in research, development, and translation to practice of device networks and wireless sensor networks since 1999. He is expert in scalability and dependability ―in terms of fault-tolerance, stabilization, security, and robustness― of these networked systems, and was made an IEEE Fellow in 2008 for contributions to this field. Arora has led the design and development of many fielded wireless networked systems across several application areas. Ongoing related efforts in the Smart and Connected Community context include sound complaint classification (SONYC in New York City), Anti-Poacher Surveillance Networks (HORNNET in South Africa and India), bicycle-pedestrian monitoring sensor networks (PedoCyc at OSU), and Tuscarora software framework (open-sourced by DARPA) for supporting development of application-specific networks. He is currently a member of OSU’s Smart Columbus core team, which is working on smart and connected community projects including some in low-income areas.

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Title: Algorithmic Architectures for End-to-End Security of Systems: Challenges

Speaker: Professor R.K. Shyamasundar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Abstract:

There has been a dire need of building end-to-end secure systems to realize (i) prevention of data leaks while computing in the cloud, (ii) preservation of privacy in health networks not only for preserving privacy of personal data on electronic health records, but also for enabling sharing of data across medical labs for medical research, (iii) assuring privacy compliance in the context of social media, etc. The existing architectures face challenges due to decentralization of data, streaming data, and lack of decentralized robust security models. The challenges get compounded due to the presence of deep learning systems, and malware. In this talk, we shall trace the various algorithmic architectures involving various robust decentralized security models and privacy models like differential privacy to build end-to-end secure systems.

Biography:

R.K.Shyamasundar is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM, Distinguished ACM Speaker, a Distingusihed Alumnus of Indian Institute of Science, served as IEEE Distinguished Speaker, is currently JC Bose National Fellow, Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science, IIT Bombay where he is the Principal Investigator of the Information Security Research and Development Centre (ISRDC) from Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) from the Govt. of India. He was awarded the 2014 SN Mitra award for excellence in research by the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Since 2015, he is also the Scholar-in-Residence at IIT Jodhpur. He is the founding Dean of the School of Technology and Computer Science at TIFR. He has made outstanding contributions to Real Time Distributed Computing, Logics of Programs, Network and Computer Security. His research interests include distributed real-time systems, Logics of Programs, Concurrent and Parallel programming Languages, Formal Methods, Cyber Security etc. He has more than 300 publications, 8 books, 8 international patents, 3 Indian patents, and 3 Best Paper Awards. Thirty five students have completed Ph.D. under his guidance, has served on IEEE Esterel Standards and served as consultant to ESPRIT projects. He did post doctoral work under the legendary Turing Laureate Professor Dr. Edsgar W. Dijkstra and was a Distinguished Visiting fellow under the UK Royal Academy of Engineering at the Computing Laboratory of University of Cambridge. He has also served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering in 2016 at the City University of London. He has served as Faculty/Staff at IBM TJ Research, Eindhoven University, State University of Utrecht, Pennsylvania State University, University of Illinois, University of California at San Diego at Lajolla, University of Cambridge, University of Linkoping, SUNU at Albany, UNM at Albuquerque, IRISA, INRIA, CWI, JAIST Japan, Max Planck Institute, IBM Research India etc.

He was Founding Chair of conference series Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS), founding President of Indian Association of Research in Computing Science (IARCS.), founding Dean of School of Technology and Computer Science and Founder of the Center for Formal Design and verification of Software as a tri-partite center among BARC, TIFR and IIT Bombay) located at IIT Bombay.

He serves/served on the Governing Council of IIIT Allahabad, IIIT Jabalpur, CSIR Centre CMMACS (CSIR-FPI) Bangalore, serves on the Technical Advisory Board of BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange), and Research Advisory Board for Institute of Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) of RBI at Hyderabad.

He is a Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, India and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing world (TWAS), Trieste, Italy.

He has served on IEEE Esterel Standards Committee and serves on the Editorial board of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, corresponding editor for Sadhana- Journal of Engineering Sciences of the Indian Academy of Sciences etc. He is a recipient of Diamond Jubilee medal from IETE and also its Fellow.

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Title: Securing Cyber-Physical and IoT Systems in Smart Living Environments

Speaker: Prof. Sajal Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Abstract:

We live in an era in which our physical and personal environments are becoming increasingly smarter due to pervasive sensing and actuation, wireless networking, and ubiquitous computing capabilities. In future, our daily lives will depend on a wide variety of smart cyber-physical infrastructures, such as smart cities and buildings, smart energy, smart transportation, smart healthcare, etc. Alongside the availability of IoTs and sensor-enabled rich mobile devices (e.g., smartphones) are also empowering humans with fine-grained information and opinion collection through crowd-sensing about events of interest, resulting in actionable inferences and decisions. This synergy has led to cyber-physical-social (CPS) convergence with human in the loop that exhibits complex interactions, interdependencies and adaptations among engineered/natural systems with a goal to improve quality of life in what we call smart living. However, due to the scale, heterogeneity, big data, and resource limitations in context recognition and situation awareness, the IoTs and CPS networks. are extremely vulnerable to failures, attacks and security threats. This talk will highlight unique research challenges in securing CPS and IoT systems, followed by novel security frameworks. The proposed solutions will be based on a rich set of theoretical and practical design principles, such as context-aware data collection and fusion, uncertainty reasoning, information theory, and trust models. The talk will be concluded with directions for future research.

Biography:

Dr. Sajal K. Das is an IEEE Fellow and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair Professor of Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla where he was the Chair of Computer Science Department during 2013-2017. He also served the NSF as a Program Director in the Division of Computer Networks and Systems during 2008-2011. Prior to 2013 he was a University Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and founding director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research interests include wireless and sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing, cyber-physical systems and smart environments including smart grid and smart healthcare, distributed and cloud computing, security and privacy, biological and social networks. He has published over 600 research articles in high quality journals and conferences, 52 book chapters, and 5 US patents. He coauthored four books – “Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols, and Applications” (John Wiley, 2005); “Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure: Foundations and Challenges” (Morgan Kaufman, 2012); “Mobile Agents in Distributed Computing and Networking” (Wiley, 2012); and “Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach” (Cambridge University Press, 2017). According to DBLP Dr. Das is one of the most prolific authors in computer science. His h-index is 78 with more than 24,000 citations according to Google Scholar. He is a recipient of 10 Best Paper Awards in prestigious conferences (e.g., ACM MobiCom and IEEE PerCom) and numerous awards for research, teaching, mentoring and professional services, including IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to sensor networks and mobile computing. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal and serves as Associate Editor of several journals including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. A founder of IEEE PerCom, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE SMARTCOMP, and ICDCN conferences, he has served on numerous conference committees as General Chair, Technical Program Chair, or Program Committee member.

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Title: Querying SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL databases together and at scale

Speaker: Bapi Chatterjee

Abstract:

Abstract: Real life “Big Data” applications heavily consist of workloads dealing with large heterogeneous datasets. Often these applications perform queries on correlated data across different databases spanning over multiple data models. Such queries require complex query planning, data migration, and execution. The target databases for the queries can simultaneously be of SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL models. PolyStore database systems address the requirements of such applications. In this talk, we will describe PolyStore systems. We will discuss cross-DB queries and their optimization. We will also present a mathematical model of such queries and a matrix algebra based approach to integrating them. Thereby, we will describe how high-performance mathematical computation can address such applications at scale.

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Title: Bits to Barrels –Fusion of Data & Computing in the Energy Industry

Speaker: Dr. Chiranjib Sur

Abstract:

Efficiently using (super)computers for solving scientific and industrial problems is the role of scientific computing. It lies at the intersection of high-performance-computing (HPC), physics, numerical methods & algorithms. The use of scientific computing in the energy industry is pervasive, especially in seismic processing, reservoir simulation or computational chemistry just to name a few. Data also plays a very big role in today's computing role.

In this presentation, I will give an overview of the kind of non-conventional computational effort which is required in the oil and gas industry to meet the energy demand for modern era. The presentation will outline multi scale problems from different areas like fluid structure interaction, numerical techniques to model oil reservoir and about geophysical imaging of subsurface. Some of the problems can be classified as purely high performance number crunching and some are driven by data and analytics.

These problems are very challenging to solve on their own and it certainly needs attention from experts in cross discipline and often can be viewed as fusion of computing and data!

Biography:

Dr. Chiranjib Sur, a seasoned leader in high performance scientific computing, is a computational astrophysicist by training with 15+ years of experience in academia and industrial R&D.

He worked in wide variety of areas starting from laboratory astrophysics, material science, computational chemistry, complex fluid flow, scientific visualization, numerical optimization, applied mathematics, machine learning, system software development for HPC systems and few others.

Chiranjib has 3 granted patents and he has published more than 45+ technical papers in different international scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. He has been plenary and keynote speakers in many national and international conferences and workshops.

Chiranjib serves the editorial board as review editor of Frontiers of Computational Physics Journal. He also serves as regular referee for the American Physical Society Journals, Institute of Physics (UK) journals and European Physical journal.

Currently, Chiranjib is serving as general chair and member of the steering committee of the IEEE conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics (HiPC -www.hipc.org).

Chiranjib is the 2003 recipient of "ISCA Young Scientist Award" from the Indian Science Congress Association. His biography is listed in Marquis and International Who's Who publications.

He is a senior member of IEEE and member of the technical committee for parallel processing (TCPP) of IEEE Computer Society, Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), the American Physical Society (APS), ACM, Society of petroleum engineers (SPE).

After spending many years at high performance computing lab at IBM, Bangalore, the Ohio State University, USA and Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, he is currently working as a senior scientist at the computational centre of excellence at Shell Technology Centre, Bangalore.

Chiranjib lives in Bengaluru with his daughter, wife, Royal Enfield and a home loan!