Opportunities in Opportunistic Computing

Speaker:	Professor Mohan KUMAR
		Department of Computer Science and Engineering
		University of Texas at Arlington

Title:		"Opportunities in Opportunistic Computing"

Date:		Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Room 3416 (near lifts 17/18) HKUST

Abstract:

When two devices come into contact, albeit opportunistically, it provides a
great opportunity to match services to resources, exchange information,
cyberforage, execute tasks remotely, and forward messages. This is mainly a
high level talk (from M. Conti and M. Kumar, Opportunities in Opportunistic
Computing, IEEE Computer, Vol. 43, No. 1., Jan. 2010, pgs.42-50.) plus a few
slides on in-depth work.


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Biography:

Mohan Kumar is a Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the
University of Texas at Arlington.  His current research interests are in
pervasive computing, sensor systems, opportunistic systems, and distributed
computing. He has developed or co-developed algorithms/methods for service
composition in pervasive environments, information acquisition,
dissemination and fusion in pervasive and sensor systems, caching and
prefetching in mobile, distributed, pervasive and P2P systems, and
active-network based routing and multicasting in wireless networks. He has
published over 150 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings
and supervised several doctoral dissertations and Masters theses in the
above areas. He is a co-founder of the IEEE International Conference on
pervasive computing and communications (PerCom), and has served as the
program Chair in 2003 and General Chair in 2005.  He was also a Co-General
chair for WoWMoM 2008. Kumar is one of the founding editors of the Pervasive
and Mobile Computing Journal and  is also on the editorial board of Computer
Communications.   He is a senior member of the IEEE.  Prior to joining The
University of Texas at Arlington in 2001,  he held faculty positions at the
Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia (1992-2000), The Indian
Institute of Science (1986-1992), and Bangalore University (1985-1986).
Kumar obtained his PhD (1992) and MTech (1985) degrees from the Indian
Institute of Science and the BE(1982) from Bangalore University in India.