Internet of Things Forum

Internet of Signals: Challenges and Opportunities
Wednesday, March 8, 13:30-15:30, Location: Jackson

Organizers: Khaled El-Maleh (Qualcomm), and Haohong Wang (TCL Research USA)
 
Moderator: Khaled El-Maleh, Senior Director of Technology, Qualcomm

Panelists
››  John Apostolopoulos, VP & CTO for Enterprise Segment, and Cisco, USA
 ››   Yen-Kuang Chen, Principal Engineer, Intel Labs, USA
 ››   Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Khaled El-Maleh

Is a Senior Director of Technology in the IP Department of Qualcomm leading the Sensor & Display IP Portfolio Team, Multimedia Technology Team, and related IP Strategy areas. Dr. El-Maleh’s areas of expertise and interests include: design, implementation and quality evaluation of mobile multimedia systems, sensors technologies, data mining/analytics, human-computer interfaces, computer vision applications, talent management, innovation and industry-university technology transfer. He is a technologist and strategist with focus on entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Khaled joined Qualcomm in 2000 as a Senior Engineer working on multimedia technology in Qualcomm Chip Business (QCT). Khaled received Double Majors Bachelor degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Applied Math from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals of Saudi Arabia, and M. Eng. and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University, Canada. He is an accomplished inventor with more than 200 US and international patents. He was awarded Qualcomm Career Thought Leadership Award in 2009, and the IP Department 2013 Distinguished Contributor Award.

Khaled is a member of the Executive Advisory Board of University of San Diego Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, and a member of the Advisory Board of California School of Management and Leadership.

John Apostolpoulos

John Apostolopoulos VP & CTO of the Cisco’s Enterprise Segment where he drives the technology and architecture direction for Cisco’s efforts in the enterprise space, and founded Cisco’s Innovation Labs whose mission is to drive technology innovation aligned with Cisco’s strategic directions.  This covers the broad Cisco portfolio including Internet of Things (IoT), wireless, application-aware networking, multimedia networking, indoor-location-based services, connected car, and deep learning for visual analytics.  Previously, he was Lab Director for the Mobile & Immersive Experience Lab at HP Labs.  His technical work spanned novel mobile devices and sensing, client/cloud multimedia computing, multimedia networking, immersive video conferencing, SDN, and mobile streaming media content delivery networks for all-IP (4G) wireless networks.  He is an IEEE Fellow, IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer, named “one of the world’s top 100 young (under 35) innovators in science and technology” (TR100) by MIT Technology Review, received a Certificate of Honor for contributing to the US Digital TV Standard (Engineering Emmy Award 1997), and his work on media transcoding in the middle of a network while preserving end-to-end security (secure transcoding) was adopted in the JPSEC standard.  He has published over 100 papers, including receiving 5 best paper awards, and has about 70 granted US patents.  John also has strong collaborations with the academic community and was a Consulting Associate Professor of EE at Stanford (2000-09), and frequently lecturers at MIT. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from MIT.

John also served in various roles for IEEE SPS, including chair of IEEE Image, Video, & Multidimensional Signal Processing TC (08-09), and technical co-chair for IEEE ICIP'07, MMSP'11, ESPA'12, and Packet Video’13. He recently served as a member of the IEEE SPS Board of Governors.

Yen-Kuang Chen

Yen-Kuang Chen is a Principal Engineer of Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA. His research areas span from emerging applications that can utilize the true potential of internet of things to computer architecture that can embrace emerging applications. He is one of the key contributors to Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extension 3 and Advanced Vector Extension in Intel microprocessors. He has 60+ US patents, 20+ pending patent applications, and 90+ technical publications.

He is an IEEE Fellow.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE JOURNAL ON EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2016-2017. He was on the steering committee of IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL, 2014-2016.  He was the chair of Internet of Things special interest group of IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2014–2015, and the chair of Multimedia Systems and Applications technical committee of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2011–2012.

Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Bhaskar Krishnamachari is Professor and Ming Hsieh Faculty Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering since 2002. He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science. He is the Director of the Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things, and the Autonomous Networks Research Group, and Co-Director of the Ming Hsieh Institute for Electrical Engineering as well as the USC Center for Human Applied Reasoning and the Internet of Things.

His research interests are focused on the design and analysis of algorithms, protocols, and applications for next generation wireless networks. These include low power wireless networks for the Internet of Things, connected vehicles, robotic networks, cognitive radio networks, and green cellular networks. On these topics, his research spans the entire spectrum from theoretical analysis of algorithms to prototype software implementations of network protocols and applications. He has co-authored over 200 technical articles on these topics, including four that have received conference best-paper awards at ACM/IEEE IPSN (2004, 2010), ACM MSWiM (2006) and ACM MobiCom (2010), and one that received best-paper runner-up award at IEEE SECON (2012). Collectively his work has been cited more than 20,000 times (per Google Scholar).

In 2015, Bhaskar Krishnamachari was listed in Popular Science Magazine's "Brilliant Ten" list; and in 2011, he was included in the TR-35 , Technology Review Magazine's annual listing of the top 35 young innovators under the age of 35. He has received the 2010 ASEE Terman Award, given annually to an electrical engineering educator, and the 2010 IEEE-HKN Outstanding Young Electrical and Computer Engineer Award. He has also received the USC-Mellon Award for Mentoring Graduate Students in 2008, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Junior Faculty Research Award in 2005, and the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2004. From 2005-2008, he held the Philip and Cayley MacDonald Early Career Endowed Chair at USC.

He has served as an editor/associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He helped to compile and co-edit a Themed issue of the Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A on Sensor Network Algorithms and Applications, which appeared in January 2012 and also an issue on Learning-Based Decision Making in Dynamic Systems Under Uncertainty in the IEEE Journal of Special Topics in Signal Processing in October 2013. He was a founding editor of the IEEE JSAC special series on Green Communications and Networking. He has authored a textbook titled Networking Wireless Sensors, published by Cambridge University Press.

He obtained his B.E. in Electrical Engineering Summa Cum Laude with a four-year full tuition scholarship at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in New York City in 1998. He then pursued his graduate studies at Cornell University, where he was awarded a three-year graduate fellowship and named one of the eight 1998 Olin Presidential Fellows. There he completed his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1999, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in May 2002.

He is a member of the IEEE and ACM and the honor societies Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.