ECE Research Seminar Series: Internet of Things - Beyond the Smart Toaster

The Electrical and Computer Engineering department will be hosting a seminar featuring Dr. Gina Martinez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational and Mathematical Sciences and the Director of Computer Engineering at Lewis University. The topic of her seminar is Internet of Things - Beyond the Smart Toaster.

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is of an interconnected physical world deeply embedded with cyberspace. This vision is much more complex than a smart toaster, or even the fairly sophisticated smart home. IoT is to be an expansive and extensive system of systems capable of provisioning services that enhance the physical world through the utilization of collective sensed data from heterogeneous sensing devices, and interact with the physical world through coordinating actuators. This leads to a transformative paradigm in which the physical and digital worlds intersect in an interface that lays the foundations of a programmable world. In this talk, Dr. Martinez will discuss the IoT vision, enabling technologies, architecture, management framework, challenges and applications.

Biography

Dr. Martinez is currently leading the effort to get the new B.S. Computer Engineering program at Lewis Universtiy ABET-accredited. She is also the 2018 Chair of IEEE Computer Society, Chicago section. She earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, and a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to her interest in curriculum design and assessment in engineering education, she also has research interests in digital and wireless communications, computer architecture, computer hardware/software interface, hardware virtualization, embedded systems, computer networks and the internet of things.