Invited Speaker

Cyber-Physical-Social Systems: Design Automation and Data Analytics

Prof. Laurence T. Yang
Department of Computer Science
St Francis Xavier University, Canada






Abstract:
The booming growth and rapid development in embedded systems, wireless communications, sensing techniques and emerging support for cloud computing and social networks have enabled researchers and practitioners to create a wide variety of Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS) that reason intelligently, act autonomously, and respond to the users’ needs in a context and situation-aware manner. The CPSS are the integration of computation, communication and control with the physical world, human knowledge and sociocultural elements. It is a novel emerging computing paradigm and has attracted wide concerns from both industry and academia in recent years.
Currently, CPSS are still in their infancy stage. Our first ongoing research is to study effective and efficient approaches for CPSS modeling and general system design automation methods, as well as methods analyzing and/or improving their power and energy, security, trust and reliability features.
Once the CPSS have been designed, they collect massive data (Volume) from the physical world by various physical perception devices (Variety) in structured/semi-structured/unstructured format and respond the users’ requirements immediately (Velocity) and provide the proactive services (Veracity) for them in physical space or social space. These collected big data are normally high dimensional, redundant and noisy, and many beyond the processing capacity of the computer systems. Our second ongoing research is focused on the Data-as-a-Service framework, which includes data representation, dimensionality reduction, incremental and distributed processing (securely on cloud), deep learning, clustering, prediction and proactive services, aiming at representing and processing big data generated from CPSS, providing more valued smart services for human and refining the previously designed CPSS.
This talk will present our latest research on these two directions. Corresponding case studies in some applications such as smart home and traffics will be shown to demonstrate the feasibility and flexibility of the proposed system design methodology and analytic framework.

Biography:
Laurence T. Yang got his BE in Computer Science and Technology and BSc in Applied Physics both from Tsinghua University, China and Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Victoria, Canada. He is a professor and W.F. James Research Chair at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. His research includes parallel and distributed computing, embedded and ubiquitous/pervasive computing, and big data. He has published around 400 international journal papers in the above areas, of which half on top IEEE/ACM Transactions and Journals, others mainly on Elsevier, Springer and Wiley Journals. In recent several years, 4 and 23 papers have been listed as top 0.1% and top 1% highly-cited ESI papers, respectively.
He has been involved actively act as a steering chair for 6+ IEEE international conferences. He served as the vice-chair of IEEE CS Technical Committee of Supercomputing Applications (2001-2004), the chair of IEEE CS Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (2008-2011). He was the vice-chair (2014) and the chair (2015) of IEEE Canada Atlantic Section. Now he is the chair of IEEE CS Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (2018-), the co-chair of IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Cybermatics (2016-) and the vice-chair of IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Smart World (2016-2018).
In addition, he was the editors-in-chief of several international journals. Now he is serving as an editor for many international journals (such as IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Access, Future Generation of Computer Systems (Elsevier), Information Sciences (Elsevier), Information Fusion (Elsevier), Big Data Research (Elsevier), etc). He has been acting as an author/co-author or an editor/co-editor of more than 25 books from well-known publishers. He has been invited to give around 40 keynote talks at various international conferences and symposia.
His recent honours and awards include Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (2019), AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award for Internet of Things (2018), IEEE TCCPS Distinguished Leadership Award on Cyber-Physical Systems (2018), IEEE SCSTC Life-Career Achievement Award on Smart Computing (2018), Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (2017), IEEE System Journal Best Paper Award (2017), IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (2017), and the PROSE Award on Engineering and Technology (2010).