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Colloquium Coordinator: Demetris Zeinalipour

Colloquium: Querying Sensor Data in Smartphone Networks, Dr. Demetris Zeinalipour (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, October 11, 2012, 09.15-10.15 EET.


The Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus cordially invites you to the Colloquium entitled:

Querying Sensor Data in Smartphone Networks

 

Speaker: Dr. Demetris Zeinalipour
Affiliation: University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Category: Colloquium
Location: Room 148, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences (FST-01), 1 University Avenue, 2109 Nicosia, Cyprus (directions)
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012
Time: 09.15-10.15 EET
Host: Andreas Pitsillides (cspitsil-AT-cs.ucy.ac.cy)
URL: https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/colloquium/index.php?speaker=cs.ucy.2012.zeinalipour

Abstract:
Smartphones have emerged as powerful computational platforms equipped with multitude of sensors that are capable of generating vast amounts of data (geo-location, audio, video, etc.) Collections of smartphones connected to the Internet are nowadays proposed for opportunistic and participatory sensing applications in intelligent transportation systems, social networking applications, city planning and many other domains, prompting undeniably the post-PC era. In this talk, I will present distributed architectures for querying and managing such sensor data by taking into account energy, data disclosure and networking aspects. I will particularly focus on SmartTrace, a powerful query processing framework for finding similar smartphone trajectories without disclosing the traces of participating users. I will also present SmartLab, a first-of-a-kind programmable cloud of 40+ smartphones deployed at our department enabling a new line of systems-oriented research on smartphones. Finally, I will also overview other related smartphone data management frameworks we've developed for peer-to-peer search, crowdsourcing and indoor positioning, concluding with an outlook to our future research agenda.

Short Bio:
Demetris Zeinalipour (PhD, University of California, Riverside, 2005) is a Lecturer of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus. Before that he was a Lecturer at the Open University of Cyprus, a Visiting Lecturer at his current department and a Visiting Researcher at the network intelligence lab of Akamai Technologies (MA, USA). Demetris has served as the PC Co-Chair of ACM MobiDE'09, IEEE MDM'10 and VLDB's DMSN'10, the General Chair for ACM MobiDE'10, the Contest Chair of IEEE ICDM'10 and the Organization Chair of HDMS'10. His primary research interests include Data Management in Systems and Networks, in particular Distributed Query Processing, Storage and Retrieval Methods for Sensor, Smartphone and Peer-to-Peer Systems, Mobile and Network Data Management, Energy-aware Data Management. For more information, please visit: https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/

Note:
This colloquium is part of the speaker's procedure for evaluation and promotion from Lecturer to Assistant Professor.

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