ISMA08 Keynote Speakers
Keynote Title: Integration of Biology and Silicon Devices at the Micro and Nanoscale: Opportunities and Future ProspectsKeynote Speaker: Professor Rashid Bashir, Director
Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The merger of life-science and silicon devices, especially at the micro and nanoscale, can bring about some very exciting and practical possibilities for the development of "integrated systems" for biological and medical applications. These systems and devices have many applications with significant potential for commercialization. Micro and nanoscale engineering can be used to solve important problems in life-sciences such as detection of biological organisms and the like, while concepts from life sciences such as bio-inspired assembly can be used to meet significant engineering challenges such as novel techniques for material synthesis and manufacturing. This talk will present the interdisciplinary work in progress in our research group in these exciting research areas and give an overview of projects on going in developing integrated systems with macro, micro and nano-scale components for the rapid detection and analysis of biological entities like bacteria, viruses, and DNA; use of electronic approaches to probe and detect biomolecules and cells; silicon based devices to characterize and detect DNA sequences, etc. In addition, an overview of the facilities and resources and key highlights of recent research in the area of nanotechnology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will also be presented.
Biography:
Rashid Bashir completed his BSEE from Texas Tech University as in the College of Engineering in Dec 1987. He completed his MSEE from Purdue University in 1989 and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1992. From Oct 1992 to Oct 1998, he worked at National Semiconductor in the Analog/Mixed Signal Process Technology Development Group where he was promoted to Sr. Engineering Manager in the Process Technology Group. He joined Purdue University in Oct 1998 and was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Courtesy Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Since Oct 2007, he is the Bliss Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Bioengineering and Director of the Micro and Nano Technology Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has authored or co-authored over 140 journal and conference papers, over 50 invited talks, and has been granted 30 patents. His research interests include BioMEMS, Lab on a chip, nano-biotechnology, interfacing biology and engineering from molecular to tissue scale, and applications of semiconductor fabrication to biomedical engineering, all applied to solve biomedical problems.
http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/archive/index.php?xId=071509120686
Keynote Title: Bio-medical Robots and Simulators
Keynote Speaker: Professor Toshio Fukuda
Department of Micro-Nano System Engineering at Nagoya University.
Abstract:
Robotic technology can be applied for many areas, such as manufacturing, environment hazard and rescue, inspection and maintenance, traffic control, daily life support, medicine, entertainment and amusement and many others. In this talk, the specific application to the Bio-medical area is presented with on-going research projects. The robots need a good hardware system with advanced sensors and actuators based on micro and nanotechnology, intelligent control system and a good human-robot interface for operators to use it easily. There are many medical robots which aim to help patients to have minimum invasive surgery robotic system. Medical doctor needs training to improve skills better to operate those robots efficiently. Thus the more sophisticated simulator system is required to improve skill by hardware and/or virtual reality technologies. In this talk, the intravascular micro surgery system is shown with the blood vessel simulator. At the end, the potential applications will be discussed.
Biography:
Dr. Fukuda received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1977. In 1977, he joined the National Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. In 1982, he joined the Science University of Tokyo, Japan, and then joined Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 1989. Currently, he is Professor of Department of Micro-Nano System Engineering at Nagoya University. Dr. Fukuda was the founding chairman of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vice President of IEEE Industrial Electronic Society (1991-1999), President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (1998-1999), Director of the IEEE Division X, Systems and Control (2001-2002), and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE / ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2000-2002). He was Founding President of IEEE Nanotechnology Council (2002-2005) and President of SOFT (Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics) (2003-2005). He received the IEEE Eugene Mittelmann Award(1997), IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE Robotics and Automation Pioneer Award(2004), Award from Ministry of Education and Science in Japan (2005). IEEE Fellow (1995), SICE Fellow (1995), JSME Fellow (2001), RSJ Fellow (2004). http://www.mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp/staff/fukuda-e.html
Keynote Title: Automation of large scale system: Deployment of full surface mine automation
Keynote Speaker: Professor Eduardo Mario Nebot, Director
The Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR).
Abstract:
Automated and Autonomous systems are beginning to make a significant appearance in different areas. At the simplest level, such systems act as adjuncts to manned vehicles providing for example, location information, collisions warning or driver enhancements. At a more complex level a number of autonomous machines for cargo handling, hauling, loading are being introduced with some level of success. In all these applications, the autonomous area needs to be isolated for safety reasons. This is due to the fact that sensing and perception is not developed to the level required to implement safe operation when mixing manned / unmanned vehicles. Furthermore, a more challenging task is the automation of large scale autonomous system such as full mine automation. This will require significant breakthroughs in perception, cooperative control and learning to allow
Biography:
Eduardo Mario Nebot received the Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, (Argentina) and MS and PhD degrees from Colorado State University, USA.
He is a Professor at the University of Sydney in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering. He has been appointed as the Patrick Chair of Automatic and logistic in 2004. He has been a faculty member since 1992. He is the Director of the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR).
Over the past 10 years, he has managed a number industrial collaboration research and consulting projects. He has acted as a consultant in automation in the Australian stevedoring and mining industry, having successfully developed this technology in industrial applications (cargo handling) Patrick Stevedores, (Coal loading automation) MTCL, mining automation (CRCMining / Rio Tinto). He has also supervised a large number of projects involving automation and new sensor technologies for mining safety. He is currently leading an Automation group in the CRC mining Centre. He has also active participation in the commercialization aspect of new technologies. He is a cofounder and director of a University of Sydney / CRCMining spin-of company Acumine Pty Ltd.
Keynote Title: Information Intensive Wireless Sensor Networks: Challenges and Solutions
Keynote Speaker: Professor, Sajal K. Das, Director
Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN), The University of Texas at Arlington
Abstract:
Tremendous advancements in embedded systems, sensors and wireless communications technology have made it possible to build large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Due to their potential applications, WSNs have attracted significant attention to the industry, academic, and government organizations. In particular, by commanding a large number of distributed and coordinated sensor nodes, WSNs can effectively act as the human-physical world interface in future digital world through sensing and actuating. However, the inherent characteristics of WSNs typified by extremely scarce resources (e.g., bandwidth, CPU, memory and battery power), high degree of uncertainty, and lack of centralized control pose significant challenges in providing the desired quality, information assurance, reliability, and security. This is particularly important for mission critical applications that involve information intensive WSNs including video sensors.
In this talk, we will examine the uncertainty-driven unique challenges and key research problems in information intensive wireless sensor networks in the areas of aggregation, clustering, routing, data dissemination, coverage and connectivity, and security. We will present our novel solutions to some of these problems and conclude with future directions.
Biography:
Dr. Sajal K. Das received B.S. degree from Calcutta University (1983), M.S. degree from Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore (1984), and Ph.D. degree from University of Central Florida (1988), all in computer science. Currently he is a Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and also the Founding Director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Dr. Das is a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur; Honorary Professor of Fudan University in Shanghai and Advisory Professor of Beijing Jiaotong University, China; and Visiting Scientiest at the Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore. He has visited numerous universities, research organizations, government and industry labs worldwide for collaborative research and invited talks. He is frequently invited as keynote speaker at international conferences and symposia.
Dr. Das serves as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networking. He is the founder of IEEE PerCom and IEEE WoWMoM conferences. He has served as General or Technical Program Chair and TPC member of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences. He serves on IEEE TCCC and TCPP Executive Committees and on the advisory boards of several cutting-edge companies.
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