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SmartEdge 2021 – Technical Program - March 26, 2021

Note - All times are in CET

   9:00am - 9:15am              Opening Remarks

Session Chairs: Tamer Nadeem (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA), Zhiyong Yu (Fuzhou University, China), Yunji Liang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

   9:15am - 10:30am            Keynote Talks
Session Chair: Tamer Nadeem (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)

· Keynote #1: "AI+Smart Mobility: A Perspective from Taxi GPS Trajectory Data"
by Chao Chen (Chongqing University, China)

· Keynote #2: "Intelligent edge: The Next Generation for Digital Health"
by Christopher Nugent (Ulster University, UK)


   10:30am - 11:00am         Coffee Break


   11:00am - 12:30pm          Technical Session #1: Machine Learning at the Edge (Teaser videos)
Session Chair: Sumi Helal (Lancaster University, UK)

· MLMG: Multi-Local and Multi-Global Model Aggregation for Federated Learning
by Yang Qin and Masaaki Kondo (University of Tokyo, Japan)

· Scaling Spectrogram Data Representation for Deep Learning on Edge TPU
by Seyedehfaezeh Hosseininoorbin, Siamak Layeghy (The University of Queensland, Australia), Brano Kusy (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia), Raja Jurdak (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Marius Portmann (The University of Queensland, Australia)

· Securing Edge-based IoT Networks with Semi-Supervised GANs
by Santosh Nukavarapu and Tamer Nadeem (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)


   12:30pm - 2:00pm         Lunch Break


   2:00pm - 3:30pm          Technical Session #2: Distributed Edge Cloud Computing (Teaser videos)
Session Chair: Glenn Ricart (US Ignite & University of Utah, USA)

· Adaptive Cooperative Distributed Compressed Sensing for Edge Devices: A Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
by Masatoshi Sekine and Satoshi Ikada (Oki Electric Industry Co., Japan)

· RCC: A Distributed Data Streaming Software Library for Robot-Cloud Platforms
by Yuhong Zhang (Wuhan University of Technology, China), Jingtao Sun (National Institute of Informatics, Japan), Chen Ouyang (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan), Mingkang Chen (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan), Xinyao Wang (University of California - Riverside, USA), Qiang Wang (Wuhan University of Technology, China)

· Optimization and Learning for Data Offloading and Resource Management in Mobile Edge Computing
by Yang Yang and M. Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University, USA)


   3:30pm - 4:00pm         Coffee Break


   4:00pm - 5:30pm          Panel Discussion

· The Future of Intelligent and Green IoT/Edge/Cloud – Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: Liming (Luke) Chen (Ulster University, UK)
Panelists: Glenn Ricart (US Ignite & University of Utah, USA), Yunji Liang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)


   5:30pm - 5:45pm         Closing Remarks

Session Chairs: Tamer Nadeem (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA), Zhiyong Yu (Fuzhou University, China), Yunji Liang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)