Partnership with Global Smart Energy Summit Inviting Prof. Magdy Bayoumi as a distinguished speaker Assigning budget for the OpCom visit Bidding for SYP 2020 Select students to attend WETEX Roll ups for WETEX Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Co-sponsored by: Balqees Ahmed Al-Daghar Recently, big data science has emerged as a modern and important data analysis discipline. It is considered as an amalgamation of classical disciplines such as statistics, artificial intelligence and computer science with its sub-disciplines including database systems, machine learning and distributed systems. It combines existing approaches with the aim of turning abundantly available data into value for. individuals, organizations, and society. Cloud computing represents a practical and cost-effective solution for supporting Big Data storage, processing and for sophisticated analytics applications. We analyze in details the building blocks of the software stack for supporting and democratizing big data science as a commodity service for data scientists. We provide various insights about the latest ongoing developments and open challenges in this domain. Speaker(s): Dr. Sherif Sakr , Location: Room: ABB Learning Zone Bldg: ABB Automation LLC Aldar headquarters building Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Co-sponsored by: University of Dubai With the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution, over 50 billion connected things in the world are expected by year 2020 and 40% of all world data will come from IoT devices and sensors (expected to generate a total of 129 yottabytes) – nearly reaching 90% of the world’s data created in the last 2 years. IoT brings up great requirements in terms of types and volume of connected devices, generated data from these devices, different environments coverage, battery-operated devices, form factors, and multiple communication ranges, communication protocols for real-time and mission critical applications, and diversity of traffic ranging from 3 bytes of data for telemetry to HD video streams for surveillance. IoT presents unique challenges such as efficient service discovery between devices, sleep mode management, communication between devices, radio to use, application requirement, and power constraint.The workshop will present a comprehensive introduction of the IoT ecosystem including an IoT overview (what/why, challenges, markets, services/applications, standards & regulations), wireless IoT technologies, 3GPP mobile IoT technologies, IoT platforms, IoT analytics, IoT security, and IoT business. Speaker(s): Wafeeq Ajoor, Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
In 1992 internet revolution took over the world. Communication between individuals and companies became faster and easier with email systems, online transaction and digital presence. Information sharing worked on the COPY principle. Whenever an information was sent, it was the copy of the information which was delivered and hence at any given time there existed multiple copies of information. When it comes to money transaction we cannot send AED100 to someone but also keep it. This leads to something we call as double spent. The early digital currency like E-gold suffered this short coming and hence in 2008 the first digital currency was launched using a platform called blockchain. Block chain uses hard to break cryptography and will revolutionize the way we transfer value. This platform will reduce the inefficiency in the transaction systems and provide economic inclusiveness for everyone. The shared economy concept brought in by likes of Careem and Airbnb are still centeralized. The distributed ledger technology(DLT) of block chain will eliminate the intermediaries and provide direct benefit to the individuals. His highness Crown prince of Dubai on 5th October 2016, has provided a strategy paper to move all government transaction to blockchain by 2020 and all government organization are working towards achieving the target. The presentation will take you through the journey of block chain use cases and how we should prepare our educational institutes to take advantage of this futuristic technology. Speaker(s): Mr. Ajay Rathi, Senior Director of IT, Location: Dubai Business School, University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Co-sponsored by: Ms. Salwa Fuelled by the sheer volumes of data and computing power, the rapidly progressing developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning led to recognition algorithms with unprecedented performances. Current image recognition performances are nearing a level approaching that of human performance. On some specialised domains, computers even outperform humans in image recognition abilities. The impressive developments enable a next step in the integration of computers and computing devices in our everyday world. In order to achieve a seamless integration of computers in our daily life, computers should be able to communicate in a human-like manner. The long-standing challenge to achieve human-level verbal communication, i.e., speech recognition and speech production, obscured the importance of its non-verbal counterpart. Non-verbal communication is crucial to the social interactions between humans. Examples of nonverbal expressions are vocal expression, such as vocal pitch or intensity, and facial expressions such as smiling or frowning. Nonverbal expressions provide indispensable contextual cues to social interactions. Our research focusses on the understanding, modelling and simulation of the interactive nonverbal dynamics of communicating humans, with the aim to develop computers, robots or intelligent agents with social capabilities. We formalise the nonverbal interactions between human-human or human-computer dyads in terms of dynamical systems theory. In this formalisation, dyadic nonverbal communication gives rise to an attractor manifold representing the complex expression dynamics of both interlocutors. This allows us to study and simulate the causal interactions between communicating faces and voices by means of the powerful tools offert by dynamical systems theory. The result is a characterisation of the dynamical building blocks of nonverbal communication. In the presentation the results obtained will be demonstrated and their contribution to the development of social computers will be explained by means of illustrative examples. Speaker(s): Professor Eric Postma, Location: Room: Hall A – Main Building Bldg: American University of Sharjah Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Co-sponsored by: KHALIFA UNIVERSITY Technical seminar Title: Marked Point Processes For Object Detection and Tracking in High Resolution Images: Applications to Remote Sensing and Biology By Josiane ZERUBIA, INRIA, France Abstract: In this talk, we combine the methods from probability theory and stochastic geometry to put forward new solutions to the multiple object detection and tracking problem in high resolution remotely sensed image sequences. First, we present a spatial marked point process model to detect a pre-defined class of objects based on their visual and geometric characteristics. Then, we extend this model to the temporal domain and create a framework based on spatio-temporal marked point process models to jointly detect and track multiple objects in image sequences. We propose the use of simple parametric shapes to describe the appearance of these objects. We build new, dedicated energy based models consisting of several terms that take into account both the image evidence and physical constraints such as object dynamics, track persistence and mutual exclusion. We construct a suitable optimization scheme that allows us to find strong local minima of the proposed highly non-convex energy. As the simulation of such models comes with a high computational cost, we turn our attention to the recent filter implementations for multiple objects tracking, which are known to be less computationally expensive. We propose a hybrid sampler by combining the Kalman filter with the standard Reversible Jump MCMC. High performance computing techniques are also used to increase the computational efficiency of our method. We provide an analysis of the proposed framework. This analysis yields a very good detection and tracking performance at the price of an increased complexity of the models. Tests have been conducted both on high resolution satellite and microscopy image sequences. Keywords: Multiple object tracking, object detection, marked point process, Kalman filter, satellite image sequences, microscopy data sequences, high resolution. Speaker(s): Dr. Josiane Zerubia, , Dr. Josiane Zerubia, Location: Room: H314 Bldg: H KHALIFA UNIVERSITY ABUDHAB ABUDHABI, United Arab Emirates 127788
Co-sponsored by: Hasan AL-Nashash The event included an interactive session with AUS’s Premed Advisor, Dr. Amin Majdalawieh. Dr. Amin gave a talk about the required courses, the MCAT exam, medical schools in the region, and answered questions students . Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
The 19th Water, Energy, Technology, and Environment Exhibition (WETEX 2017), organised by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), will take place on 23-25 October 2017 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC). WETEX will show the latest developments in conventional and renewable energy around the world, and feature business opportunities and potential partnerships to drive business. IEEE UAE Section has a booth in the exhibition and students from different universities are showing some of their projects related to the conference field. Location: Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Co-sponsored by: Khalifa University The integration of physical systems with networked sensing, computation networks, and embedded control with actuation has led to the emergence of a new generation of engineered systems, the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Such systems emphasize the link between cyber space and physical environment (i.e., time, space, and energy). CPS represents the next generation of complex engineering systems. They are large scale dynamic systems that offer significant processing power while interacting across communication networks. Smart and flexible technologies are required to interface both worlds. One of the main technologies is RFID. RFID is the gate to go from the physical environment to the cyber one. CPS will help to solve the grand challenges of our society, such as, aging population, limited resources, sustainability, environment, mobility, security, health care, etc. Applications of CPS cover a wide band of economic, medical, and entertainment sectors. It includes; Transportation: automobiles, avionics, unmanned vehicles and smart roads; Large Scale Critical Infrastructure: bridges, mega buildings, power grid, defense systems; Health Care: medical devices, health management networks, telemedicine; Consumer Electronics: video games, audio/video processing, and mobile communication. Building Cyber-Physical Systems is not a trivial task. The difficulty arises from the existing gap in modeling and computing of the physical and cyber environments. The design process requires new theories, models, and algorithms that unify both environments in one framework. None of the current state-of-the art methods are able to overcome the challenges of developing the unified CPS design paradigm. Several of these issues, including RFID design requirements, will be discussed in this talk. Case studies of real world CPSs will be illustrated. Speaker(s): Prof. Magdy Bayoumi, Location: Abu Dhabi, Louisiana
Co-sponsored by: Hasan AL-Nashash For the first time, the American University of Sharjah has carried out an event titled as “Engineering Open Day” to bring together all the engineering student chapters at the university. EMBS Student Chapter has participated in this event where the board members interacted with different students from different engineering majors and backgrounds. The board members also helped shed light onto biomedical engineering and EMBS activities and benefits of membership Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
