Title: Digital Transformation of Academic Scientific Environments via IoT Systems
Speaker: Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Abstract: Academic cleanrooms are special scientific environments on campuses where faculty, staff, postdocs, students from physical and life sciences meet and make their discoveries in materials, semiconductors, chip design and other scientific domains. Academic cleanrooms like many other environments (e.g., cities, manufacturing, homes) are going through major digital transformations. In this talk we will discuss the utility of Internet of Things (IoT) systems in Academic Cleanrooms as these systems are becoming an integral part of the digital transformation in academic cleanrooms. We will briefly present the academic cleanrooms’ difficulties that IoT system researchers must understand when researching, augmenting, designing, developing, and then deploying IoT systems in cleanrooms. We will then present the advances of IoT systems in academic cleanrooms that scientists can benefit from and increase their utility in form of speed of scientific innovation and efficiency of processes in academic cleanrooms.
Short Bio: Klara Nahrstedt is the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering Professor in the Computer Science Department, and the Director of Coordinated Science Laboratory in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are directed toward end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) and resource management in large scale multi-modal distributed systems, networks, and cyber-physical systems. She is the recipient of the IEEE Communication Society Leonard Abraham Award for Research Achievements, University Scholar, Humboldt Research Award, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award, TU Darmstadt Piloty Prize, and the Grainger College of Engineering Drucker Award. Klara Nahrstedt received her Diploma in Mathematics from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in 1985. In 1995, she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Computer and Information Science. She is ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina Society), and Member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
