Intelligence in Everything: How to Scale, Secure, and Sustain
Nirupam Roy
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
Friday, September 13, 2024, 11:00 am-12:00 pm 
Abstract
Recent advancements in computing have enabled us to dream of a future with intelligence embedded into everything. But can we scale to this next frontier of digital expansion while keeping the footprint environmentally sustainable and protecting the systems from exploitations? In this talk, the speaker will unfold his decade-long endeavor to create sustainable computing systems that can scale the essence of intelligence to the next granularity of our physical world. He will showcase innovative hardware-software principles that can enable detail perception within a fraction of the size, power, and computing resources required by their traditional counterparts in the air, underwater, and on-body. He will show roadmaps to build real-time battery-free localization systems capable of tracking the smallest of the packages and simultaneously span over millions of such units across the entire city. The talk will also present new ideas around security/privacy-aware computing in the paradigm of smart systems around us. The talk will highlight the impacts of intelligent sensing, edge computing, and embedded-AI in the context of applications ranging from food sustainability to everyday home automation.
Bio
Nirupam Roy is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). His research interests are in intelligent acoustics, low-power sensing, ambient computing, and embedded AI. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2018. Dr. Roy has a consistent track record of academic excellence. His doctoral thesis was selected for the CSL Ph.D. thesis award at UIUC (2019). Dr. Roy also received outstanding thesis awards from both his undergraduate and Master's institutes. He has earned an exemplary reputation for impactful research in the broad area of wireless and mobile systems. He has published in leading conferences on mobile computing and embedded systems (MobiSys), networking (SIGCOMM, NSDI, ICNP), sensing and communication (SenSys), and security (NDSS). His work resulted in four patented techniques (US9608848 B2, US9730029 B2, US10628484 B2, US11264047 B2) and inspired startups in acoustic perception and security. He received several recognitions for his work, including best paper awards (2022, 2017), best demo and poster awards (2021, 2020, 2013), and honorable mentions in the ACM SIGMOBILE research highlights (2017, 2023). He received the NSF CAREER award in 2023. Several of his research projects captured media attention for their relevance to the general audience and are featured in prominent news media, including the MIT Technology Review, Forbes Magazine, The Telegraph, and The New York Times. At UMD, he directs the iCoSMoS lab, which has been supported by NSF, Meta Research, Maryland Transportation Institute, USG, and Saab, inc.
This talk is organized by Samuel Malede Zewdu