[hpc-announce] IEEE SMARTCOMP 2021: Call for Participation

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IEEE SMARTCOMP 2021: Call for Participation
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		           IEEE SMARTCOMP 2021 .::. Call for Participation .::.
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The 7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2021), August 23-27, 2021.

Due to uncertainties associated with the pandemic, IEEE SMARTCOMP 2021 will be held as a virtual conference.

https://www.smart-comp.info

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​SMARTCOMP is the premier IEEE conference on smart computing. Smart computing is based on the synergistic combination 
of advances in Sensor-based technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Edge cloud computing, 
Big Data analytics, Machine Learning, Cognitive Computing, and Artificial Intelligence.
 

Registration link is open to all. General registration is $10.
https://www.smart-comp.info/registration.html


IEEE SMARTCOMP 2021 has an exciting agenda with several activities.
Details of activities are available at https://www.smart-comp.info


** 7 single track research sessions with 27 papers

** 2 keynote talks
   + Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World and a Sustainable Future
     Professor Carla Gomes
     Ronald C. and Antonia V. Nielsen Professor of Computing and Information Science,
     Director, Institute for Computational Sustainability
     Cornell University
   
   + Architecting the Systems of the Future: A Research Agenda
     Professor Douglas Schmidt
     Associate Provost of Research, and
     Co-Director, Data Science Institute     
     Vanderbilt University
 
** Plenary panel
   + Smart Aging:  Opportunities and Challenges
     Moderator: Dr. Nikil Dutt (Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine)

** Industry track with two panels
   + 6G 
     Moderator: Professor Urbashi Mitra (USC)
     Panelists: Dr. Ali Khayrallah (Ericsson)
                Dr. Amitava Ghosh (Nokia Bell Labs)
                Professor Mischa Dohler (King’s College London)

   + Convergence of communications (5G), computing (edge compute) and control (AI) 
     Moderator: Dr. Prith Banerjee (ANSYS) 
     Panelists: Dr. Dinesh Verma (IBM Research)
                Dr. Sujeet Chand (Rockwell Automation Inc.)
                Dr. Mallik Tatipamula (Ericsson Silicon Valley)

** 4 workshops with two federated keynotes
   + Keynote 1: Deploying low-cost air quality monitoring networks from scratch
                Professor Rafael Asorey-Cacheda
                Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain
   + Keynote 2: Human-Centric Smart Computing
                Dr. Manish Gupta
                Director, Google Research, India 
 
   + BITS 2021: 5th International Workshop on Big Data and IoT Security in Smart Computing
     https://www.yama.info.waseda.ac.jp/bits2021/

   + EdgeDL 2021: 4th International Workshop on EdgeDL: Deep Learning on Edge for Smart Health and Wellbeing Applications
     htps://sites.google.com/view/ieee-edgedl-2021/home

   + SmartSys 2021: 6th International Workshop on Smart Service Systems
     https://www.scm.keele.ac.uk/smartsys2021/

   + SSC 2021: 7th International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities
     http://ssc2021.unime.it/


** 2 tutorials
   + 3D sensing for Autonomous Robots and Smart Infrastructure
     Dr. Hang Qiu (Stanford), Dian Chen (UT Austin), Dr. Weiyue Wan (Waymo Perception)
   
   + Multi Agent Systems for Emergency Response 
     Dr. Ayan Mukhopadhyay (Vanderbilt University), Dr. Sayyed Mohsen Vazirizade (Vanderbilt University)

** WiP/Poster/Demo session

** PhD forum



Student Grant
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https://www.smart-comp.info/nsf-travel-grant-for-us-students.html