[Nets-seminars] talk by S. Keshav, U. of Waterloo, "Solar + Storage + IoT = $30 Trillion": TOMORROW, 11 Jul, 2 PM

Brad Karp bkarp at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Mon Jul 10 15:21:42 BST 2017


Greetings, everyone.

Prof. S. Keshav of University of Waterloo CS, a renowned senior networking researcher (an ACM Fellow, previously of Bell Labs and Cornell, two times a recipient of the SIGCOMM Test of Time Award for most influential paper 10 years after publication, who has recently completed a term as chair of ACM SIGCOMM, the ACM SIG for networking research) will be visiting us tomorrow, 11th July. He will be giving a talk on a future research agenda that spans solar power, power storage, and the Internet of Things.

All warmly welcomed to join us! Full talk announcement follows.

Best,
-Brad, bkarp at cs.ucl.ac.uk

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Speaker:

Prof S. Keshav, University of Waterloo CS, http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/

Time and place:

2 PM, Tuesday 11th July, MPEB 1.02

Title:

Solar + Storage + IoT = $30 Trillion

Abstract:

Recent technological advances in the areas of solar photovoltaics, Lithium-Ion-based energy storage, light emitting diodes, and the Internet of Things will substantially change the energy, electrical grid, building, and transportation sectors. Some experts estimate that these will result in economic activity of about $30 Trillion over the next two decades. In this talk, I will touch upon the recent advances in these technical areas and speculate on their economic impacts. I will also present some recent results from my research group that attempt to address these changes.

Bio:

Professor S. Keshav received a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He was subsequently a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories and, from 1996 to 1999, an Associate Professor at Cornell University. In 1999 he left academia to co-found Ensim Corporation and GreenBorder Technologies Inc. He was an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo from 2003 to 2008 and has been a Professor since, holding a Canada Research Chair (2004-14) and the Cisco Chair in Smart Grid (2012-17). An awardee of the Director's Gold Medal from IIT Delhi, the Sakrison Prize from UC Berkeley, two Test of Time awards from ACM SIGCOMM, and Best Paper awards at both ACM SIGCOMM and ACM MOBICOM, he is the co-director of the Information Systems and Science for Energy Laboratory, author of two graduate textbooks on computer networking, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and an ACM Fellow. He recently completed a term as Chair of ACM SIGCOMM.




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