SenSys/BuildSys Joint Ph.D. Forum
Program Schedule
Monday, Nov 4, 2024
Opening Remarks
01:30 pm - 01:35 pm
Session 1: Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
(Each presentation is 8
minutes)
01:35 pm - 02:30pm
Minimizing Carbon Footprint for Timely ETruck
Transportation
Junyan Su (City University of Hong Kong)
Improving Cyber-Physical Building Energy
System via Large-Scale Machine
Learning Evaluation
Yang Deng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Leveraging Industrial Wireless Sensor
Networks for Energy-Efficient HVAC
System Operations
Jan Schlichter (TU Braunschweig)
Intelligent Home Energy Management:
Developing AI-Driven Systems for
Sustainable Living
Yu Sheng (Open University of the
Netherlands)
Towards Low-Power Comprehensive
Biodiversity Monitoring
Josh Millar (Imperial College London)
A Remote Sensing-Based Evaluation of
Road and Electricity Infrastructure
Expansion Effects on Development in
Sub-Saharan Africa
Tunmise Raji (Rochester Institute of
Technology)
Group Q&A for Session 1
02:30pm - 02:45pm
Panel/Keynote
02:45pm - 03:45pm
Tea Break
03:45pm - 04:00pm
Session 2: Sensing Systems and IoT Applications
04:00pm - 04:55pm
Robust and Data Efficient Classification for
IoT Based Sensing
Tushar K Routh (University of Virginia)
Multifunctional Human-Centered Sensing
via Visible Light Communication
Jiarong Li (Tsinghua University; Pengcheng
Laboratory)
A Study on Real-time Crowdedness
Sensing and Pedestrian Tracking in Multienvironment
Wenhao Huang (Keio University)
Toward Adaptive Visible Light Positioning
Jiawei Hu (UNSW)
Field Sensing Model, A New Foundation for
RF Sensing
Fei Shang (University of Science and
Technology of China)
Adapting Deep Learning-Based Sensing
Systems to Cyber-Physical Dynamics
Jiale Chen (Nanyang Technological
University)
Group Q&A for Session 2
04:55pm - 05:10pm
Session 3: AI, Blockchain, and Cyber-
Physical Systems
(Each presentation is 8
minutes)
05:10pm - 06:05pm
Solving Chance-Constrained AC-OPF
Problems by Neural Network with
Probabilistic Homeomorphic Projection
Enming Liang (City University of Hong
Kong)
Block-DDT: A Blockchain-Empowered IoT
Device Data Trading Scheme in Cloud
Computing
Xu Yang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Empowering Resource-efficient MoE Co-Adaptation for Multi-Task Vision Systems
Lehao Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical
University)
Non-blocking Inference on Asynchronous
Mobile Sensor Data with Affinity Control
Fengmin Wu (Northwestern Polytechnical
University)
Responsive On-Device DNN Adaptation for
Non-Stationary Mobile Environments
Cheng Fang (Northwestern Polytechnical
University)
Enhancing EDHOC Protocol with Pre-
Shared Key Authentication
Elsa Lopez Perez (Inria, France)
Group Q&A for Session 3
06:05pm - 06:20pm
Closing + Photo
06:20pm - 06:30pm
Call for Participation:
The SenSys/BuildSys 2024 Joint Ph.D. Forum (Doctoral Colloquium) seeks to provide a friendly, supportive, and constructive environment for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop under the guidance of a panel of distinguished researchers. The forum provides an excellent opportunity for Ph.D. students to present their dissertation research, including work in progress, to the wider embedded networked sensor systems community. This meeting offers an opportunity to share experiences with other Ph.D. students, meet with accomplished international researchers from industry and academia, and obtain their feedback.
The Ph.D. forum of BuildSys is calling for submissions from doctoral students working on advanced research topics related to energy-efficient built environments, includes but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Integration of networked sensors and building controls
- Cyber-physical infrastructure for smart cities
- Data acquisition, integration, and analysis in urban environments
- Energy-efficient systems for buildings and cities
- Modeling and optimization for sustainable urban infrastructure
The goal of the forum is to help our community's youngest researchers achieve their full potential via feedback at a critical stage. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to participate in the Doctoral Colloquium event.
Best Ph.D. Forum Presentation Award: All presenters will be eligible to compete for the Best Ph.D. Forum Presentation Award.
Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: September 27, 2024
- Notification of Acceptance October 4, 2024
- Camera Ready Deadline: October 7, 2024
- Ph.D. Forum Date: November 4, 2024
Submission Details and Eligibility
Current Ph.D. students in the mid to late stages of their Ph.D. are encouraged to submit a 2-page research summary describing the work in progress and including a 100-word abstract. Things to consider for inclusion in the research summary might be: the expected contribution to the field; the original idea or thesis statement; the problem domain and the specific problem addressed; a brief overview of related work; the methodological approach; research carried out, and results till this point. Generally, Ph.D. students who have published a portion of their thesis will benefit the most from this forum. Ph.D. students of all stages are welcome to attend the forum, even if they are not at a stage where submitting an abstract makes sense.
- The paper should be at most two pages.
- The submission template format should follow ACM Master Article
- emplate (with sigconf setting).
- Submissions should not be anonymous and should have the Ph.D. student as the sole author
- Please submit your work via HotCRP at https://buildsys24-phdforum.hotcrp.com/.