You are cordially invited by the COE Dept., to attend a Guest Seminar, on the above given title, by DR. IAN F. AKYILDIZ, Broadband Wireless Networking Lab, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, US, on Monday, 04th March, 2013, from 02:15 PM through 03:30 PM, in Building 20, Room 103.
Abstract: In this talk, we shall present our experience in securing and arranging RFID projects in our Centre. RFID Advanced Research Center is an academic research group. The core activity of the RFID Advanced Research is to explore new RFID functions to enhance the competitiveness in the supply chain and manufacturing to achieve efficiency and cost-effectiveness under dynamic changing environment. The value of RFID is its ability to enhance the quality of information collected in terms of its utilization, timeliness and accuracy.
About the speaker: I. F. AKYILDIZ received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively. Currently, he is the Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory and Chair of the Telecommunications Group at Georgia Tech. Dr. Akyildiz is an Honorary Professor with School of Electrical Engineering at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, and Director of N3Cat (NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya) in Barcelona, Spain, since June 2008. He is also an Extraordinary Professor with Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa since March 2009 and Director of Advanced Sensor Networks (ASN) lab. Dr. Akyildiz is also a Visiting Professor with King Saud University in Saudi Arabia since January 2010 and in the process of creating a Center on Advanced Wireless Communications. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal since 2000, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier) in 2003, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Physical Communication (PHYCOM) Journal (Elsevier) in 2008, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Nano Communication Networks (NANOCOMNET) Journal (Elsevier) in 2010. Dr. Akyildiz is an IEEE FELLOW (1996) and an ACM FELLOW (1997). Dr. Akyildiz received the 2003 Best Tutorial Paper Award (IEEE Communications Society) for this paper entitled "A Survey on Sensor Networks" published in the IEEE Communications Magazine, August 2002. Dr. Akyildiz received the Best Paper Award for "Interferer Classification, Channel Selection and Transmission Adaptation for Wireless Sensor Networks" in the Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (AHSN) symposium at IEEE ICC, June 2009. He received the "Don Federico Santa Maria Medal" for his services to the Universidad of Federico Santa Maria in Chile in 1986. He served as a National Lecturer for ACM from 1989 until 1998 and received the ACM Outstanding Distinguished Lecturer Award for 1994. Dr. Akyildiz received the 2002 IEEE Harry M. Goode Memorial award (IEEE Computer Society) with the citation "for significant and pioneering contributions to advanced architectures and protocols for wireless and satellite networking". He also received the 2003 ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award for his "pioneering contributions in the area of mobility and resource management for wireless communication networks", September 2003. He received the 2004 Georgia Tech Faculty Research Author Award for his "outstanding record of publications of papers between 1999-2003", April 2004. He also received the 2005 Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from School of ECE, Georgia Tech, April 2005. Dr. Akyildiz received the Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award for his 20+ years service and dedication to Georgia Tech and producing outstanding PhD students. He also received the 2009 ECE Distinguished Mentor Award by the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Honors Committee. Dr. Akyildiz is the author of an advanced textbook on "Wireless Sensor Networks" published by John Wiley and Sons in June 2010. Dr. Akyildiz is the author of an advanced textbook on "Wireless Mesh Networks" published by John Wiley and Sons in February 2009. Currently he is working on the advanced textbook “Cognitive Radio Networks” which will be published by John Wiley and Sons in Fall 2011.
All KFUPM faculty and students are cordially invited to attend.
Refreshment (Tea/Coffee and Pastries) will be served.