The Computer Engineering Department organizes a seminar entitled “Challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks Design” on Wednesday 4th January 2012, from 1.00pm to 2.00pm at the Auditorium # 24 / 129.  The Seminar is being presented by COE Guest Speaker Prof. Shuang-Hua Yang, Head of Networks, Communication, and Control Systems Research Division, Computer Science Department, Loughborough University, United Kingdom.

Abstract: The talk will review the research work funded by various British Funding bodies and carried out by Prof. Yang’s research group. It will start from the basic concept of WSNs and the most commonly used communication protocol, then present 7 challenges and solutions in the design of WSNs, such as power management, interference and data fusion. Two completed applications, one for building fire safety, another for home automation and energy saving, will be introduced at the end of the talk.

Biography: Prof. Shuang-Hua Yang received his BSc and MSc from Petroleum University in 1983 and 1986, and PhD from Zhejiang University in 1991. He moved to England in 1995 and joined Loughborough in 1997 first as research assistant, university research fellow, then became lecturer in 2000, senior lecturer in 2003. He was promoted to professor in 2006. His established record of academic distinction and leadership is demonstrated by many of his academic esteems. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Systems Science, an associate editor of the International Journal of Automation and Computing, and a member of the editorial and advisory board of the International Journal of Information and Computer Security and the Journal of the Institute of Measurement and Control. He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College since 2006, a fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control, and a senior member of IEEE. He is the chairman of the East Midlands Section of the Institute of Measurement and Control between 2006 and 2008, and a chartered engineer. He was a member of the advisor college of British Council Higher Education Link Programme since 2001. He was a member of the Executive Committee (since 2000) and the president (2006-2007) of the Chinese Automation & Computer Society in the UK (CACSUK). He has been invited to serve as a member of the program committees for more than 10 international conferences and frequently chair sessions. He was the program co-chair of the 2007, 2009 IEEE Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control. He was the guest editor of two special issues on Internet based control and mobile agent technologies for the Journal of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 38(1) and 38(10), 2005, and the editor of a special issue on sensor network and control for the International Journal of Systems Science, 39(11), 2008. He was the winner of the Creativity Award in the International Exhibition Contest on DSP (Digital Signal Processing) Creative Designs held in Taiwan in 2005 for the project “Remote monitoring and control of intelligent home environments”.
As a principal investigator he has received a number of significant research grants from different funding bodies, including EPSRC, Royal Society, TSB, MoD, EU, Royal Academy of Engineering, British Council, London Mathematic Society, and some overseas funding organizations. Over 130 academic research papers on quality international journals and conferences have been resulted from his research. He was one of the pioneer investigators in the UK working on Internet-based control in the UK and published one monograph on the topic by Springer, London.

All CCSE faculty and students are cordially invited to attend.​