[CSEE Talk] talk: Mobile Analytics: An Enabler for Urban Lifestyle Applications, 10am Tue 6/24

[Tim Finin]

                   Department of Information Systems
                University of Maryland, Baltimore County

     Mobile Analytics: An Enabler for Urban Lifestyle Applications

                         Professor Archan Misra
     School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University

           10-11:00am Tuesday, 24 June 2014, ITE 459, UMBC

This talk will describe various research initiatives related to the
theme of "urban mobile analytics and applications", which utilizes
smartphone sensor data from multiple individuals to extract near-real
time insights about individual and collective behavior in urban public
spaces.  A major part of this research is being conducted under the
auspices of the LiveLabs Experimentation Platform, a unique urban
behavioral testbed effort that enables an ecosystem of industry
partners to test advanced context-based applications on a pool of
approximately 30,000 real-world users in multiple real-world public
spaces in Singapore. Besides describing LiveLabs-related research in
areas related to energy-efficient mobile sensing and large-scale
mobile analytics (e.g., queuing analytics, group detection and
adaptive indoor localization). I will describe the role of such
analytics for a couple of novel industry-driven applications: (a)
in-store shopper intent monitoring and (b) large-scale mobile
crowd-tasking.

Archan Misra is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at
Singapore Management University (SMU), and a Director of the LiveLabs
research center at SMU.  Over the past 14 years (as part of his
previous jobs with IBM Research and Telcordia Technologies), he has
worked extensively in the areas of mobile systems, wireless networking
and pervasive computing, and is a co-author on papers that received
the Best Paper awards in EUC 2008, ACM WOWMOM 2002 and IEEE MILCOM
2001. Archan's broad research interests lie in the areas of pervasive
computing and mobile systems, with specific current focus on applying
mobile sensing and real-time analytics to understand human
lifestyle-driven activities in urban spaces. He is presently an Editor
of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the Elsevier Journal
of Pervasive and Mobile Computing and chaired the IEEE Computer
Society's Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) from
2005-2007. Archan holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Host: Prof. Nirmalya Roy, nroy at umbc.edu