From Smart Sensors to City OS (I) – Introduction

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Feng Zhao is a Principal Scientist and directs the Embedded Collaborative Computing Area in the Systems and Practices Laboratory at PARC. He is also Consulting Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. The two main projects in his group, Collaborative Sensing and Smart Matter Diagnostics, investigate how MEMS sensor and networking technology can change the way we build and interact with physical devices and environments. His research interest includes networked embedded systems, diagnostics, qualitative reasoning, and control of dynamical systems.

Dr. Zhao received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1992, where he developed one of the first algorithms for fast N-body computation in three spatial dimensions and phase-space nonlinear control synthesis. From 1992 to 1999, he was Assistant and Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at Ohio State University. His INSIGHT Group developed the SAL software tool for rapid prototyping of spatio-temporal data analysis applications; the tool is currently used by a number of other research groups.

Dr. Zhao received the ONR Young Investigator Award and the NSF Young Investigator Award, and was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the new ACM Transaction on Sensor Networks and Applications, to be launched in early 2004, and serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, IEEE Transaction on Control Systems Technology, AI Magazine, New Generation Computing, and guest co-edited several special issues on sensor and actuator networks. He initiated and co-chaired the 1st and 2nd International Workshops on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN: www.parc.com/events/ipsn03). He has authored or co-authored over 100 technical papers in the areas of networked embedded systems, artificial intelligence, nonlinear control, and programming tools, and is a co-inventor of three US Patents and six pending patent applications.

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