ECE Research Seminar Series: Internet of Things - Beyond the Smart Toaster

The Electrical and Computer Engineering department will host a seminar featuring Dr. Gina Martinez, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational and Mathematical Sciences and the Director of Computer Engineering at Lewis University. Her topic is the Internet of Things—Beyond the Smart Toaster.

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is of an interconnected physical world deeply embedded in cyberspace. This vision is much more complex than a smart toaster or a fairly sophisticated smart home. IoT is an expansive and extensive system capable of providing services that enhance the physical world by utilizing collective sensed data from heterogeneous sensing devices and interacting with the physical world through coordinating actuators. This leads to a transformative paradigm in which the physical and digital worlds intersect in an interface that lays the foundations of a programmable world. Dr. Martinez will discuss the IoT vision, enabling technologies, architecture, management framework, challenges, and applications in this talk.

Biography

Dr. Martinez is currently leading the effort to get the new B.S. The Computer Engineering program at Lewis University is ABET-accredited. She is also the 2018 IEEE Computer Society, Chicago section chair. She earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to her interest in curriculum design and engineering education assessment, she has research interests in digital and wireless communications, computer architecture, computer hardware/software interface, hardware virtualization, embedded systems, computer networks, and the Internet of Things.