GUEST PROFESSOR APPOINTMENT CEREMONY
电力系统及大型发电设备安全控制和仿真国家重点实验室
State Key Laboratory of Control and Simulation of Power System and Generation Equipments

Invited Talk by Professor Saifur Rahman
Topic: Smart Buildings and a Smart City Connected Community
Time : 10:00AM, May 23, 2017
Venue: 3-102, West Main Building, Tsinghua University

Professor Saifur Rahman is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech where he is the Joseph R. Loring professor of electrical and computer engineering. He also directs the Center for Energy and the Global Environment.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal winner.
He is the President-elect of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) for 2016 and 2017. He will serve as the President of PES in 2018 and 2019.
He was the vice president for publications of IEEE and a member of the IEEE Board of Directors in 2006. He is a member of the governing board of the IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT). He was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Electrifications Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.
He served as the chair of the US Naitonal Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013. He is a member-at-large of the IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE PES.
Invited Talk by Professor Saifur Rahman

Topic: Smart Buildings and a Smart City Connected Community
Time : 10:00AM, May 23, 2017
Venue: 3-102, West Main Building, Tsinghua University

Abstract: A smart building has a much higher value proposition if it can function in the context of a smart city in a connected community. It can then contribute more to a community and improve the environment its occupants work in. In order to make urban living more safe, secure and environmentally sustainable, we focus on environment governance, public safety, city planning, industry facilitation, resource utilization, energy conservation, traffic control, telemedicine, homecare, interpersonal communications, social activities and entertainment. A smart city relies on widely distributed smart devices to monitor the urban environment in real-time, collects information for intelligent decision making, and facilitates various services to improve the quality of urban living. The distributed network of intelligent sensor nodes, as well as data centers/clouds where sensor data are stored and shared, constitutes a smart city infrastructure. Participatory sensing plays an indispensable role in emerging initiatives of a smart city, which retrieves sensor data from groups of people or communities. The proliferation of personal mobile devices and development of online social networks make participatory sensing viable at a large scale but introduce many open problems at the same time. Smart cities address urban challenges such as pollution, energy efficiency, security, parking, traffic, transportation, and others by utilizing advanced technologies in data gathering and communications interconnectivity via the Internet. It provides real time and remote monitoring for different aspects of data management in areas such as transportation, communication, video surveillance, and sensors distributed throughout the city.