Dr. Kun Yang of University of Essex, United Kingdom

With the advancement of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) edge computing and communications from the sky become possible and indeed provide an effective way to complement the current ground-based horizontal edge computing and communications. This talk starts with a brief introduction of UAV and UAV-assisted wireless communications, and then moves on to discuss the necessity of a close collaboration of the two important resources in any ICT system, namely, communication and computation, again in the context of UAVs. Then the talk focuses on wireless energy charging, which is carried out together with communications, i.e., the so-called data and energy integrated networks (DEIN). Key research issues and our solutions are presented, including not only theoretical aspects such as problem formulation and algorithms but also experimental implementations. The talk concludes with discussions on future opportunities in this exciting research area. The talk is easy to follow and is suitable to young researchers who just start their research study and to anybody who is interested in wireless charging and mobile edge computing and communications.

Biography:

Kun Yang received his PhD from the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering of University College London (UCL), UK. He is currently a Chair Professor in the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK, leading the Network Convergence Laboratory (NCL). Before joining Essex at 2003, he worked at UCL on several European Union (EU) research projects for several years. He has also been a visiting/affiliated professor at several universities such as UESTC, China. His main research interests include wireless networks and communications, IoT networking, data and energy integrated networks, mobile edge computing. He has published 300+ technical papers and filed 20+ patents in the above areas. He manages research projects funded by various sources such as UK EPSRC, EU FP7/H2020 and industries. He coordinated one EU FP7 research project. He has been a Judge of GSMA Global Mobile Awards since 2019 (MWC-Barcelona) and a member of UK EPSRC Peer Review College for many years. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of IEEE journals (e.g., IEEE TNSE, ComMag, WCL). He has been actively organizing international conferences/symposia/workshops. He is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2020-2021). He is a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE) and a Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Email:

Address:School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering (CSEE) University of Essex Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, , Essex CO4 3SQ , United Kingdom