Keynote: Transitioning from Locations to Semantics and Services
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Andreas Savvides (Yale University)
Andreas Savvides is the Barton L. Weller Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Yale University. He holds a B.S degree in Computer Engineering (1997) from the University of California, San Diego, and M.S Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1999) and a Ph.D. Degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (2003). He joined Yale in 2003 where he leads the Embedded Networks and Applications Lab, (ENALAB). His main research focus is in networked embedded systems and wireless sensor networks with emphasis on the use of sensor systems for interpreting human behavior. His research is funded by Federal and industrial grants including an NSF CAREER award in 2005 for his work on calibrating sensor networks and providing application support for interpreting behaviors using sensors. In the past few years Dr. Savvides' research has been applied to elder care, security and more recently energy management applications in large buildings. In 2008 Dr. Savvides founded A.M.D Assistive Networks Ltd, developing aging-in-place solutions, particularly focused on helping elders living in rural areas. Dr. Savvides serves on the technical program committees of various conferences in the area of wireless sensor networks and he is currently a member of the editorial board of the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. In 2010 he served as the General Chair for the Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN). The current research interests of Dr. Savvides are in spatio-temporal sensor data processing for the analysis of human behavior using sensors, macroscopic sensor composition from simpler sensors, networked systems for sensing humans and their application in energy systems, elder monitoring and ageing in place applications. |