Seventh UK Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Systems Research Symposium

Invited Speakers

Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Bio: Suman Banerjee is the David J. DeWitt Professor in Computer Sciences and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is the founding director of the WiNGS laboratory. Along with students, he has published more than 100 papers in the top conferences and journals in his field. He has received multiple awards for papers published, including at venues such as ACM MobiCom, ACM CoNEXT, IEEE Dyspan, and ACM Mobigames. He is a recipient of the US National Science Foundation CAREER award, and ACM SIGMOBILE’s inaugural Rockstar Award (for early career achievements in the field). He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Mobile Computing and Communications Review, as a Technical Program Chair of ACM MobiCom. He served as the chair of the steering committee of the ACM/EEE Transactions on Networking and serves as a member of the ACM MobiCom steering committee. He was the Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE from 2013 to 2017. He is a Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE.

Silvia Del Din (Newcastle University)

Bio: Dr Silvia Del Din is a bioengineer by background and a Reader in Digital Healthcare for translational applications at Newcastle University. She has attracted >£2Million in funding as PI and Co-I of various digital health projects (e.g. from MRC, EPSRC, IMI-EU (Mobilise-D, IDEA-FAST)). She leads the wearable/digital technology team within the Brain and Movement Research Group where she has contributed to build the digital health theme. Her research aims at innovating digital healthcare and translating it into clinical practice. In particular, she is interested in enhancing the use of digital health technology together with innovative data analysis techniques to enable remote monitoring and enhance clinical management in ageing and neurodegenerative disorders (e.g. Parkinson’s disease). She has published >100 full papers. She is part of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. She serves as a member on national and international scientific committees (e.g., Parkinson's UK College of Experts, ISPGR Scientific Content Committee); in 2022 she has been elected Chair of the Early Career Researchers Working Group of the BioMedEng Association Council.

Adrian Friday (Lancaster University)

Bio: Adrian Friday is Professor of Computing and Sustainability at Lancaster University. His interdisciplinary projects focus on understanding how digital systems impact energy and carbon footprint, including: energy use in the home; thermal comfort; sustainable food choices; sustainable transport and last-mile logistics; and understanding business energy and contextual data using time-series statistical and ML techniques. He is advisor to the leading Ubicomp journal, IMWUT; and Royal Society "Digital Technology and the Planet" working group on policy for ICT toward sustainable digital society.

Roeland Nusselder (Plumerai)

Bio: Roeland Nusselder is the CEO and co-founder of Plumerai. Already running on millions of devices in the field and rapidly growing, Plumerai’s Tiny AI is fast, cheap, battery-powered and highly-accurate. Realizing that many great products simply can’t exist without on-device Tiny AI, Plumerai provides a complete AI solution through a simple software update that works out of the box on nearly every device, covering: Plumerai’s People, Vehicle, Animal & Package Detection, Familiar Face & Stranger Identification, Multi-Camera Re-Identification, and AI Video Search. The Plumerai team is based in London and Amsterdam and is backed by Tony Fadell (iPod, iPhone, Founder of Nest), Hermann Hauser (Founder of Arm), and other top VCs.

Remy Pottier (Arm)

Bio: Remy Pottier is Director of Technology Strategy at Arm, where he explores future technology scenarios and drives strategies to incubate or co-develop transformative innovations. Since joining Arm in 2006, he launched Arm’s corporate incubation program, leading to the creation of a major new business venture. He has defined technology vision, guided strategic investments, and led disruptive innovation efforts. Prior to Arm, Remy contributed to three startup launches at CEA/LETI and worked at SOISIC before its acquisition by Arm. He holds an engineering degree in fluidics and mechanical engineering from INP Grenoble and an MBA from IAE France.

Bozidar Radunovic (Microsoft Research)

Title: The future of mobile cellular connectivity is programmable

Bio: Dr Bozidar Radunovic is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. His research interests are in design and building next generation compute infrastructure and access network for edge and cloud. He published over 50 papers and 50 industrial patents in several areas of systems, networking, wireless, algorithms and modeling. During his career, he spent 4 years in Azure for Operator CTO office where he contributed to the company strategy in telecom and radio access networks in particular.

Organising Committee

• Antonio Barbalace (University of Edinburgh)
• Alastair Beresford (University of Cambridge)
• Mahesh Marina (University of Edinburgh)
• Jingjie Li (University of Edinburgh)
• Yuvraj Patel (University of Edinburgh)

Steering Committee

• Alastair Beresford (University of Cambridge)
• Jagmohan Chauhan (University of Southampton)
• Sarah Clinch (University of Manchester)
• Nigel Davies (University of Lancaster)
• Katayoun Farrahi (University of Southampton)
• Fahim Kawsar (Nokia Bell Labs / University of Glasgow)
• Nic Lane (University of Cambridge)
• Mahesh Marina (University of Edinburgh)
• Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
• Mirco Musolesi (University College London)
• George Roussos (Birkbeck College)