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Guest Lecture
Ambient-Assisted Living for an Aging Society: From Passive Monitoring to Prevention and Therapy
By Professor Luca Benini
Abstract:
The presentation will look into hardware-software architectures and design issues for Ambient-Assisted Living systems. The focus will be on systems that not only perform basic sensor processing, storage and transmission, but also react autonomously to the incoming sensor information with bounded response time. Critical event detection and bio-feedback fall within the classes of applications targeted by these systems. We will look in details at the technical challenges and emerging trends in this area, with particular emphasis on how to guarantee safe and robust operation under tight form-factor, energy and cost constraints.
Biography:
Luca
Benini is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, Italy. He
also holds a visiting faculty position at the Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and a Consulting Research
Professor position at the Belgian Interuniversity MicroElectronics
Centre (IMEC). He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering
from Stanford University in 1997.
Dr. Benini's research interests are in the design of system-on-chip platforms for embedded applications, and energy-efficient smart sensors and sensor networks, including biosensors and related data mining challenges.
He has published more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, four books and several book chapters. He has been the General Chair and Program Chair of the Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference. He has been a member of the technical program committee and organizing committee of several conferences, including the Design Automation Conference, International Symposium on Low Power Design, the Symposium on Hardware-Software Codesign.
He is the Associate Editor of several international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Circuits and Systems, ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, and ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and member of the steering board of ARTEMISIA European Association on Advanced Research & Technology for Embedded Intelligence and Systems.