IMOBILE ACM Chapter Webinar on 9 April: “The Challenge of Multiplicity in Sensory AI Systems"
March 29, 2021
Register now for "The Challenge of Multiplicity in Sensory AI Systems", a free IMOBILE ACM Chapter Webinar to be presented on Friday 9 April 2021 at 2 pm IST by Akhil Mathur, Principal Research Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. (IMOBILE is the India Chapter of ACM SIGMOBILE.)
Duration : 1 hour
Abstract: The emergence of multiple sensor devices on or near a human body is opening up exciting possibilities for mobile sensing and AI research. This multiplicity allows us to leverage the sensor redundancy and high availability of multiple devices, thereby enabling rich, powerful, and collaborative sensing applications. However, this multiplicity also comes at the expense of increased system complexity. Two key factors contributing to this challenge are device and data variabilities, caused by several runtime factors, including device availability, sensing hardware, resource budget, and device placement. In this talk, I will present SensiX—a multi-sensory edge ML framework—which offers best-effort inference in multi-device environments. SensiX operates on two key functions, a neural translation operation for principled mapping of device-to-device data and a selection operation to systematically choose the right device(s) as a function of model accuracy. Collectively, SensiX automates the selection and transformation of heterogeneous sensor streams for accurate, robust, and energy-efficient execution of sensory models on mobile and wearable devices. I will end the talk by providing an overview of the future research directions for SensiX.
Speaker:
Akhil Mathur is a Principal Research Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs in Cambridge and a member of the ACM Future of Computing Academy. His research interests are in embedded machine learning and mobile systems, focusing particularly on improving the scalability and generalizability of machine learning systems at the edge. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from University College London, a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and a BTech from DA-IICT, where he was awarded the President's Gold Medal. Akhil has authored or co-authored 50+ publications, filed 20+ patents, serves on the editorial board of Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (ACM IMWUT), and has served as a committee member for leading mobile and sensor systems venues. His research has been covered by several media organizations, including The New Yorker, The Financial Times, Livemint, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Host:
Sougata Sen, Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani
