Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel, a pioneer in digital design and virtual reality environments, has been shaping the future of design in higher education for over 25 years, with his work spanning Germany, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
He is now the Dean of the Design School at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, coming from Japan, where he was the founding director of the “FORUM8 Research Lab” to develop solutions for virtual buildings and cities. He’s been honoured as a CAADRIA Fellow and sits on many international government funding boards.
Throughout his career, he’s written many influential papers about digital architecture and put together digital architecture exhibitions. He also started the ‘Digital Architecture Research Alliance’ (DARA) and the online group ‘Urban Digitalics’ to connect professionals and researchers in novel digital design.
Topic: Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Inclusive Designs in the Digital Realm
Abstract: In this presentation, Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel shares unique insights on how digital design and virtual reality can transform spaces into welcoming and creative environments for everyone. Drawing from his extensive experience in architecture, digital design, and teaching worldwide, he presents a compelling vision for leveraging digital tools in space design.
His vision integrates concepts from virtual reality, digital heritage, smart cities, and cutting-edge technologies like AI and blockchain in creative fields. His talk is designed to inspire innovative thinking about designing our world and explore how digital design can enhance spaces for everyone, considering factors like user experience, accessibility, and sustainability.
The presentation outlines a practical approach to embracing digital tools as vital partners in creating inclusive physical and virtual environments. He demonstrates this through exhibitions, intriguing case studies, and collaborative projects, showing how the fusion of virtual reality and creativity can generate exciting new experiences for everyone.
Xiaotai Wangreceived his undergraduate and Master’s education in China. Afterwards he won a full scholarship from the University of Virginia, which brought him to the US to pursue a PhD in chemistry. This was followed by two short postdocsat the University of Utah and Iowa State University. His PhD and postdoc work were concerned with the synthesis and reactivity of organometallic compounds. After beginning his independent career in the US, Dr. Wang studied the synthesis and properties of a class of advanced materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Dr. Wang’s current research interests are in computational organometallic chemistry, with a focus on studying themechanisms of transition metal-catalyzed synthetically useful reactions. Research in this direction addresses the experimental–theoretical synergy and provides ideas and insights for new reaction development. Dr. Xiaotai Wang joined Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) as a professor of chemistry in November 2022. He had previously worked at the University of Colorado Denver, moving up the ranks of assistant professor, associate professor (tenured), and professor (tenured). He was a visiting professor/scholar at MIT, the Chinese Academy of Sciences,and the Hoffmann Institute in Shenzhen. Working at XJTLU, a unique international university in China, Dr. Wang aims to cultivate future generations of scientists and world citizens.
Topic: Catalysis:Changing theWorld for the Better
Abstract: Catalysis is the speeding up of a chemical reaction by adding a small amount of a substance known as a catalyst. The catalystgets regenerated and recycled after the reaction. Catalysis plays a crucial role in many industrial processes, contributing to 35% of the world’s GDP. The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded seven times for catalysis.Contemporary catalytic science is notable for both conceptual and technical innovation, and it has three pillars:transition metal (TM) catalysis, organocatalysis, and biocatalysis. This talk will introduce these subfields of catalysis to a general audience, with a focus on TM catalysis, which has revolutionized both the art of chemical synthesis in research labsand the manufacturing of chemical products in industry. Recently with the growing relevance of sustainability, there has been much effort to develop catalysts based on Earth-abundant transition metals to achieve sustainable catalysis. In TM-catalyzed reactions, the intermediate chemical species are frequently highly reactive and not easily observable by experiment. Thus, computational modeling can play a critical role in revealing the detailed mechanism ofTM catalysis, and this is my field of study. I will showexamples ofour computational studies of cutting-edge TM catalysis, which not only rationalize experimental facts, but also gain novel insights that can guide further experimental work.
Professor Lei Fu received his B.Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Chemistry from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Stanford University under the direction of Dr. James P. Collman. He joined Pharmacyclics Inc. (then acquired by AbbVie), California in 1998 as a scientist and then a group leader. He led the drug discovery & development, process research on anti-cancer and anti-cardiovascular diseases. He has been a Summer visiting scholar in the Department of Chemistry, Stanford University since 2009, and a scientific consultant to several pharmaceutical companies.
Dr Lei Fu has been a Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Shanghai Jiao Tong University since March of 2006. The research in his group interfaces chemistry and medicine. His principal interests are 1) drug discovery and development; 2) process research on drug API and related substances; 3) traditional Chinese medicines as botanical cosmeceuticals; 4) medical devices as targeted drug delivery systems and 5) human hibernation studies using biomimetic models of cytochrome c oxidase. Dr Fu teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, including Principles of Medicinal Chemistry, Comprehensive Pharmacy, Presenting Science, Chemistry and Pharmacology for layman etc.
Professor Fu jointed Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University Academy of Pharmacy as an Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching in early 2021. He is responsible for strategic establishment of the Academy and its curriculums.
Dr Fu is an adjunct Professor at Roosevelt University and Santa Clara University in the US, also an Editor of Bioorganic Chemistry (Elsevier) and Pharmaceutical Fronts (Thieme), respectively.
Dr Fu has over 80 peer-reviewed publications mainly in drug discovery. Several of them were published in Science, PNAS, Chemical Reviews, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal of American Chemical Society, Accounts of Chemical Research, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Organic Chemistry and European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. He holds more than 20 US and China Patents.
Dr Fu invented two cosmeceutical products containing traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) and licensed to German companies, Henkel and Beiersdorf, respectively.
Dr Fu initiated a collaborative research project with Ethiopia Addis Ababa University, Centre for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT-Africa, supported by the World Bank and State government), on the development of Africa local medicinal herbal and establishment of Africa herbal pharmacopeia.
Topic: Fighting for the losing game: chemical interventions in mitochondrial dysfunction
Abstract: Our research addresses the complex challenges posed by chronic diseases and explores a novel avenue for intervention through targeted modulation of mitochondrial activity. Mitochondria, pivotal cellular organelles, play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of diseases such as diabetes, neurodegenerative conditions, and cancer. This presentation delves into the intricacies of mitochondrial dysfunction in each disease context and highlights chemical strategies designed to restore or disrupt mitochondrial activity for therapeutic benefit. The interdisciplinary nature of this research is emphasized, showcasing the collaborative efforts between chemists, biologists, and medical professionals.
Moritz Bilagher is honoured to be a member of the Academy of Future Education and, in particular, the Learning Institute for Future Excellence (LIFE) as a Professor of Practice in Global Citizenship Education (GCED). He holds a Doctorate in Education from King’s College London, a Master of Science degree in Educational Research Methodology from the University of Oxford and a Master of Science degree in Science Dynamics from the University of Amsterdam. In addition, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civic Education and a teaching license from Hogeschool Holland.
As Professor of Practice, Moritz Bilagher obtained the majority of his work experience outside academia, mainly in international cooperation and development in education, with UNESCO (Nairobi, Santiago, Bangkok and Paris), UNRWA (Amman and Beirut), the World Bank-based Global Partnership of Education (Washington, DC) and the British government Agency for ICT in Education Becta (Coventry) in education management, research and evaluation.
In his most recent assignment for UNESCO, Prof. Bilagher was Deputy Director and Acting Director of the UNESCO-UNWRA Department of Education, where he (co-) led the UNRWA education programme with around 22,000 education staff including approximately 18,000 teachers and over 500,000 students at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
He hopes to bring his experience in the field to the university context, to the benefit of students and colleagues and his research interests include international education, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, global citizenship education (GCED), peace education, educational assessment (psychometrics) and socio-emotional learning (SEL).
Topic: Peace in our time: How can education support the efforts against war?
Abstract: While we currently see the devastating effects of war, in Europe and the Near East, we are faced with the question: can education play a role in preventing this? The explicit idea of Education for Peace, or Peace Education, has existed for at least around a 100 years now, i.e. since Maria Montessori gave her seminal lectures on this topic in the inter-bellum period, mainly in Copenhagen and Geneva at the International Bureau of Education (IBE), which has been incorporated into UNESCO since 1969. In her view, education must build lasting peace, while all politics can do is keep us out of war. Since then, the field has been further developed and several Peace Education initiatives have been implemented worldwide, including in (post-) conflict areas. In this lecture, I will provide an overview of this field and argue that one branch of Peace Education, i.e. Education for Global Citizenship / Global Citizenship Education (GCED) represents its essence. Finally, I will present data of an empirical study on what global citizenship means to students at XJTLU and discuss the implications of the findings for the field.
Professor Heechae Choi joined the Chemistry Department of XJTLU as a professor in January 2023 after spending years at University of Cologne, Germany, where he started his independent academic career with a prestigious fellowship, MOPGA-GRI (Sep.2018 – Dec.2022).
Before his first independent research launched in Germany, he founded two venture companies, Virtual Lab Inc. and Materials Lab (Mar.2016, Aug.2018), which provide materials simulation platform and consulting services to big manufacturing companies including Samsung Electronics, 3M, SK, MiCo.
He has developed several theory models for quality controls of mass produced functional materials running his technology-based business and doing academic work in parallel.
The projects that he conducted as the PI are mostly about the theory-based materials processing condition predictions for high-technology business such as
– Apple’s iPhone antenna materials
– Samsung Electronics’s capacitor lifetime
– Reliance-Samsung network device
– SK Hynix electrostatic chuck
Heechae’s current main research interests are in fundamental approaches to energy conversion materials and semiconductor processing.
Topic: Venture Company Foundation with Fundamental Scientific Research
Abstract: The ultimate goals of fundamental scientific research activity are to discover the laws of nature, and to make the world a better place. Academic job devoted to fundamental scientific research is one of the most pleasant occupations because it is mostly initiated by intellectual curiosities of individuals. When scientists reach mature levels of scientific knowledge and academic activities, some of them start to have desires to test the values of their knowledge and technology in the real market for various reasons, such as better recognitions, research funding acquisitions, extra incomes. Establishing a new business utilizing professional scientific knowledge and technology can be an efficient way to experience the real world and to evaluate the market value of his/her scientific knowledge. However, it is very challenging to launch a new business especially for scientist who has no experiences of running a business before. In this XJTLU Public Lecture, I will share my personal experiences of launching venture companies with my fundamental scientific research knowledge based on quantum mechanics, which I believe will give some ideas to students or scientists who are considering a new knowledge-based business.
Professor Kah Phooi Seng (Jasmine) is a renowned and international discipline leader in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Advanced Computing Systems with over two decades of experience and independent contributions to original creative research. She is currently Full Professor in Artificial Intelligence at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University’s Entrepreneur College in Taicang School of AI and Advanced Computing (AIAC). She is also the Research Leader for theresearch group of ‘AI Acceleration and Intelligent Sensing for Interdisciplinary Research (2AISense)’. Prior to this appointment, she held senior academic leadership and honorary professorships across several UK, Australian and Asian institutions.Her research publications include four books and over 250 articles in academic journals and international conferences.Her research expertise and interests include AI, machine learning and data analytics, big data, Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing, multimodal information processing, embedded intelligence and systems. Professor Seng’s research contributions have been recognized internationally including awards such as Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (FIET UK), International Discipline Leading Talent Project (Outstanding) of Science and Education Innovation Zone andwas listed among the top 2% of the world’s most-cited scientists for single-year citation impact in 2022 and 2023. Professor Seng has graduated 16 PhD students and served as doctoral and external examiners for several universities. She has a strong passion and strengths for mentoring earlier career researchers and encouraging girls and women into STEM
Topic: Embedded Intelligence and the Data-Driven Future of AI and IoT for Smart Environments
Abstract: The advances and convergence in digital technologies, sensing technologies and in combination with intelligent analytics and edgeartificial intelligence (AI) have shaped the technologies of the future. In this talk, Professor Kah Phooi Seng will introduce research topics and her works on embedding intelligence (EI) into sensing platforms and devices including shaping AI and Internet of Things (IoT) for deployment in smart environments. AI and machine learning algorithms can be used to automatically infer information about data being transported and ingested without the need for relying on human intervention. However, to achieve fast analysis and early detection for actionable insights in AI and IoT applications and services, the current trend is to move the sensing and intelligent information capabilities from centralized processing to a distributed or decentralized information processing and computational framework. The mature development of edge computing devices affords the development of aportable, reduced computational complexity hardware platform to serve as an analytics engine for on-node deployments. The presentation will cover the challenges and future directions for embedded intelligence and how distributed AI approaches can help to mitigate social challenges like privacy and security for the development of the AI and analytics engines in smart environments.
22 May
Time, Venue：5:30 – 7:00PM IR G-16, SIP
Speaker: Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel
Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel, a pioneer in digital design and virtual reality environments, has been shaping the future of design in higher education for over 25 years, with his work spanning Germany, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
He is now the Dean of the Design School at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, coming from Japan, where he was the founding director of the “FORUM8 Research Lab” to develop solutions for virtual buildings and cities. He’s been honoured as a CAADRIA Fellow and sits on many international government funding boards.
Throughout his career, he’s written many influential papers about digital architecture and put together digital architecture exhibitions. He also started the ‘Digital Architecture Research Alliance’ (DARA) and the online group ‘Urban Digitalics’ to connect professionals and researchers in novel digital design.
Topic: Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Inclusive Designs in the Digital Realm
Abstract: In this presentation, Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel shares unique insights on how digital design and virtual reality can transform spaces into welcoming and creative environments for everyone. Drawing from his extensive experience in architecture, digital design, and teaching worldwide, he presents a compelling vision for leveraging digital tools in space design.
His vision integrates concepts from virtual reality, digital heritage, smart cities, and cutting-edge technologies like AI and blockchain in creative fields. His talk is designed to inspire innovative thinking about designing our world and explore how digital design can enhance spaces for everyone, considering factors like user experience, accessibility, and sustainability.
The presentation outlines a practical approach to embracing digital tools as vital partners in creating inclusive physical and virtual environments. He demonstrates this through exhibitions, intriguing case studies, and collaborative projects, showing how the fusion of virtual reality and creativity can generate exciting new experiences for everyone.
“HaloO”: proposal for West-Sydney Airport
Hovering-Furusato
5 June
Time, Venue：5:30 – 7:00PM IR G-16, SIP
Speaker: Professor Xiaotai Wang
Xiaotai Wang received his undergraduate and Master’s education in China. Afterwards he won a full scholarship from the University of Virginia, which brought him to the US to pursue a PhD in chemistry. This was followed by two short postdocs at the University of Utah and Iowa State University. His PhD and postdoc work were concerned with the synthesis and reactivity of organometallic compounds. After beginning his independent career in the US, Dr. Wang studied the synthesis and properties of a class of advanced materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Dr. Wang’s current research interests are in computational organometallic chemistry, with a focus on studying the mechanisms of transition metal-catalyzed synthetically useful reactions. Research in this direction addresses the experimental–theoretical synergy and provides ideas and insights for new reaction development.
Dr. Xiaotai Wang joined Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) as a professor of chemistry in November 2022. He had previously worked at the University of Colorado Denver, moving up the ranks of assistant professor, associate professor (tenured), and professor (tenured). He was a visiting professor/scholar at MIT, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Hoffmann Institute in Shenzhen. Working at XJTLU, a unique international university in China, Dr. Wang aims to cultivate future generations of scientists and world citizens.
Topic: Catalysis: Changing the World for the Better
Abstract: Catalysis is the speeding up of a chemical reaction by adding a small amount of a substance known as a catalyst. The catalyst gets regenerated and recycled after the reaction. Catalysis plays a crucial role in many industrial processes, contributing to 35% of the world’s GDP. The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded seven times for catalysis. Contemporary catalytic science is notable for both conceptual and technical innovation, and it has three pillars: transition metal (TM) catalysis, organocatalysis, and biocatalysis. This talk will introduce these subfields of catalysis to a general audience, with a focus on TM catalysis, which has revolutionized both the art of chemical synthesis in research labs and the manufacturing of chemical products in industry. Recently with the growing relevance of sustainability, there has been much effort to develop catalysts based on Earth-abundant transition metals to achieve sustainable catalysis. In TM-catalyzed reactions, the intermediate chemical species are frequently highly reactive and not easily observable by experiment. Thus, computational modeling can play a critical role in revealing the detailed mechanism of TM catalysis, and this is my field of study. I will show examples of our computational studies of cutting-edge TM catalysis, which not only rationalize experimental facts, but also gain novel insights that can guide further experimental work.
17 July
Time, Venue：5:30 – 7:00PM IR G-16, SIP
Speaker: Professor Lei Fu
Professor Lei Fu received his B.Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Chemistry from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Stanford University under the direction of Dr. James P. Collman. He joined Pharmacyclics Inc. (then acquired by AbbVie), California in 1998 as a scientist and then a group leader. He led the drug discovery & development, process research on anti-cancer and anti-cardiovascular diseases. He has been a Summer visiting scholar in the Department of Chemistry, Stanford University since 2009, and a scientific consultant to several pharmaceutical companies.
Dr Lei Fu has been a Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Shanghai Jiao Tong University since March of 2006. The research in his group interfaces chemistry and medicine. His principal interests are 1) drug discovery and development; 2) process research on drug API and related substances; 3) traditional Chinese medicines as botanical cosmeceuticals; 4) medical devices as targeted drug delivery systems and 5) human hibernation studies using biomimetic models of cytochrome c oxidase. Dr Fu teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, including Principles of Medicinal Chemistry, Comprehensive Pharmacy, Presenting Science, Chemistry and Pharmacology for layman etc.
Professor Fu jointed Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University Academy of Pharmacy as an Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching in early 2021. He is responsible for strategic establishment of the Academy and its curriculums.
Dr Fu is an adjunct Professor at Roosevelt University and Santa Clara University in the US, also an Editor of Bioorganic Chemistry (Elsevier) and Pharmaceutical Fronts (Thieme), respectively.
Dr Fu has over 80 peer-reviewed publications mainly in drug discovery. Several of them were published in Science, PNAS, Chemical Reviews, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal of American Chemical Society, Accounts of Chemical Research, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Organic Chemistry and European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. He holds more than 20 US and China Patents.
Dr Fu invented two cosmeceutical products containing traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) and licensed to German companies, Henkel and Beiersdorf, respectively.
Dr Fu initiated a collaborative research project with Ethiopia Addis Ababa University, Centre for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT-Africa, supported by the World Bank and State government), on the development of Africa local medicinal herbal and establishment of Africa herbal pharmacopeia.
Topic: Fighting for the losing game: chemical interventions in mitochondrial dysfunction
Abstract: Our research addresses the complex challenges posed by chronic diseases and explores a novel avenue for intervention through targeted modulation of mitochondrial activity. Mitochondria, pivotal cellular organelles, play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of diseases such as diabetes, neurodegenerative conditions, and cancer. This presentation delves into the intricacies of mitochondrial dysfunction in each disease context and highlights chemical strategies designed to restore or disrupt mitochondrial activity for therapeutic benefit. The interdisciplinary nature of this research is emphasized, showcasing the collaborative efforts between chemists, biologists, and medical professionals.
25 September
Time, Venue：5:30 – 7:00PM IR G-16, SIP
Speaker: Professor Moritz Bilagher
Moritz Bilagher is honoured to be a member of the Academy of Future Education and, in particular, the Learning Institute for Future Excellence (LIFE) as a Professor of Practice in Global Citizenship Education (GCED). He holds a Doctorate in Education from King’s College London, a Master of Science degree in Educational Research Methodology from the University of Oxford and a Master of Science degree in Science Dynamics from the University of Amsterdam. In addition, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civic Education and a teaching license from Hogeschool Holland.
As Professor of Practice, Moritz Bilagher obtained the majority of his work experience outside academia, mainly in international cooperation and development in education, with UNESCO (Nairobi, Santiago, Bangkok and Paris), UNRWA (Amman and Beirut), the World Bank-based Global Partnership of Education (Washington, DC) and the British government Agency for ICT in Education Becta (Coventry) in education management, research and evaluation.
In his most recent assignment for UNESCO, Prof. Bilagher was Deputy Director and Acting Director of the UNESCO-UNWRA Department of Education, where he (co-) led the UNRWA education programme with around 22,000 education staff including approximately 18,000 teachers and over 500,000 students at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
He hopes to bring his experience in the field to the university context, to the benefit of students and colleagues and his research interests include international education, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, global citizenship education (GCED), peace education, educational assessment (psychometrics) and socio-emotional learning (SEL).
Topic: Peace in our time: How can education support the efforts against war?
Abstract: While we currently see the devastating effects of war, in Europe and the Near East, we are faced with the question: can education play a role in preventing this? The explicit idea of Education for Peace, or Peace Education, has existed for at least around a 100 years now, i.e. since Maria Montessori gave her seminal lectures on this topic in the inter-bellum period, mainly in Copenhagen and Geneva at the International Bureau of Education (IBE), which has been incorporated into UNESCO since 1969. In her view, education must build lasting peace, while all politics can do is keep us out of war. Since then, the field has been further developed and several Peace Education initiatives have been implemented worldwide, including in (post-) conflict areas. In this lecture, I will provide an overview of this field and argue that one branch of Peace Education, i.e. Education for Global Citizenship / Global Citizenship Education (GCED) represents its essence. Finally, I will present data of an empirical study on what global citizenship means to students at XJTLU and discuss the implications of the findings for the field.
23 October
Time, Venue：5:30 – 7:00PM IR G-16, SIP
Speaker: Professor Heechae Choi
Professor Heechae Choi joined the Chemistry Department of XJTLU as a professor in January 2023 after spending years at University of Cologne, Germany, where he started his independent academic career with a prestigious fellowship, MOPGA-GRI (Sep.2018 – Dec.2022).
Before his first independent research launched in Germany, he founded two venture companies, Virtual Lab Inc. and Materials Lab (Mar.2016, Aug.2018), which provide materials simulation platform and consulting services to big manufacturing companies including Samsung Electronics, 3M, SK, MiCo.
He has developed several theory models for quality controls of mass produced functional materials running his technology-based business and doing academic work in parallel.
The projects that he conducted as the PI are mostly about the theory-based materials processing condition predictions for high-technology business such as
– Apple’s iPhone antenna materials
– Samsung Electronics’s capacitor lifetime
– Reliance-Samsung network device
– SK Hynix electrostatic chuck
Heechae’s current main research interests are in fundamental approaches to energy conversion materials and semiconductor processing.
Topic: Venture Company Foundation with Fundamental Scientific Research
Abstract: The ultimate goals of fundamental scientific research activity are to discover the laws of nature, and to make the world a better place. Academic job devoted to fundamental scientific research is one of the most pleasant occupations because it is mostly initiated by intellectual curiosities of individuals. When scientists reach mature levels of scientific knowledge and academic activities, some of them start to have desires to test the values of their knowledge and technology in the real market for various reasons, such as better recognitions, research funding acquisitions, extra incomes. Establishing a new business utilizing professional scientific knowledge and technology can be an efficient way to experience the real world and to evaluate the market value of his/her scientific knowledge. However, it is very challenging to launch a new business especially for scientist who has no experiences of running a business before. In this XJTLU Public Lecture, I will share my personal experiences of launching venture companies with my fundamental scientific research knowledge based on quantum mechanics, which I believe will give some ideas to students or scientists who are considering a new knowledge-based business.
13 November
Time, Venue：12:00 – 1:30PM G-1006, XEC
Speaker: Professor Jasmine Kah Phooi SENG
Professor Kah Phooi Seng (Jasmine) is a renowned and international discipline leader in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Advanced Computing Systems with over two decades of experience and independent contributions to original creative research. She is currently Full Professor in Artificial Intelligence at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University’s Entrepreneur College in Taicang School of AI and Advanced Computing (AIAC). She is also the Research Leader for the research group of ‘AI Acceleration and Intelligent Sensing for Interdisciplinary Research (2AISense)’. Prior to this appointment, she held senior academic leadership and honorary professorships across several UK, Australian and Asian institutions. Her research publications include four books and over 250 articles in academic journals and international conferences. Her research expertise and interests include AI, machine learning and data analytics, big data, Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing, multimodal information processing, embedded intelligence and systems. Professor Seng’s research contributions have been recognized internationally including awards such as Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (FIET UK), International Discipline Leading Talent Project (Outstanding) of Science and Education Innovation Zone and was listed among the top 2% of the world’s most-cited scientists for single-year citation impact in 2022 and 2023. Professor Seng has graduated 16 PhD students and served as doctoral and external examiners for several universities. She has a strong passion and strengths for mentoring earlier career researchers and encouraging girls and women into STEM
Topic: Embedded Intelligence and the Data-Driven Future of AI and IoT for Smart Environments
Abstract: The advances and convergence in digital technologies, sensing technologies and in combination with intelligent analytics and edge artificial intelligence (AI) have shaped the technologies of the future. In this talk, Professor Kah Phooi Seng will introduce research topics and her works on embedding intelligence (EI) into sensing platforms and devices including shaping AI and Internet of Things (IoT) for deployment in smart environments. AI and machine learning algorithms can be used to automatically infer information about data being transported and ingested without the need for relying on human intervention. However, to achieve fast analysis and early detection for actionable insights in AI and IoT applications and services, the current trend is to move the sensing and intelligent information capabilities from centralized processing to a distributed or decentralized information processing and computational framework. The mature development of edge computing devices affords the development of a portable, reduced computational complexity hardware platform to serve as an analytics engine for on-node deployments. The presentation will cover the challenges and future directions for embedded intelligence and how distributed AI approaches can help to mitigate social challenges like privacy and security for the development of the AI and analytics engines in smart environments.