The Edge AI SIG of FCAI is organising an Edge AI day on May 19th, 2022 in the Thinkcorner in Tiedekulma.
The day will have two events where researchers can discuss on various topics on Edge Intelligence, and specifically on topics that are at an intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Communication Networks. It will be an on-site event with an option to follow some of the talks online.

Streaming Link for the Event: https://tiedekulmamedia.helsinki.fi/fi/web/tiedekulma/player/webcast?playerId=99487739&eventId=170927979

Program

Part 1: Student Discussions at Thinklounge.
This event is aimed at students to discuss their on going works and share the lessons learned from their past experiences.

09.30 - 10.00 - Jussi Kangasharju — Experience Comes From Bad Judgment: Learning from Mistakes in Research
10.00 - 11.30 - Presentations and Discussions of on-going works​

11.30 - 13.00 - Lunch break at Unicafe (Porthania).

Part 2: AI meets 6G: Towards Edge Intelligence
Researchers will be presenting their vision and the state of the art on topics related to Edge Intelligence.

13.00 - 13.15 - Introduction to the Edge AI SIG and FCAI by Sasu Tarkoma
13.15 - 13.45 - Guoying Zhao — Introduction of Oulu AI Community
13.45 - 14.15 - Miguel Bordallo López — What Cyberpunk 2077 teaches us about the future of the AI and edge computing
14.15 - 14.45 - Ian Akyildiz — Edge Intelligence for Internet of Space Things
14.45 - 15.00 - Jari Lehtonen and Veli-Pekka Luoma — Nokia Veturi and Nokia's vision on the RAN AI Architecture

This will be followed by an open floor where participants can discuss at the Thinkcorner.

Registration

Registration via this form.

Speakers

Jussi Kangasharju

Jussi Kangasharju received his MSc from Helsinki University of Technology in 1998. He received his Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies (DEA) from the Ecole Superieure des Sciences Informatiques (ESSI) in Sophia Antipolis in 1998. In 2002 he received his PhD from University of Nice Sophia Antipolis/Institut Eurecom. In 2002 he joined Darmstadt University of Technology (TUD), first as post-doctoral researcher, and from 2004 onwards as assistant professor. Since June 2007 Jussi is a professor at the department of computer science at University of Helsinki and is currently the head of the department. Between 2009 and 2012 he was the director of the Future Internet research program at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT). Jussi’s research interests are information-centric networks, edge and cloud computing, content distribution, opportunistic networks, and green ICT. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Sasu Tarkoma

Sasu Tarkoma is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki and Dean of the Faculty of Science. He was Director of the Helsinki Center for Data Science. He is affiliated with the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT and the Finnish Center for AI (FCAI). He is chairman of the Finnish Scientific Advisory Board for Defence (MATINE). He has published over 200 scientific articles that pertain to Internet and distributed systems, Internet of Things, and mobile systems. He has authored or co-authored four international scientific books published by Wiley, CRC Press, and Cambridge University Press. He has 11 granted US patents and over 20 international patent applications. He has supervised over 120 M.Sc. theses and 12 PhD theses. His research has received a number of Best Paper awards and mentions, for example at IEEE PerCom, ACM CCR, and ACM OSR.

Guoying Zhao

Guoying Zhao is currently an Academy Professor with Academy of Finland and (tenured) full professor (from 2017) with the Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu, Finland. She is IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow, and was recognized as Finland’s most publishing researcher on AI in Digibarometri 2017 report. Her current research interests include image and video descriptors, facial-expression and micro-expression recognition, emotional gesture analysis, affective computing, and biometrics.

Miguel Bordallo López

Miguel Bordallo López is Associate Professor of Vision Systems Engineering at the Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis (CMVS) at the University of Oulu and a Senior Scientist in Artificial Intelligence at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He studied for a Bachelor's degree in Telecommunication Engineering at the Technical University of Madrid, Spain and received his Master's and Doctoral degrees from the University of Oulu in 2010 and 2014 respectively. His research group, the Visual Health team, focuses on using real time computer vision and video analysis to transform primary healthcare. Prof. Bordallo López has authored more than 50 scientific publications. He is an Associate Editor at the Journal for Real-Time Image Processing and a 2017 Nokia Bell Labs Prize finalist. He has active roles in two Academy of Finland Flagships, FCAI and 6G .

Ian Akyildiz

I.F. Akyildiz (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981, and 1984, respectively. He is the Founder and President of the Truva Inc., a consulting company based in Georgia, USA, since 1989. He is an Adjunct Professor with University of Helsinki since 2021.

He is an Advisory Board member at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, since June 2020. He is the Founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the newly established of International Telecommunication Union Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU J-FET) since August 2020. He served as the Ken Byers Chair Professor in Telecommunications, the Past Chair of the Telecom Group at the ECE, and the Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, from 1985 to 2020. He had many international affiliations during his career and established research centers in Spain, South Africa, Finland (FiDiPro: Finnish Distinguished Professor), Saudi Arabia, Germany, Russia, India and Cyprus. Dr. Akyildiz is an IEEE Fellow since 1996, and ACM Fellow since 1997. He received numerous awards from IEEE, ACM, and other professional organizations, including Humboldt Award from Germany and Tubitak Award from Turkey. In April 2022, according to Google Scholar his h-index is 132 and the total number of citations to his articles is more than 133+K. His current research interests include 6G/7G wireless systems, Terahertz Communication, Hologram Communication, Extended Reality Wireless Communication, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Internet of Space Things/CUBESATs, Internet of Bio-Nano Things, Molecular Communication, Underwater and Underground Communication