CEN Lecture Series | Enabling Technologies for Building Smart City Applications from the Ground to the Cloud (April 2024)
The role of edge, fog and cloud computing with the embedded AI, ML and DL are advancing smart city applications across sectors like smart buildings, energy, factories, farming, health, transportation and manufacturing, synergizing with Industry 4.0 and 5.0 paradigms. These multidisciplinary applications blend technology, urban planning and environmental science, involving key contributions from various engineering disciplines. Civil engineers shape the urban infrastructure, electrical engineers focus on power systems and electronics, chemical engineers innovate in sustainable materials, mechanical engineers enhance energy systems, and industrial engineers optimize processes. This collaborative approach not only improves urban efficiency and sustainability but also supports key Sustainable Development Goals. Through this integration of diverse engineering expertise with advanced computing, smart city applications are steering towards innovative, sustainable and human-centric urban development. The speaker will show how to build smart cities applications and present some case studies.
About the speaker
Professor A. R. Al-Ali (SM IEEE) earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. He also holds a master's degree from the Polytechnic Institute of New York, USA, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Aleppo University, Syria. Professor Al-Ali's academic journey includes a tenure as an associate/assistant professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia from 1991 to 2000. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at AUS.
His research and teaching interests are primarily focused on the hardware and software architectures of embedded and cyber-physical systems with a particular emphasis on their applications in Smart Cities. For more information about Professor Al-Ali, please visit his faculty profile here.
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