报告题目：Human-Centered Computing and Its Applications: From Robots, Smart Homes to Assisted Driving

报告人：盛卫华副教授，俄克拉荷马州立大学

时间：2016年9月14日（周三）上午9：00-11：00

地点：信息学馆301

邀请人：王斐，孙宇舸

摘要：Powered by new technologies in embedded computers, sensors, communication and machine learning algorithms, human-centered computing (HCC) aims to understand humans and incorporate such understanding into the design of many cyber physical systems (CPS). In this talk, Dr. Sheng will present the most recent research in HCC that is conducted by his group in the ASCC Lab at Oklahoma State University. His talk will focus on the following two problems: 1) How to understand human’s behavior, context, and health using various sensing modalities including wearable and environment sensors; 2) How to use such human understanding to realize human-aware smart systems, including robots, smart homes, autonomous cars, etc. 

Weihua Sheng is an associate professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University (OSU), USA. He is the Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Sensing, Computation and Control (ASCC Lab, http://ascc.okstate.edu) at OSU.  Dr. Sheng received his Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Michigan State University in May 2002. He obtained his M.S and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 1997 and 1994, respectively. During 2002-2006, he taught in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Kettering University (formerly General Motor Institute). He was promoted to associate professor there before he joined Oklahoma State University.  He is the author of more than 160 papers in major journals and international conferences. Seven of them have won best paper or best student paper awards in major international conferences. His current research interests include mobile robotics, wearable computing, human robot interaction andintelligent transportation systems. His research has been supported by US National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense (DoD), Oklahoma Transportation Center (OTC) /Department of Transportation (DoT), National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc.  Dr. Sheng is a senior member of IEEE and currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.