"UESTC (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) - UofG (University of Glasgow) Academic Forum" jointly organized by the School of Information and Communication Engineering and co-sponsored by the Glasgow College at UESTC, has invitedProf. David Flynn from University of Glasgow and Prof. Qian He from School of Information and Communication Engineering to deliver an academic webinar. The arrangement is as follow. Interested students and faculty members are welcome to attend.

Topics：

Topic 1：Cyber Physical Systems: Systems Engineering Across the Length Scales

Topic 2：Target Detection using Quantized Cloud MIMO Radar Measurements

Speaker:

Prof. David Flynn (University of Glasgow)

Prof. Qian HE (UESTC)

Time: 15:30 (Monday), May 30, 2022

Venue: Online platform: ZOOM Meeting

Conferencelinks:

https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/92742726903?pwd=a3dHWjI4cDVNZjBXbmxubmk5N0xPQT09

Host: Julien Le Kernec

Introduction:

Prof. David Flynn：Our global society faces many pressing challenges such as climate change, industrial and societal resilience to unexpected shocks, to the sustainability and security of critical infrastructure and services. Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) allow us to create new methodologies of problem solving, coupling distributed data, information, and interdisciplinary expertise, into disruptive learning and enabling technologies. I will provide a brief overview of the following thematic areas of CPS research at the University of Glasgow; (1) Sustainable and Inclusive Energy Transition, (2) Scalable Autonomy and Digitalisation, (3) Systems Engineering and (4) Fundamental Systems.

A specific focus will be given to our research into (4) Fundamental Systems. One current matter of considerable societal importance is the need for a complex multi-objective optimization of environmental objectives, energy security and energy equity. This approach mirrors the wider need to optimize all subsurface energy source uses, recognizing benefits, costs and consequences. Many repercussions arise from the disposal of by-products and wastes from our energy sources. Burning fossil fuels, both coal and petroleum, create wastes and by-products, including CO2, produced water and airborne particulates. Nuclear energy creates wastes as part of the extraction of uranium, and the spent fuel plus the reactor facilities wastes must be isolated. These examples and others have direct links to the subsurface which can be both the source and the repository over both shorter (months to decades) and longer (millennia) timeframes. Waste isolation involves considering the movement of subsurface fluids through the rocks that contain them. So, research streams focused on fluid flow processes that occur naturally, and those caused by humans, are equally significant, and are the subject of our research into Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) analysis of geomaterials.

Prof. Qian HE：In the cloud MIMO radar, signals returned from the target are received by each receiver (local sensor), which can communicate with a fusion center (FC) through a backhaul network. The number of local sensors in a cloud MIMO radar could be large and the receive antennas may be distributed over large geographical areas with no available wired backhaul network. Therefore, local sensors communicate with the FC through a wireless network employing digital communications and local measurements are often quantized by each receiver before being transmitted to the FC to reduce the communication burden. One example application occurs in smart transportation systems, where existing road infrastructures, such as base stations and roadside radars, may be used to detect vehicles in the monitoring area assigned to the FC. The infrastructure of the smart road system can be viewed as local sensors of a cloud MIMO radar system. Assuming the measurements at each local sensor are quantized before being sent to the FC, this talk presents the impact of quantization on cloud MIMO radar target detection.

Speakers’ profiles：

Professor David Flynn joined the University of Glasgow in 2022 as a Professor of Cyber Physical Systems. David is a member of the Energy and Sustainability Group, as well as the Communication, Sensing, and Imaging Group.Professor Flynn is a co-founder of the UKs EPSRC National Centre for Energy System Integration (CESI), academic lead of the UKs largest whole system demonstrator project (Responsive Flexibility - ReFLEX), the world's largest Offshore Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Hub for Offshore Energy Asset Integrity Management (ORCA), and the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Embedded Intelligence (CDT EI).Professor Flynn has published over 180 papers, holds several patents, established industrial innovation centres and created new companies. Professor Flynn is the recipient of several national and international awards for his research, including the Interface Knowledge Exchange Champion of the Year for 2020, Rushlight Innovation Award, and the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Information Technology Innovation of the Year 2019 and Engineering and Technology (E&T) Global Innovation of the Year winner for 2019.David is a Visiting Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Eminent Overseas Professor of Nagasaki University and the Vice-Chair of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Scotland.His degrees include a BEng (Hons), 1st Class in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2002), an MSc (Distinction) in Microsystems (2003) and a PhD in Microscale Magnetic Components (2007), from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Qian HE received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering (EE) from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2004 and 2010. She was a visiting scholar and postdoctoral research associate (2007-2011) in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Lehigh University, USA. Since 2010, she has been a faculty member in the EE Department at UESTC, where she is currently a Professor. Her research interests include signal processing and its applications in radar, communication, medical and healthcare systems. Dr. He was on the editorial board of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Journal of Radars, Journal of Communications and Information Sciences, Advances in Energy and Power Engineering. She served as chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Chengdu Chapter and member of the IEEE SPS Sensor Array and Multichannel technical committee. She is a member of Sigma Xi, member of the SPS Young Professionals Committee, and member of the IEEE SPS Promoting Diversity in Signal Processing organizing committee.

Organizer：School of Information and Communication EngineeringCo-organizer：Glasgow College