Title: From Autonomous Vehicles to Autonomous Mobility: Challenges and Opportunities
Time: 10 am - 11:30 am, May 31
Location: EC 345
Speaker: Dr. Tao Zhang

Abstract:

Autonomous vehicles are coming. However, many more fundamental challenges remain to be addressed before self-driving vehicles can become practical in real-world environments. Furthermore, enabling vehicles to drive themselves is only the first step toward making them practical and realizing their full potential for advancing mobility and transportation. In addition, autonomous vehicles will bring profound disruptions to technology directions, business models, industry landscapes, policies and regulations. In this talk, I will discuss the challenges we face, the disruptions we may expect, and the opportunities we should seize now for the emerging world of mobility with autonomous vehicles.
Bio:

Dr. Tao Zhang, and IEEE Fellow, has over 30 years of leadership experience in creating and commercializing new technologies in areas including connected vehicles, mobile networks, fog computing, and IoT. He was the CTO / Chief Scientist for Smart Connected Vehicles business at Cisco Systems. Prior to Cisco, he was the Chief Scientist for vehicular networks and the Director of multiple research groups on mobile networks and applications at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Communications Research). Tao cofounded the OpenFog Consortium and has been providing global leadership turning fog computing into a growing industry trend and a vibrant research field. He also cofounded the Connected Vehicle Trade Association (CVTA). Tao holds over 50 US patents and has coauthored two books “Vehicle Safety Communications: Protocols, Security, and Privacy” (2012) and “IP-Based Next Generation Wireless Networks” (2004).