On December 17, 2020, Dr. Chenren Xu from Peking University gave a lecture on “Visible Light Backscatter Communication” during the lecture session held at Keio University.
Dr. Chenren Xu (http://ceca.pku.edu.cn/chenren) is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science & Technology and a member of CECA at Peking University where he directs Software-hardware Orchestrated ARchitecture (SOAR) Lab since 2015. He earned his Ph.D. from WINLAB, Rutgers University, was a postdoctoral fellow in Carnegie Mellon University and visiting scholars in AT&T Shannon Labs and Microsoft Research. His research interests span wireless, networking and system, with a current focus on backscatter communication for low power IoT connectivity, future mobile Internet for high mobility data networking, and collaborative edge intelligence system for mobile and IoT computing. He is currently an associate editor of ACM IMWUT, and actively serving as organizing and/or technical program committee in top venues such as SIGCOMM, MobiSys and SenSys. He is the recipient of Alibaba DAMO Academy Young Fellow, CCF-Intel Young Faculty and ACM SIGCOMM China Rising Star awards. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.
Dr. JeongGil Ko is an assistant professor in the School of Integrated Technology, College of Engineering at Yonsei University. He received his Bachelors in Engineering (B.Eng.) degree in computer science and engineering from Korea University in 2007 and received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2012. At Johns Hopkins, JeongGil Ko was a member of the Hopkins interNetworking Research Group (HiNRG) led by Dr. Andreas Terzis. In 2010, he was at the Stanford Information Networking Group (SING) with Dr. Philip Levis at Stanford University as a visiting researcher. From June 2012 to August 2015, JeongGil Ko was a senior researcher at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and he was an assistant professor at the Department of Software and Computer Engineering at Ajou University from September 2015 to August 2019. He is a recipient of the Abel Wolman Fellowship awarded by the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 2007 and a senior member of the IEEE since 2017. His research interests are in the general area of developing embedded and mobile computing systems with ambient intelligence.