Lecturers (E-S)

Prof. Shiwen Mao  Contract: smao@ieee.org Auburn University, Auburn, AL  Lecture Term Date: 31 December 2022 Location: Alabama, United States Biography: Shiwen Mao received his BE and ME, both in Electronic Engineering, from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1994 and 1997, respectively.  He also received a BEc in Enterprise Management from Tsinghua University in 1994 and an MS in Systems Engineering from Polytechnic University (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering), Brooklyn, NY, in 2000. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University in 2004. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate and then a Research Scientist in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg,

Title: Blockchain in RFID Supported Supply Chain Prof. Joseph Liu  Contract: joseph.liu@monash.edu  Monash University, Australia Biography: Joseph Liu is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He got his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong at 2004. His research areas include cyber security, blockchain and applied cryptography. He has received more than 8700 citations and his H-index is 53, with more than 200 publications in top venues such as CRYPTO, ACM CCS, NDSS, INFOCOM. He is currently the lead of the Monash Cyber Security Discipline Group. He has established the Monash Blockchain Technology Centre at 2019 and serves as the founding

Title: Design and optimization of Meta-mountable UHF RFID tag antennas Miniaturization techniques for UHF RFID Tag antennas Recent Development of Flexible UHF RFID Tag antennas Prof. Eng Hock Lim Contract: limeh@utar.edu.my University Tunku Abdul Rahman (Malaysia) Biography: Eng-Hock Lim was born in Selangor, Malaysia, in 1974. He received his B. Sc. (Electrical Engineering) from National Taiwan Ocean University in 1997, M. Eng. (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) from Nanyang Technological University in 2000, and Ph.D. (Electronic Engineering) from City University of Hong Kong in 2007. He served as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Antennas and Propagation from 2013 to 2016. Currently, he is also serving as the Associate

Title: Batteryless Wireless Systems – Connecting Information and Energy Transmission Prof. Nuno Borges Carvalho Contract: nbcarvalho@ua.pt Biography: Nuno Borges Carvalho (S’97–M’00–SM’05-F’15) was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1972. He received the Diploma and Doctoral degrees in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor and a Senior Research Scientist with the Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro and an IEEE Fellow. He coauthored Intermodulation in Microwave and Wireless Circuits (Artech House, 2003), Microwave and Wireless Measurement Techniques (Cambridge University Press, 2013), White Space Communication Technologies (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Wireless Power Transmission for Sustainable Electronics

Title: Security and Privacy in an Internet of Things World Dr. Daniel W. Engels Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA Abstract: The Internet of Things already surrounds us and is making our lives better in both small and large ways. Toll tags, smart thermostats, and automated industrial monitoring and control systems are just the beginnings of an Internet of Things world. These are the early touch, easily quantified benefits applications. However, the future of the Internet of Things goes beyond these simple applications to a world of truly pervasive computers and smart things that provide us a sixth sense of our world (both

Title: “The Impact of RFID / RTLS in Healthcare, Enhancing Patient Care and Optimizing Workflow and Business Processes” Paul Frisch, PhD, FHIMSS Associate Attending Department of Medical Physics Chief of Biomedical Engineering Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY, USA Abstract Over the last decade the changing healthcare environment has driven hospitals to critically evaluate and optimize their operations to enhance patient treatment and care, while focusing on financial constraints.   The hospitals have moved to support an increasing outpatient care environment, driving an increasing in-patient acuity levels. Increasingly important to optimizing hospital operations is the integration of real time locations systems (RTLS), providing unique identification, location, tracking, and association

Title: Wireless power transfer and energy harvesting for RFID Apostolos Georgiadis Associate Professor, Heriot-Watt University, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences Edinburgh, Scotland Abstract: RFID technology provides a foundation, an enabling technology towards the realization of ‘zero-power’ wireless sensors and implementing the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication.  Interest in RFID technology   is further enhanced by its fundamental capability for wireless powering of devices, allowing for batteryless operation. The presentation begins with an overview of energy considerations and challenges for low power system requirements in emerging applications such as health and smart homes, environmental monitoring, as well as an outlook of various energy harvesting technologi es. The state-of-the-art in commonly used