Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica

In cities around the world, the growing demand for transportation due to the rapid pace of urbanization and growing population has become a key challenge. Thus, a major application domain being addressed by many smart cities programs worldwide is transportation. In this talk, we will discuss our work towards holistic Smart Transportation solutions in the context of the Smart Nation initiative in Singapore. We address two main aspects of Smart Transportation. First, we focus on the sensing, monitoring, and algorithmic techniques to improve the situational awareness of real-time urban traffic. Second, we develop participatory sensing techniques to obtain fine-grain mobility patterns and activity behavior from users. We will highlight our recent efforts which have been deployed in Singapore.

Hock Beng Lim is the Co-Director of the Center for Smart Systems (CS2) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and the Director of Research and Development of the Intelligent Systems Center (intelliSys) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his BS in Computer Engineering, MS in Electrical Engineering, and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, and his MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. His research interests include sensor networks and middleware, cyber-physical systems, wireless and mobile networks, participatory and urban sensing, cloud computing, smart cyberinfrastructure, and data management and analytics.