Intelligence in Everything: How to Scale, Secure, and Sustain

Recent advancements in computing have enabled us to dream of a future with intelligence embedded into everything. But can we scale to this next frontier of digital expansion while keeping the footprint environmentally sustainable and protecting the systems from exploitations? In this talk, the speaker will unfold his decade-long endeavor to create sustainable computing systems that can scale the essence of intelligence to the next granularity of our physical world. He will showcase innovative hardware-software principles that can enable detail perception within a fraction of the size, power, and computing resources required by their traditional counterparts in the air, underwater, and on-body. He will show roadmaps to build real-time battery-free localization systems capable of tracking the smallest of the packages and simultaneously span over millions of such units across the entire city. The talk will also present new ideas around security/privacy-aware computing in the paradigm of smart systems around us. The talk will highlight the impacts of intelligent sensing, edge computing, and embedded-AI in the context of applications ranging from food sustainability to everyday home automation.