PAINEL 2 - The Computing Continuum: managing computing and networking from the edge to the cloud

Wednesday, August 18, 2021 | 15:00PM - 17:00PM

As the cloud extends to the fog and the edge, computing services can be scattered over a set of computing resources that encompass users' devices, the cloud, and intermediate computing infrastructure deployed in between. Moreover, increasing networking capacity promises lower delays in data transfers, enabling a continuum of computing capacity that can be used to process large amounts of data with reduced response times.

The emergence of the computing continuum paradigm demands system architectures and management mechanisms that seamlessly encompass computing, storage, and networking. This panel will aim to pose questions and discuss important research aspects that deserve attention when considering the computing continuum as an infrastructure to run any application, from simple data aggregation to advanced distributed machine learning algorithms.

MODERADOR

Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, Ph.D.

Associate Professor at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He received his Bachelor's degree in
Computer Science from the Federal University of Parana, Brazil, and received his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from UNICAMP. He has been awarded with the IEEE Communications Society Latin America Young Professional Award 2013. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Manchester, UK, Cardiff University, UK, and Rutgers University, USA. Luiz was the TPC Co-Chair for IEEE/ACM UCC2018, Track chair for CloudCom 2018-2019 and FiCloud 2017-2018-2019, and served in several technical program committees. He also serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine, the Computers and Electrical Engineering journal, the Internet of Things Journal, the Journal of Network and Systems Management, and the IEEE Networking Letters. His main interests are in the areas of resource management and scheduling in cloud, edge, and fog computing.

PAINELISTAS

Ian Foster, Ph.D.

Dr. Ian Foster is the Director of Argonne Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow, and the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He was the Director of Argonne Computation Institute from 2006 to 2016. Foster's research contributions span high-performance computing, distributed systems, and data-driven discovery. He has published hundreds of scientific papers and eight books on these and other topics. Methods and software developed under his leadership underpin many large national and international cyberinfrastructures. Foster received a BSc (Hons I) degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a Ph.D. from Imperial College, United Kingdom, both in computer science. His awards include the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Next Generation award, the British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal, R&D Magazines Innovator of the Year, the IEEE Tsutomu Kanai award, and honorary doctorates from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and CINVESTAV, Mexico. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and British Computer Society.

Josef Spillner, Ph.D.

Josef Spillner is a senior lecturer (associate professor) at Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. His research activity focuses on Distributed Application Computing Paradigms and Service Prototyping (https://blog.zhaw.ch/splab/). This involves distributed, federated, and decentralised application designs and novel cloud and post-cloud application architectures, in a spectrum ranging from basic research to applied innovation
and industry transfer. Particular emphasis is on technological support for emerging digitalisation needs of industry and society. His teaching schedule is focused on Big Data Computing, Cloud Native Computing, and Serverless Computing. He is a member of SBC and ACM, a senior member of IEEE, and he received a Fellowship of the digitalisation initiative of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. He obtained a doctorate and habilitation (livre docencia) from Technische UniversitätDresden in Germany and spent part of his early career in Brazil, funded by CAPES and CNPq.

Omer F. Rana, Ph.D.

Omer F. Rana is Professor of Performance Engineering at Cardiff University, with research interests in high performance distributed computing, data analysis/mining and multi-agent systems. He was formerly the deputy director of the Welsh eScience Centre and had the opportunity to interact with a number of computational scientists across Cardiff University and the UK. He is a fellow of Cardiff University's multi-disciplinary "Data Innovation" Research Institute. Rana worked as a software developer with London-based Marshall Bio-Technology Limited before joining Cardiff University, where he developed specialist software to support biotech instrumentation. He also contributed to public understanding of science, via the Wellcome Trust funded "Science Line", in collaboration with BBC and Channel 4. Rana holds a PhD in "Neural Computing and Parallel Architectures" from Imperial College (London Univ.), an MSc in Microelectronics (Univ. of Southampton) and a BEng in Information Systems Eng. from Imperial College (London Univ.).

Pedro Henrique Gomes, Ph.D.

Pedro Henrique Gomes is a researcher at Ericsson Research, Brazil, engaged in the orchestration and automation of 5G networks and services. He works as a delegate in the ETSI Zero-Touch Network & Service Management working group, contributing to the architecture definition, especially with AI and ML concepts, and the specification of enablers for closed-loop automation in end-to-end network services. He received a Ph.D. (2019) and M.Sc. (2015) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, also M.Sc. (2011) in computer science, and a B.Sc. (2007) in computer engineering from the University of Campinas, Brazil. He has published 50+ scientific papers in international conferences and journals and holds 12 patents in telecommunications.

Nelson L. S. da Fonseca, Ph.D.

Nelson L. S. da Fonseca obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California in 1994. He is a Full Professor at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He is Senior Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine and the IEEE Systems Journal. He is past EiC of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. Nelson served as ComSoc VP Publications and VP Technical and Educational Activities. Nelson has worked with cellular IoT, cloud and edge/fog computing. He is the co-editor of Cloud Services, Networking, and management, John Wiley & Sons, 2015. Nelson is the PI of the national project BigCloud, sponsored by FAPESP (bigcloud.ic.unicamp.br).