Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm, Thursday, June 26, 2008

Location: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA

Topics:
1. Wireless Sensor Network: Promises and Challenges
2. Navigate the Mobile Ecosystem

Agenda
6:30pm-7:00pm Networking (Pizza will be served)
7:00pm-7:40pm Wireless Sensor Network: Promises and Challenges, Professor Yannis Paschalidis, Co-Director, Center for Information and System Engineering, Boston University
7:40pm-7:55pm Questions and Answers
7:55pm-8:15pm Navigate the Mobile Eco-System, Meng Cao, Solutions Architect and Practice Manager, Lionbridge Technologies
8:15pm-8:30pm Questions and Answers

Registration: This event is free and open to all public. To register, please go to http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=160344.

About the Speakers
Professor Paschalidis is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at Boston University with a joint appointment in the Departments of Manufacturing Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a Co-Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) - a Boston University research center with 26 affiliated faculty and more than $12 million in externally funded active research projects. He is also affiliated with the BioMolecular Engineering Research Center (BMERC). Prof. Paschalidis serves as the Academic Director of the Sensor Network Consortium (SNC) - an industry consortium he spearheaded which currently consists of 14 companies focusing in sensor networks.
He completed his graduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) receiving an M.S. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1996) degree, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In September 1996 he joined Boston University where he has been ever since. He has held visiting appointments with MIT, and the Columbia University Business School. His current research interests lie in the fields systems and control, networking, applied probability, optimization, operations research, computational biology, and bioinformatics. Specifics applications of interest include: communication and sensor networks, protein docking, manufacturing systems, and supply chains.
His work on communication networks has been recognized with a CAREER award (2000) from the National Science Foundation and the second prize in the 1997 George E. Nicholson paper competition by INFORMS. He was an invited participant at the 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, organized by the National Academy of Engineering. He has served in the program committees of several conferences, including, the INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the IEEE INFOCOM. He is a senior member of the IEEE and an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and the Operations Research Letters.

Mr. Meng Cao is currently Practice Manager from Lionbridge Technologies. He is responsible for providing thought leadership and creating service lines to serve clients mobility product initiatives. Meng has more than 12 years software development, project management and business development experience in the Telecom, IT, and mobile application industry. Before Lionbridge, Meng led Chinasoft Internationals outsourcing engagements with US based key accounts, including Microsoft. Before Chinasoft, he held various technical positions at Siemens Mobile, ADC, and Lucent, led many projects in development, testing and deployment of wireless infrastructure and applications. He holds an MS in Computer Science from NJIT, M.Eng from Singapore Nanyang University, and a MBA from Babson College.

Organizers: Hui Huang (hui_huang@...), Tao Wu (tao.a.wu@...), Baoqing Ye (baoqingyemail@...), Yongjun Zhang (yongjun.zhang@...), and Zhe Wang (zwang3@...)

For more information, please visit the following sites
NECINA Wireless SIG: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NECINA_SIG_WIRELESS/
NECINA: http://www.necina.org/

Event Sponsor: Foley Hoag LLC http://www.foleyhoag.com/