Hi everyone,
The first LEOCONN Webinar session will be this Wednesday Dec 14 between 15:30 and 16:30 UTC. We are hosting two notable speakers, Deepak Vasisht and Maurizio Vanotti. Please find the details of the talks in the following.
Event Zoom URL: https://surrey-ac.zoom.us/j/91875451248
Time: 15:30 - 16:00 UTC
Speaker: Deepak Vasisht, Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title: Near-realtime Insights from Earth Observation Satellites
Abstract:
Large constellations of low Earth orbit satellites promise to provide frequent high resolution Earth imagery. Such constellations collect terabytes of data that needs to be shipped to Earth. Getting this data to Earth is challenging and can often take several hours to days before an insight is delivered to the end user. In this talk, I will discuss the networking and compute bottlenecks that cause such large delays. I will also present new distributed networking and compute architectures that can remove such bottlenecks to deliver near-realtime insights from imagery collected using Earth observation satellites.
Bio:
Deepak Vasisht is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His research focuses on mobile computing and wireless networking, specializing in how next generation networking systems – satellite networks, 5G/6G, in-body networks, and others– can solve human-critical problems in different application areas including healthcare, smart homes, and agriculture. Deepak’s research on Internet-of-Things systems for agriculture, in Project FarmBeats (Microsoft Azure FarmBeats), has been deployed across farms in United States, India, and Africa. His work has been featured in the Economist, IEEE Spectrum, BBC, MIT News, World Economic Forum, Daily Mail, and CBC among others. Prof. Vasisht received his B. Tech. from IIT Delhi and Ph.D. from MIT. At IIT Delhi, he was awarded the President’s Gold Medal. In 2021, IIT Delhi named him a Graduate of the Last Decade. His Ph.D. dissertation received the ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation award in 2019. He is a recipient of the Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship, and an ACM SIGCOMM best paper award.
Time: 16:00 - 16:30 UTC
Speaker: Maurizio Vanotti, VP, New Markets at OneWeb.
Title: A view of the innovation aspects associated to OneWeb constellation programmes
Bio:
Maurizio Vanotti, VP of Global New Markets, is responsible for bundling connectivity with the Big-Tech ecosystem. At OneWeb he also led the initiation of the Gen2 programme and shaped the company’s Responsible Space initiative. Prior to that, he was C-level executive of a PE-backed company leading strategy and operations in Europe and advisor to VCs investment strategies in technology sectors. He started his career at OHB-I, before becoming Head of Engineering Department and Head of the Telecommunication (SSTL) where he delivered more than 20 missions in orbit. Maurizio is a former Navy Officer.
Thanks,
LEOCONN WS Organizers
Debopam and Mohamed
Debopam Bhattacherjee
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research - India
Mohamed Kassem
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Surrey, UK
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