Edge Computing: The Next Internet Frontier

Speaker: Blesson Varghese

Affiliation: Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Time: Wednesday 14/04/2021 from 17:00 to 18:00

Venue: Zoom Only

Zoom ID: 827 2985 2022 Password: 534894

Abstract: In this talk, I will present a brief history of edge computing and how we have reached this point within the technology landscape that requires the ‘edge’. The talk will then focus on our recent research, including resource management at the edge, context-aware offloading, and distributed machine learning at the edge.

Biography: Dr Blesson Varghese is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast and a Royal Society Short Industry Fellow to British Telecommunications plc. He is the Principal Investigator of the Edge Computing Hub (http://edgehub.eeecs.qub.ac.uk) with a mission to unlock the scientific and societal opportunities in Edge computing.