Cognitive Digital Twins: The Next Frontier of info-Symbiotic Systems

Speaker: Georgios Theodoropoulos

Affiliation: Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

Time: Thursday 21/04/2022 from 12:00 to 13:00

Venue: Zoom Only

Zoom ID: 842 4958 8591 Password: 044154

Recording URL: https://web.microsoftstream.com/channel/0c337b27-c42d-40f4-9763-fccf56286bbc

Abstract: Info-symbiotic systems provide a unique proven paradigm to construct integrated ecosystems of systems, models and data and enable trustworthy, explainable, holistic and contextual analytics at a grand scale. Recent years have witnessed an explosion of utilisation of info-symbiotic systems, in the form of Digital Twins, in a wide range of domains, from manufacturing and health to smart cities. Incorporating intelligence and cognition in a Digital Twin will unlock the full potential of this disruptive technology, providing seamless integration and info-symbiotic collaboration between the physical and virtual worlds and capturing the increasing complexity and uncertainty of the problems society is facing. The talk will outline a roadmap towards cognitively rich Digital Twins, discussing challenges, opportunities and some concrete examples.

Biography: Professor Georgios Theodoropoulos is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen. He joined SUSTech from Durham University in the UK, where he was the Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Research Computing and held a Chair in the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences. Prior to that he was a Senior Research Scientist with IBM Research, where he contributed to the establishment of IBM’s Exascale Systems research roadmap for Ireland and Europe at the company’s Smart City Technology Center in Dublin. He has held a honorary Chair at the Trinity College Dublin and senior posts at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the University of Birmingham, UK, where he was Director of one of the UK’s National e-Science Centres of Excellence. His research interests are in the areas of Distributed Simulation Systems, Complex and Multi-agent systems, Info-Symbiotic Systems, Data intensive, Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, e-Science and Computational Sustainability. Professor Theodoropoulos is a Chartered Engineer and holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, U.K. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Science.