报告专家：Jun Zhang, IEEE Fellow, 香港科技大学
报告时间：2023年7月11日，周二，9:30-11:00
报告地点：无线谷A1319
Abstract
It has been envisioned that next-generation wireless networks have to support AI as a Service (AIaaS) as a new application scenario. This trendy movement brings tremendous communication challenges. This talk will introduce recent developments in communication for AI (COM4AI), to supported AI-based services at the wireless network edge. A common theme for this line of research is shifting away from the traditional data-oriented design principle, which focuses on efficient high-fidelity data transmission and addresses the “how to communicate” problem. The talk consists of three case studies: 1) task-oriented communication in EdgeGPT for autonomous edge AI (key problem: what to communicate?); 2) privacy-preserving collaborative learning to resolve the data island problem (key problem: what to share?); 3) cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (key problem: what, when to communicate?).
Bio:
Jun Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an IEEE Fellow and an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include wireless communications and networking, mobile edge computing and edge AI, and cooperative AI. Dr. Zhang co-authored the book Fundamentals of LTE (Prentice-Hall, 2010). He is a co-recipient of several best paper awards, including the 2021 Best Survey Paper Award of IEEE Communications Society, the 2019 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, and the 2016 Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. Two papers he co-authored received the Young Author Best Paper Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2016 and 2018, respectively. He also received the 2016 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award. He is an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, and was an editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2015-2020). He served as a MAC track co-chair for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2011 and a wireless communications symposium co-chair of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2021.
