Guest Lecture: Dr. Lirong Zheng
Professor
KTH, Stockholm, Sweden & Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Abstract:
Advanced electronics towards future ubiquitous intelligence and internet‐of‐things requires high network throughput along with long operation range and ultra‐low energy consumption. Concurrent design of circuit, system, and communication has attracted new attention, aiming for ubiquitous sensing under energy‐autonomy by ambient energy harvest. In this talk, we present smart electronics design for sub‐100uW powered IoT devices, through trade‐offs for communication, circuit and system. Smart power management scheme with adaptive energy‐scavenging, self‐aware sleep and burst mode are exploited to facilitate energy autonomous operation. Compressed sampling based analog‐to‐information interface is implemented that not only simplifies the sensor front‐end but also reduces raw data to be transmitted thus significantly save energy. As the IoT application implementation examples, the speaker will also introduce his recent work on IoT pilot projects in area of smart
agricultural food and wearable healthcare etc.

Biography:
Dr. Zheng received his Ph. D. degree in electronic system design from KTH in 2001, and honorary doctor at Turku University in 2013. Since 2001, he was with KTH as a research fellow, docent, and full professor. He founded the iPack VINN Excellence Center in 2007, with research focus on embedded electronics for smart paper and package. He was appointed the expert of Sino‐Europe IoT Expert Group, expert of EU 7FP in large area electronics, expert of ISO JTC1 WG10 for IoT standardization, and the chair of international IoT’2012 conference. He is the chief expert of the Chinese 863 program "Agricultural IoT for Food safety" and vice director of the Board of Governance for the Healthcare IoT in "Chinese non‐Public Medical Institutions". His research experience and interest includes electronic circuits and systems for ambient intelligence and media applications, wireless sensors and internet‐of‐things. He has authored and co‐authored over 300 international reviewed publications. He is the founding Editor Board of "Journal of Flexible and Printed Electronics (IOP)", associate editor of "Journal of Industrial Information Integration", and "Journal of Enterprise Information Systems".