Mobile, wearable and ubiquitous systems are increasingly embedded into daily life and play a crucial role in society. Research and innovation in these domains has the potential to unlock important new applications and open the door to a better understanding of their use.
Building on the success of the previous editions held in Cambridge and Oxford, the venue this year supports discussion and presentation of research within the UK mobile, wearable and ubiquitous systems community.
We solicit the submission of one page presentation abstracts. The work described can range from mature published recent ideas to more preliminary contributions on the following general topics:
Submissions of one page presentation abstracts will be reviewed and selected for oral presentation based on scope as indicated above. Preference for presentation will be given to early career researchers in case of over-submission. All presented submissions will be published on the programme website (MobiUK.org).
Title: Is the Mobile Web Experience Improving?
Bio: Aruna Balasubramanian is an Associate Professor at Stony Brook University. She received her Ph.D from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where her dissertation won the UMass outstanding dissertation award and was the SIGCOMM dissertation award runner up. She works in the area of networked systems. Her current work consists of two threads: (1) significantly improving Quality of Experience of Internet applications, and (2) improving the usability, accessibility, and privacy of mobile systems. She is the recipient of the SIGMobile Rockstar award, a Ubicomp best paper award, a VMWare Early Career award, several Google research awards, and the Applied Networking Research Prize. She is passionate about improving the diversity in Computer Science and broadening participation. She leads the diversity committee at Stony Brook and is an active member of the N2Women group.
Title: Protecting User Privacy in a World Filled with Connected Sensors
Bio: Heather Zheng received her PhD degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1999. After spending six years as researchers in industry labs (Bell-Labs, Crawford Hill, NJ, and Microsoft Research Asia), she joined the UC Santa Barbara faculty in 2005, and became Associate and Full professor in 2009 and 2013, respectively. In July 2017, she joined the University of Chicago as the Neubauer Professor in Computer Science. Some of her awards include the IEEE Fellow (2015), the MIT Technology Review’s TR-35 (Young Innovators Under 35) and the World Technology Network Fellow. Heather has been actively working on security and privacy issues for both machine learning models and mobile computing systems. Her research work has been frequently featured by media outlets, such as New York Times, Boston Globe, LA Times, MIT Technology Review, and Computer World. She was the TPC co-chair of MobiCom’15 and DySPAN’11 conferences, and the general co-chair of HotNets 2020. Currently she serves on the steering committee of MobiCom, the steering committee of ACM/IEEE TON, and as the chair of the SIGMOBILE Research Highlights committee.
Title: Is Edge Computing Dead Already?
Bio: Satya's multi-decade research career has focused on the challenges of performance, scalability, availability and trust in information systems that reach from the cloud to the mobile edge of the Internet. In the course of this work, he has pioneered many advances in distributed systems, mobile computing, pervasive computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT). As described in "How we created edge computing", Satya's seminal 2009 publication “The Case for VM-based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing” and the ensuing research has led to the emergence of Edge Computing (also known as "Fog Computing"). Satya is the Carnegie Group University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received the PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon, after Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE.
Abstract Submission: 1st May 2021, submit via EasyChair.
Notification of Presentation Slot: 1st June 2021
Online Registration: via EventBrite
Programme: Session Schedule including presentation recordings
Symposium Dates: 5th-6th July 2021