Invited Keynotes

The keynote speakers are:

Prof. Moe Win, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Title: Location, location, and location!

Dr. Thomas Burgess, indoor.rs, Austria
Title: Indoor Navigation: The Crowd is the future - Crowd learning for indoor positioning.

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Keynote 1

Presenter
Professor Moe Win
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Title
Location, location, and location!

Abstract
The availability of positional information is of extreme importance in numerous wireless applications. The coming years will see the emergence of location-aware networks with sub-meter localization accuracy, minimal infrastructure, and robustness in harsh (GPS challenged) environments. To reach this goal we advocate network localization and navigation, a new paradigm that exploits a combination of wideband transmission and spatiotemporal cooperation. Our work has addressed this problem from three perspectives: theoretical framework, cooperative algorithms, and network experimentation. We will give an overview of our recent research results in this exciting field.

Biography
Moe Win is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to joining MIT, he was with AT&T Research Laboratories for five years and with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for seven years. His research encompasses fundamental theories, algorithm design, and experimentation for a broad range of real-world problems. His current research topics include network localization and navigation, network interference exploitation, intrinsic wireless network secrecy, adaptive diversity techniques, and ultra-wideband systems. Professor Win is a Fellow of the AAAS, the IEEE, and the IET, and served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He is an elected Member-at-Large on the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors (2011-2013). He was the Chair (2004-2006) and Secretary (2002-2004) for the Radio Communications Committee of the IEEE Communications Society. He was honored with two IEEE Technical Field Awards: the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award and the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (jointly with Professor R. A. Scholtz). He received the International Prize for Communications Cristoforo Colombo, the Copernicus Fellowship, the Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, the Fulbright Fellowship, the Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of Ferrara, and the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

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Keynote 2

Presenter
Dr. Thomas Burgess
indoo.rs, Austria

Title
Indoor Navigation: The Crowd is the future - Crowd learning for indoor positioning.

Abstract
Real-time accurate indoor positioning poses many new possibilities and challenges. At indoo.rs (Austrian based start-up founded in 2010) we enable positioning within third party mobile applications (Android/iOS) so that users can find themselves and navigate through buildings. In practice we estimate location and movement using motion sensors and comparisons of radio scans (WiFi/iBeacon) to pre-measured reference measurements (fingerprints). We currently are transitioning from using dedicated measurements to an approach that learns and updates references by analyzing data from navigating users. This approach uses the Hadoop ecosystem to combine the output of the IOT network of mobiles and beacons with big data based machine learning and near real time analytics (including visualization). The complete solution reduces implementation and maintenance cost of providing accurate real time indoor positioning.

Biography
Thomas Burgess did his PhD in particle physics at Stockholm University (Sweden) for the AMANDA/IceCube neutrino telescopes. Following this, he worked as a PostDoc/researcher at University of Bergen (Norway) for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In 2012, after 12 years of academic research, he joined indoo.rs (in Vienna, Austria) to initiate and lead research efforts in indoor positioning. He has given talks for business, academic conferences and the general public regularly throughout his career. Research at indoo.rs involves algorithm design, model building, statistical analytics, machine learning and data science. In current projects, data from large numbers of mobile devices is being processed for automatic mapping, advanced analytics and improved positioning.

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