Lecturer Profile |
Yahong Rosa Zheng received the B.S. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 1987, and the M.S. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1989. She received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, in 2002. She was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow from 2003 to 2005 at the University of Missouri-Columbia. From 2005 -2018, she was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. She held the Wilkens' Missouri Telecommunications Endowed Professor position for 2017 - 2018 at Missouri S&T. She joined the ECE department at Lehigh University in Aug. 2018. Her research interests include underwater cyber-physical systems, real-time embedded systems and signal processing, wireless communications, and wireless sensor networks. She served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 2006-2008 and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2008-2016. She has been Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering since 2016. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2009. She has been a fellow of the IEEE and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society since 2015. |
Lecture Abstract |
Underwater Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have found important applications in recreation and filming, ocean exploration, environment and infrastructure monitoring, oil and gas industry, energy harvesting, fishery and shipping, as well as military and coastal defense. This talk will first introduce some of the existing underwater physical systems such as underwater drones, Argos, and gliders. It will then focus on the cyber or internet challenges encountered in the wireless communication and networking needs of the underwater CPS. Finally, it will summarize the recent advances in underwater wireless communication schemes and their field applications to infrastructure monitoring and environmental monitoring. |
