Abstract:

We present our research work in the area of intelligent computing, communication, smart grid, smart cities, and critical infrastructure for future intelligent manufacturing. Our interests lie in designing the fundamental elements of a larger smarter infrastructure, especially in rural areas. This includes smart transactive energy, interactive spaces, smart communities, and intelligent manufacturing enabled by the internet-of-things. We adopt a “cyber-physical” viewpoint for designing, analyzing and simulating smart and resilient computing, communications, energy, and transportation systems.

Historically, we have had a great interest in efficient simulation, stochastic modeling and rare-event estimation techniques, and in analyzing complex communications systems, ranging from high-speed switches to wireless resource allocation, and to service-oriented multimedia networks.

In recent years, we have turned our attention to the performance evaluation of socio-technical systems of multi-layered scope, such as virtual collaboration and indoor localization settings. And to softwarized and intelligent system design using multi-agent and microservice based service design for computing, communication, and energy infrastructures, smart grid communications, energy storage, intelligent buildings and electric vehicles, and security strategies including blockchain solutions.

In this seminar, we go over some specific quantitative models, including queueing models for electric vehicle charging stations; performance modeling of indoor-localization smart spaces; joint optimization of communications and energy flows; energy storage systems; crowd safety and infrastructure resilience; strategies for intelligent EV’s on wirelessly-charging roadways; blockchain applications in the smart grid; cloud softwarization and virtualization; multi-agent in-network intelligence; and cyber-physical systems for intelligent manufacturing.

 

Biography:

Michael Devetsikiotis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece.  He received the Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, in 1990 and 1993, respectively.

In 1993 he joined the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. He became a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 1996, and an Associate Professor and Department Associate Chair in 1998.

Michael returned to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State as an Associate Professor in October 2000 and became a full Professor in 2006. He served as the coordinator of the Master of Science in Computer Networking until 2011, when he became the ECE Director of Graduate Programs, managing one of the largest graduate ECE programs in the country, with over 800 students and four staff.

In July 2016, Michael joined the University of New Mexico as a Professor, and the Chair of the ECE Department in the School of Engineering. His research work has resulted in 50 refereed journal articles, 135 refereed conference papers, and over 60 invited presentations, in the area of design and performance evaluation of telecommunication networks, complex socio-technical and cyber-physical systems, and smart grid communications. His work has received well over 8,000 citations. In 2017 he was inducted to the NC State ECE Alumni Hall of Fame.

Michael joined the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers as a student member in 1985, and he became an IEEE Fellow in 2012. He has served as Chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee Communication Systems Integration and Modeling. He served as Chair of the GITC, the steering committee for IEEE ComSoc’s flagships conferences Globecom and ICC. Michael continues to serve as a member of the IEEE ComSoc Education Services Board. Between 2008 and 2011 he was an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer.

Michael has also served as an Associate or Area Editor of several publications of the IEEE and the ACM; and as technical program committee Chair and in other roles for numerous conferences. In 2016, he was an instructor at the 2^nd IEEE ComSoc Summer School, in Trento, Italy. In July 2017, he organized the 3^d ComSoc Summer School,  which was held in Albuquerque, NM. He is an active member of the ECE Department Heads Association (ECEDHA), having served in the Awards Committee, and the Program Committee for the ECEDHA national conferences of 2019 and 2022. He is currently serving and the Vice President of ECEDHA and as Student Travel Grant Chair for IEEE Globecom 2022.