ECE Korhammer Seminar Series
Princeton Wireless Distinguished Seminar Series

Speaker:  Francesco Restuccia
Title:  AI for Wireless and Wireless for AI: A Tale of Two AIs
Day:  May 4, 2023
Time:  4:30 pm
Room:  B205 Engineering Quadrangle
Host:  Yasaman Ghasempour & Pramod Viswanath

Abstract: The massive scale and strict performance requirements of next-generation wireless networks will require mobile devices to perform real-time fine-grained optimization of their spectrum usage. Yet, today's networking protocols and architectures are deeply rooted in inflexible designs, and utilize optimization models and strategies that are either too complex or too oversimplified to be fully effective in today's crowded spectrum environment. At the same time, next-generation networks will need to support the continuous execution of resource-expensive edge-assisted deep learning tasks. In other words, wireless systems and AI will need to tightly cooperate with each other in future networks. Specifically, network resources will need to be carefully optimized to satisfy heterogeneous application requirements while minimizing network usage, while the AI needs to be dynamically adapted to minimize wireless resource usage. In this talk, we are going to introduce and discuss our recent research toward the design of AI-driven self-adaptive spectrum-aware wireless systems, as well as our research on edge task offloading and split computing for effective and efficient mobile inference.

Bio: Francesco Restuccia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a member of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things and the Roux Institute at Northeastern University.  His research interests lie in the design and experimental evaluation of next-generation edge-assisted data-driven wireless systems. Dr. Restuccia's research is funded by several grants from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. He received the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award and the Mario Gerla Award in Computer Science, as well as best paper awards at IEEE INFOCOM and IEEE WOWMOM. Dr. Restuccia has published over 60 papers in top-tier venues in computer networking, as well as co-authoring 16 U.S. patents and three book chapters. Dr. Restuccia serves as technical program committee member for several top-tier IEEE and ACM conferences. He is an Area Editor of Computer Networks and serves as Chair of the FutureG Working Group at the National Spectrum Consortium.