Keynote Speakers

Peter Lian

York University, Canada

Speech Title: Event-Driven System Architecture for Ultra Low Power AIoT Sensors

Abstract: Artificial Intelligence-of-Things (AIoT) devices differ from the IoT counterpart that not only they sense, store, transmit data but also analyze and act on data, i.e. they perform tasks similar to what a person could do. For the ubiquitous deployment of sensors in AIoT, power consumption of each sensor should be made as low as possible for extended operation hours. The traditional signal processing flow relies on Nyquist rate to digitize input signal, which generates redundant samples for sparse inputs in many AIoT applications and increases power consumption for the AI engine. Different from Nyquist sampling scheme, the event-driven system generates samples only if a predefined event occurs, i.e. the power consumption tracks the input activities. The amount of data generated in an event-driven system is intrinsically compressed, leading to significant savings in power. This keynote talk will introduce several low power features of an even-driven system, and demonstrate how to achieve orders of magnitude reduction in power consumption.

Bio: Peter Lian is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Engineering Singapore, and IEEE. His research interests are in the areas of self-powered wireless sensors, energy efficient event-driven signal processing techniques and biomedical circuits and systems. He is the recipient of more than 15 awards including the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society’s Guillemin-Cauer Award, IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Best Paper Award, and Institution of Engineers Singapore Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award, and the Design Contest Award at the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design in 2015. He serves as the Chair for the IEEE Periodicals Partnership Opportunities Committee, member-at-large of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board, member of the IEEE Periodicals Committee, Member of IEEE Products and Services Committee. He was the President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II: EXPRESS BRIEFS for two terms, the VP for Publications and VP for Region 10 of the IEEE CAS Society, and many other roles in the IEEE.