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Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy Informatics

Speaker: Dr. John Shen, Nokia Research Center

Talk Title: Innovation a la Silicon Valley: Chronicle of NRC North America Lab

Series: Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy Informatics

Abstract: Nokia Research Center (NRC) Palo Alto Lab officially opened in November 2006. It was renamed NRC North America Lab in 2011 with the addition of teams located in Berkeley and Cambridge. The original motivation for establishing a brand new research lab in Palo Alto with a broad research agenda was to leverage the innovation spirit and research talents of the Silicon Valley to help transform Nokia from mainly a mobile phone company into a mobile internet solutions company.
In this talk, I will share the experience and insights gained in building and leading this research lab for the past six years. The talk highlights the results from a fairly diverse collection of projects. These projects span the areas of: 1) Rich Interactive Content Experience, 2) Seamless Cross-device Mobile Computing, 3) Car As a Mobile Platform, 4) Next Generation Mapping Platform, and 5) Visual Computing & Mixed Reality. I will also share my perspective on the dominant industry trends that will likely influence my future research directions.

Biography: John P. Shen is a Nokia Fellow (7th in the company) and was the founding director of Nokia Research Center - North America Lab (formerly NRC Palo Alto) with research teams pursuing a very wide range of research projects in mobility and mobile computing. Prior to joining Nokia in 2006, John was the Director of the Microarchitecture Research Lab at Intel. Prior to joining Intel in 2000, John was a tenured Full Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where he supervised a total of 17 PhD students and dozens of MS students, received multiple teaching
awards, and published two books and more than 100 research papers. One of his books, “Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors” (McGraw-Hill 2005) is still being used in the EE382 Advanced Processor Architecture course at Stanford University. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at CMU Silicon Valley campus and has co-taught courses and given guest lectures at Stanford and CMU-SV.

Host: Prof. Viktor Prasanna

More Info: http://cei.usc.edu/

Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Annie Yu

Event Link: http://cei.usc.edu/