Invited Speaker

An Efficient Edge Computing Management Mechanism for Sustainable Smart Cities

Prof. Ngoc Le
Dean, Semiconductor & AI, Asia University, Vietnam
Director, Swinburne Innovation Space, Swinburne Vietnam
Director, Safe AI Foundation, Asia Pacific
Director, Korea Computer Industry Association
Director, International Association for Convergence Science & Technology (IACST)


Abstract:
Since ancient times, humanity has envisioned a world where people and things connect and interact. The advent of generation mobile systems, the so-called 5 G in the early century, has realized this dream. 5 G can provide network services with extremely-high throughput and extremely-low delay and allows a huge device number to connect based on Internet infrastructure, forming the Internet of Things (IoT). In recent years, IoT has been applied in various fields serving humanity, such as smart cities, smart agriculture, healthcare, education, military, and IoT ecosystems. One of the main challenges of IoT applications is computing solutions to reduce service response times. This talk will introduce an efficient edge computing management mechanism for IoT applications in smart cities. Our mechanism proposes a small database (called an information map) that allows edge computing servers of smart cities to store edge service information. When the mobile end-users move to the new edge server' managed coverage, properties related to the EC service are exchanged between the edge servers. The experiment results have shown that our proposed mechanism improves service response time and energy consumption many times compared to the traditional mechanism. We hope that this mechanism will be strongly applied to sustainable smart cities in the future.


Biography:
Dr. Ngoc Le (Jimmy) holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Information Technology from Kyungpook National University (KNU), South Korea. He is currently the Director of Swinburne Innovation Space and an IT Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Vietnam, where he leads the Intelligent Systems and Networks Research Group (ICISN). Additionally, he serves as the Dean of the Semiconductor Technology at Asia University Vietnam.
His areas of expertise include embedded and intelligent systems, communication networks, the Internet of Things (IoT), image and video processing, artificial intelligence (AI), and big data analysis. His professional activities encompass research, innovation management, training, and technology transfer.
Dr. Le is also the Director of the International Association for Convergence Science & Technology (IACST), Director of the Korea Computer Industry Association (KCIA), and Director of the SafeAI Foundation. He is actively involved in the global academic community as a keynote speaker, conference chair, founder of the Global Hackathon, and journal editor for IET Smart Cities and Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS). Additionally, he serves as a technical program committee member, session chair, book editor, and reviewer for numerous international conferences and journals.
Over the course of nearly 30 years, Dr. Le has gained extensive experience in both academia and industry. He has held several important positions, including Director of Development Programs at the Differentiated Automotive Platform (DAP) under FPT Global Automotive & Manufacturing, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Electronics & Telecommunications at Electric Power University (EPU), and Head of the Communication Network Group at Vinh University’s IT Department. Earlier in his career, he served as a researcher at the Telecommunications Networks Laboratory (TENET Lab) at Kyungpook National University in South Korea.
Outside of academia, Dr. Le contributes as a digital transformation and IT consultant, specialist, and mentor for organizations such as the Vietnam–Korea Businessmen and Investment Association (VKBIA), the Vietnam-Korea Experts and Intellectuals Association (VKEIA), and the Vietnam Innovation Network in Korea (VINK). He can be contacted via email at nle@swin.edu.au.