Title:	Revolutionizing Indoor Location
Speaker:	Roy Want Senior Research Scientist at Google

Abstract: Accurate indoor location (within 1 meter) has been the goal of the research community and industry since the 1990's. The new IEEE 802.11az protocol, recently published by the IEEE Standards Association (March 2023), brings us closer to that realization. This talk first provides an overview of the technologies that were originally envisaged to solve the problem, and why they had limited success. Second, it covers the spectrum of newer technology including: UWB, Bluetooth Channel-Sounding, and WiFi-6. The final part will provide an overview of the 802.11az protocol standard designed for accuracy, scalability and security; and most importantly, why it stands the best chance of providing a ubiquitous solution for the future.

Biography: Dr. Roy Want received his doctorate from Cambridge University, England in 1988, and is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Google. Previous positions include Sr. Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation, and a Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC. He holds the grade of ACM and IEEE Fellow. His research interests include mobile and ubiquitous computing, context-aware applications, and electronic identification. He has more than 30 years' experience working in the field of mobile computing. He served as: Editor-in-chief for IEEE Pervasive Computing from 2006-2009, Chair of the ACM SIGMOBILE executive committee from 2009-12, and received the ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contributions Award (OCA) in 2019. He has authored or co-authored more than 85 publications, with 100+ issued patents in this area. For more information about Dr. Want's academic and industrial achievements see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Want.

Title:	Seeking Truth About Power
Speaker:	Noah Klugman Co-founder and the CEO of nLine

Abstract: The first paper for the GridWatch project was published at HotMobile in 2014; today, the direct evolution of this project is measuring power grid quality in over 10 countries, supporting government regulators, national utilities, universities, and international aid organizations. This talk tells the story of the last 10 years and distills lessons learned that are specific to the HotMobile community. Our 2014 paper addressed a deceptively simple question: Can you detect power outages with smartphones? To answer this we had to build a cross-disciplinary team; we bumped into significant and unexpected technical challenges; and we ended up pushing the cutting edge in ways that we didn’t set out to address. The talk concludes with a direct argument that depth can come from pursuing the “simple” problems that seem like they should have already been solved—but haven’t been.

Biography: Dr. Noah Klugman is a co-founder and the CEO of nLine, a 16-person, non-venture-funded company dedicated to improving the performance of the world’s critical infrastructure. He has spoken about energy reliability to governments, academics, NGOs, and electric utilities around the world. He received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 2021, co-advised by Prabal Dutta and Eric Brewer, where his thesis focused on developing techniques for low-cost, high-resolution power-outage measurements that would work well anywhere in the world. For this work he received the 2019-2020 Sevin Rosen Funds Award for Innovation. His broader interests include hanging out with his 8-month-old daughter and making robotic puppets. For more information about Noah’s work, see: noahklugman.com and nline.io.