PIPages
Labs

Hulya Seferoglu

University of Illinois Chicago, IL·Engineering·Early-career

Self-driving cars, drones, smartphones and sensors produce huge amounts of data. Many applications need this data processed in real time.

Fields

Engineering

Computer Science

Topics

coded computation

distributed computing

edge computing

Grants
1 known grant, through Feb 2027

What they work on

  1. Characterize the cost-benefit trade-offs of coded computation, which adds redundancy to tolerate slow or failed workers, in practical edge computing systems.
  2. Develop networking algorithms and protocols that adapt coded computation to the uneven and changing resources of end devices, edge servers and cloud.
  3. Apply coded computation to distributed machine learning at the edge to cut communication cost and provide resilience, privacy and security.
  4. Design delay-sensitive coded computation schemes that balance latency, amount of redundancy, privacy and security.

More about the research

A self-driving car may generate about 10 GB per mile, too much to send to a distant cloud quickly. One alternative is to spread computing across the devices themselves, nearby edge servers and the cloud. Shared computing must still be fast, reliable and secure when some machines are slow, fail or cannot be trusted.

Why it matters

Time-sensitive Internet of Things applications, such as self-driving cars, drones, robots and health monitors, need fast, secure processing that a distant cloud cannot always provide. Practical coded computation could let these systems pool computing, storage and battery across nearby devices and edge servers while staying resilient and private.

Known grants

From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.

CAREER: Practical Coded Computation Mechanisms for Distributed Computing

NSF · Mar 2020 – Feb 2027

Closest labs

Mingyue Ji

University of Florida, FL·Engineering·Early-career

Develop reconfigurable radio hardware and CAP-MIMO antenna designs, whose sub-apertures can be split between tasks, so one system can sense surroundings and communicate at once in the INSTINCT system.

Lena Mashayekhy

University of Delaware, DE·Computer Science·Early-career

Develop a data-driven method to find mobility patterns of Internet of Things devices that lead to quality-of-service violations in multiaccess edge computing systems.

Somali Chaterji

Purdue University, IN·Computer Science·Early-career

Develop on-device machine learning analytics for farm sensors that adapt to each device's computing power, changing network conditions and competition from co-located applications.

The school

University of Illinois Chicago: 42 labs on PI Pages, $532M a year on research, 359 research doctorates a year.

More about University of Illinois Chicago

Reach out

A start for your email. Fill in the brackets.