Tsinghua Workshop - Strengthen Collaboration with Top Universities in China

 

Together with research teams in Tsinghua University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Professor Sasu Tarkoma, Prof. Yong Li, and Prof. Pan Hui organized a successful workshop on mobile big data and networking (url:http://fi.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn/2015workshop/) in September 2015.

 

 

Photo 1: Prof. Sasu Tarkoma presents an overview of TKTL and NODES research group

Photo 2: Tsinghua host Prof. Depeng Jin delivers the opening speech.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together professors, researchers and students to share ideas, experience and implementations related to mobile big data and networking, including big data analytics, mobile computing, urban computing, SDN, mobile offloading and 5G networks. There are invited speakers from China Mobile, Peking University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Tongji University.  From NODES research group, Sasu Tarkoma, Markku Kojo, Eemil Lagerspetz, Kai Zhao, and Aaron Yi Ding presented their research in the workshop.

photo  3: lively discussion during the workshop         photo 4: workshop chairs and organizers

Being a great opportunity to strengthen the collaboration with the leading Asian partners, both Tsinghua and HKUST are ranked as the Top 5 Asian universities in engineering (url:http://www.shanghairanking.com/FieldENG2015.html) and computer science (url: http://www.shanghairanking.com/SubjectCS2015.html) according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015 (url: http://www.shanghairanking.com/).

To continue the success of this joint workshop, the next one will be held by the University of Helsinki in 2016.

Photos 5, 6, 7: Tsinghua University is hosting the workshop in 2015

 

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