Dharm Singh Jat to deliver lecture at Texas State in conjunction with IEEE Smart City Summit

Dharm Singh Jat, professor of computer science at Namibia University of Science and Technology, will deliver a seminar, "Smart Computing and Communication: Enabling Future IoT," Oct. 30 at Texas State University in conjunction with the IEEE Smart City Summit.

The seminar will be 1-1:50 p.m. in Ingram Hall room 2103. 

Jat is an Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Speaker, as well as a fellow of the Institution of Engineers and the Computer Society of India. He is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and the author or editor of more than 16 books. His interests span the area of multimedia communications, wireless technologies, mobile communication systems and the Internet of Things, among many others. 

Texas State representatives will participate in the Smart City Summit in Austin on Nov. 1, which will focus on disruptive technologies. Texas State will have a table for demonstrations and will have several student projects on display, including a patient fall detection system, a smart garage and augmented reality projects. 

Stan McClellan, a professor in the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State, will chair "Session 2: Mobility and Autonomous Vehicles," 1:15-2:45 p.m., which will explore automotive transformation from assisted automated systems to fully automated systems. 

Semih Aslan, associate professor in the Ingram School of Engineering, will be a program participant during "Session 3: Healthcare," 3:30-5 p.m., which will explore the transformation of the current health care system to one of smart health and wellness, including smart hospitals, tele-health, telemedicine and personalization.

The Smart City Summit will examine the impact of disruptive technologies onto potential innovative use cases in areas such as health care, smart transportation, smart homes/buildings and smart cities. The summit is designed to bring strong involvement from the public sector, industry and academia aimed at deepening the understanding and fostering a forum for dialogue and collaboration and defining actions needed to accelerate the adoption and deployment of disruptive technologies into key market segments within Smart Cities. 

The summit is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society. The full program schedule is available at https://attend.ieee.org/scs-2019/program/schedule/