IEEE Distinguished Visitor Talk: Prof. Damla Turgut on “AI driven dynamic path planning in mobile sensors”
Professor Damla Turgut from the University of Central Florida (UCF) will give an IEEE Distinguished Visitor Talk to describe an algorithm that is a good example of the new generation of algorithms enabled by the AI revolution. The session will be focused on Confidence Guided Path-planning (CGP) which has the goal of increasing the confidence in the accuracy of the estimated model at any time point in the data collection process.
Date: 20 March, 11h30
Location: Sala 1.38 Instituto Superior Técnico – Taguspark, Porto Salvo and Online
Zoom link here
Abstract: Collecting environmental information with mobile sensors had been one of the focus areas of the mobile computing community for several decades. In the last five years, however, two major developments brought new perspectives to the field. The significant decrease in the cost and wide availability of drones made them the default technology in mobile sensing. At the same time, significant developments in artificial intelligence brought new tools into the toolkit of researchers allowing models that use predictive models to react more dynamically to changes in the environment and real-time results of sensing.
Bio: Damla Turgut is Pegasus Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She is the co-director of the AI Things Laboratory. She held visiting researcher positions at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Imperial College of London, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Her research interests include wireless ad hoc, sensor, underwater, vehicular, and social networks, edge/cloud computing, smart cities, smart grids, IoT-enabled healthcare and augmented reality, as well as considerations of privacy in the Internet of Things. Dr. Turgut serves on several editorial boards and program committees of prestigious ACM and IEEE journals and conferences. Her most recent honors include Pegasus Professorship in 2024, NCWIT 2021 Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Research (MAUR), the UCF Research Incentive Award, and the UCF Women of Distinction Award. Since 2019, she serves as the N2Women Board Co-Chair where she co-leads the activities of the N2Women Board in supporting female researchers in the fields of networking and communications. Dr. Turgut is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE ComSoC Women in Engineering (WIE) Distinguished Lecturer, ACM and IEEE Senior Member, the Chair of the Technical Activities Committee (TAC) in 2026, the Chair of the IEEE Technical Community on Computer Communications (TCCC) since 2022. She is IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors Member (2025-2027).
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