On Tuesday January 21, 2025, Prof. Dr. Lin Wang gave his inaugural lecture at Paderborn University on the topic of “Efficient and Sustainable Networked Systems for Connected Intelligence”. The lecture was attended by various professors and researchers in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics.
In his lecture, Prof. Lin Wang pointed out that innovations in the field of computer networks have focused on cloud and edge networks in recent years. In particular, advances in the underlying network infrastructures are needed to fully utilise the great potential of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. According to Professor Wang, networked systems play a crucial role here - from large data centres to the tiny Internet of Things (IoT). In the field of data centres, he discusses research topics from recent years such as in-network computing and serverless computing to support large-scale AI training and inference. In the edge field, he introduces the concept of battery-free IoT devices that autonomously harvest the energy for their operation from their environment to support edge AI inference. Finally, he explained his vision and novel concepts to address the two critical challenges of networked systems, namely efficiency and sustainability, and outlined the path to realising networked intelligence.
