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Engineering big data in wireless sensor networks: an art of science?
Dr. Qilian Liang, Electrical Engineering
September 25, 2013


Dr. Liang looks at real-world applications for engineering Big Data in wireless sensor networks. Big Data is the massive amounts of data generated by today's electronic devices like email, videos, sensors, and Web browsers. To encourage the development of new data analytic tools/algorithms and increase understanding of human and social processes and interactions, Dr. Liang's talk will focus on both the information theory approach and the psychological approach. "The two approaches may get contradicting results, which motivates thinking is it a science or art?" said Dr. Liang.

Dr. Qilian Liang is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Prior to this he was a Member of Technical Staff in Hughes Network Systems Inc. His B.S. is from Wuhan University, China, (1993), M.S. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (1996), and Ph.D., University of Southern California (2000), all in Electrical Engineering. In 2013 Dr. Liang received the UTA Outstanding Research Achievement or Creative Accomplishment award.

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