From Wireless Research for IoT to Integrating Human, Generative AI and Communications Network for Superintelligent Systems

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• Professor Soung Liew, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Tuesday 12 March 2024, 10:30-11:30
• Room 611, EEE Department.

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In this talk, I will present my belief that academic wireless communications research can benefit greatly from an increased focus on the experimental work and prototyping. I will highlight how healthy synergistic and check-and-balance interactions between theoreticians and experimentalists can lead to more effective scientific pursuits. To illustrate this, I will present several works from my group that exemplify the iterative process of building experimental prototypes to inspire new theories and vice versa. These examples include a project to build an optical ether fabric to circumvent the bottleneck and enhance the coverage of optical wireless networks, and a project for vertical integration of wireless networks and robotic mobiles to improve end-to-end performance gain.

Following this, I will reflect on the rarity of a 3x or 4x gain in communication research today, and how GPT is already producing a greater then 3x effect in our FPGA software-defined radio prototyping efforts for wireless IoT. To conclude, I will present our latest venture, which employs Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to orchestrate complex, multi-component tasks. This framework aspires to combine human intelligence, artificial intelligence, and high-performance networking into a singular superintelligent entity that unifies computational and communicational breakthroughs into a cohesive and inseparable form of technology.

Biography: Professor Soung Liew is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of HK (CUHK). He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During his time at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, he conducted fundamental research on Fiber-Optic Communications Networks from 1984 to 1988. Following that, he joined Bellcore in New Jersey, where he worked on Broadband Network Research from March 1988 to July 1993. Since 1993, Professor Liew has been a Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he has held many leadership positions such as Department Chairman from 2006 to 2009, Associate Dean of Engineering (Research) from 2004 to 2006, and Co-Director of the Institute of Network Coding from 2014 to the present day. In recognition of his commitment to teaching excellence, Professor Liew received the first CUHK Vice Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award in 2000. Professor Liew’s research interests revolve around wireless networks, Internet protocols, and blockchain, with a current focus on the impact of AI in these fields. His group’s original paper on physical-layer network coding was recognized by Google Scholar as one of the ten classic papers in Computer Networks and Wireless Communications in 2017. Professor Liew is a Fellow of IEEE , IET, HKIE , and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences.

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