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Blockchain Technology and its Applications to the Internet of Things

ECE Colloquia Seminar

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Location: EER 1.518 and Zoom
Speaker:
Bhaskar Krishnamachari
University of Southern California

Blockchain technology is bringing fundamental new capabilities pertaining to decentralized trust and enabling micropayments for data. I will present an overview of research at USC touching on both the core technology and its application to the internet of things. These include a new mobile-oriented blockchain protocol, a middleware to decentralize publish-subscribe brokers, smart contracts to enable cheat-proof peer-to-peer trading of digital goods, a streaming data payment protocol, and a decentralized review mechanism suitable for data marketplaces.
 

Bhaskar
Bhaskar Krishnamachari is a Ming Hsieh Faculty Fellow and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director of the Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. His research spans the design and evaluation of algorithms, protocols and applications for next generation networks and distributed systems including the internet of things, connected vehicles, robotic networks, dispersed computing and blockchain systems. He is the co-author of more than 300 technical papers, and 3 books, that have been collectively cited more than 30,000 times. He has received best paper awards at ACM/IEEE IPSN (2004, 2010), ACM Mobicom (2010), and IEEE VNC (2021). He is the recipient of the NSF Career Award and the ASEE Terman Award, and has been listed in MIT Technology Review's TR-35 and Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10".

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