The No. 85 lecture of Tsinghua Information Forum was successfully held in Room 1-415 of FIT building on May 22, 2012. Prof. Moe Win, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr. T. Russell Hsing were invited by Prof. Zhisheng Niu to present their current research. The topics are “Foundations of network localization and location-based services” and “Cognitive Radio & Networks in Intelligent Vehicle Systems (IVS) and High Speed Rail (HSR) Applications: Challenges and Opportunities” respectively. The availability of positional information is of great importance in numerous situations, such as health-care, public safety, commercial and military applications.

Prof. Moe Win presented a brief technical overview of his recent activities with particular emphasis on network localization employing wideband wireless technology from three points of view: fundamental performance bounds, cooperative algorithms, and experimentation. Dr. T. Russell Hsing presented his view on the potential challenges and opportunities of using cognitive radio in Intelligent Vehicle Systems (IVS) and High Speed Rail (HSR) Train applications. More than 30 faculty members and students attended this lecture.

Moe Win is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to joining MIT, he was at AT&T Research Laboratories for five years and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for seven years. His research encompasses fundamental theories, algorithm design, and experimentation for a broad range of real-world problems. His current research topics include network localization and navigation, network interference exploitation, intrinsic wireless secrecy, adaptive diversity techniques, and ultra-wide bandwidth systems.

Dr. T. Russell Hsing graduated from the Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) in 1970, and received his M.S. and Ph.D.’s degrees from the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Rhode Island in 1974, and 1977. He has accumulated 35 years in the telecommunications and information & communications technology industry. His research interests are in the areas of DSL, Video Communications and Signal Processing, Broadband Wireless Technologies and Networking Systems, Fiber Optics Imaging System, High-Speed VLSI Implementation, Vehicular Networks and Telematics Applications, and Broadband Access and Services Applications.