Title: The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science 2021-2030

Presenter: Y. Rosa Zheng, Professor, Dept of ECE, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015.

Abstract: This talk will introduce the United Nations Decode of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development program that just kicked off in Jan. 2021. I will share the UN's decade vision, decade mission, and specific interests and applications tied to underwater energy harvesting, underwater navigation, wireless communication, marine robotics, sensing, and ocean big data technologies. 

Biography: Yahong Rosa Zheng received the Ph.D. degree Carleton University, Ottawa, ONT, Canada, in 2002. She was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow for two years with the University of Missouri-Columbia. then, she was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology for 13 years. She joined Lehigh University in Aug. 2018 as a professor in the ECE department. She developed eight new courses and taught 15 different courses in the area of embedded systems, wireless communications, real-time digital signal processing, FPGA, GPU, and robotics. Her research interests include underwater cyber-physical systems, compressive sensing, wireless communications, and wireless sensor networks. She has served as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for many IEEE international conferences and Associate Editor for three IEEE journals. She is currently a senior editor for IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. She is the recipient of an NSF faculty CAREER award in 2009. She has been an IEEE fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society since 2015.

Zoom Registration: https://lehigh.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwod-Gupj0iHdzfXFzfj8-YRilR4zoYUWPL