Guest Editorial: Special Section on Transfer Learning for 5G-Aided Industrial Internet of Things

TY - JOUR

T1 - Guest Editorial

T2 - Special Section on Transfer Learning for 5G-Aided Industrial Internet of Things

AU - Kaur, Kuljeet

AU - Guo, Song

AU - Chen, Min

AU - Rawat, Danda

N1 - Funding Information: DANDA B. RAWAT, Guest Editor Howard University Washington, DC 20059 USA [email protected] Song Guo (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 2005. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. He was a Professor with The University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan, from 2007 to 2016. He has more than 400 papers published in major conferences and journals. His main research interests include big data, cloud computing and networking, and distributed systems. Prof. Guo’s work was recognized by the 2016 Annual Best of Computing: Notable Books and Articles in Computing in ACM Computing Reviews. He is the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Systems Journal Annual Best Paper Award and five other Best Paper Awards from IEEE/ACM conferences. His research has been sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), MIC Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan (MIC), National Science Foundation, USA (NSF), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and industrial companies. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS from 2011 to 2015 and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2016 to 2017. He is on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EMERGING TOPICS IN COMPUTING, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GREEN COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, and IEEE Communications. He was also a General, TPC, and Symposium Chair for numerous IEEE conferences. He is currently the Member of the Board of Governors and Director of Membership Services of the IEEE Communications Society. Funding Information: SONG GUO, Guest Editor The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong [email protected] Kuljeet Kaur (Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree in computer science and engineering from Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, India, in 2011, and the M.E. degree in information security and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (Deemed to be University), Patiala, India, in 2015 and 2018, respectively. She was an NSERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Université du Québec, Montréal, QC, Canada, from 2018 to 2020. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, ÉTS, Montreal, and a Visiting Researcher with the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Nanyang Technologi-cal University, Singapore. Her main research interests include cloud computing, energy efficiency, smart grid, frequency support, and vehicle-to-grid. Dr. Kaur has secured a number of research articles in top-tier journals, such as the IEEE WIRE-LESS COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, IEEE TRANSAC-TIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network, IEEE Power Society (IEEE PS), Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, etc., and various International conferences including IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, IEEE INFOCOM Workshops, ACM MobiCom Workshops, ACM MobiHoc workshops, etc. During her Ph.D., she received two prestigious fellowships, i.e., INSPIRE fellowship from the Department of Science & Technology, India, in 2015, and a research scholarship from Tata Consultancy Services from 2016 to 2018. She is also the recipient of the IEEE ICC Best Paper Award in 2018 at Kansas City, MO, USA, and the 2019 Best Research Paper Award from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology. She is also an Associate Editor for Wiley’s Security and Privacy and Journal of Information Processing Systems, Springer’s Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences, and a Guest Editor for special issues in the IEEE TRANSACTION ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS and IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF THE COMPUTER SOCIETY. She is a website Co-Chair of the N2Women community. She is also the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Montreal Young Professionals Affinity Group. She has also been a TPC Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2020 and ACM MobiCom 2020 workshops on DroneCom. She is a member of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer, IEEE Women in Engineering, IEEE Software Defined Networks Community, IEEE Smart Grid Community, ACM, and IAENG. Funding Information: Dr. Rawat was the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2016, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Scientific Leadership Award in 2017, the Researcher Exemplar Award 2019 and the Graduate Faculty Exemplar Award 2019 from Howard University, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Summer Faculty Visiting Fellowship in 2017, the Outstanding Research Faculty Award (Award for Excellence in Scholarly Activity) at GSU in 2015, the Best Paper Awards (IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICII, BWCA) and the Outstanding Ph.D. Researcher Award in 2009. He has secured more than $16 million in research funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), DoD and DoD Research Labs, Industry (Microsoft, Intel, etc.) and private Foundations. He has been an Editor/Guest Editor for more than 50 international journals including an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS OF SERVICE COMPUTING, the Editor of the IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL, an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS OF NETWORK SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, and the Technical Editor of IEEE NETWORK. He has been in the Organizing Committees for several IEEE flagship conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE CNS, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, and so on. He was a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member for several international conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE CCNC, IEEE GreenCom, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC, and IEEE VTC conferences. From 2013 to 2017, he was a Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Savannah Section. He is a Senior Member of ACM, a Member of ASEE and AAAS, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

PY - 2021/10

Y1 - 2021/10

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85103908521

U2 - 10.1109/TII.2021.3071310

DO - 10.1109/TII.2021.3071310

M3 - Editorial

AN - SCOPUS:85103908521

SN - 1551-3203

VL - 17

SP - 7070

EP - 7074

JO - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

JF - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

IS - 10

M1 - 9397268

ER -