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SUMMARY:Smart Cities with Privacy Assurance - Sid Chau\, ANU
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CONTACT:Srinivasan Keshav
DESCRIPTION:Although information sharing is a key in smart cities\, there 
 is a heightened concern in data privacy nowadays. Are smart cities just gl
 orified smart prisons? Can we offer assurance of privacy in smart cities w
 ithout comprising users’ private data\, while providing smart optimizati
 on and planning of urban resources and services?\nIn this talk\, I will pr
 esent several recent projects of privacy-preserving applications in smart 
 cities. First\, I enable privacy-preserving collaborative consumption. I c
 onsider privacy-preserving facility and communal service sharing\, in whic
 h an operator is only provided by an aggregate schedule of all users but n
 ot the personal schedules of individual users. More importantly\, the user
 s are still able to settle cost-sharing among themselves in a fair manner 
 without knowing each other’s private demand. Second\, I apply privacy-pr
 eserving mechanisms to energy storage sharing in smart grid\, where an ene
 rgy storage operator provides third-party energy storage services to optim
 ize users’ consumption cost under a time-of-use (ToU) pricing plan subje
 ct to energy storage operation constraints. Third\, I provide integrated p
 rivacy-preserving participatory crowdsensing in general smart city applica
 tions. Lastly\, I will make a connection of my research to blockchain and 
 smart contract.\n\nBio:\n\nSid Chi-Kin Chau is with Research School of Com
 puter Science at the Australian National University. He was an Associate P
 rofessor with the Masdar Institute\, UAE\, which was established in collab
 oration with MIT. His primary research area is Internet-of-Things and cybe
 r-physical systems for smart cities and smart energy systems\, including s
 mart grid\, smart buildings\, intelligent vehicles and transportation. He 
 also researches in broad areas of wireless communications\, algorithms\, a
 nd big data analytics. He received the Ph.D. from University of Cambridge.
  Further information about his research can be found at http://www.SmartSu
 stainability.org/\n 
LOCATION:https://meet.google.com/ehj-dwaz-rea
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