ACM NanoCom 2023

10th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication

Coventry, UK, September 20-22, 2023

Keynote Speakers

Keynote 1: Towards Battery-Free In-Body Internet of Things
Session Chair: Maurizio Magarini (MPolitecnico di Milano, Italy)
Time: Tuesday, September 20 - 9:00-10:00 (UTC+1:00)
	Thiemo Voigt Professor Uppsala University and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Sweden

Already in 2005, 25 Mio US citizens were relying on implanted medical devices (IMDs) such as pacemakers for life-critical functions. This number is expected to increase tremendously in the future in particular as new application areas for implanted medical devices such as drug delivery systems, intracranial pressure monitoring devices and artificial kidneys are emerging. A further trend is to network these implanted devices which is necessary since more and more (elderly) people have multiple diseases that can benefit from implanted devices. Moreover, networking these implanted devices also enables new sensing applications within the human body. Nevertheless, some applications cannot be realized today due to a lack of bandwidth inside the body since current in-body communication methods such as capacitive and galvanic coupling do not offer high data rates. We have recently pioneered a novel approach, Fat-IBC, that uses the human body’s adipose (fat) tissue as a communication channel for RF-based communication. Situated between the skin and muscle layers that act as a wave guide the fat layer allows for energy-efficient communication inside the body.

In this talk, I present Fat-IBC and discuss both some measures to secure this novel in-body communication as well as some possible applications.

Short Biography
Thiemo Voigt is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is also a senior researcher at RISE Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. in 2002 from Uppsala University. His current research focuses on low-power wireless networks, in-body communication and its applications and system software for embedded networked devices and the Internet of Things. Prof. Voigt's work has been cited more than 19000 times. He is a member of the editorial board for the IEEE Internet of Things newsletter and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN).

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Keynote 2: Multi-resolution simulations at the nanoscale
Session Chair: Adam Noel (University of Warwick, UK)
Time: Tuesday, September 21 - 9:00-10:00 (UTC+1:00)
	Radek Erban Professor Mathematical Institute University of Oxford Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road Oxford, OX2 6GG

All-atom and coarse-grained molecular dynamics (MD), Langevin dynamics (LD) and Brownian dynamics (BD) are computational methodologies, which have been applied to spatio-temporal modelling of a number of biological processes at the nanoscale. I will discuss connections between MD, LD and BD, with a focus on the development, analysis and applications of multi-resolution methods, which use (detailed) MD simulations in localized regions of particular interest (in which accuracy and microscopic details are important) and a (less-detailed) coarser stochastic model in other regions in which accuracy may be traded for simulation efficiency. I will discuss applications of multi-resolution methodologies to modelling of intracellular calcium dynamics, actin dynamics and DNA dynamics.

Short Biography
Radek Erban is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He works on the development, analysis and application of mathematical and computational methods to a broad range of real-world systems, ranging from molecular-based modelling of intracellular processes at the nanoscale to studying collective behaviour of cells, animals and robots at the macroscale. He received a European Research Council Starting Grant in 2009 and a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2010. He was a Royal Society University Research Fellow (2011-2019) in Oxford, where he held junior research fellowships at Brasenose College (2011-2014), Somerville College (2008-2011) and Linacre College (2005-2008). In Cambridge, he was also a visiting fellow of Peterhouse (2016) and a recipient of the Simons Foundation Fellowship at the Isaac Newton Institute in 2016. Since 2020, he has been the Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

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