Giuseppe Raffa, Senior Research Scientist
Intel Labs

Abstract
We are entering a new era of computing – Ambient Computing – where sensing, inference and actuation technologies will disappear into our daily lives and the spaces we live in. Spaces will be able to sense multiple signals, understand their meaning and infer high-level contextual information about people, spaces and situations.

This vision requires novel algorithms and systems, and also new user-centric approaches to make sure these technologies can provide real value to the inhabitants of these spaces.  This talk will introduce the research activities that are happening in Intel Labs related to Ambient Computing and Smart Spaces technologies.

I will present our research approach and various horizontal technologies we are researching on related to machine learning and artificial intelligence. Some examples include multimodal person identification, activity recognition, emotion recognition and mixed reality. Finally, I will discuss some of the vertical domains the team is exploring, i.e. Smart Home (Kid’s learning support and Elderly care), Autonomous vehicles (in cabin experiences) and Smart Manufacturing (task support).

Speaker Bio
Giuseppe "Beppe" Raffa is a Senior Research Scientist and Research Manager whose research interests are in the field of smart spaces, sensors-based context-aware systems and sensors-based human-computer interaction. He leads a team working on “Smart Spaces and Interactions” in environments such as Home, Office, Industrial. He worked on gesture recognition, low power systems, on-body multimodal interfaces, and context-aware applications, systems and architectures. Beppe received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Bologna with a dissertation on "Context-aware Computing in Smart Environments."

He has co-authored >20 papers published in international conferences and journals, served as co-editor of two workshops (UbiComp2005, ACII 2017), filed >100 patents and served as committee member of several ACM and IEEE conferences. Beppe received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bologna (Italy), where he researched, developed, and deployed in-field location- and context-aware mobile systems across Europe in the Cultural Heritage research domain. He can be contacted at giuseppe.raffa@intel.com and https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuseppe-beppe-raffa/