Professor Yung-Hsiang Lu has been selected as a Distinguished Speaker for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2013-2016. His seminars will be on the topic of "Mobile Computing in a Connected World". The limited battery energy is a major restriction for mobile computing. In this seminar, he will examine the solutions for saving the energy of mobile systems and will compare these solutions in their assumptions, the target hardware components, and the advantages as well as limitations. As cloud computing becomes widely adopted, it is possible to integrate the convenience of mobile systems and the nearly unlimited resources in cloud servers.  He will explain why this is a promising approach for conserving mobile systems' energy and what limitations may restrict this approach.

He will also give seminars on "Power Management-A System View".  This seminar will discuss power management beyond mobile computers.  He will describe the progress of power management in recent years. Many solutions for power management apply common principles, such as entering sleep states, scaling voltages and frequencies, consolidating work, and offloading computation.  Understanding these principles is essential for designing future energy-efficient computers.

Dr. Lu has been invited to speak in universities and companies in Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, China, and Taiwan about the technologies, trends, opportunities, and challenges in mobile computing.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society.  The Distinguished Speaker Program was established more than twenty years ago.  The speakers include experts from academia, industry and government on the most important topics in the computing and IT world today.