Self-Powered Internet of Things: How Energy Harvesters Can Enable Energy-Positive Sensing, Processing, and Communication

Raja Jurdak is a Professor of Distributed Systems and Chair in Applied Data Sciences at Queensland University of Technology, and Director of the Trusted Networks Lab. He received the the PhD degree in information and computer science, University of California, Irvine. Professor Jurdak established and led the Distributed Sensing Systems Group at CSIRO's Data61, to become one of the world's leading large scale sensing research groups, from 2011 to 2019. He also spent time as visiting academic at MIT and Oxford University in 2011 and 2017. His research interests include trust, mobility and energy-efficiency in networks. Prof. Jurdak has published over 230 peer-reviewed publications, including 3 authored books in the areas of Internet of Things, Cyberphysical Systems, and Blockchain. His publications have attracted over 12,000 citations, with an h-index of 48. He was an Embark Fellow in 2006, and Endeavour Fellow in 2011, and has won the CSIRO Medal for Environmental Achievement in 2011. He serves on the editorial board of Ad Hoc Networks, Nature Scientific Reports, and on the organising and technical program committees of top international conferences, including Percom, ICBC, IPSN, WoWMoM, and ICDCS. He was TPC co-chair of IEEE ICBC in 2021. He is a conjoint professor with the University of New South Wales, a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE Computer Society.