| Title | : | Is blockchain yet another hype? |
| Speaker | : | Bina Ramamurthy (University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA) |
| Details | : | Fri, 14 Dec, 2018 4:00 PM @ ALC Room |
| Abstract: | : | In this talk I will introduce blockchain, the critical concepts
powering the blockchain, and how they come together to implement a
trust layer. We will discuss if a blockchain solution is appropriate
for your research projects and business applications. I will provide
an overview of application development for the blockchain using smart
contracts and the DApp (Decentralized application) stack. I will
conclude the talk with several use cases that will provide the answer
to the question that is on many of our minds - Is blockchain yet
another hype? - I will let you decide after the talk.
Bio: Dr. Bina Ramamurthy received B.E. (Honors) from College of Engineering Guindy, Madras, the M.S. in Computer Science from Wichita State University, KS, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. She is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. She is also the Program Director of SUNY-approved Nation Science Foundation initiated Data-intensive Computing Certificate program. She has more than three decades of curriculum design and implementation in Computer Science and Engineering. Her current research is in data science with an emphasis on computational models and distributed systems. She is also the Director of Blockchain ThinkLab, University at Buffalo (UB). The Blockchain ThinkLab was created with funding from of UB President’s Circle Club. For the past two years, she has been actively involved in blockchain research, education and industrial collaboration. She has been the Principal Investigator on four National Science Foundation (NSF) grants and a co-investigator in six Instructional Innovative Instructional Technology grants (IITG) from SUNY. She has given numerous invited presentations at prominent conferences in the areas of data-intensive and big-data computing. She has been on the program committees of prestigious conferences including the High-Performance Computing Conference and Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~bina https://www.buffalo.edu/ubblockchain https://www.coursera.org/specializations/blockchain Host: Prof. Krishna Sivalingam, CSE Dept. |
