| Title | : | GAIUS: A Decentralized Hyperlocal Web for Emerging Regions |
| Speaker | : | Lakshminarayanan Subramanian (NYU) |
| Details | : | Tue, 9 Jul, 2019 11:00 AM @ AM Turing Hall |
| Abstract: | : | Despite increasing mobile Internet penetration in emerging regions, the growth of web page complexity combined with inadequate content delivery mechanisms and lack of relevant local content make the web experience poor for users in these regions. GAIUS enables a hyper local content Web ecosystem that supports efficient creation and dissemination of locally relevant web content. GAIUS aims at creating a community content exchange that enables users to easily create and consume relevant web content with the help of a mobile application. Based on an early deployment of GAIUS in India and Kenya, we show that our ecosystem enables localized content creation and diffusion efficiently.
Bio: Lakshminarayanan Subramanian is a Professor in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. His research interests are in the areas of networked systems, big data analytics and computing for development. He is the recipient of several awards including the NSF CAREER Award (2009), Google Faculty Award (2013, 2017), Facebook Faculty Award (2016), IBM Faculty Award (2009, 2010), Microsoft Research Challenge Award (2009) andC.V. Ramamoorthy Award. He has been at the forefront of several technological innovations for development that have been used in several countries around the world. Many of his research works are now being commercialized by startups established by his students. He is the co-founder and Chief Scientist of Entrupy Inc, an AI company which specializes in the authentication of physical goods to enable trustworthy commerce. |
