Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Daqing ZHANG is a Principal Investigator in Context-Aware Infrastructure for Smart Spaces at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore. He has been initiating and leading the efforts in Smart Home, Smart Hospital and Context-Aware Systems in I2R, Singapore. Dr. Zhang was the Program Chair of First International Conference of Smart Home and Health Telematics (ICOST2003) in Paris, France. He served as the General Co-Chair of ICOST2004 (Singapore) and ICOST2005 (Canada), respectively. Dr. Zhang was a frequent invited speaker in various international smart home events such as Net@Home, OSGi World Congress, etc.. His research interests include pervasive computing, service-oriented computing, context-aware systems and home networking. Daqing Zhang obtained his Ph.D. from University of Rome "La Sapienza" and University of L’Aquila, Italy in 1996.

Presentation Title

Digital Home: Singapore and Beyond

• The number of broadband subscribers keep increasing in Singapore and Asia.
• Wireless LAN is becoming particularly appealing to recent home network end users
• Internet access is the primary driver of home networking in the first phase, multimedia and entertainment are expected to bring the home network to the next phase