RIAIoT: The Data and IoT Landscape: Trends and Directions

We are excited to announce that the RIAIoT Distinguished Talk Series "The Data and IoT Landscape: Trends and Directions" will be held on 26 November 2025 at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. We have invited Dr C. Mohan, a former IBM Fellow, Member of United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and Distinguished Professor of Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, to share his insights at this event.

Please find the detailed information below:

Title: The Data and IoT Landscape: Trends and Directions

Date: 26 November 2025 (Wednesday)

Time: 4: 00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Venue: V312, 3/F, Jockey Club Innovation Tower,The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Online via Zoom

Abstract

It has been four and a half decades since the commercial emergence of relational database management systems happened.  Starting from around that time, I worked on various database management topics at the birthplace of the relational model and the SQL language, until my retirement 5 years ago as an IBM Fellow at IBM Research in Silicon Valley. As someone who has been, and who continues to be, active as an individual contributor in the database area for five decades, in this talk, I will give a broad overview of the evolution of the data landscape. I will also focus a bit more on one application area, namely the Internet of Things (IoT). I will discuss not only research topics but also the trends in the commercial and standards arenas, including the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) related developments. I will also present market share figures from data analysts. I intend for my observations to be of value to not only deeply technical people in the research and product spaces but also to management and administration type people who are responsible for data related topics.

Dr. C. Mohan is currently a Distinguished Professor of Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in China, and a member of the inaugural Board of Governors of Digital University Kerala in India. He retired in 2020 from being an IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center in Silicon Valley. He was an IBM researcher for 38.5 years in the database, blockchain, AI and related areas, impacting numerous IBM and non-IBM products, the research and academic communities, and standards, especially with his invention of the well-known ARIES family of database locking and recovery algorithms, and the Presumed Abort distributed commit protocol. This IBM (1997-2020), ACM (2002-) and IEEE (2002-) Fellow has also served as the IBM India Chief Scientist (2006-2009). In addition to receiving the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (1996), the VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award (1999) and numerous IBM awards, Mohan was elected to the United States and Indian National Academies of Engineering (2009). This Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Madras (1977) received his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin (1981). He is an inventor of 50 patents. During the last many years, he focused on Data, Cloud, Blockchain and AI technologies (https://bit.ly/CMoTalks). During 2021, Mohan was the Shaw Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. Mohan has been on numerous conference and journal boards. During 2022, he was a consultant (Visiting Researcher) at Google. He was a Consultant to the Microsoft Data Team in 2020. Mohan is a frequent speaker in North America, Europe and Asia. He has given talks in 43 countries. More information can be found in the Wikipedia page at https://bit.ly/CMwIkPand his homepage at https://bit.ly/CMoDUK

To register for the talk, please click https://polyu.hk/TYzYf or scan the QR code on the poster above.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Miss. Jola Wang at wenrui.wang@polyu.edu.hk. We look forward to exchanging insights with you at this exciting event.