TECoSA Seminar – Semantic Communication and Computing for Scalable Edge AI
TECoSA Seminar with Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politechnico di Torino on May 7 at 15 o’clock.
Title: Semantic Communication and Computing for Scalable Edge AI
Abstract: As edge devices generate increasingly large volumes of data, executing AI tasks closer to the network edge is becoming essential to meet stringent requirements on latency, privacy, and scalability. However, this paradigm introduces challenges in communication efficiency, resource allocation, and distributed processing. This keynote explores how joint semantic communication-computation design can fundamentally improve edge AI systems. Rather than transmitting and computing raw data, semantic approaches allow to convey and process only the information that is relevant for a given task, thus substantially reducing communication and computing while preserving decision-making accuracy. We will discuss how these principles enable efficient network and split computing architectures where processing is distributed across devices and edge infrastructure. Key aspects include adaptive compression, resource-aware AI orchestration, and real-time multimodal data fusion for context-aware and scalable edge AI. Finally, we will outline open research questions in the field of semantic data communications and computing toward scalable edge AI.
Bio: Carla Fabiana Chiasserini is Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and a Research Associate with the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and the NationalInter-university Consortium for Telecommunications(CNIT). She is an Affiliated Professor at Chalmers Institute of Technology, Sweden, where she was also a WASP Guest Professor in 2023-2025. She was a Visiting Researcher at UC San Diego (1998-2003), and a Visiting Professor at Monash University (2012,2016),the Berlin Technische Universität (2021,2022), and the HPI, Potsdam University (Mercato Fellow, 2023 and 2024). She is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow and the director of the Advanced Wireless Experience Lab at Politecnico di Torino.
Her research interests include Next-generation Mobile Networks, Edge Computing, Machine Learning, and Mobile Autonomous Systems. Carla has published over 400 journal and conference papers and has received several awards for her scientific work. She serves as IEEE ComSoc Member-at-Large, Vice Editor-in-Chief of Computer Communications, and Editor-at-Large oft he IEEE Transactions on networking.
Zoom-link for the seminars is : https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267