2025-08-26 –, Potter Auditorium - Kenneth C Rowe Management Building
This talk explores how edge computing and cloud technologies revolutionize marine industry and research through two edge computing approaches: simple data transmission devices and intelligent edge processors. Showcasing how MLOps and DevOps brings intelligence and automation to the ocean’s edge by building pipelines from ocean to us, humans by applying containerization and ML pipelines to marine environments, we unlock new possibilities for understanding and exploring underwater ecosystems and life.
The marine industry is increasingly adopting edge solutions to overcome challenges faced by environmental condition during exploration. I will walk through a complete pipeline from data collection at underwater sensors, through edge processing for immediate insights or processing data on our end on the cloud for easy processing and to gather analytics through visualization. By connecting these technical dots, we can transform how we monitor ecosystem health, track marine life, and respond to any environmental changes.
Technology, to me, is more than just software or pipelines it’s a lens through which we can explore and understand the world, even beneath the ocean’s surface. Having grown up by the sea, I’ve always been fascinated by what lies under the water. Despite technological advances, marine ecosystems remain largely unexplored which is currently being explored by edge devices. I am trying to connects edge devices with cloud infrastructure which further connect coastal exploration through AI, focusing on mainly two approaches:
- Data Collection Edge Devices: Sensors gathering environmental and ocean data.
- Intelligent Processing Edge Units: Advanced devices with embedded Tiny ML models for on-site analysis, utilizing containerization and orchestration for autonomous operation.
I will explore how these devices capture environmental parameters like salinity, oxygen, pH etc and how one would deploy AI models on-site to derive insights without needing any additional stuff. Attendees will discover how the marine industry utilizes edge devices to perform marine monitoring, and help bridge the knowledge gap between human and sea. Together, we'll explore how technology becomes a useful tool for viewing the not soo visible side of ocean. So basically my talk will revolve around how pipelines would create information flow from ocean depths to cloud systems, while exploring marine discoveries and conservation while expressing my bond with ocean.
I am a Master's student in Applied Computer Science at Dalhousie University and I love finding hidden patterns around me. I have always been near ocean throughout my life and hence I love utilizing my knowledge of various technologies to explore the unexplored portion of ocean and it's ecosystem.