Keynote Speakers
What Can Computing do for Health During COVID and beyond?
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Wendy J. Nilsen |
Acting Deputy Division Director |
Information and Intelligent Systems |
Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate |
US National Science Foundation |
Abstract: Medicine and public health have, without consciously acknowledging it, have become a digital industry. Data from patient records, lab tests, images, mobile apps and the Internet of Things (IoT), have changed the information and interface for health. The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has escalated a shift in care from providers to patients and from clinics to the home. With the proper safeguards, mobile technologies can now safely move the diagnosis, treatment of disease, prevention efforts, and surveillance of infectious disease into the home and community. These changes provide many opportunities for computing and engineering to transform health now and in a post-COVID world. To make this happen, the technological and biomedical communities will need to partner in new ways in which safe and trustworthy technology can become pillars of the health research and healthcare community.
Speaker Biography: Wendy Nilsen, Ph.D. is the Acting Deputy Division Director in the Information and Intelligent Systems Division of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at NSF. She is also the lead Program Director in the Smart Health program. Her work has focused on the intersection of computing and human functioning. Her interests span the areas of sensing, analytics, cyber-physical systems, information systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics. She also serves as cochair of the Health Information Technology Research and Development working group of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program and, serving on numerous federal technology initiatives. Prior to joining NSF, Wendy was at the National Institutes of Health.
A Vision towards Pervasive Edge Computing
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Yuanyuan Yang |
Program Director, US National Science Foundation |
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University, USA |
Abstract: This talk presents an emerging pervasive edge computing paradigm where heterogeneous edge devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, IoT and vehicles) can collaborate to sense, process data and create many novel applications at network edge. We propose a data centric design where data become self-sufficient entities that are stored, referenced independently from their producers. This enables us to design efficient and robust data discovery, retrieval and caching mechanisms. The future research agenda including scalable data discovery, cache management, autonomous processing, trust, security and privacy, incentives and semantic data naming) will be discussed.
Speaker Biography: Yuanyuan Yang received the BEng and MS degrees in computer science and engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the MSE and PhD degrees in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Dr. Yang is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, New York, USA. She is currently on leave serving as a Program Director at the US National Science Foundation. She has served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University and a Division Director of New York State Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology. Dr. Yang is internationally recognized for her contributions in parallel & distributed computer architectures and systems. She was named an IEEE Fellow in 2009 for contributions to parallel and distributed computing. Her current research interests include parallel computer architecture, network-based computing, cloud computing, edge computing and mobile computing. She has published over 450 scientific papers in leading refereed journals and conferences. Dr. Yang is currently the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and an Associate Editor for ACM Computing Surveys. She has served as the Associated Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, and an Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
