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 Professor Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine, USA
Multimedia and Health We believe that concepts from multimedia systems will play key role in emerging health technologies. In this talk, we will explore application of multimedia technology in cybernetic health systems. A person’s health is the result of her genetics, lifestyle, and environment. Cybernetic approach may help people manage lifestyle and environment for many chronic conditions, such as Diabetes. Advances in smart phones, sensors, and wearable technology are now making it possible to analyze and understand an individual’s life style from mostly passively collected objective data streams to build her model and predict important health events in her life. Wearable/mobile sensors, smart homes, social networks, e-mail, calendar systems, and environmental sensors continuously generate disparate data streams that can be used as lifestyle data. By assimilating and aggregating these multi-sensory data streams, we may create an accurate chronicle of a person’s life. By correlating life events with other events, and using a novel causality exploration framework, one can build model of the person. Multimedia technology deals with data streams with different semantics and combines them to identify event semantics. These techniques become even more important in combining disparate data streams used in modeling people and identifying actionable information to provide perpetual guidance to them to steer lifestyle for healthier life. We will discuss effectiveness and challenges based on the systems that we are building.
Brief Bio Ramesh Jain is an entrepreneur, researcher, and educator. He is a Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine where he is doing research in Event Web and experiential computing. Earlier he served on faculty of Georgia Tech, University of California at San Diego, The university of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Wayne State University, and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, AAAI, IAPR, and SPIE. His current research interests are in processing massive number of geo-spatial heterogeneous data streams for building Smart Social System, particularly systems for Future Health of people. He is the recipient of several awards including the ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award 2010. Ramesh co-founded several companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. These companies include PRAJA, Virage, and ImageWare. Currently he is working with Krumbs, a situation aware computing company. He has also been advisor to several other companies including some of the largest companies in media and search space. Currently he is passionate about the Institute for Future Health at University of California, Irvine.
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