CS Seminar
| Title: Computer Science in the Field |
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| Seminar: Computer Science |
| Speaker: Dr. Andreas Züfle, George Mason University |
| Contact: Vaidy Sunderam, VSS@emory.edu |
| Date: 2021-10-15 at 1:00PM |
| Venue: https://emory.zoom.us/j/98352727203 |
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| Abstract: We computer scientists find solutions to problems. The impact of our solutions is limited by the importance of the problems that we solve. Since finishing my Ph.D. in 2013, I've been searching for good problems: problems that are challenging, leverage large amounts of data, and, if solved, have broad impacts for society. This presentation shows some of the problems that I've found during my tenure at George Mason University, including 1) my work in collaboration with transportation authorities in NSF's "Algorithms in the Field (AitF)" program to improve traffic conditions, 2) my work in collaboration with social scientists in DARPA's "Ground Truth" program to improve understanding of human behavior, 3) my work in collaboration with geographers in IARPA's "Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART)" program to analyze satellite images, and 4) my work in collaboration with epidemiologists in NSF's "Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)" program to understand and predict diseases and prevent pandemics. For each of the problems, I will briefly showcase some solutions that my students, collaborators, and I have found, and describe visions and directions for future work and potential collaboration. Biography: Andreas Züfle is a German computer scientist and associate professor at the Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science at George Mason University (GMU). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science, summa cum laude, under supervision of Dr. Hans-Peter Kriegel at Ludwig Maximilan University of Munich, Germany (LMU) in 2013. Andreas' research focuses on data management. He is mainly known for his contribution to the field of geospatial data management and mining. In this area, he has made contributions in several subareas, notably: uncertain data management, spatial indexing, clustering, and geosimulation. He collaborates closely with experts in geosciences, transportation, epidemiology, and social science to leverage computer science for interdisciplinary applications having broader impact. Since starting at GMU in 2016, his research has received more than $5,000,000 in funding from NSF, DARPA, and IARPA. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and has an h-index of 20. **Join Zoom Meeting** Venue: https://emory.zoom.us/j/98352727203 |
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