Hi All, Our final OSU Robotics seminar of the term will be presented by Edward Wang from the University of California, San Diego, on "Healthcare in the Age of Information Technology: Opportunities and Real-world Challenges". The seminar will be from 10-11am, followed by an 11-11:30 student-only Q&A session. The seminar will be an *in person* event, simulcast over Zoom, and will be immediately followed by a half-hour students-only Q&A session with the speaker. June 3, 10am LINC 268 https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/93908195212?pwd=cEdoQVdac0JxMUpOSS9xVzZjVG5xUT... <https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/93908195212?pwd=cEdoQVdac0JxMUpOSS9xVzZjVG5xUT09> ----------------- Seminar Title: Healthcare in the Age of Information Technology: Opportunities and Real-world Challenges Abstract: With the ubiquity of digital technologies that is seeping into every fabric of our lives, we are presented with an opportunity to harness the economy of scale that is driving down the cost of distributing a wide array of sensors that can be repurposed and reprogrammed. This effect is particularly impactful for the way healthcare is and can be designed, not only as an opportunity to completely change the way we deliver care, but also the potential issues it may cause. Smartphones stand to become the Tricorder that will deliver an ever-expanding library of health metrics through software applications. The induction of wearable devices like the Fitbit and the Apple Watch is introducing passive monitoring of physiological signals that once was exclusive to ICUs (not even primary care) at unprecedented scales. Even something as “mundane” today as a video call, is creating an entire new paradigm of telemedicine. In this talk, I will share with you late breaking work that my group, the DigiHealth Lab is doing around discovering new digital biomarkers for Alzheimer’s screening, improving breastfeeding efficacy for mothers, making blood pressure monitoring as continuous, and passively enabling mass monitoring of individuals for upper-respiratory infections with wearable sensors. It is in this context of developing and designing these technologies beyond the theory and simulation, however, where we are faced with the real-world challenges of bringing such a distributed and federated healthcare system together. I hope to use this opportunity to not only share with you the impact that digital health technologies will make, but also the difficulties and challenges to make such technologies work safely, inclusively, and ultimately better. Bio: Dr. Edward Jay Wang is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & The Design Lab at UC San Diego, where he directs the DigiHealth Lab. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington under Dr. Shwetak Patel and his B.S. from Harvey Mudd College His research work explores practical solutions to address real-world medical needs drawn from collaborations with clinicians and world health organizations, but solved in new, creative ways that leverage state-of-the-art applied machine learning, embedded systems, and mobile sensors. His work is currently being funded by the NIH, National Institute of Aging, and UC San Diego Galvanizing Engineering in Medicine (GEM). He has been the recipient of the Google Faculty Research Scholar Award, NSF Graduate Fellowship Award, the ARCS Foundation Fellowship, and 5 publication paper awards. He has published in top-tier venues in Computer Science and Biology, including ACM UbiComp, CHI, UIST, and Nature Scientific Reports. He is currently a member of the UCSD Center for Wireless & Populational Health Systems and a Board of Director of the Center for Mental Health Technologies. =========== Ross L. Hatton Associate Professor, Robotics and Mechanical Engineering Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute Oregon State University coris.oregonstate.edu <http://coris.oregonstate.edu/> research.engr.oregonstate.edu/lram/ <http://research.engr.oregonstate.edu/lram/> rosslhatton.com <http://rosslhatton.com/> ross.hatton@oregonstate.edu