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Colloquium Coordinator: Demetris Zeinalipour
Colloquium: CovidReduce Project – Pragmatic Lessons and Deployable Tools, Prof. Panos K. Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Friday, July 16, 2021, 10.00-11.00 EET.
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus cordially invites you to the Colloquium entitled:
CovidReduce Project – Pragmatic Lessons and Deployable Tools
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Speaker: Prof. Panos K. Chrysanthis |
Abstract:
CovidReduce (Covidreduce.org) is a project at the University of Pittsburgh that aims to help the public to reduce personal infection risk of COVID-19 through education and tools. In the first part of this talk, we will present its four programs of Education, Mask Tester/Fit Monitor, Scenario Analysis, and Health Monitor. In the second part, we will focus on the last two programs and in particular the HealthDist app (healthdist.org/), which utilizes the context (e.g., weather conditions), location (e.g., crowded areas), and user's preferences to support safe mobility. HealthDist is the first app enabling contact avoidance in addition to contact tracing in a privacy preserving manner.
Short Bio:
Panos K. Chrysanthis is a professor of computer science and the founding director of the Advanced Data Management Technologies Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie-Mellon University and at the University of Cyprus. His research interests lie within the areas of data management (big data, databases, data Streams & sensor networks, data analytics and visualization), and distributed, mobile and ubiquitous computing. He received the US National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1995), Pitt's Provost Award in Excellence in Mentoring (2015), and UMass Outstanding Award in Education (2019). He is an ACM distinguished scientist and a senior member of the IEEE. He received the BS degree from the University of Athens, Greece, and the MS and PhD degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
