Biography : Dr. Thomas Weinandy works at Upside, a marketplace focused on driving value to all points of brick and mortar commerce. He conducts original research for the company based on their world class data of consumer behavior in the areas of gasoline, restaurant, and grocery retail. Dr. Weinandy has previously worked as a Data Scientist, Economist, and University Faculty. He received an M.B.A. from Wheeling Jesuit University and a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Western Michigan University in the United States. His research applies microeconomic methods to understand the unique ways digital technologies change the way businesses and consumers behave. Dr. Weinandy currently serves on the steering committee for the annual Big Data Ignite conference.
Dr. Fang Hu, Professor
College of Information Engineering, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, China
Speech Title :
Privacy-preserving Representation Learning for Healthcare Knowledge.
Biography : Dr. Fang Hu received a Ph.D. degree in Complex Networks from the School of Computers, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China. Dr. Hu worked at the University of West Florida as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. She is the website chair of the IEEE Computer Society Big Data STC, a member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics' Youth Professional Technical Committee of the Internet of Things, a member of the IEEE Computer Society, a member of the IEEE Communications Society, a member of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and a member of the Professional Technical Committee of Intelligent Information Network in the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, etc. She is the guest editor or reviewer for over 40 SCI journals and the technical program chair, program chair, and reviewer for over 10 international conferences. As the first or corresponding author, she has published over 40 papers in SCI (the total impact factor is over 50), EI journals and conferences, etc. Her main research interests include Complex Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Robots, and Big Data Analysis in various research fields.
Dr. Raquel Martins Lana
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Speech Title :
Data and technology for health: integrating data on climate change and human mobility to inform disease prediction models
Biography : Dr. Raquel Martins Lana is a recognised researcher in the Global Health Resilience team at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC/Spain) with a background in quantitative epidemiology. Her research focus is to investigate the relationship between climate, environment, health, and socio-economic factors in the emergence, transmission, and spread of infectious diseases. She also works in the Infodengue early-warning alert system. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Scientific Computing Program (PROCC/Fiocruz-RJ, Brazil) and also a visiting researcher in the Center for Integration of Data and Knowledge for Health (CIDACS/Fiocruz-Bahia, Brazil) between September 2018 to February 2022. Dr. Lana served as an adviser to the Brazilian government in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil working in the Infogripe alert system. Raquel worked on the development of a malaria transmission model to measure the impact of tafenoquine implementation in Brazil in partnership with the Pasteur Institute (Paris). She was a lecturer at the Department of Public Health at the University of Brasília (Brasília, Brazil). Raquel obtained a Ph.D. in Epidemiology in Public Health at the National School of Public Health in 2017 (ENSP/Fiocruz-RJ, Brazil). Her thesis combined global and local epidemiological studies to understand the geographical retraction and maintenance of malaria and the introduction and spread of dengue in the Brazilian Amazon Basin. She won a Science Without Borders fellowship to spend 6 months at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK) during her PhD and was awarded the Oswaldo Cruz Thesis Award in 2017. Dr. Lana has 24 peer-reviewed articles published in high-impact journals, 3 book chapters, and 7 conference papers. She has served as a reviewer for 12 journals, including Nature Scientific Reports and BMC Public Health.
Dr. Eng. Neyara Radwan
* King Abdulaziz University, kingdom of Saudi Arabia
** Mechanical Dept, Faculty of Engineering, Suez Canal University, Egypt
Speech Title :
Creating a Roadmap for a Successful Digital Transformation Strategy
Biography : Dr. Neyara is working as an Associate
Professor in the Mechanical Department, Faculty of Engineering, Suez
Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt. She is also an Assistant
Professor and the Quality Assurance Officer for the Ph.D. program,
in the faculty of Economics & Administration, King Abdulaziz
University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Neyara is an active
member in many international academic communities. She is a member
in the Global Education Policy Network (GEPN) which is sponsored by
Prince Sultan University in Saudi Arabia and The State University of
New York at Buffalo in United States. As well as a member of the
Board of Directors of Accord University, Mogadishu, Banadir,
Somalia. Moreover, she is a member in Asia Logistics and Supply
Chain Council (ALSCC), Malaysia. Moreover Dr. Neyara got a full
membership in the Organization for Women in Science for the
Developing World (OWSD), based in Italy. She is a Goodwill
Ambassador of Egypt in the IDYM Foundation. Dr. Neyara got many
national and international awards such as: Certificate of
Recognition form King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia 2017 for
her research contribution, Award of Excellence in AMBA Accreditation
Work Contribution form King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia 2019
for accreditation work contribution, Certificate of Recognition From
the United Nations Associations of Somalia (UNASOM), in recognition
of contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals, in teaching in
the MBA program, 2020 and Certificate of Honor from Igniting Young
Minds Foundation, 2021. Dr. Neyara`s research interest in the field
of, but not limited to, Solid waste management, Recycling,
Optimization and Supply chain management.
