Ramesh Jain

Ramesh Jain

Role: Invited Speaker
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of California
Talk Title: Using Data Streams to Model Real You

Abstract

In digital world, it is possible to consider each person as a dynamic system and model her for understanding and prediction. A person’s health is the function of her genome and lifestyle. Advances in technology have made it possible to analyze and understand an individual’s life style from objective data to build her model and predict important events in her life. Wearable/mobile sensors, smart homes, social networks, e-mail, calendar systems, and environmental sensors continuously generate data streams that can be considered as lifestyle data. By aggregating these multi-sensory data streams, we 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 a person. Such a model, that we call objective self, is a long-term objective characterization of a person’s health, social life, and other aspects. We illustrate how to build an objective personal chronicle, called personicle, for a person. By building personicle for a long period and applying pattern recognition, it is possible to build a model of the person that could result in actionable insights and alerts in everyday life. We will present our ideas related to objective self its impact on societal health, and its use in making decisions.

Biography

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 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. 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 two start-up companies. He has also been advisor to several other companies including some of the largest companies in media and search space.
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