报告题目: Analytics Enabling "Smarter" Health Care

报告人: Prof. Yannis Paschalidis
College of Engineering and Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE), Boston University

报告时间：4月24日 星期四 上午10:00
报告地点：浙江大学控制系工控老楼414会议室

报告摘要：
In 2008, the United States spent $2.2 trillion for health care, which was 15.5% of its GDP. 31% of this expenditure is attributed to hospital care. Evidently, even modest efforts for preventing and/or streamlining care in a hospital setting matter. While the problem is complex and multifaceted, an emerging science base of health care analytics promises scalable and systematic advances towards that goal. To that end, the increasingly ubiquitous use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) together with the digitization and capture of scores of patient-related data, is seen by many as an enabler, and at the same time, the key driver behind quantitative/algorithmic approaches.

In this talk I will survey our recent work in this broad area. I will focus on two specific problems: (1) predicting heart-related hospitalizations based on information available in the patient's EHR, and (2) automating medication dosage control for cardiac surgical patients. For both problems we propose specific algorithmic solutions and test them on very large data sets (10-year EHR history of 45,000 patients) made available to us by the Boston Medical Center and the Brigham and Women's hospital. Our work leverages ideas from machine learning, optimization, and control systems.

报告人简介：
Yannis Paschalidis is a Professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He is the Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). He obtained a Diploma (1991) from the National Technical University of Athens, and an M.S. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1996) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has been at Boston University since 1996. His current research interests lie in the fields systems and control, networking, applied probability, optimization, operations research, computational biology, medical informatics, and bioinformatics.

Prof. Paschalidis' work on communication and sensor networks has been recognized with a CAREER award (2000) from the National Science Foundation, the second prize in the 1997 George E. Nicholson paper competition by INFORMS, and the best student paper award at the 9th Intl. Symposium of Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2011) won by one of his Ph.D. students for a joint paper. His work on protein docking (with his collaborators) has been recognized for best performance in modeling selected protein-protein complexes against 64 other predictor groups (2009 Protein Interaction Evaluation Meeting). He was an invited participant at the 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the US National Academy of Engineering. Prof. Paschalidis is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.