HUANG SPEAKER SERIES IN TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

Thursday, March 25, 2021
Noon - 1 p.m. (ET)
Virtual

Data science has become an emerging discipline of the 21st century, and is powering timely transformations and discovery in medicine and health, such as those related to COVID-19; business, economics, and politics; energy and the environment; and many other areas. The University of Rochester’s top scientific priority is data science, and it focuses on the concepts, methods, and applications of extracting meaningful information from complex, detailed, yet uncertain data. Interdisciplinary teams of faculty and students across schools, departments, and divisions at the University are pursuing data science research projects that explore the potential and ethics of it all.

Join us for this panel discussion to hear how researchers at the University are advancing basic and applied research in data science that have the potential to improve our daily lives, and why it is so important for academic institutions to play a role in this growing field.

This event is part of the Huang Speaker Series in Technology and Innovation and is made possible through the generosity and vision of Robert Huang ’70 (MS), ’76M (MA).

Panelists:
Mujdat Cetin
Robin and Tim Wentworth Director, Goergen Institute for Data Science
Director, New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Michael Hasselberg
Senior Director for Digital Health, University of Rochester Medical School
Co-director, UR Medicine Health Lab
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Nursing

Sevin Yeltekin
Dean, Simon Business School

Moderator:
Wendi Heinzelman
Dean, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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Speaker bios:

Mujdat Cetin
Mujdat Cetin has been serving as the Robin and Tim Wentworth Director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science since July 2020 and as the director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science since January 2021. He is also a professor of electrical and computer engineering. As the director of the Goergen Institute, Cetin is focused on building and leveraging the University’s data science research strengths, providing distinctive data science education to our students, strengthening industry engagement, and facilitating increased use of data science to benefit the University and the Rochester community. Cetin is also the principal investigator of a $1.5 million NSF research grant on foundations of data science as well as a $1.5 million NSF PhD training grant on augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies.

Cetin’s research interests are within the broad area of data, signal, and imaging sciences, and include computational imaging, bioimage analysis, and brain-computer interfaces. He currently serves on the editorial boards of three leading journals, and has served as the technical program co-chair of five major conferences in these domains. Prior to joining Rochester, Cetin served as a faculty member at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, and as a research scientist at MIT. He also held visiting faculty positions at MIT, Northeastern University, and Boston University. Cetin received his PhD from Boston University. He is a fellow of the IEEE.

Michael Hasselberg
Michael Hasselberg is an associate professor of psychiatry and clinical nursing. Board certified as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, he completed his PhD degree in health practice research at the University of Rochester School of Nursing and is a graduate of The Academy for Healthcare Leadership through the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Hasselberg is the first senior director of digital health at UR Medicine and the chief of innovation & technology in the Department of Psychiatry. Within the UR Health Lab that he helps lead, clinicians and researchers work alongside data scientists, computer scientists, and electrical and computer engineers to transform the way data science is being used in medicine.

His expertise spans both health and technology as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Fellow and advisor on digital health modalities to the New York State Department of Health, the Department of Health & Human Services, and the National Quality Forum. He also serves as an independent consultant to several technology start-up companies and private health foundations.

Wendi Heinzelman
Wendi Heinzelman has served as the Hajim School’s dean since 2016. As dean, she oversees a variety of programs, departments, and institutes, including audio and music engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, data science, electrical and computer engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, and optics. Heinzelman joined the University in 2001 and is a proven administrator, a researcher of international distinction, and an award-winning teacher.

Heinzelman’s research spans diverse areas, from wireless communications and networking to mobile-cloud computing to multimedia communications. She has been on teams that have been awarded seven U.S. patents and one British patent. With a lifelong mission to encourage more women to choose engineering and computer science careers, she co-founded and co-leads N^2 Women (Networking Networking Women), the first organization of its kind dedicated to supporting women in the field of networking and communications.

Sevin Yeltekin
Sevin Yeltekin was named dean of the Simon School in May 2020. She oversees the administrative and academic functions of the school, shapes the school’s vision and priorities, and serves as the leading advocate of its people and programs. Prior to this role, she was on faculty at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. An award-winning teacher, and an experienced business education administrator, she also held the position of senior associate dean of education at Tepper, between 2017-2020. She has served as an associate editor at a number of journals and is a member of the Carnegie Rochester NYU Series on Public Policy’s advisory board.

As a highly respected macroeconomics scholar, Yeltekin’s research spans fiscal policy design, social insurance design, computational economics, and asset pricing implications of macro policy. She received her bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from Wellesley College, and master’s and PhD degrees in economics from Stanford University.

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