Parkinson Center Talk this Friday: Passive In-Home Patient Monitoring: From Wearables to Invisibles

[Bioinformatics Club at BWH]

Forwarding message on behalf of Dr. Clemens Scherzer

 

Dear Friends,

I would like to invite you to join me and Prof. Katabi, a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Award, for this Center for Advanced Parkinson’s Disease Research and Precision Neurology talk. 

Dr. Katabi is a renowned innovator in digital health with a strong interest in PD and relevance to many neurologic disorders.

Cheers, Clemens

 

Passive In-Home Patient Monitoring: From Wearables to Invisibles

Dina Katabi, Ph.D.

Director, MIT’s Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT

 

When: This Friday, September 14, 2018, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Where: 3rd Floor Large Conference Room 3002, Hale Building for Transformative Medicine

 

Bionarrative: Dina Katabi is the Andrew & Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. She is also the director of the MIT’s Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award. Professor Katabi received her PhD and MS from MIT in 2003 and 1999, and her Bachelor of Science from Damascus University in 1995. Katabi's research focuses on innovative mobile and wireless technologies with application to digital health. Her research has been recognized by the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the SIGCOMM test of Time Award, the Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, the NBX Career Development chair, and the NSF CAREER award. Her students received the ACM Best Doctoral Dissertation Award in Computer Science and Engineering twice. Further, her work was recognized by the IEEE William R. Bennett prize, three ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper awards, an NSDI Best Paper award, and a TR10 award. Several start-ups have been spun out of Katabi's lab such as PiCharging and Emerald.