When:  September 10, 2021, 07:00 PM Eastern Time

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Meeting ID: 813 4575 5351
Passcode: 24682468

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Speaker:  Professor Aliakbar Jalali

Language: Parsi

Synopsis:

The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to the billions of physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet, all collecting and sharing data. There will be 35.82 billion IoT devices installed worldwide by 2021 and 75.44 billion by 2025! The Internet of Things has the potential to transform our society, economy, and how we live our lives. IoT helps us work smarter, live smarter, and gain complete control over our lives, but it’s also supporting our wellbeing behind the scenes.

In this presentation, Professor Jalali will describe briefly what IoT is and how it works today. He will discuss the benefits of IoT, some applications of IoT, IoT challenges, and top IoT technologies and trends. He also will give you his personal ideas about the future of IoT, based on his theory “Virtual Age: Next Wave of Change in Society”.

 

About the Speaker: 

Professor Aliakbar Jalali is an adjunct professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He has been teaching Internet of Things (IoT) and Practical Data Networking at UMBC since 2017. He also was teaching and doing research in the school of Electrical Engineering at the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) for 30 years. Throughout his work with IUST he has defined, led, and managed research and development teams in the areas of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Internet of Things (IoT), 3D Printers and Control Systems Design and their Applications.

Jalali is well-known for his activities towards the development of ICT and its applications on a national level and as a UNESCO chair in e-learning at the international level. Since 1994, he has had hundreds of speeches, workshops, seminars, lectures, and programs on national radio and television for establishing the benefits of ICT applications in Iran.

Jalali has written and translated 50 books or chapters in addition to more than one hundred journal and conference papers. He is the author of reference books in advanced control systems theory, titled “Reduced Order Systems”, Springer, 2006. Jalali has given a theory known as “Virtual Age: Next Wave of Change in Society”, about 20 years back which the world is recognizing it today!

Professor Jalali is the winner of the best creativity and innovation of the 2007 eASIA Award, Bridging Digital Divide, for his project “The First Rural ICT Center and the first Internet village in Iran”, from UNESCO and UN. He received the President’s award, known as “distinguished engineer of IoT in Iran for the year 2015”. He also received the biggest prize of “International Public Relation”, for the year 2009, which alongside this prize, he honors to receive the title of “Father of Information and Communication Technology in Iran”.
More information about professor Jalali, in Farsi, is available on his web pages at www.drjalali.ir.

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When:  July 09, 2021, 07:00 PM Eastern Time

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Speaker:  Dr. Fereshteh Aalamifar

Language: Parsi/English

Synopsis:

In this presentation, Dr. Fereshteh Aalamifar will share her challenges and lessons-learned of founding a health-tech company from a raw idea and defying the odds as a first-generation woman immigrant with limited resources and no prior experience in the startup world. Even though Dr. Aalamifar lends her success to the exceptional opportunities the academia provided to her, she was frustrated by academia’s status quo of pursuing publications and personal academic achievements as a goal without trying to find a genuine life mission. This led her to decline a prestigious postdoc position and become a full-time mom to figure her way forward, after graduating from her Ph.D. studies in 2017. Interestingly, her new struggles as a mom provided her with a new mission: Bringing AI technologies to pediatric health to address unmet needs. In this talk, Dr. Aalamifar will share lessons learned on how to start a medical device company with only $1800 of one’s savings while having a full-time commitment – being a full-time mom of a newborn in her case.

 

About the Speaker: 

Dr. Fereshteh Aalamifar is the founder and CEO of PediaMetrix, a vibrant startup in Maryland aiming to revolutionize pediatric health through AI and computer vision. She founded PediaMetrix based on a personal experience as a mom in 2018. Dr. Aalamifar was recognized as the top 10 women in tech founders in the 2019 annual PitcHER™, won the most impact award in the medical imaging field at MICCAI startup Village, and was an invited member to the congress meeting on how to bring businesses to scale. She holds a Ph.D. and MSc from Johns Hopkins University, a second Master’s degree from Queen’s University, Canada, and a Bachelor’s degree from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran in Electrical & Computer Engineering. She was one of the recipients of the prestigious 2016 NIH doctoral Fellowship when she developed the first co-robotic ultrasound tomography system for prostate cancer detection which later resulted in a $270,000 grant sponsored by NIH and collaboration with industry. She is the inventor of three U.S. patents and has extensively published in medical imaging and robotics.

Under Dr. Aalamifar’s leadership, PediaMetrix grew from $0 in valuation in its founding days to multi million dollars in less than 2 years. PediaMetrix’s first product was recognized as one of the top 10 must-have apps in pediatrics at the 2018 annual gathering of American Academy of Pediatrics. In 2020, SoftSpot’s Alpha version received enormous interest from parents and pediatric providers in 8 countries, and 17 states in the US. PediaMetrix has now raised ~$1.5M and is well on its way to realize its founders’ mission to help parents and children in need.

When:  March 12, 2021, 07:00 PM Eastern Time

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Speaker:  Ali Hamidi, M.D.

Language: English

Synopsis:

These days many of the efforts are around fixing a big issue that paralyzed almost all nations. A huge number of people got affected, many lost their lives or loved ones, and businesses went under the water and as such made the world even a more unsafe place to live. But the bright side of it is the fact that science took a tremendous step and in less than 9 months vaccines were developed and made available (a process that usually takes years). In this lecture, we want to briefly review and familiarize ourselves with the different types of covid-19 vaccines that are available and compare their safety and efficacy, and finally answering a common question: should we get a vaccine at this moment, or is better off to wait?

 

About the Speaker:

Dr. Hamidi is a safety physician with extensive clinical experience, research, and medical education who has served in the clinic, academia, and industry. His fields of interest and expertise include patient safety in drug development(pharmacovigilance), especially in the field of Oncology. Dr. Hamidi’s past work and positions in Iran include private medical offices and clinics; Senior emergency physician at Shariati hospital, CCU attending physician at  Sina Heart Center; and Research physician at Royan Institute. His positions in the U.S. include Director of clinical research Excel Diagnostics and Nuclear Oncology Center, Houston, TX (2012-2018); and professor of western medicine at American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM), Houston, TX. He is currently working in the pharma industry as a Global safety physician.

Lecture Slides L111 – Ali Hamidi (PowerPoint-85MB)

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