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Dear Colleagues,
Please feel free to attend. PSE people Fengqi You, Michael Baldea, and Joe Qin will present.
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– Joe Qin
City University of Hong Kong
School of Data Science / College of Business / Hong Kong Institute for Data Science
International Forum on Data Science Approaches to the COVID-19 Pandemic [Online]
(Hong Kong Time: 28 and 29 May 2020, 9:00am – 12:00nn)
Introduction
The International Forum on the COVID-19 Pandemic will present the expert views of leading scholars from internationally
renowned universities in the US, such as Harvard, MIT, Cornell, and counterparts in Hong Kong and Mainland China, to combat the worst pandemic in recent human history. Keynote speakers and invited speakers from data science, medical sciences, management sciences,
and engineering will present their analyses and insights to help the society effectively cope with the pandemic. Speakers will also present their best approaches to containing the societal impact and economic consequences of the pandemic with tools from engineering,
science, and artificial intelligence. A panel of speakers will answer questions from registered audience during the forum.
Organising Committee
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Prof S Joe QIN |
Dean, School of Data Science Director, Hong Kong Institute for Data Science
Chair Professor, School of Data Science |
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Prof Houmin YAN |
Acting Dean, College of Business Chair Professor, Department of Management Sciences |
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Prof Frank CHEN |
Head, Department of Management Sciences Chair Professor, Department of Management Sciences |
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Dr Qingpeng ZHANG |
Assistant Professor, School of Data Science
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Dr Long FENG |
Assistant Professor, School of Data Science |
Programme Rundown
Date: 28 May 2020;
Time: 9:00am – 11:35am (GMT +08:00)
[EDT] Date: 27 May 2020;
Time: 9:00pm – 11:35pm
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Action/ Activity |
Chair / Co-chair |
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8:30am |
Reception |
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9:00am
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Welcoming address
Speaker: Prof Way KUO (President and University Distinguished Professor, CityU) |
Chair:
Prof S Joe QIN |
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9:10– 9:40am
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Keynote speech
Learning from COVID-19 Data in Wuhan, USA and the World on Intervention Strategies Prof Xihong LIN (Professor of Biostatistics; Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative
Genomics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Statistics at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University) |
Chair:
Prof S Joe QIN
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9:40 – 9:50 am
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Q & A
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Chair:
Prof S Joe QIN |
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9:50 – 11:30am
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Speakers’ presentation: The COVID-19 Pandemic A Simple Projection Model for COVID-19 Pandemic Prof Jian LU (Vice President (Research and Technology); Chair Professor, Department
of Biomedical Sciences; Chair Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Chair Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, CityU) COVID-19 Dashboard for New York State Prof Fengqi YOU (Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering,
Cornell University) Modeling the heterogeneous disease-behavior-information dynamics during epidemics Dr Qingpeng ZHANG (Assistant Professor, School of Data Science, CityU) Prevention of COVID-19 after the relaxation of control measures Dr Sean YUAN (Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, CityU) Social data for changing and predicting health behaviors Dr Sean YOUNG (Executive Director, University of California Institute for Prediction
Technology and the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior, University of California, Irvine) |
Chair: Prof Houmin YAN
Co-chair: Dr Long FENG
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11:30 – 11:35am |
Wrap-up for the day
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Chair: Prof Houmin YAN Co-chair: Dr Long FENG |
Date: 29 May 2020; 9:00 am – 12:00nn (GMT +08:00)
[EDT] Date: 28 May 2020; 9:00 pm – 12:00am
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Time |
Action/ Activity |
Responsible person |
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8:30am |
Reception |
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9:00 – 9:30 am |
Keynote speech
Supply Chain Resiliency and the Need for Stress-Tests Speaker: Prof David SIMCHI-LEVI (Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Co-Director of Leaders for Global Operations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
Chair:
Prof Frank CHEN
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9:30 – 9:40 am
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Q & A
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Chair:
Prof Frank CHEN |
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9:40 – 11:20am
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Speakers’ presentation: The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact and Responses Mechanistically Inspired Data-driven COVID-19 Pandemic Modeling
Prof S Joe QIN (Chair Professor, School of Data Science; Dean, School of Data Science; Director, Hong Kong Institute
for Data Science; CityU) Modeling, state estimation, and optimal control for the US COVID-19 outbreak Dr Michael BALDEA (Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor, The University of Texas at Austin; Fellow of the Frank
A. Liddell, Jr. Fellowship in Chemical Engineering) COVID-19 Pandemic – Impact on Food Supply Chains: Lessons Learnt for Hong Kong
Prof Frank CHEN (Head and Chair Professor, Department of Management Sciences, CityU)
Constructing the Infection Curve of the Local Cases of the Coronavirus Disease (“COVID-19”) in Hong Kong Using Backprojection Prof Paul YIP (Director, Centre for Suicide
Research and Prevention; Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences; Professor, Chair of Population Health, HKU)
The Power of Small Data through the Lens of COVID-19 Pandemic Dr Jie LIU (Dean of AI Research, Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
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Chair: Dr Qingpeng ZHANG Co-chair: Dr Xinyue LI |
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11:20am – 12:00nn
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Wrap-up Panel Discussion
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Chair: Prof S Joe QIN Co-chair: Dr Qingpeng ZHANG
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