City University of Hong Kong
Due to various outbreaks of influenza and continuing bioterrorism threat, research efforts on healthcare and public health surveillance have become very important worldwide. In this talk we will present overview and review of the general issues involved in healthcare, public health, and syndromic surveillance. In particular, we review the latest research in disease transmission models, surveillance systems, monitoring methods, and performance measures. We also discuss the research challenges and illustrate them with various problems and examples.
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Event: |
MEEM Seminar 0809_007 |
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Date: |
4 August 2008 (Monday) |
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Time: |
11:00 am (Tea reception at 10:30am) |
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Venue: |
Room B6605 (FSE Conference Room) |
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Speaker: |
Professor Kwok-Leung TSUI |
Kwok-Leung TSUI is a professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1986. Dr. Tsui was a recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1992. He was the (elected) President and Vice President of the American Statistical Association Atlanta Chapter in 1992-1993; the Chair of the INFORMS Section in Quality, Statistics, and Reliability in 2000; and the Founding Chair of the Section in Data Mining in 2004. He is a fellow of American Statistical Association and US representative in the ISO Technical Committee on Statistical Methods. His current research interests include data mining and surveillance in healthcare and Public health, calibration and validation of computer models, bioinformatics, process control and monitoring, and robust design and Taguchi method.
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