Beyond MU: Lifelong Learning will host “Enhancing Global Public Health through Computer Science and Information Technologies” on Monday, Dec. 6 at noon. Register online.
Presenters include:
- Dr. Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, professor of computer science and director of the Ubicomp Lab
- Md Hasanul Aziz, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science
- Dr. Richard Love, adjunct research professor in the Department of Computer Science
Learn how the Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) Lab is bringing computer science into the service of man. With projects using the full range of information technology tools, Dr. Ahamed’s lab is developing signature initiatives in global public health in Palliative medicine – with a cell phone and web app systems for home care in Nepal, Bangladesh and Nigeria; in measurement and management of Long Covid and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome symptoms with a package of sensory tools; and in the creation of noninvasive fingertip cell phone video systems for measurement of blood hemoglobin, white blood count, creatinine and hemoglobin A1c levels.