Dr Sanjay Ranka

November 4, 2020 | Wednesday | 12 PM

ABSTRACT

Older Americans experience approximately 29 million falls and 13 million hospitalizations per year. These intervening health events (IHE – episodic falls, injuries, illnesses, and hospitalizations) are strong precipitants of disability in older adults. Because of their episodic nature, IHEs are extremely difficult to study. Continuous, long-term monitoring with remote capabilities using wearable technology is an ideal solution for capturing information surrounding an IHE and, preceding it.

We are developing a smart watch application and server called ROAMM (Real-time Online Assessment and Mobility Monitor). The system leverages a variety of sensors that are available on smartwatches that are suitable for collecting physical activity and location data. It offers long-term and continuous connectivity, bidirectional interactivity and remote programming.

ROAMM creates a detailed narrative about mobility (activity patterns, walking speed, life space), patient-reported outcomes/symptoms (pain, poor mood, fatigue, disability) and cognition (working memory, processing speed, and executive functioning). We also plan to add information about health events (falls and hospitalizations) in the future and provide this seamlessly as part of patients’ Electronic Health Record. This work is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Aging. The key collaborators include Todd Manini, Parisa Rashidi, Yashaswi Karnati and Tona Mendoza.

BIOGRAPHY

Sanjay Ranka is a Professor in the Department of Computer Information Science and Engineering at University of Florida. His current research interests are High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence for health care and transportation.

He teaches courses on data science (three course curriculum), data mining and parallel computing. From 1999-2002, he was the Chief Technology Officer at Paramark (Sunnyvale, CA). At Paramark, he developed a real-time optimization service called PILOT for marketing campaigns. PILOT served more than 10 million optimized decisions a day in 2002 with a 99.99% uptime. Paramark was recognized by VentureWire/Technologic Partners as a top 100 Internet technology company in 2001 and 2002 and was acquired in 2002. He has also held positions as a tenured faculty positions at Syracuse University and as a researcher/visitor at IBM T.J. Watson Research Labs and Hitachi America Limited.

He is a fellow of the IEEE and AAAS, and a past member of the IFIP Committee on System Modeling and Optimization. He is an associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and an associate editor for ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Sustainable Computing: Systems and Informatics, Knowledge and Information Systems, and International Journal of Computing. He is also an editorial board member of Applied Sciences (Computing and Artificial Intelligence). Additionally, he is a book series editor for CRC Press for Bigdata. In the past, he has been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and IEEE Transactions on Computers. His work has received 12500+ citations with an h-index of 54 (based on Google Scholar).

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