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Abstract: Rapid advances in our ability to acquire and propagate medical data mean that we can radically change the basis for healthcare through precision medicine. To achieve this at scale, however, requires change in the way we work with data in healthcare systems. I will discuss recent work on aspects of this problem, using examples from research related to the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research and the EPSRC SOCIAM social computation programme.
Bio: Dave Robertson is Professor of Applied Logic at the University of Edinburgh where he is also a Dean in College of Science & Engineering and on the steering group for Edinburgh Data Science. He chaired the executive of the UK Computing Research Committee; is a member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team for ICT and is on the management board of the Scottish Innovation Centre in Data Science. His research is on formal methods for coordination and knowledge sharing in distributed, open systems using ubiquitous internet and mobile infrastructures - the long term goal being to develop theories, languages and tools that out-perform conventional software engineering approaches in these arenas. He was coordinator of the OpenKnowledge project and was a principal investigator on the Advanced Knowledge Technologies research consortium, which were major EU and UK projects in this area. His current work, on the SociaM EPSRC Programme (social.org) Smart Societies European IP (smart-society-project.eu) and SocialIST coordinating action (social-ist.eu) is developing these ideas for social computation. Methods from his group have also been applied to other areas such as astronomy, simulation of consumer behaviour and emergency response but his main focus now is on medicine and healthcare. To this end, he is involved in the Farr Institute for medical data sharing and in establishing a new institute for population health at the University of Edinburgh.
- Speaker
- David Robertson
- Hosted by
- Derek Sleeman
- Venue
- Meston 6