Abstract: We live at a historic moment, in which the unprecedented data sets about human behaviour, science, and ethics have the potential to transform human development. Leveraging the power of data in the right way will help shape the interface between human and technology for years to come. This talk addresses the issues of harnessing digital insights about human behavior to develop targeted tools that help people directly – in this case to live healthier and happier lives. We present recent work at Telefonica Alpha, the first European Moonshot Factory, where we are creating a revolutionary personal health assistant under a strict ethical framework.
Speaker: Aleksandar Matic, Head of Research, Telephonica Alpha
Bio: Aleksandar Matic is the Head of Research Team at Alpha’s Health Moonshot. He is responsible for defining research plan, for establishing and managing collaboration with leading universities and research partners, and for leading the team of scientific researchers with expertise in data science, machine learning, complex networks and behavioural analysis. Aleksandar authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, 8 patent applications, and he has regularly served as a chair in conference committees (such as Pervasive Health, Digital Health, Mobile HCI, …) and as a guest editor in various journals in the area of health informatics. Prior to joining Telefonica Alpha, he held researcher positions at Telefonica Research and at CREATE-NET research center, and he was a visiting researcher at University of California Irvine. He obtained his PhD from the University of Trento, Italy.