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SUMMARY:AI and Big Data for Social Good: From Covid Infection Study to Dru
 g Repurposing for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease - Jacqueline Lam 
 and Victor Li\, University of Hong Kong
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CONTACT:Srinivasan Keshav
DESCRIPTION:This talk will review our work with Cambridge (HKU-Cambridge A
 I to Advance Well-being and Society Research Platform\, or HKU-Cambridge A
 I-WiSe) over the past few years. It is divided into three parts. First\, w
 e will briefly introduce our mission on AI for Social Good. Second\, we wi
 ll summarize the progress that HKU-Cambridge AI-WiSe made\, which covers: 
 (1) Air pollution estimation and prediction\, (2) AI-driven socio-economic
  study\, and (3) AI-driven biomarker identification and drug repurposing f
 or the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease. Third\, two case 
 studies will be presented\, covering Covid-19 infection studies in China\,
  and AI-driven drug repurposing for the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
 . Our work on Covid Infection (published on Nature Scientific Reports in 2
 022) is the result of a joint research collaboration between Victor Li\, J
 acqueline Lam and Jon Crowcroft. This talk will be jointly presented by Ja
 cqueline Lam and Victor Li online.\n\nBio:\nJacqueline C.K. Lam is an Asso
 ciate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
 \, the University of Hong Kong\, also the Co-Director of HKU-AI WiSe\, whi
 ch embeds the HKU-Cambridge Clean Energy and Environment Research Platform
 \, and the HKU-Cambridge AI to Advance Well-being and Society Research Pla
 tform. She is currently visiting the Department hosted by Prof. Jon Crowcr
 oft. She was the Hughes Hall Visiting Fellow\; and has been the Visiting S
 enior Research Fellow of the Energy Policy Research Group\, Judge Business
  School at Cambridge since 2013. Jacqueline was a Visiting Scholar based i
 n MIT CEEPR in 2019\, also at MIT EECS in Dec 2021. Her current research f
 ocusses on the interface between AI\, air pollution and public health\, al
 so between AI and the Alzheimer’s Disease. Recently\, she has won a pres
 tigious US National Academy of Medicine - Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award
  2021 on AI-driven drug repurposing\, in collaboration with PI Prof. Victo
 r OK Li\, together with other members from HKU\, HK\, and Tel Aviv Univers
 ity\, Israel.\n\nVictor O.K. Li is Chair of Information Engineering and Ch
 eng Yu-Tung Professor in Sustainable Development at the Department of Elec
 trical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) of the University of Hong Kong\, a
 nd Director of HKU-AI WiSe. He was the Head of EEE\, and Assoc. Dean (Rese
 arch) of Engineering at HKU.  His research interests include big data\, AI
 \, optimization techniques\, and interdisciplinary environment and health 
 studies.  He received SB\, SM\, EE and ScD degrees in Electrical Engineeri
 ng and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 
 1977\, 1979\, 1980\, and 1981\, respectively. Previously\, he was Professo
 r of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC)
 \, Los Angeles\, California\, USA\, and Director of the USC Communication 
 Sciences Institute. He is a Fellow of the HKAES\, IEEE\, IAE\, and HKIE\, 
 and a UK Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Visiting Fellow.
LOCATION:https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97216272378?pwd=M2diTFhMTnppckJtNW
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