International Forum on Data Science Approaches to the COVID-19 Pandemic

9 Jun 2020
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International Forum on Data Science Approaches to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Participants including leading scholars from CityU, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, University of Texas at Austin, University of California, Irvine, University of Hong Kong and Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) convened online and exchanged views on data, statistics and Covid-19 pandemic.

Renowned speakers from data science, medical sciences, management sciences, and engineering presented their analyses and insights to help the society effectively cope with the pandemic. They also shared their best approaches to containing the societal impact and economic consequences of the pandemic with tools from engineering, science, and artificial intelligence. A panel of speakers also answered questions from audience during the forum.

In his welcome address, CityU President Professor Way Kuo said, “Let the numbers talk. We need experts in data science to help us understand problems like the pandemic.”

International Forum on Data Science Approaches to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Professor Lin Xihong of Harvard University, the keynote speaker on the first day of the forum, discussed how multi-faceted intervention strategies are crucial to containing the outbreak; and on the second day, the keynote speaker Professor David Simchi-Levi of MIT explored resiliency and the need for stress tests following serious flaws in global supply chains during the pandemic.

The CityU speakers included Professor Jian Lu, Vice-President (Research and Technology); Professor Joe Qin, Dean, SDSC, and Director, HKIDS; Professor Frank Chen, Head, Department of Management Sciences; Dr Qingpeng Zhang, Assistant Professor, SDSC; Dr Sean Yuan, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences.

The organising committee of the forum comprised Professor Qin; Professor Houmin Yan, Acting Dean, CB; Professor Chen; Dr Zhang; and Dr Long Feng, Assistant Professor, SDSC.