Big data and artificial intelligence are increasingly being utilized in healthcare for tracking, monitoring and containment of infectious diseases. In this webinar, we review the roles they play in managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Siamak Zadeh is an associate professor and data scientist at Golden Gate University. He has over 30 years of academic and IT industry experience. He has worked in a variety of organizations, such as IBM Research and Oracle, developing business strategies and product specifications for the use and application of digital transformation and analytics to business problems and challenges. He has done research in the application of scientific techniques to many IT and business problems and has participated in several industry focus groups and standard bodies, articulating the emerging needs for digital transformation. Dr. Zadeh earned an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, New York.

Dr. Zadeh recently published a paper, "The Role and Utility of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Tracking and Containment," available here: https://www.actascientific.com/ASPS/ASPS-04-0540.php​

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