Abstract
To stimulate elderly and/or people with chronic diseases to enjoy more outdoor activities for better health, a full-scenario, 24/7 seamless ubiquitous health monitoring paradigm, encompassing “smart homes, intelligent vehicular cabins, and outdoor hiking”, is in dire need. However, when health monitoring transitions from a single, fixed location to cross-scenario, dynamic physical spaces, adaptive multimodal fusion is needed to address several major challenges, e.g., how to handle sudden signal distortions or modality misses, how to decouple the intertwined interference between complex environmental noises/ interferences and abrupt physiological stress, and how to overcome heterogeneous false alarms and missed detections. In this talk, the speaker will elaborate possible solutions and offer a viable design for both private and public health monitoring.
Bio
Dr. Yuguang “Michael” Fang received an MS degree in Mathematics from Qufu Normal University, Shandong, China in 1987, a PhD degree in Systems, Control and Industrial Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1994, and a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Systems from Boston University in 1997. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida in 2000 as an assistant professor, then was promoted to associate professor in 2003, full professor in 2005, and distinguished professor in 2019, respectively. Since August 2022, he has been a Hong Kong Global STEM Scholar and the Chair Professor of Internet of Things with the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong, where he is also the founding Director of Hong Kong JC STEM Lab of Smart City.
Dr. Fang received many awards, including the US NSF CAREER Award, US ONR Young Investigator Award, 2018 IEEE Vehicular Technology Outstanding Service Award, IEEE Communications Society AHSN Technical Achievement Award (2019), CISTC Technical Recognition Award (2015), and WTC Recognition Award (2014). He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2013-2017) and IEEE Wireless Communications (2009-2012), and serves/served on several editorial boards of journals, including Proceedings of the IEEE (2018-present) and ACM Computing Surveys (2017-present). He served as the Technical Program Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM’2014. He has actively engaged with his professional community, serving as a Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors of IEEE Communications Society (2026-2028, 2022-2024) and the Director of Magazines of IEEE Communications Society (2018-2019). He is a fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.