Eric Rozier: Engineering Next-Generation Data Systems for Secure, Smart, Connected Health Analytics

ABSTRACT
Enabled by the broad availability of small-scale, inexpensive, and often commercial off-the-shelf available sensors a new field is developing around Smart and Connected Health.  Fusing research from embedded systems, data science and engineering, and cybersecurity, new opportunities are developing for human augmentation.  In this talk we will discuss recent work from the Trustworthy Data Engineering Lab towards building flexible, intelligent, software and hardware infrastructure to improve the ability of individuals, physicians, and scientists to understand individualized health data.  We will discuss the new Data Lineage Formalism being developed for automated data workflow, bias detection and correction, to allow robust and formal feature engineering and derivation.  We will discuss the tradeoffs involved between data availability and privacy, introduce a new formal logic for privacy preserving data operations, and demonstrate their performability and correctness, along with metrics for their improved privacy and suitability for high-assurance areas of data science.  Lastly we will present real examples from health analytics, and public health work conducted with the University of Cincinnati and the University of Chicago, and discuss areas for future work.

Bio:
Dr. Eric Rozier is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing Systems and head of the Trustworthy Data Engineering Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Dr. Rozier has been a long time member of the IEEE, ACM, a member of the AIAA Intelligent Systems Technical Committee, and has been named a Frontier's of Engineering Education Faculty member by the National Academy of Engineering, a two time Eric and Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago, and an IBM Research Fellow.  Dr. Rozier's research interests include secure and dependable computing with a focus on critical infrastructures.  Before joining the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Rozier was the founding director of the Fortinet Cybersecurity Laboratory at the University of Miami where he worked to develop and commercialize new technologies in homomorphic encryption for cloud-based systems.  He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he worked on applications in fault-tolerance and security with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the Information Trust Institute.