Distinguished Lecture Series: Prof. Jose M. Moura

March 27, 2018

12:30 p.m. ET

CMU-Africa Auditorium

Prof. Jose Moura

Lecture Description: Cities through the Mobility Looking Glass

Over half the world population lives today in cities and urban population are expected to grow to 66% of the 9.7 billion humans in the planet by 2050. Many cities have adopted an open data policy, making available many diverse datasets, a great opportunity to develop new data analytics to help city managers and planners to better manage their resources and better design their cities. In this lecture, I will look at mobility, transit mobility that is, not social or economic mobility, in particular, we present a deep data analytics methodology to extract traffic density from low resolution city webcams and discuss how to scale-up our proposed solution to provide a broad high-spatial and high-temporal panorama of traffic mobility covering the whole metro area.

About Prof. Moura

Prof. Moura is the Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor at CMU, with interests in signal processing and data science. He invented (with Alek Kavcic) a detector found in at least 60% of the disk drives of all computers sold worldwide in the last 13 years (over 3 billion) – the subject of the recent US $750 Million settlement (February 2016) between CMU and Marvell, the largest settlement ever in the information technologies intellectual property area and 3rd largest overall. He is the 2018 IEEE President Elect. Moura received the CMU College of Engineering Distinguished Professor Award, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award and its Society Award. He is Fellow of the IEEE and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Portugal, Fellow of the US National Academy of Innovators, and member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

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