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Open Lectures by Professors Assaf Schuster and Yael Yaniv (Technion, Israel)

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Professors from Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) will give open lectures on the topical issues in Computer Science.

November 29, 15:10 – 16:30
Venue: Kochnovsky pr.,3, room 205

If you need a pass to HSE, please contact computerscience@hse.ru

Prof. Assaf Schuster

Title: IoT Security Threats and Solutions

IoT "smart" devices are all over the place, from Nike shoes to vacuum cleaners and air conditioners, all instruments nowadays are equipped with computing capabilities and wireless communication. Unfortunately, being smart may also imply that those devices may perform smart cyber threats. In this talk I will survey the area and provide examples to attack surfaces. Then, time permitting, I will describe a solution that provides the [possibly only] answer to these emerging threats.

Short Bio: Prof. Assaf Schuster of the Computer Science Department at the Technion is an ACM fellow and a world leading expert of distributed and scalable data Mining, Big Data technologies analytics & prediction, Cyber security and system vulnerabilities, privacy preserving, cloud resource management and more. Prof. Schuster published more than 200 papers in highly selective conferences and journals, some of which won prestigious awards. He consulted leading hi-tech companies, such as IBM, HP, Microsoft, and Verint. He participated in the bumpy journey of quite a few startups, some of which were successful. His research group is well known for its contributions to the field of big data and scalable, real-time knowledge discovery in distributed data streams. In 2016, he co-founded a startup to cyber-protect organizations in the era of the Internet of Things.

Prof. Yael Yaniv

Title: IT devices to predict arrhythmogenic events and classified cardiac diseases

The IoT has numerous applications in healthcare, from remote monitoring to smart sensors and medical device integration that can bundle together to provide a system to alert if fetal fibrillation is coming and thus has the potential to keep the patient safe and improve the way physicians deliver care. There are two major challenges in designing such Health IoT systems: (i) Energy-efficient data transmission and processing. The proposed wearable device is battery operated. The battery must support monitoring of signal processing and transmission od alerts and data to the monitoring center in the cloud, each of which presents its own challenge for minimizing energy consumption.(ii) Correct definition of the safe zone where the patient is not at risk. Determining the safe zone is not an easy task, typically necessitating elaborate algorithms. The system must be able to make sophisticated decisions and perform fast, accurate learning operations to predict and identify upcoming fibrillation events. Furthermore, it will have to do this with partial data due to limited transmissions, as in point (i) above. In this talk I will present an example of IoT systems developed in my lab for early detection of fibrillation events in patient.

Short Bio: Prof. Yael Yaniv is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering of the Technion, and currently the head of the Bioelectrical and Bioenergetics System Lab. She received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2007 from the Technion, her BSc in both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (cum laude, 2002) and her MSc in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude 2003). Her main work is on algorithms for mobile health devices and of non-invasive analysis of the heart pacemaker function. She published over 45 refereed papers and book chapter and have currently 12 national and international grants.