[Colloquium] TODAY, 12:30: Hendrik Hamann (IBM) - Accelerating Spatio-Temporal AI

[Rob Mitchum]

*Data Science Institute/Computer Science Seminar*



*Hendrik HamannDistinguished Research Staff Member and the Global leader
for Climate and Sustainability ResearchIBM Research*


*Thursday, May 26th12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Lunch will be served)*
*In Person*: John Crerar Library, Room 390
*Remote*: Zoom
<https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/92483662622?pwd=VWFqSmlFdWVPSGpsZUpabmRxNmdPdz09>
(full details below)

*Accelerating Spatio-Temporal AI*

*Abstract*: The world of digital discovery has been revolutionized by the
ability to index and rapidly search and retrieve information. However,
despite many advances, insights from spatio-temporal data – information
collected across space and time, such as weather data and models, satellite
and aerial imagery, map information and geocoded data from devices and
sensors from the Internet of Things (loT) – are difficult to obtain,
partially because such data cannot be quickly searched and discover due to
its complexity, formats but most importantly to its enormous size. In this
presentation we present new approaches for scalable spatio-temporal data
indexing, processing, and analytics, which accelerate analytical tasks such
as AI modeling by orders of magnitudes. The talk will include a series of
examples illustrating complex analytics, ML and AI on multi-modal data sets
including applications to weather, climate, agriculture, and renewable
energy.

*Bio*: Dr. Hendrik Hamann
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person%3Dus-hendrikh&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1653673287470778&usg=AOvVaw0e0inNTJIFQPk8SKgvacbs>
is
a Distinguished Research Staff Member and the Global leader for Climate and
Sustainability Research in IBM Research. He is also the Chief Scientist for
Climate and Sustainability in IBM. He received his PhD from the University
of Göttingen in Germany. In 1999 he joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center. Hendrik’s interests include sensor-based physical modeling,
machine-learning, artificial intelligence, big data technologies,
geospatial analytics, and climate informatics. He has more than 200
peer-reviewed scientific papers and holds over 170 patents. Hendrik has
served on governmental committees such as the National Academy of Sciences,
the National Science Foundation and as an industrial advisor to
universities. He won several awards including the 2016 Prize for Industrial
Applications of Physics of the American Institute of Physics. He is a
fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a senior member of The
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of
the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the New York Academy of Sciences.
He is also a standing member of the National Mapping Committee of the
National Research Council and a Visiting Professor at Yamagata University.

*Host*: Michael Franklin
*Zoom*:
https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/92483662622?pwd=VWFqSmlFdWVPSGpsZUpabmRxNmdPdz09
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/92483662622?pwd%3DVWFqSmlFdWVPSGpsZUpabmRxNmdPdz09&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1653673287470778&usg=AOvVaw2O9Xe-s6DKlR5abbN7Aebt>
*Meeting ID*: 924 8366 2622
*Passcode*: 551184


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*Rob Mitchum*

*Associate Director of Communications for Data Science and Computing*
*University of Chicago*
*rmitchum at uchicago.edu <rmitchum at ci.uchicago.edu>*
*773-484-9890*
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