Keynote: Wear-to-compute? Challenges of wearable computing for health

Bio: Cecilia Mascolo is the mother of a teenage daughter but also a Full Professor of Mobile Systems in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK. She is co-director of the Centre for Mobile, Wearable System and Augmented. She is also a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge and the recipient of an ERC Advanced Research Grant. She has been Deputy Head of Department between 2018 and 2021. Prior joining Cambridge in 2008, she was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at University College London. She holds a PhD from the University of Bologna. Her research interests are in mobile systems and machine learning for mobile health. She has published in a number of top tier conferences and journals in the area and her investigator experience spans projects funded by Research Councils and industry. She has served as steering, organizing and programme committee member of mobile and sensor systems, data science and machine learning conferences.

Keynote: Building Vision-Language AI Applications in Practice

Bio: Dr. Iqbal Mohomed is Director of Research at Samsung's Toronto AI Research Centre, and leads projects in the area of Interactive Visual Understanding. His group's mission is to develop and productize core AI technologies that will power Samsung's vision of next-generation device interaction. Previously, he was a Senior Staff Researcher at Samsung Research America (Mountain View, CA). Prior to Samsung, Iqbal was a Research Staff Member at IBM's TJ Watson Research Lab, and he was a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley. Iqbal earned his PhD from the University of Toronto in Canada.