Jie Liang, a candidate to be the director of the Pritzker Institute at Illinois Tech, will give a talk on Friday, November 17 at 2 p.m. in Wishnick Hall Auditorium titled “Sensors, Measurements, Big Data, Modeling, and Computing: Opportunities and Challenges in Improving Human Health.”

Rapidly evolving biomedical sensors will soon provide multi-scale and constant measurement of molecular, cellular, tissue, and whole-body events at fine spatial-temporal resolution, and will fundamentally change how we improve and manage health. We discuss the challenges and opportunities from the critical accumulation of the resulting big-data, and examine how to integrate biomedical engineering research with basic research across diverse disciplines of biosciences, physical and chemical sciences, mathematics, and computational sciences.  We examine how this multidisciplinary approach can enable discoveries of new disease mechanisms, formulation of novel diagnostics and therapeutics, as well as development of devices and algorithms to maintain and improve health.  We also discuss how to develop a new generation of biomedical engineering talents who can make important contributions throughout this new endeavor, as well as how to outreach to the general society we serve with maximized impact.