June 18th, 3rd Thursday Big Data Huddle for Healthcare

Application of Analytics in Healthcare:
Medicine is undergoing a renaissance that is made possible by analyzing and creating insights from this huge and growing number of genomes. Personalized medicine is simply the practical application of these insights.

In this session, I will show how ETL and MapReduce can be applied in a clinical setting. I will also show how NoSQL and advanced analytics can be used to "reverse engineer" the genetic causes of disease. Such information can be used to predict and prevent individual suffering, as well as to increase the overall health of a society.

Sungwook Yoon, Data Scientist, MapR Technologies
Sungwook is a Data Scientist at MapR. Sungwook's data experience includes malware detection algorithms for packet stream analysis, mobile network signaling analysis, social network analysis, job title analysis as well as call center data analysis. Before joining MapR, Sungwook worked as an architect for Seven Networks, a company that delivers device-centric mobile traffic management and analytics for wireless carriers. Previously, Sungwook worked as a Research Scientist at Palo Alto Research Center, where he worked on projects for both DARPA and Xerox. Sungwook's main technical background lies in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. His Artificial Intelligence reserach has been published in top-tier conferences and journals, including AAAI, ICAPS, NIPS, UAI, ICML, JAIR, and JMLR.

Sungwook holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University,and M.S.and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University.