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SUMMARY:Decoding Hidden Worlds: Signals in our Oceans\, Bodies\, and Beyon
 d - Fadel Adib (MIT)
DTSTART:20200810T140000Z
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CONTACT:Lorena Qendro
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:* As humans\, we crave to explore hidden worlds. Yet
 \, today’s technologies remain far from allowing us to perceive most of 
 the world we live in. Despite centuries of seaborne voyaging\, more than 8
 0% of our oceans have never been observed or explored. And\, at any moment
  in time\, each of us has very little insight into the biological world in
 side our own bodies. The challenge in perceiving hidden worlds extends bey
 ond ourselves: even the robots we build are limited in their visual percep
 tion of the world.\n\nIn this talk\, I will describe new technologies deve
 loped by my group that allow us to decode areas of the physical world that
  have so far been too remote or difficult to perceive. First\, I will desc
 ribe a new generation of underwater sensors that can sense\, compute\, and
  communicate without requiring any batteries\; these devices enable real-t
 ime and ultra-long-term monitoring of ocean vitals (temperature\, pressure
 \, coral reefs) with important applications to scientific exploration and 
 underwater climate monitoring. Next\, I will talk about new wireless techn
 ologies for sensing the human body\, both from inside the body as well as 
 from a distance (contactless)\; these technologies have already been used 
 to monitor disease progression (including in COVID19 patients)\, and pave 
 way for novel diagnostic and treatment methods. Finally\, I will touch on 
 some of our work in extending robotic perception beyond line-of-sight\, an
 d how it can enable robots to perform complex manipulation tasks that were
  not possible before. \n\nThe talk will cover how we have designed\, built
 \, and tested these technologies in the real-world\, and highlight open pr
 oblems and opportunities in unleashing their full potential. The talk will
  also outline the ongoing and potential impact of this line of work in add
 ressing global challenges in climate\, health\, and automation.\n\n*Bio:* 
 Fadel Adib is the Doherty Chair of Ocean Utilization at MIT and Associate 
 Professor in Electrical Engineering\, Computer Science\, and the Media Lab
 . He is also the founding director of the Signal Kinetics group which deve
 lops new sensor technologies for health\, computing\, and climate.\n\nAdib
  earned his Bachelor’s from AUB (2011)\, and his Master’s (2013) and P
 h.D. (2016) from MIT\, winning the best Masters and best Ph.D. thesis awar
 ds in Computer Science at MIT. Adib’s Ph.D. thesis on seeing through wal
 ls won the ACM SIGMOBILE Dissertation Award and was named as one of the 50
  ways MIT has transformed Computer Science over the past 50 years. This wo
 rk has been commercialized by a startup\, Emerald Innovations\, whose devi
 ces have already been deployed in hundreds of homes and are being used by 
 doctors at major US hospitals to monitor patients with Alzheimer’s\, Par
 kinson’s\, Multiple Sclerosis\, and COVID19. \n\nAdib has been named to 
 Technology Review’s list of 35 Innovators Under 35 and to Forbes’ list
  of 30 Under 30. He has also received prestigious early-career faculty hon
 ors including the NSF CAREER Award (2019)\, the ONR Young Investigator Awa
 rd (2019)\, the ONR Early Career Grant (2020)\, and the Google Faculty Res
 earch Award (2017). His research has won Best Paper/Demo Awards at SIGCOMM
 \, MobiCom\, and CHI. Among the coolest popular features of his work is an
  episode in The Big Bang Theory about one of his projects and invitations 
 to demo his research to President Obama at the White House and in the UK H
 ouse of Lords.
LOCATION:Virtual (see abstract for Zoom link)
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