Keynote Speaker

 

Prof. José M. F. Moura, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Graph Signal Processing and Geometric Deep Learning
Abstract:
There are many different characterizations of the 4th industrial revolution we are living in. I will focus on the analytics of data. Social networks, corporations, markets, health care providers, service industries, sensors instrumenting infrastructures, not to speak of each-and-every one of us with their cell phones and other personal devices are prolific sources of tremendous amounts of data. These data goes beyond time series, images, or video (signals indexed by time ticks and pixels) to be data now indexed by social agents, genes, customers, or some other enumeration suggested by the application. The last decade has seen a new foundational approach to processing data that accounts for the data underlying geometric structure – Graph Signal Processing (GSP). This talk will provide some motivating examples, then review the basics of GSP, and finally discuss geometric deep learning that combines deep learning and GSP.

Speaker Biography:
José M. F. Moura, www.ece.cmu.edu/~moura, is the Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor at CMU, with interests in signal processing and data science. He holds a D. Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, M.Sc., and EE degrees all from MIT and an EE degree from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Portugal). He was a visiting Professor at the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and at NYU in 2013-2014, a visiting Professor at MIT (2006-2007, 1999-2000, and 1984-86), a visiting scholar at USC (Summers of 79-81), and was on the faculty of IST (Portugal). A detector in two of his patents with Alek Kavcic is found in over 60% of the disk drives of all computers sold worldwide in the last 15 years (4 billion and counting)–leading to a US $750 Million settlement between CMU and Marvell. He was the 2019 IEEE President and CEO. He was the Editor-in-Chief for the Transactions on SP. Moura received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award and Society Award. He is Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, and the US National Academy of Inventors, holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Strathclyde, is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Portugal, and member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He received the Great Cross of the Order of The Infante D. Henrique bestowed to him by the President of the Republic of Portugal.