中文
Published date:2014-10-29    Provided by:School of Science
Title: Introduction to the Mobile Health and XPRIZE

Guest Speaker: Prof. Chung-Kang Peng (Harvard University)
Time: 2014-10-31 (Friday), 10:30 - 12:00
Location: SY308

Biography:

Chung-Kang Peng is a statistical physicist and Co-Director of the Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. He is also Distinguished Professor at the Yuan Ze University in Taiwan and Visiting Professor at the Peking University in China. Also, he is one of the founding members of the PhysioNet, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. He has over 200 articles in print which carry an h-index of 67.

Peng invented several popular computational algorithms for time series analysis, including Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA). The original paper which introduced the DFA technique has been cited over 2500 times as of 2014. Peng and his colleagues have developed an algorithm, called information-based similarity analysis (IBS), to distinguish heart rate time series of healthy subjects from diseased patients. The IBS algorithm was later applied by Peng and his collaborators to investigate the origin of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus, and to study the authorship debate about William Shakespeare’s plays. His work on the analysis of Shakespeare’s plays won him the 2003 Calvin & Rose Hoffman Prize.

Current projects include a bid in the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, where he is a leading a team from Taiwan for the contest.