Making sense of Urban Data: Experiences from interdisciplinary research studies
Abstract:
In this talk, I present an overview about the different research projects that I have worked during my research career beginning with my PhD on air pollution monitoring to my first postdoc on wheelchair accessibility and then onto my second postdoc on building energy management data to my current successful research grants on ear protection in noisy environments.
Finally, I summarize my learnings and future directions, guiding towards unlimited opportunities to make difference to millions of lives in this very exciting new era of data and more data.
Bio:
Dr Manik Gupta is a lecturer (assistant professor) in the Computer Science and Informatics division at London Southbank University (LSBU), London, UK.She received her PhD from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)/Internet of Things (IoT). Her research interests include Data Science for IoT with focus upon real world data collection and data quality issues, knowledge discovery from large sensor datasets, IoT data processing using time series data mining and distributed analytics, applications in environmental monitoring and well being.
She has extensive experience in IoT sensor deployments and real-world data collection studies for EPSRC funded research projects while at QMUL and University College London (UCL) on urban air pollution monitoring and wheelchair accessibility. Her most recent engagement as a postdoc at LSBU has been on an Innovate UK research project dealing with the application of topological data analysis and machine learning techniques to building energy management data. She is currently the co-investigator on an Innovate UK funded research grant and a knowledge transfer partnership on Intelligent ear protection to address occupational hearing loss for use in heavy industry.