{"585733":{"#nid":"585733","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar - Irad Ben-Gal","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Smart City Modeling of Personal Mobility Behavioral Patterns\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn recent years, personal location data is continuously captured by mobile devices, GPS chips and other\u0026nbsp;sensors. Such data provides a\u0026nbsp;unique learning opportunity on individuals\u0026rsquo; mobility behavior that may be used\u0026nbsp;for various applications in transportation, marketing,\u0026nbsp;homeland security and smart cities. Nonetheless, modeling\u0026nbsp;such data poses new challenges related to data volume, diversity,\u0026nbsp;inhomogeneity and the required granularity\u0026nbsp;level. In this talk, we will address a real \u0026lsquo;smart city\u0026rsquo; use-case and cover some of its\u0026nbsp;associated opportunities and\u0026nbsp;challenges. We will present a new set of mobility-behavior models that generalizes Markov Chains and\u0026nbsp;Variable-Order Bayesian Networks. We will discuss how they can be used in different smart city applications\u0026nbsp;such as pattern\u0026nbsp;recognition, anomaly detection, clustering and classification.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIrad Ben-Gal is a visiting professor at MS\u0026amp;E Stanford University and a full professor in the Department of\u0026nbsp;Industrial Engineering at Tel Aviv University, heading the AI \u0026amp; Business Analytics lab. \u0026nbsp;His research focuses\u0026nbsp;on applied probability, machine learning and information theory applications to industrial and service systems.\u0026nbsp;He wrote 3 books, published more than 80 scientific papers and patents and received several best papers\u0026nbsp;awards. He is a Department Editor in IIE Transactions and serves on the Editorial Boards of several data science\u0026nbsp;journals. Irad led various R\u0026amp;D projects and worked with companies such as Siemens, Intel, Applied Materials,\u0026nbsp;GM, Nokia, AT\u0026amp;T, Oracle and SAP. \u0026nbsp;Irad is the co-founder and active chairman of CB4 (\u0026ldquo;See Before\u0026rdquo;), a\u0026nbsp;startup backed by Sequoia Capital that provides granular predictive analytics solutions to retail organizations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar - Irad Ben-Gal"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2017-01-10 15:09:54","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:13:24","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-02-15T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2017-02-15T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-02-15T16:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-02-15 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-02-15 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-02-15 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}