Keynote Speakers
Title: University–Industry Cooperation for Research and Innovation
Bio:
Prof. Dr. Vitalii Ivanov, DSc., Ph.D., ING.PAED.IGIP, Professor of the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Machines and Tools of Sumy State University, Ukraine, and Professor of the Department of Manufacturing Process Monitoring of the Technical University of Košice, Slovak Republic. Prof. Ivanov is a leading expert in advanced manufacturing and engineering education. He carried out research, completed internships, and gave lectures in Germany, the USA, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, China, Poland, the Czech Republic, etc. Furthermore, he participated in research projects funded by the European Union, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, State Fund for Fundamental Research, Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic, and Ukrainian and German industrial companies. He also has experience coordinating and co-coordinating research projects funded by TEMPUS, Erasmus+, Czech Development Agency, DAAD, Gene Haas Foundation & Haas Automation, Japan International Cooperation Agency, and NAWA. Since 2020, he has been a Member of the Experts’ Team of the Invention Support Fund of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine and an Expert of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on the State Certification of Scientific Institutions. In 2022, he became a Member of the Expert Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on certification of scientific personnel in Manufacturing/Mechanical Engineering. Since 2024, he has also been serving as an expert in carrying out scientific evaluation in Manufacturing/Mechanical Engineering for the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
Abstract
How can we create technologies to help us reflect on and potentially change our behavior, as well as improve our health and overall wellbeing both at work and at home? In this talk, I will briefly describe the last several years of work our research team has been doing in this area. We have developed wearable technology to help families manage tense situations with their children, mobile phone-based applications for handling stress and depression, as well as automatic stress sensing systems plus interventions to help users just in time. The overarching goal in all of this research is to develop intelligent systems that work with and adapt to the user so that they can maximize their personal health goals and improve their wellbeing.
Professor of the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Machines and Tools of Sumy State University, Ukraine, and Professor of the Department of Manufacturing Process Monitoring of the Technical University of Košice, Slovak Republic
Vice-Rector for Internationalisation,
Director of Strategic Business Unit International Programmes,
NEWTON University,
Prague, Czech Republic
Title:
Bio:
Prof. M.A. Dagmar CAGÁŇOVÁ, PhD. acts as full prof. in Economics and Management of Enterprise and at present as Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and the Director of Strategic Business Unit International Programmes at Newton University in Prague. At the same time, prof. Cagáňová is a General Chairwoman of Summit Smart City 360°/Summit Smart Life and the Co-founder of the European Alliance for Innovation in Slovakia and the Advisory Board Representative of the ECEG’s ChemSkills/Blueprint project. She is an International Advisory Council Member of Danubius University, Management Committee Member of E-COST (European Collaboration in Science and Technology), the Executive Committee Member in Danubius Academic Consortium (Academic Network for Integral Innovation), as well as a Member of iATDi (International Association for Technological Development and Innovations), Vice-chairwoman of Cultural and Educational Grant Agency (Committee 3), Member of Accreditation Committee of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic.
Prof. Cagáňová prior positions at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava were the Vice-dean for International Projects at the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Zielona Gora, Poland and Vice-dean at Faculty of Management, Comenius University in Bratislava.
Prof. Cagáňová’s professional interests, research topics, and international collaborations are mainly focused on Intercultural and Innovation Management, Managerial Skills, Communication in Management and Marketing, International Marketing, International Relationships and Diversity, Mobility and Smart Cities, and Gender Diversity. She has been the member of numerous journal editorial boards, co-editor of current content Special issues journals (MONET, WINET), an organiser, and a steering committee member of numerous domestic and international summits and conferences, has participated in 48 domestic and international projects as the project head and team member.
Prof. Cagáňová’s scientific and professional recognitions includes awards as the best habilitation thesis with title “Selected Aspects of Multiculturality Issues in Industrial Enterprises in the Slovak Republic” at the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (for the year 2011), Letter of Appreciation from French ambassador, H.E. Ch. Leonzi for active involvement and outstanding contribution within Smart City, Letter of Appreciation from Taiwanese ambassador, H.E. L. Tseng for active involvement and excellent organization of top representatives meeting among Taiwanese, Ukrainian, and Slovak Universities as a part of the Smart City Agenda.
To date, prof. Cagáňová has published more than 400 publications, 7 scientific monographs, 17 papers in current content journals with IF, 102 papers in databases WOS and 157 in databases SCOPUS and has over 1021 citations, 359 of them in quotation databases WOS and SCOPUS, h-index in WOS is 12 and SCOPUS h-index 16.
Abstract
The last years saw a steep increase in the number of wearable sensors and systems, mhealth and uhealth apps both in the clinical settings and in everyday life. Further large amounts of data both in the clinical settings (imaging, biochemical, medication, electronic health records, -omics), in the community (behavioral, social media, mental state, genetic tests, wearable driven bio-parameters and biosignals) as well as environmental stressors and data (air quality, water pollution etc.) have been produced, and made available to the scientific and medical community, powering the new AI/DL/ML based analytics for the identification of new digital biomarkers leading to new diagnostic pathways, updated clinical and treatment guidelines, and a better and more intuitive interaction medium between the citizen and the health care system.
Thus, the concept of connected and translational health has started evolving steadily, connecting pervasive health systems, using new predictive models, new approaches in biological systems modeling and simulation, as well as fusing data and information from different pipelines for more efficient diagnosis and disease management.
In this talk, we will present the current state-of-the-art in personalized health care by presenting cases from COVID-19 and COPD patients using advanced wearable vests and new technology sensors including lung sound and EIT, new outcome prediction models in COVID-19 ICU patients fusing X-Rays, lung sounds, and ICU parameters transformed via AI/ML/DL pipelines, new approaches fusing environmental stressors with -omics analytics for chronic disease management, and finally new ML/AI-driven methodologies for predicting mental health diseases including suicidality, anxiety, and depression.
