FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES - Towards a 360-degree View of Air Quality in Urban Environments
Prior to his current appointment at VinUniversity, Prof. El Ghaoui taught at the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research at University of California, Berkeley (ranked #32 worldwide according to the QS World University Rankings 2021). He also taught Data Science within the Master of Financial Engineering at UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School. Besides being a researcher and a lecturer, Prof. El Ghaoui is also a consultant and an entrepreneur. According to him, these experiences solving real-world problems have supplemented his research life tremendously.
VinUniversity is a private, not-for-profit university established by Vingroup – the largest private conglomerate in Vietnam. It aspires to become a university of excellence with a mission to develop talents for the future. With the Center for Environmental Intelligence newly launched recently, it focuses on high-impact translational research, with a focus on three main themes: environmental monitoring, sustainable living labs and AI-powered discovery of new materials for sustainability. In this seminar, a specific project involving a digital twin of a city will be covered, which includes models of transportation, air quality and micro-weather, citizen's perceptions and health outcomes.