Florence Hudson
Talk Title: TIPPSS to Protect Virtual Humans from Real Risks
Florence Hudson is Executive Director and Principal Investigator for the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University, the COVID Information Commons, and the Prototype Open Knowledge Network Education Gateway. Her research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (DOT FHWA), and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). She is also Founder and CEO of FDHint, LLC, a global advanced technology consulting firm. She Chairs the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Working Group on Clinical Internet of Things Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS (Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and Security) and is Vice Chair of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Standards Committee. She is a former IBM Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Internet2 Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Special Advisor for the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, and aerospace engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and Grumman Aerospace Corporation. She lectures globally on many topics including data science, big data and analytics, research collaboration, connected healthcare, cybersecurity, energy and the environment, and the Internet of Things (IoT).