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Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Philippe Dixon
Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology & Physical Education
McGill University
Philippe Dixon is an assistant professor at McGill University. His research focuses on the analysis of human movement biomechanics, such as running, using motion capture and wearable devices, with the aim of improving the health and mobility of patients and athletes. He is also very active in the application of machine learning techniques for the detection and prediction of physiological events and states, and in the development of software for data analysis.
Dr. Paula Lago
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Concordia University
Dr. Lago is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University in Canada. Her research is focused on Pervasive Computing for Health and Healthy Aging, studying how to measure and understand behavior, behavior patterns and its influence on health in everyday settings by using wearable and object sensors and machine learning techniques.
She was a postdoctoral researcher at Kyushu Institute of Technology. She has a Doctorate of Engineering from Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia and received her Bachelor’s and master’s degree in software engineering from the same university.
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