Monica Wachowicz
Cisco Innovation Chair in Big Data Analytics,NSERC/Cisco Industrial Research Chair in Real-Time Mobility Analytics at the University of New Brunswick, Canada and Director of the People in Motion Laboratory
Biography
Dr. Monica Wachowicz is the Cisco Innovation Chair in Big Data Analytics and the NSERC/Cisco Industrial Research Chair in Real-Time Mobility Analytics at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. She is also the Director of the People in Motion Laboratory, a centre of expertise in the application of Internet of Things (IoT) to smart cities. She works at the intersection of (1) streaming data analytics for analyzing massive data from the Internet of Things in search of valuable spatio-temporal patterns in real-time; and (2) Art, Cartography, and Representations of human mobility behavior for making the maps of the future which will be culturally and linguistically designed to provide a greater “sense of people” in motion. Founding member of the IEEE Big Data Initiative and the International Journal of Big Data Intelligence, she is also joint Editor-in-Chief of the Cartographica Journal. Her pioneering work in multidisciplinary teams from government, industry and research organizations is fostering the next generation of data scientists for geospatial innovation.