My View on Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, and Health Data Science

“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf,  wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” 

– Geoffrey Moore 


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Short Bio 

Ümit Demirbaga is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Health Data Science in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is also a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL- EBI), UK, a world-leading bioinformatics centre with expertise in data storage, analysis, and representation that provides biological data to the scientific community. He received his BSc in Electronic and Computer Education Department from Marmara University, Türkiye, in 2011 and his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Newcastle University, UK, in 2017 and 2021, respectively. His research interests are big data analytics, cloud computing, distributed systems, machine learning, eXplainable AI, generative AI, and healthcare data analytics. He has served as Workshop Chair, Publicity Chair, and Technical Program Committee of various reputed conferences and workshops, including IEEE ICC, IEEE/ACM CCGrid, and IEEE/ACM UCC. Dr Demirbaga was awarded the Colin Graham Outstanding Performance Award with Best Team Project Award in his MSc in 2017 and received the 2022 IEEE TCSC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award in Scalable Computing. 

Contact Information

Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ.  

European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL- EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, EMBL-EBI South Building, Wellcome Genome, Hinxton CB10 1SD.