Type
Topic
- Human & Biotechnology (Field of Expertise)
- Information Communication & Computing (Field of Expertise)
On March 26th 2020 two Inaugural Lectures will take place in the Ceremony Hall at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz).
First Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat.habil. Leila TAHER with her lecture "Cracking the code within us: Bioinformatics approaches to study the human genome". And then Univ.-Prof. Dr.techn. Eduardo VEAS MSc, with "Intelligent user interfaces towards humane machine interaction".
Programme
Greeting and Opening
Harald KAINZ, Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Dr.h.c.mult.
Rector of Graz University of Technology
Introduction
Roderick BLOEM Ph.D., Univ.-Prof.
Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering at Graz University of Technology
Inaugural Lectures
Cracking the code within us: Bioinformatics approaches to study the human genome
Leila TAHER, Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat.habil.
Institute of Biomedical Informatics at Graz University of Technology
Intelligent User Interfaces Towards Humane Machine Interaction
Eduardo VEAS MSc, Univ.-Prof. Dr.techn.
Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science at Graz University of Technology
followed by a sparkling wine reception and a buffet
About Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat.habil. Leila TAHER
Leila Taher, born 1978 in Santa Fe (Argentina), is a bioinformatician. She develops mathematical and informatics methods to support biomedical research. She is currently Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). The focus of her research group is the investigation of the function of non-coding sequences in the human genome.
Univ.-Prof. Dr.techn. Eduardo VEAS MSc
Eduardo Veas is a professor for intelligent and adaptive user interfaces at Graz University of Technology since September 2019. Before becoming a professor, he was Research Manager of the Knowledge Visualization Area at Know-Center GmbH. He was also research fellow of the Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science (TU Graz), and research fellow of CONICET. His interests lie in the field of human computer interaction, in particular studying human aware computing and cognitive aspects of data exploration in visual analytics, virtual and augmented reality interfaces.
Host
Forum Technik und Gesellschaft, TU Graz, alumniTUGraz 1887, Fakultät für Informatik und Biomedizinische Technik
