2026 Keynote Speakers (Ubi-Media)

Biography

David Taniar's research specialises in medical data engineering, which has attracted more than $3 million in research grants throughout his career. David has graduated more than 25 PhD students. He published two books, Data Warehousing and Analytics (Springer, 2021) and High Performance Parallel Database Processing (Wiley, 2008), that have attracted more than 80,000 downloads. In 2005, he founded three SCIE-indexed journals: Mobile Information Systems, International Journal of Web and Grid Services, and International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining. David is listed as a Top Computer Scientist by Research.com and the top 2% computer scientist globally listed by Stanford University. He is an Associate Professor at Monash University, Australia.

David Taniar

Title: Multidisciplinary Research with Medicine and Healthcare: What does it look like?

Abstract:

In this talk, I will share my experiences, including challenges, issues, and impacts, in conducting multidisciplinary research between informatics and medical/healthcare, collaborating with medical doctors, hospitals, and public health professionals. I will discuss, particularly, THREE areas of how informatics can contribute to multidisciplinary teams with healthcare professionals and practitioners: (1) Electronic Medical Records or EMR, including assisting hospitals in their accreditation process, emergency department patient records, and disease analysis; (2) Public Health and GIS, covering projects in COVID, Homebirth, Gestational Diabetes, and Influenza A/B; and (3) Medical and Computing Technologies, including medical imaging, early kidney disease detection, hand hygiene, chemotherapy monitoring and other monitoring systems. The focus of this research is on data to empower medical informatics research and practice. I will discuss future opportunities for collaborative research in medicine and healthcare.