Fourth NSF CAREER Award for CEAS focuses on Smart and Connected Hospitals
Dr. Shan Lin was recently awarded NSF CAREER funding for his project Safe and Secure
Network Control for Smart and Connected Hospitals. This is the fourth NSF CAREER award
this year for the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS).
Assistant Professor Lin was thrilled to learn recently that he has joined the exclusive National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awardees club. NSF CAREER awards are one of the most prestigious awards given to support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research education.
Lin, who is part of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will receive $450k over the next five years for his research which seeks to improve safety and security of networks in a hospital setting.
According to Lin, hospitals will benefit from the ability to collect critical data on a patient’s psychological state and the caregiver’s workflow using a new medical device and sensor network. This improvement in resources is expected to make collect precise and complete data on patients for accurate documentation and maximum care quality, and enable big data analysis for medical application. Through this CAREER research, Lin will study and propose new medical applications and networking solutions, as well as design and deploy integrated an open source medical device and sensor network.
Through his teaching efforts at Stony Brook University, Lin will create graduate and undergraduate courses on mobile cloud computing and smart systems that will allow students to be involved in this groundbreaking research. Lin’s research is as effective as intended, we are likely to see these improved medical technologies implemented in hospitals and medical facilities worldwide.
“I am really excited for and proud of Professor Lin and the entire college as this is our 4th CAREER award for this year. What better testament to the excellence of our junior faculty. Shan Lin's work is at the frontier of engineering-driven medicine, a strategic thrust for CEAS. His work will help shape the hospitals of the future through the convergence of sensors, big data and analytics with health care delivery,” stated Fotis Sotiropoulos, Dean of CEAS.
Dr. Lin has been an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University since 2014. He earned his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Virginia in 2010. Previous to his NSF CAREER award, Lin received five NSF grants, including Heterogeneous Large-Scale Telemedicine for Cardiology Patients, Multiple-level Predictive Control of Mobile Cyber Physical Systems with Correlated Context, and Non-isotropic Networked Sensor Deployment for Smart Buildings.