Xuan Liu, PhD

Dr. Xuan Liu is the Director of Innovation at IBM Watson health. She is leading the effort of developing differentiating AI/analytics driven healthcare solutions and driving sustainable and destructive innovations across payer & provider business. Most recently, Dr. Liu was the Chief of Staff for the office of IBM Executive Vice President overseeing IBM Research and Cognitive Solutions. Prior to that, Dr. Liu held multiple leadership positions in IBM Yorktown Research center. She was the global lead for cognitive solution research effort, developing AI/ ML and optimization solutions across multiple industries including commerce / supply chain, IOT, smarter cities, and etc. Her work has launched multiple key IBM products, and has delivered significant business value to customers. Dr. Liu received many awards for her work, including IBM Corporate Award, Outstanding Technical Award, Research Division Award, best paper awards, and etc.

ABSTRACT

Preparing Return to Workplace with Data / AI Technology

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread disruption to pretty much every aspect of our daily life, and has profound impact cross all industries. Business leaders globally are rethinking the business and workforce operating models to grow business while combating Covid-19 and beyond. In this talk, I will provide an overview of various AI/data driven technology that IBM is developing to help companies plan and manage return to workplace effort, ranging from community risk modeling, contact tracing, testing management and etc. I will also dive into an AI-enhanced epidemiology framework that can incorporate various signals for second wave detection.