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🕑January 2023
Prof Helal named ACM Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 57 of its members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in disciplines including cybersecurity, human-computer interaction, mobile computing, and recommender systems among many other areas. Professor Helal was named ACM Fellow in recognition for his contributions to mobile and pervasive computing, and their applications in graceful aging and accessibility.
🕑 October 2022
Prof Helal delivers a Keynote Address on Smart Technology for Successful Aging in the 2022 World Congress of Gerontechnology, Daegu, Korea
Prof Helal delivers a Keynote addressing the use of Smart Technology including Smart Homes and Aritificial Intelligence to promote Active and Healthy Aging and to provide for personalized augmentations in the form of assistive environments addressing key age-related issues.
🕑 September 2021
Prof Helal 4G/5G technology licnesed by Verizon Wireless
Prof Helal, co-inventor with Dr. Edwin Hernandez, licensed their technology to Verizon Wireless. The license covers cost-effective wireless handset testing using emulation as well as fast hand-off algorithms in support of rapid mobility in 4G/5G networks.
🕑 September 2021
Prof Helal delivers the Keynote address of the 4th Inter'l Workshop on Gerontechnology, in Malaga, Spain
Prof Helal delivers a Keynote titled Smart Home in a Box: Lessons Learned in Designing Assistive Living Environments for Graceful Aging to the Gerontechnology interdisciplinary community.
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🕑 September 2021
Prof Helal delivers a Keynote on Digital Health to the ICCSA Computational Science Research Community in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Prof Helal delivers a Keynote titled Digital Health: Back to the Future to present the lessons learnt in the past 20 years and a research agenda for the future of health.
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🕑 September 2021
Prof Helal joins Ron Baeker and Andrew Sixsmith as Series Editor of Springer Nature Synthesis Lectures on Technology and Health
As Series Editor, Prof Helal will strengthen the broad area of Health Tech, and especially digital health with focus on personal health, Age Tech, and supporting technologies including wearables, Health IoT, mobile Health, and data-driven technolgies such as algorithmic therapeutics and health data analytics.
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🕑 August 2021
Prof Helal to offer one of the first interdisciplinary classes on Digital Health in US universities
Students will learn about today’s healthcare delivery systems and their associated payer models, active and healthy living, personal health and the future of health systems and the forces of change shaping their transformations. The course will cover digital health technology and supportive sciences. Students will engage in systematic literature reviews leading to group projects in the review subjects. Contact Prof Helal if you feel you must attend this class despite the enrolment cap.
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🕑 October 2020
Prof Helal Keynote at IEEE Green Computing
Prof Helal deliver a keynote on Scalable Cloud-Edge Architectures for City-Scale Internet of Thing Deployments, to the 15th IEEE International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing (GPC 2020), Xi'an, China.
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🕑 September 2020
Prof Helal Keynote at SpliTech 2020
Prof Helal delivers a Keynote speech titled: “The Importance of Being Thing: Or the Trivial Role of Powering Serious IoT Scenarios”,” at SpliTech 2020, Split, Croatia.
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🕑 July 2020
Prof Helal Elected as a Member of the Prestigious Academia Europaea
Prof Helal elected as a member of Academia Europaea, the European equivalent to the US National Academy of Science. Prof Helal joins the ranks of 4600 other members of the Academy of which about 200 are US members.
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🕑 February 2020
Prof Helal Lecture at Institute for Future Health
Prof Helal delivers a Distinguished Lecture Series in the Institute for Future Health at the University of California, Irvine. The talk is titled: “Digital Health: Back to the Future”
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🕑 December 2019
Prof Helal deliver the Helsinki Distinguished Lecture on Future Information Technology
Prof Helal delivers the Helsinki Distinguished Lecture Series on Future Information Technology, jointly organized by HIIT, a joint research institute between University of Helsinki and Aalto University. The talk titled “Digital Health: Back to the Future” addressed lessons learnt from the past and an agenda for future digital health transformations.
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🕑 October 2019
Prof Helal elected to Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Prof Helal elected to the rank of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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🕑 September 2019
Prof Helal Nominated for IEEE CS President-Elect 2020
Prof Helal nominated for President-Elect 2020 for the IEEE Computer Society.
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🕑 August 2019
Prof Helal Keynote at Very Large IoT Workshop – the VLDB Conference
Prof Helal delivers the Keynote of the Very Large Internet of Things (VL-IoT) Workshop, held in conjunction with the VLDB conference, Los Angeles, CA. The Keynote title is: “Energy Savings in Very Large Cloud-IoT Systems”.
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🕑 July 2019
Prof Helal Keynote at IEEE Congress on Services 2019
Prof Helal delivers one of the three Keynotes of the IEEE Congress on Services in Milan, Italy. The Keynote titled: “Microservice Ecosystem for Digital Health in Integrated Care Settings,” addresses a new framework for delivering care involving individuals and their communities while fostering a healthy living micro-economy.
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🕑 June 2019
Prof Helal Keynote at Connected Health Summer School
Prof Helal delivers the Keynote speech of the Connected Health Summer School on Smart and Healthy Ageing—Supporting people with Dementia, in Artimino, Tuscany, Italy. The keynote was titled: “The Future of Connected Health.”
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🕑 March 2019
Prof Helal Elected Fellow of the IET
Prof Helal elevated to Fellow rank of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Prof Helal is an IEEE Fellow, class of 2015.
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🕑 October 2018
Prof Helal ends his term as EIC of IEEE Computer
Prof Helal ends his tenure as editor in chief of IEEE Computer after an amazing journey spanning 36 issues on hot and emerging topics, and observing Computer’s 50th Anniversary during his term.
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🕑 October 2016
Professor Helal has been elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society for a 3-year term beginning on January 1, 2017. Full press release can be found here.
🕑 March 2016
Professor Helal and his Mobile & Pervasive Computing class receive the 2016 Google Internet-of-Things Research Pilot Award.
🕑 January 2015
Professor Helal elected Fellow of the IEEE in recognition for his achievements and contributions to the fields of pervasive and mobile computing.
🕑 January 2015
🕑 October 2013
Dr. Helal receives the ACM Outstanding Service Award in appreciation for contributions to ACM as Chair of the 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Sept 30-Oct 4, 2013, that was held in Miami, Florida. Pictured with Prof. Suman Banerjee, ACM SIGMOBILE Chair.
🕑 October 2012
Dr. Helal invited to be a 2012 Peking University Distinguished Lecture Series speeker at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Lecture title: “ICT for a Smarter Planet: Challenges, Enablers, and Opportunities”. Pictured with Professor Hong Mei, EECS Dean.
🕑 September 2012
Dr. Helal agrees to chair the 19th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE, to be held in Miami, Florida September 2013.
🕑 February 2012
Dr. Helal's new book on Mobile Platforms & Development Environments has finally been completed. The book, co-authored by Dr. Raja Bose, and Mr. Wendong Li (both of whom are Gators Alums), hit the stores late February in both electronic and print formats. The book can be obtained from online book store (Amazon) or directly from the publisher (Morgan & claypool).
🕑 September 2011
Dr. Helal has been named Finland Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro). Five researchers from around the world in all fields of science and engineering have been named and awarded FiDiPro in 2011. The Distinguished Professorship involves collaborative research with the European EIT ICT Labs through the Finland node and Aalto Universaity, Otaniemi, Finland.
🕑 August 2011
Dr. Helal was invited to the Alpach Technology Forum to give a talk titled "Smart Home in a Box: An Ecosystem and Enablers for Assistive Environments." Associated meda coverage: Die Presse (original article in pdf, translation in pdf)
🕑 June 2011
Dr. Helal delivered a keynote speech to the 8th International Conference on Wearable, Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health (pHealth), Lyon, France, June 2011.
🕑 May 2011
Dr. Helal visited the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) and participated in a workshop on Ambient Assisted Living – Smart Homes and Beyond. He also visited the NovaHome in Vösendorf prior to his visit to AIT. Associated media coverage: APA OTS (online), AIT Press (online), AIT Press release (pdf).
🕑 May 2011
Dr. Helal delivered a Keynote speech to the European Union South East Europe I3E Conference on Efficient Technology Transfer In the fields of Industrial Informatics and Embedded Systems. The conference was held at the National Academy of Engineering, Vienna, Austria. Associated media coverage: Der Standard (pdf), Tiroler Tageszeitung (online).
🕑 December 2010
Dr. Helal delivered the opening Keynote in the Second International ICST Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (S-Cube), held December 13-15, in Miami, Florida.
🕑 October 2010
Dr. Helal delivered a keynote speech titled: "Programming Pervasive Spaces," to the delegates of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2010), held October 26-29, in Xi'an, China.
🕑 August 2010
Dr. Helal delivered a Keynote speech titled: "The Cloud, The Edge and Beneath," in the 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, that was held August 17-19, in Miami, Florida.
🕑 July 2010
Dr. Helal along with Ph.D. students Chao Chen, Yi Xu and Kun Li won the 2010 IEEE/IPSJ SAINT Conference Best Paper Award. The paper titled "Reactive Programming Optimizations in Pervasive Computing," was presented July 22, 2010 in the 10th Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet is jointly sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Information processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Seoul, Korea.
🕑 June 2010
Finally, The Landscape of Pervasive Computing Standard is finished and published by Morgan & Claypool. The book can be purchased fromMorgan & Claypool Publisher online store or from Amazon.
🕑 March 2010
Dr. Helal featured as the cover story in the March 2010 issue of the prestigious Florida Trend magazine. The article can be viewed here.
🕑 September 2009
Dr. Helal organized and served as Conference Chair and gave the opening remarks for the 11th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009). The conference was held at the Disney World Yacht & Beach Club in Orlando, Florida.
🕑 September 2009
Dr. Helal was appointed by the IEEE Computer Society as the Editor of IEEE Computer's new column on Industry Perspective.
🕑 July 2009
Ph.D. Candidate Chao Chen and Dr. Helal won the IEEE/IPSJ SAINT Conference's Best Paper Award. The paper titled "Device Integration in SODA using the Device Description Language." was published and presented in the 9th Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet is jointly sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Information processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).
🕑 June 2009
Dr. Helal was appointed as Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computer, the Flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society.
🕑 January 2009
Dr. Yeunsook Lee, Professor of Design at Yonsei University, Korea, visited the Mobile and Pervasive Computing lab and toured the Gator Tech Smart House. Dr. Lee is a world leader in the design of urban friendly environments for the elderly.
🕑 November 5, 2008
Drs. Takeo Kanade and Howard Wactlar from the Computer Science department at CMU visited the Mobile and Pervasive Computing lab and tour the Gator Tech Smart House. Dr. Kanade also gave a seminar on the recent developments in the Quality of Life Technology NSF-ERC Center at CMU.
🕑 October 2008
Dr. Helal's new book hits the bookshelves. The Engineering Handbook of Smart Technology for Aging, Disability, and Independence (Wiley, ISBN: 978-0-471-71155-1) is the first Handbook of its kind to be offered to both Academicians and Practitioners. The book can be ordered from Amazon.
🕑 September 2007
Dr. Helal gave a Keynote Speech at the 3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE07), Ulm, Germany, September 24-25, 2007.
🕑 August 2007
Pervasa Inc., Dr. Helal's IoT start-up, won the Silver Best of SensorExpo Award for: "its Atlas Model 00ACMZB, a generic hardware/software interface for sensor-enterprise integration (Sensors Expo is now Sensos Converge)." - More details can be found here.
🕑 July 2007
Dr. Helal gave a Keynote Speech at the 31st Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference(COMPSAC 2007).
🕑 July 2007
Dr. Helal visited Peking University, Beijing, and was honored by meeting with its Executive Vice President & Provost, Professor Jianhua Lin.
🕑 June 2007
Dr. Helal gave a Keynote Speech at the 5th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics (ICOST07), to be held in Nara, Japan, June 21-23, 2007.
🕑 April 2007
Professor Hani Hagras, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the iDorm project at the University of Essex visits the Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory for a two-days research exchange on Intelligent Environments.
🕑 September 2006
Dr. Helal visits the Ubiquitous Robot Companion research team in ETRI, Korea to sign a Memorandom of Understanding and discuss joint research.
🕑 June 2006
Dr. Helal founds Pervasa, Inc., and enters into an agreement with the University of Florida Office of Technology Licesning to license back inventions and copyrights of the ATLAS Sensor Platform.
🕑 May 2006
Dr. Helal delivers a Plenary Speech on "Plug and Play Sensor Networks" in the IEEE 23rd Biennial Symposium on Communications, held at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
🕑 May 2006
Dr. Helal delivered a Distinguished Lecture Series talk about “Programmable Pervasive Spaces,”in the School of Computing, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
🕑 May 2006
The StarHome researech team affiliated with the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore visits the Gator Teach Smart House for a tour and technical discuission regarding future collaborations. In the picture, guests from left to right are: Mr. Chong Chieh Tseng, Ms. Khor Hwai Lin and Mr. Edward Chan Hoi Chuen.
🕑 May 2006
The Ubiquitous Robot Companion (URC) research team of the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI), Korea, visits the Gator Tech Smart House to discuss joint research and the use of UF's ATLAS Sensor Platform in the URC Project. ETRI team: Dr. Hyun Kim (Leader), Dr. Kang-woo Lee, and Mr. Young-ho Seo.
🕑 February 2006
Dr. Helal attended the Advisory Board Meeting of the "Ultra Wide Band-based Sentient Computing" initiative administered by the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) under A*STAR, Singapore
🕑 Feburary 2006
Dr. Helal delivers a Keynote speach to the attendees of the ICADI Conference on Aging and Independent Living, St. Petersburgh, Florida.
🕑 October 2005
Senator Mel Martinez tours the Gator Tech Smart House for a demo of the most recent developments in UF's Pervasive Computing research in support of successful Aging.🕑 September 2005
Professor Helal visited the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore and delivered a Keynote Address in the InfoComm Horizons 2005 Conference. The keynote covered current UF efforts in Pervasive Computing Research and its applications in the domain of Elder Care.🕑 September 2005
Professor Helal visited the School of Information Systems at the Singapore Management University and presented a SIS research talk.🕑 September 2005
Professor Helal and graduate students Raja Bose and Steven Pickles showcased the sensor platform at the 2005 Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB-05) held Aug. 29 through Sept. 3 in Trondheim, Norway. They presented the platform as part of a joint project with researchers from Purdue University. More details.
🕑 May 2005
The DISCOVERY CHANNEL Beyond Tomorrow program filmed the Gator Tech Smart House. The program covers cutting edge technology and innovation and airs world-wide.
🕑 March 2005
The Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory at the University of Florida participates in the CTIA Wireless Home show in New Orleans, Louisiana . The lab demonstrated three of its smart home inventions, including the mobile Medicine Reminder, the Smartwave meal preparation assistant and Modia - the follow-me multimedia concept.
🕑 January 2005
The Grand Opening of the Gator Tech Smart House, by University of Florida President Bernie Machen.
🕑 June 2003
Dr. Helal organized and co-chaired the Pre-ICADI Workshop on Aging DIsability and Independence, held at the British Royal Academy of Engineering. The workshop was sponsored by NSF, EPSRC and the Royal Academy of Engineering. The Workshop Web Site.
🕑 December 2002
The National Science Foundation and the British Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) visit the Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory. Dr. Gilbert Divey (NSF), Dr. Lee Bartlett (EPSRC) and Dr. Andrew Sixsmith (The University of Liverpool) visited the lab and Matilda Smart House, where several demos were shown on the use of the smart phone as an assistive device.
🕑 July 2002
Dr. Helal gave the Keynote Speech in the opening session of the AAAI Workshop on Automation as Caregiver: The Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care, Edmonton, Canada.
🕑 October 15, 2001
Dr. Helal along with a team from the School of Health Professions won a Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center grant (RERC on Successful Aging) that will focus on applying pervasive computing technology for elders and disabled. The Center is funded by a grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabiolitation Research (NIDRR) administered by the Department of Education.