The document summarizes the work of Amit Sheth and the Artificial Intelligence Institute of UofSC (AIISC). It provides examples of their data science, big data, and AI projects including: 1) Real-time multimodal disaster management projects that analyze social media, satellite imagery, and other data sources. 2) Health-related projects like kHealth that use mobile apps and virtual assistants to support chronic health conditions and public health studies analyzing social media data to understand the impact of COVID-19. 3) Epidemiology studies on COVID-19 that examine exogenous factors in different states in India. 4) Virtual health assistants and conversational AI tools for symptoms monitoring and personalized

1. Data Science, Big Data and AI at AIISC
Vaibhav Summit Panel on Vision of Data Science
[Oct2020, https://vaibhav.gov.in/v6.php]
Amit Sheth
Director, Artificial Intelligence Institute of UofSC (#AIISC, aiisc.ai)

2. AIISC AMIT SHETH
• First university-wide AI Inst in US SE
• Core research on AI topics such as
knowledge infused learning, neuro-
symbolic and brain-inspired
(semantic-cognitive-perceptual)
computing, collaborative &
conversational agents
• Translational research with nearly all
colleges at UofSC: clinical/dHealth,
public health, epidemiology, pharma,
nursing, disasters/epidemic, smart
manufacturing, education
• More at: http://j.mp/AII0720
• Founding director of AIISC
• Fellow of IEEE, AAAI and AAAS
• (co)founded 4 companies,
h-index 106, Graduated 30
excellent PhDs
• Advisor to BITS-Goa
AI Center, MoUs and
active research/
exchanges with
many Indian
institutions
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3. SAMPLE DATA SCIENCE (BIG DATA+AI) PROJECTS
• DisasterRecord: Real-time,
multimodal (social media
text/images, satellite/drone imagery,
relevant databases,
ontologies/knowledge graphs)
disaster management [Chennai]
• kHealth/kBOT: Augmented
Personalized Health with mobile
app/virtual health assistant [Chronic
health: Asthma, Mental Health,
Nutrition, …]
• Drug Abuse, Addiction, Depression
[>100M posts]
• Smart Manufacturing, Education [Jio-
Embibe], dHealth
• COVID-19: Public Health Study:
Semantic Analysis of Social Media
and New Big Data to understanding
COVID-19's impact on mental
health, addiction and gender-based
violence [>1.2B tweets]
• COVID19: Epidemiology Study with
Exogenous Factors [India- 3 states]
• Health-e Gamecock COVID-19 Daily
Symptom Monitoring mHealth
App/Chatbot
See: http://wiki.aiisc.ai/index.php/Covid19
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4. REAL-TIME MULTIMODAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT
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https://youtu.be/LuTqBxiIIZchttp://wiki.aiisc.ai/index.php/DisasterRecord

5. PUBLIC HEALTH STUDY: SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL MEDIA & NEWS BIG DATA TO
UNDERSTANDING COVID-19'S IMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH, ADDICTION
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http://wiki.aiisc.ai/index.php/Covid19 https://youtu.be/XzYrn0PEzNk

6. COVID19: EPIDEMIOLOGY STUDY WITH EXOGENOUS FACTORS
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https://youtu.be/LX2mQuDOd_shttp://wiki.aiisc.ai/index.php/Covid19

7. VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS/CONVERSATIONAL AI
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Virtual Health Assistant:
COVID-10 symptoms
Pediatric Asthma
Nutrition
Mental Health
and several more
Education Assistant:
(Personalized learning)
http://wiki.aiisc.ai/index.php/KHealth_Chatbots https://youtu.be/oZCaM7rhJAg

8. EXAMPLE PROJECTS/OPPORTUNITIES IN INDIAN CONTEXT
Practically any project where data (sensor, social, literature, survey,
EMR,…). Access to domain knowledge preferred.
• Public Health
• Personal/digital Health
• Epidemiology
• Disaster Management
• Smart Manufacturing
• Education
Many internships.
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