University of Puerto Rico Collaborations with IBM Research
Donna Dillenberger
Distinguished Engineer
IBM Watson Research Center
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Next Steps
1. Bristol Meyers Anti Fibrillation Drugs, Roberto Rivera, Raul Macchiavelli – School of Business
2. Asthma, Diabetes, Dengue Fever and Chikungunya longitudinal studies – Roberto Rivera
3. Sentiment Analysis – Jose Vega, Mari Luz Zapata and Haniel Cordero – School of Business
4. Air Monitoring Device – Air Quality – Lourdes Medina , Viviana Cesani, Saylisse Davila, (industrial
engineering)
5. Government Services (Cloud)- Wilson Rivera, Jos’e Cruz, Roberto Seijo
1. Extension Service Monitoring and Control (UPRM & USDept. Agriculture), Betzab’e Rodr’iguez,
Lourdes Medina, Saylisse Davila, Roberto Seijo (keywords Cloud, sentiment analysis)
2. Vulnerability-based decision making for natural disasters, Saylisse Davila, Lourdes Medina,
Betzabe Rodriguez & Civil Engineering group
3. Evidence-based government, Roberto Seijo, Maria Amador, Jose Cruz, Mario Cordova, Jose Vega
(keywords: small and medium business development, incentives, Ley de incetivos de desarrollo
comercial)
6. Developing an Expert System for Medical Devices, Lourdes Medina, Jose Vega (keywords: software
rational, industry solutions, medical devices)
7. International Market Selection Models, Maria Amador (keywords: test models for several countries)
8. Environmental and Built Infrastructure Database Environmental and Built Infrastructure Database,
Ismael Pagan Trinidad (keywords: assessing hazards, aging infrastructure in America) Civil Eng.
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Common Action items:
 Ask Marist to create a VM with LUW, SPSS
 Joanie to set up regular conf calls at the same time each week until projects are launched
Bristol Meyers
 Ask Puerto Rico Dept of Health what is the schema of data
 Puerto Rico Dept of Health has to ask all the healthcare companies for the data
 FTP Marist
 Ask Donna to train UPR intern how to create a DB Table, how to use SPSS
 Roberto to get medical professor to work with us
 Joanie’s sister is going to get us a Bristol Meyers physician to work with us
 The doctors need to work with us to scrub the data
 Donna’s group can give advice on different models they can try to forecast drug response
Asthma, Diabetes longitudinal studies
 Donna to contact Roberto Rivera to see what data he has available and what question we can try to study
Sentiment Analysis
 Ask First Lady what data can be used
 FTP any files to Marist VM, SPSS can import data from files and the web.
 Ask Donna to set up training session for Professor and Intern on how to use SPSS Text Analytics
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 Air Monitoring
– Len and Joanie to ask Marist to install Apache, SPSS, LUW, Geoserver, Worklight
– Donna to set up a conf call with Louisa and Optic Researcher to describe air monitor
design
– Louisa’s team will advise where to deploy
– Donna/Joanie/Louisa’s team we’ll brainstorm on how to make this a fun application for
children
• Provide automatic transfer of the data and
• Children manually entering the data
– Also provide an English Version so other cities can also send their data to the UPR
portal
 Prevent Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Fever from spreading to Puerto Rico from southern
Caribbean islands
– Donna to contact Roberto Rivera to collaborate on cell phone mosquito detection and
virus devices and create a heat map of the island to show hot spots. This will help the
government and the university eradicate infected populations before the virus spreads.
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Government Services
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USDA
– Have intern create db table
– Have intern use SPSS Text analytics to import unstructured farmers’ data
– Have intern import SPSS structured data into db table
– So now the data can be queried
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Vulnerability Emergency Response
– Joanie to fine status of Smarter City Puerto Rico grant
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Evidence Based Government
– Joanie to set up a conf call to find out what data is required to measure the
effectiveness of Ley de incetivos de desarrollo comercial
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Developing an expert system for Medical Devices
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Joanie to connect Lourdes with Rational Tool that does the above
International Market Selection Model
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Joanie/Len make sure Marist has SPSS, LUW, Cognos
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Intern to create db2 table for Maria and import her data
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Donna’s group to train Maria SPSS, Cognos
Environmental and Built Infrastructure Database Environmental and Built Infrastructure
Database,
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Joanie and Len to get Maximo expert and we’ll have a conf call with Ismael where the IBM
expert can say what exists and Ismael can think about how he can use what exists and
what new research or models he can add to it.
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