Shoumen Bose Palit Austin Datta is a Senior Member of the MIT Auto-ID Labs, Research Affiliate at Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Senior Scientist, Medical Device Interoperability Lab and Cybersecurity Program, Center for Smart and Automated Medical Systems (SaAMS), Department of Anesthesiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (http://mdpnp.mgh.harvard.edu). He is the Co-Founder and the former Executive / Research Director of the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation (2001-2010) at the MIT School of Engineering. Former Member of the MIT Auto ID Center (1999-2003), MIT Data Center (2004-2006) and MIT Energy Initiative (2008-2009). His interests include RFID, Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial IoT, medical IoT, digital supply chain management, forecasting, data, analytics, decision systems, nano-bio-sensors, digital twins, healthcare, digital health, vaccines, molecular biology, neuroendocrine carcinomatosis and science as a service for society. He taught/teaches Supply Chain, Operations Strategy and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management, Chalmers University (Sweden), ESSEC (France), KEDGE (France), Cambridge University and Harvard Medical School (Molecular Medicine, Biochemistry and Metabolism for first year MD students). He has offered MBA and executive education courses at MIT and other institutions in US, EU and Asia. He was the founding Senior Vice President for the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). He has authored books, papers, articles related to evolution of IoT and the industrial internet, software agents, predictive data analytics, supply chain management, public health (SARS-CoV-2), healthcare platforms, energy, digital transformation, digital twins and AI. He has served/serves as an advisor for start-ups, corporations and governments including NSF, US Dept of Defense, US Dept of Commerce, United Nations (UNDP), World Customs Organization (WCO), President’s Science and Technology Advisory Group (PSTAG) for the President of Taiwan (ROC), TEKES (Government of Finland), etc. He earned his BSc (Biochemistry, Physiology, Physics, Chemistry) from the Presidency College, University of Calcutta. He attended University of Pittsburgh and earned his PhD from Rutgers University School of Medicine in collaboration with Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. He was briefly associated (DNA tumor virus research) with Paris VI Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie and Institut du Cancer et d'Immunogénétique, Villejuif (ICIG, Hôpital Paul Brousse). He was a Research Fellow in Medicine (Thyroid and Neuro-Endocrine Labs, Molecular Oncology) at MGH (Massachusetts General Hospital) and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He was a Research Associate at the Whitehead Institute at MIT and a founding member of the MIT Human Genome Project (1993). He was a Research Scientist in Molecular Parasitology at University of California UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, California (joint program of UCSF and UC Berkeley School of Public Health). Shoumen has served in the public sector to improve public K-12 education and technology as Special Assistant to the Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco, California; Science Education Partnership at UCSF School of Medicine; Berkeley Pledge initiative at the University of California, Berkeley and Chair, National Task Force on Education, Economy, Workforce and Technology sponsored by Information Technology Association of America, US Department of Commerce, Dept of Labor and White House Council of Economic Advisers (1998-1999). Until recently he was an advisor to NIH funded CoVID-19 research teams from multiple US universities (for the rapid development of nano-biosensors for diagnostics of SARS-CoV-2). He continues to advise various research projects, students and various other entities, local and global.
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