Big Data in Emergency Management: Exploitation Techniques for Social and Mobile Data

​Rajendra Akerkar holds master’s in applied mathematics and doctorate in computer science. He is the professor and head of Big Data Research Group at Vestlansforsking (Western Norway Research Institute), Norway. His research and teaching experience includes over 28 years in the Academia spanning universities in Asia, Europe and North America. His research focuses on application of big data methods to real world challenges, particularly transport, public security, energy and utilities. He is actively involved in several international ICT initiatives for more than 22 years.

• 1. Introduction to Emergency Management.- 2. Big Data.- 3. Learning Algorithms for Emergency Management.- 4. Knowledge Graphs and Natural-Language Processing.- 5. Social Media Mining for Disaster Management and Community Resilience.- 6. Big Data-Driven Citywide Human Mobility Modeling for Emergency Management.- 7. Smartphone based Emergency Communication.- 8. Emergency Information Visualisation.