Matthew Lange, PhD

Research Food and Health Informatician
Principal Investigator, IC³-FOODS
Associate Director, Initiative for Wireless Health & Wellness
UC Davis and UC Davis Health System

Abstract:
The Semantic Web and Internet of Food hold promise to fundamentally alter the way we produce, process, deliver and consume food. Ubiquitous sensors and novel means of scientific interrogation along the ag⇔food⇔diet⇔health knowledge spectrum provide unprecedented windows into the natural world and human behavior upon we can build intelligent decision support and guidance systems as well as ecosystems of next-generation knowledge tools that lower technical innovation barriers for creation of novel, traceable, ecologically-friendly foods, products, medicines, and lifestyle regimens: precisely personalized for health and delight yet aggregatable for population and market analyses.

Bio:
As Associate Director of the UC Davis Initiative for Wireless Health and Wellness at UC Davis, and the Principle Investigator for International Center for Food Ontology Operability Data and Semantics (IC-FOODS) at UC Davis, Dr. Lange is leading efforts to build the semantic and ontological underpinnings for the emerging Semantic Web and Internet of Food.
Dr. Lange has taught Food Product Innovation in the Food Science Department, as well as Data Acquisition within the graduate Health Informatics program at UC Davis School of Medicine. Dr. Lange publishes, teaches, and consults internationally on strategies and conceptual models for enterprise and industrial-scale ag⇔food⇔diet⇔health knowledge infrastructures.