Dr Shoumen Palit Austin Datta is a Research Affiliate at the School of Engineering at MIT, Senior Vice President for the Industrial Internet Consortium (www.iiconsortium.org) and engaged with the MDPnP Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (mdpnp.org). He expects to contribute in developing and implementing the vision of the internet of systems (IoS) which extends the concept of the internet of things (IoT) and the industrial internet to catalyze global economic growth. Prior to joining the IIC he was the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation at the MIT School of Engineering. He taught Strategy and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was a Member of the Auto ID Center at MIT and Research Scientist in the Engineering Systems Division, MIT School of Engineering. He has lectured worldwide on technology innovation and participated in executive education at MIT and several other institutions in US, EU and Asia. He has authored papers and articles related to evolution of the industrial internet (2003), intelligent software agents, frame-work for predictive analytics, operations and supply chain management, sensors in healthcare platforms and renewable energy for sustainable global economy. He often serves as an independent consultant and advisor for major corporations and governments. His prior work includes the US Department of Defense, United Nations (UNDP), the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the President’s Science and Technology Advisory Group (PSTAG) as well as major industries. He is a lifetime champion of public K-16 education. Shoumen earned his PhD from Rutgers University in collaboration with Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. He was a Research Fellow in Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University. He was a Research Associate at the Whitehead Institute at MIT and a member of the Human Genome Project at MIT. He was a Research Scientist at the University of California (UCSF) School of Medicine (San Francisco, CA). In between his careers in research/medicine and engineering/management, he served in the public sector for the City of San Francisco, State of California and in US Government roles. His self-guided convergence of medicine into engineering was catalyzed while auditing AI courses at MIT and network engineering lectures at the University of California, Berkeley.
