26th International Society for Design and Process Science Conference

Varadraj Gurupur, PhD is an Associate Professor with the School of Health Management and Informatics and has a joint appointment with the Department of Computer Science, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with the University of Central Florida. He is the founding member and Director of the Center for Decision Support Systems and Informatics at UCF. Dr. Gurupur received his Doctoral degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2010. Dr. Gurupur is a recipient of two international awards, two national awards, and several regional and institutional awards. This includes the prestigious AHIMA Research Award in the year 2017, and the AHIMA Triumph Award for Innovation in 2021. Additionally, he is also the recipient of the prestigious Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from IEEE Region 3 and the recipient of FHIMA Literary Award in 2016. His core research is focused on software engineering decision support systems for healthcare and education. Dr. Gurupur is also someone who has worked in the healthcare industry for several years. Based on this work experience and academic training he is involved in discovering innovative solutions to difficult problems associated with Electronic Health Records. Dr. Gurupur has more than 100 publications which include: edited book, book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, abstracts, and published reviews.John Carbone has served for 35 years in the defense industry as an Engineering Fellow, Chief Science Advisor, Technology Director, Chief Engineer for Innovation, Chief Data Scientist, and Applied AI with AI Ethics and AI Security, as well as, Advanced Data Science as Adjunct Professor at Southern Methodist and Baylor University. His national and international innovations/patents were instrumental in forging bridges between NSA & Weather High Performance Computing and Big Data/Cloud warfighting architectures, C5ISR enterprise, MDA Non-Kinetic ISR Algorithms, MESH comms architectures, UAV Sensor Fusion, JADC2 dominance focused 5G designs, dynamic DDIL communications, AI/behavior-based, and recent Space-based SDWAN & cross domain cyber security. Dr. Carbone has a 100+ AI, Engineering, and Data Science publications incl. AI based Cyber Security, Mining Big Data to Improve National Security, Multi-Disciplinary Systems Engineering, and Applied Cyber Physical Systems to name a few, His newest book by Springer Publishing regarding AI, chatbots, and Large Language Models is “Chatbots, The good, The Bad, and The Ugly”.Lalit Garg is an associate professor of computer information systems at the University of Malta, Malta, and an honorary lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has been a researcher at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Ulster University, UK. Prof Garg has supervised 200+ Master's dissertations, 2 DBA and 5 PhD theses and published 200+ high-impact publications in refereed journals/conferences/books, 22 edited books and 24 patents. He has delivered numerous keynote speeches, organised/chaired international conferences, and consulted countless public and private organisations for information systems implementation and management.Professor Patrick Then heads School of Information and Communication Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus and program leader of Health Data Analytics at Swinburne Melbourne Data Science Institute. He is the founder and director of Swinburne Sarawak’s Centre for Digital Futures. He is the thought leader in health informatics and digital health research and development. He demonstrated translational research from fundamental research to solving real-life cardiac challenges faced by clinicians and patients. He has been a plenary speaker of various national conferences in digital health. One of his digital health in cough sound artificial intelligence was rolled out to the whole nation in October 2022.

• Introduction.- Towards an integrated design and process science.-Comprehension of implementation science.- Creativity vs design creativity.- How next generation researchers see Mode 2 science.- Intellectualized cyber-physical systems.- Process design for system intelligence.- Design and 4D Printing.- Conclusion.