Dr. Mina Sartipi is a UC Foundation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She is a Program Leader for Urban Science & Technology at University of Tennessee Chattanooga (UTC). She also leads the Smart Communications and Analysis Lab (SCAL). At SCAL, we leverage our expertise on data science (data analytics and data management) and wireless communications in smart city applications such as transportation, health, and energy. More specifically, SCAL focuses on research in Urban Science and Urban Analytics, Data Acquisition and Compressive Sensing, Data Integration, Data Interoperability, Big Data Analytics, Smart Health, Smart Grid, Intelligent Transportation, Information Processing for Wireless Sensor Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Modern Error Control Coding and Information Theory, and Signal Processing and Wavelet Transform.