Florence Hudson
Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub Executive Director
Greater New York City Area
Florence D. Hudson is Executive Director and Principal Investigator for the NSF, NIH and DOT funded Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub and the COVID Information Commons at Columbia University. She is Co-PI on the new NSF Proto-OKN EduGate project and is looking for collaborators who have or want to create knowledge graph education content to leverage in the program. She Chairs the IEEE Standards Working Group on Clinical Internet of Things Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS (Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and Security) and is on the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Standards Committee. She is a former IBM Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Internet2 Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Special Advisor for the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, and aerospace engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and Grumman Aerospace Corporation. She is Editor in Chief for two Springer books on Women Securing the Future with TIPPSS for IoT and Connected Healthcare focusing on trust, identity, privacy, protection, safety and security. She is also a published author with Elsevier, Wiley and College Publications. She is an experienced Board Director (NASDAQ: IEC) and Trustee, currently serving on multiple academic and nonprofit Boards. She earned her Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering degree from Princeton University, and executive education certificates from Harvard Business School and Columbia University.