Eyal de Lara

Eyal de Lara is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His focus is on experimental research on mobile and pervasive computing systems.  Prof. de Lara served as editor in chief of ACM GetMobile the flagship publication of ACM SigMobile. His research has been recognized with an IBM Faculty Award, an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award, the 2012 CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize, and two best paper awards.

He is a PI of the CovidFree@Home project (https://covidfreeathome.org/), which aims to help patients that have been diagnosed with COVID-19, by recording their symptoms and creating a dialogue between them and their physician. Patients diagnosed with COVID can use our mobile app to report their symptoms and sensor data. This allows patients to stay at home if they are not in need of medical attention but keep their doctors updated on their health.