Organization

Big Data Steering Committee:

Dr. Ama Awadallah, Cloudera, USA
Dr. Xueqi Cheng, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Prof. Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Prof. Xiaohua Tony Hu (Chair), Drexel University, USA
Prof. T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
Prof. Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Prof. Beth Plale, Indiana University, USA
Prof. Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Prof. Amit Sheth, Wright State University, USA
Prof. Matthew Smith, Leibniz Universität Hannove, Germany
Prof. Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan

Conference Co-Chairs:

Dr. Charu Aggarwal, IBM T.J Watson Research, USA
Prof. Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
Prof. Vasant Honavar, Penn State University, USA

Program Co-Chairs:

Prof. Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland, USA
Prof. Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Industry and Government Program Co-Chairs:

Mr. Wo Chang, National Institute of Standard and Technology, USA
Dr. Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco Systems Inc, USA

General Chair:

T.Y. Lin , San Jose State University, USA

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Prof. Jun Huan, Univ. of Kansas, USA
Prof. Bamshad Mobasher, Depaul University, USA mobasher@cs.depaul.edu
Prof. Saumyadipta Pyne, CR Rao AIMSCS, Hyderabad, India

Poster Co-Chairs:

Dr. David G. Belanger, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. Saurav Karmakar, Samsung R&D Institute, USA
Prof. Guangrong Li, Hunan University, China

Publicity Co-chairs:

Prof. Yon Ge, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte
Prof. Yihua Huang, Nanjing University, China

Prof. Roberto V. Zicari, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Proceedings Co-Chairs:

Dr. Eric Chen, NTT Innovation Institute Inc, USA

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs:

Prof. Dechang Chen, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA

Sponsorship Co-Chairs:

Dr. Ashok Krishnamurthy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Dr. N. Raju Gottumukkala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

Tutorial Co-Chairs:

Prof. Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada

Prof. Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan

Registration Co-Chairs:

Prof. Jianchao Han, California State University, USA

Prof. Yuan An, Drexel University, USA

Student Travel Award Co-Chairs:

Prof. Claire Monteleoni, The George Washington Univ. USA