Organizers
Big Data Steering Committee:
Dr. Amr Awadallah, Cloudera, USAProf. Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
Mr. Wo Cheng, National Institute of Standard and Technology, USA
Dr. Xueqi Cheng, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Prof. Xiaohua Tony Hu (Chair), Drexel University, USA
Dr. Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco Systems, USA
Prof. Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Prof. Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Prof. Amit Sheth, Wright State University, USA
Prof. Matthew Smith, Leibniz Universität Hannove, Germany
Dr. Shusaku Tsumoto , Shimane University, Japan
Conference Co-Chairs:
Dr. Laura Haas, IBM Research Accelerated Discovery Lab, USAProf. Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
Program Co-Chairs:
Dr. Howard Ho, IBM Amerdan Research Center, USAProf. Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof. Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Industry and Government Program Co-Chair
Dr. Sudarsan Rachuri, National Institute of Standard and Technology, USADr. Shipeng Yu, LinkedIn, USA
Dr. Morris Hui-I Hsiao, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan Raghunath Nambiar,
Dr. Jian Li, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, USA
Workshop Co-Chairs
Prof Feng Luo, Clemson University, USAProf. Kemafor Ogan, North Carolina State University, USA
Prof. Saumyadipta Pyne, Indian Institute of Public Health Hyderabad, India
Poster Co-Chairs
Dr. Ritu Arora, University of Texas, USAProf. Yicheng Tu University of South Florida, USA
Publicity Co-chair
Prof. Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, ItalyProf. Mark Hedges, King’s College London, UK
Prof. Yihua Huang, Nanjing University, China
Prof. Weijia Xu, University of Texas, USA
Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Dr. Lifan Guo, TCL Research America, USADr. Jia Huang, Samsung R& D, USA
Sponsorship Co-Chairs
Dr. Balaji Krishnapuram IBM, USATutorial Co-Chairs
Prof. Latifur Khan, Univ of Texas at Dallas, USADr. Shusaku Tsumoto , Shimane University, Japan
Dr. Yinglong Xia, IBM, USA