BigDIA

Plenary Talks

1. Peter Spirtes, PhD
   Professor of Philosophy and Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, Department of Philosophy Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
   Talk Title: Recent Methodological Advances in Automated Causal Discovery from Big Data
2. C. L. Philip Chen, FIEEE, FAAAS, FIAPR
   Chair Professor, University of Macau, China
   Talk Title: Big Data analytical: Computational Intelligence Approach and Prospect in Future Applications
3. Zongben Xu, PhD
   Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Mathematics & Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
   Talk Title: Small Sample Learning in Big Data Era
4. Zhi-Hua Zhou, PhD, FACM, FAAAI
   Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, China
   Talk Title: An exploration to non-NN style deep learning based on non-differentiable modules
5. Philip E. Bourne, PhD, FACMI
   Stephenson Chair of Data Science, Director of the Data Science Institute, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, USA
   Talk Title: Big Data & Analytics Across the Interdisciplinary Divide
6. Sofia Charlotta Olhede, PhD
   Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Honorary Professor, Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK
   Talk Title: A Broad Perspective on Network Testing

Co-Chairs:

• David Banks (Duke University and Statistical and Applied Mathematics Sciences Institute, USA)
• Jianhong Wu (York University, Canada, IEEE SMC Member)

Members:

• Ahmed, S. Ejaz, Professor of Math & Statistics, Dean, Faculty of Math & Science, Brock University, Canada
• Allen, Genevera, Associate Professor of Statistics, Rice University, USA
• Cao, Jiguo, Canada Research Chair in Data Science, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Dai, Dao-Qing, Professor of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University, China    
• DeSantis, Stacia M, Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
• Gao, Weiguo, Professor, Fudan School of Data Science,  Fudan University, China
• Gel, Yulia, Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
• Li, Dongmei, Associate Professor, University of Rochester, USA
• Li, Liang, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
• Lin, Zhouchen, Professor of Machine Intelligence, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China        
• Ma, Ping, Professor of Statistics, University of Georgia, USA
• Peng, Jiming, Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Houston, USA
• Thiébaut, Rodolphe, Professor and Deputy Director,  the INSERM U897 “Epidemiology & Biostatistics” research centre and professor in Public Health / Biostatistics at the University of Bordeaux, France
• Wang, Yu-Ping, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, USA
• Wu, Yichao, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Xiong, Momiao, Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
  
• Xing, Qiu, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, USA.
• Zhang, Kai, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
• Zhao, Yichuan, Professor of Statistics, Georgia State University, USA

Chair:

• Ordonez, Carlos(University of Houston, USA)

Co Chair:

• Yaseen, Ashraf (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA)

Co-Chairs:

• Bauer, Cici(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA)
• Xiong, Momiao(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA)
• Yaseen, Ashraf (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA)

Co-Chairs:

• Miao, Hongyu (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA)
• Yamal, Jose-Miguel  (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA)

Co-Chairs:

• Bao, Weidong IEEE Contact (National University of Defense Technology, China)
• Meng, Deyu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) 
• Zhu, Xiaomin (National University of Defense Technology, China)