2014 BIG DATA WORKSHOP

Wei-Ying Ma,
Assistant Managing Director
Microsoft Research Asia
Talk title: To be confirmed

Dr. Wei-Ying Ma is an Assistant Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia where he oversees multiple research groups including Web Search and Mining, Natural Language Computing, Data Management and Analytics, and Internet Economics and Computational Advertising. He and his team of researchers have developed many key technologies that have been transferred to Microsoft’s Online Services Division including Bing Search Engine and Microsoft Advertising. He has published more than 250 papers at international conferences and journals.

Cha, Sang Kyun,
Director, SNU Big Data Institute
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University (SNU)
Talk title: Toward Real-Time Innovation with In-Memory Big Data Processing

Prof. Cha have been a professor at Seoul National University in School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science since February 1992. Prior to Seoul National University, Prof. Cha worked on an in-memory personal data management project at HP Laboratories, Palo Alto, California from July 1991 to January 1992. Motivated by this experience, He started his own in-memory DB project since he moved to Seoul National University. A few local venture companies were started based on the early prototype developed by his group in the course of trying in-memory DB architecture.

Data and Text Mining
Computer Vision, Speech Understanding, & HCI
Programming Languages and Program Analysis

Wei Chen
Senior Researcher, Theory Group,
Microsoft Research Asia
Talk title: Active friending and influence route selection

Reynold Cheng
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science,
University of Hong Kong
Talk title: On Incentive-based Tagging

Seung-won Hwang
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
POSTECH
Talk title: Knowledge Graph

U Kang
Ewon Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Talk title: Big Graph Mining

Sung-Hyon Myaeng
Professor, Department of Computer Science,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Talk title: Mining Human Experiences from the Web

Jie Tang
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology,
Tsinghua University
Talk title: Social influence analysis in large-scale networks

Xiaojun Wan
Associate Professor, Institute of Computer Science and Technology,
Peking University
Talk title: Text summarization in the big data era

Kam-Fai Wong
Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Talk title: Emergent Rumor Detection and Credibility Ranking on Social Media

Xing Xie
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia
Talk title: Building User Knowledge Graph Based on Human Behavioral Data

Helen Meng
Professor and Chairman, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Talk title: Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing

Yu-Wing Tai
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Talk title: Photometric method for Geometry Refinement

Chi-Keung Tang
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Talk title: Two-Class Weather Classification

Xiaogang Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Talk title: Deep Learning from Big Visual Data

Yu-Shuen Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science,
National Chiao Tung University
Talk title: Subspace optimization for streaming video stabilization

Kun Xu
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology,
Tsinghua University
Talk title: Construction, Editing, and Rendering of Visual Media

Sung-Eui Yoon
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Talk title: Scalable Graphics/Geometric Algorithms

Guofeng Zhang
Associate Professor, College of Computer Science,
Zhejiang University
Talk title: Camera Tracking in Challenging Environments

Wei-Ngan Chin
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing,
National University of Singapore
Talk title: From Verification to Specification Inference

Se-won Kim
Postdoc, Computer Science Department,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Talk title: Inferring Grammatical Summaries of String Values

Michael Rung-Tsong Lyu
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Talk title: Emerging Big Data Analytics in Software Reliability Engineering

Sean McDirmid
Programming Language Researcher, Systems Research Group,
Microsoft Research Asia
Talk title: Programming with Managed Time

Yasuhiko Minamide
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering,
University of Tsukuba
Talk title: Reachability Analysis of the HTML5 Parser Specification and Its Application to Compatibility Testing

Aditya V. Nori
Senior Researcher,
Microsoft Research India
Talk title: Probabilistic Programming: A program analysis perspective

Sukyoung Ryu
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Talk title: Program Analysis of JavaScript Web Applications

Fang Yu
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Information Systems,
National Chengchi University
Talk title: Detecting and patching web application vulnerabilities