Keynote Speakers
Prof. Aoying ZHOU
East China Normal University
Professor at School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University.
ZHOU Aoying is China Computer Federation (CCF) Fellow and a member of CCF Standing Committee, the Chair of the CCF Technical Committee on Databases, and the Associate Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Computer. He is the Chairman of Shanghai Computer Society, and the President of Shanghai Society of Artificial Intelligence and Social Development. He was the Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Fudan University (1999-2002), the Vice President of East China Normal University (2016-2023). His research interests lie in Databases, Data Management, Blockchain, Digital Transformation, FinTech, and EduTech.
Prof. John W PAISLEY
Columbia University
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Dept of Electrical Engineering
John Paisley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, where he is also a member of the Data Science Institute. His research interests include Bayesian models and inference, with applications to machine learning problems. Before joining Columbia in 2013, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the computer science departments at Princeton University and UC Berkeley. He received the BSE and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University in 2004 and 2010, respectively.
Prof. Philippe CUDRE-MAUROUX
University of Fribourg
Full Professor, Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg; Head of eXascale Infolab.
Philippe Cudre-Mauroux is a Full Professor and the Director of the eXascale Infolab at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, where he won both the Doctorate Award and the EPFL Press Mention in 2007. Before joining the University of Fribourg, he worked on information management infrastructures at IBM Watson (NY), Microsoft Research Asia and Silicon Valley, and MIT. He recently won the Verisign Internet Infrastructures Award, a Swiss National Center in Research award, a Google Faculty Research Award, as well as a 2 million Euro grant from the European Research Council. His research interests are in next-generation, Big Data management infrastructures for non-relational data and AI.
Guest Speakers
Prof. Mengzhou Zhuang
The University of Hong Kong
Assistant professor of Marketing at the University of Hong Kong
Mengzhou (Austin) Zhuang joined the University of Hong Kong in 2019, after receiving his Ph.D. in Business Administration (Marketing) from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before that he received his M.Phil. in Marketing from Lingnan University, and Bachelor degrees in Business Administration from Xi’an Jiaotong University.
His research interests lie in online advertising and multi-channel marketing strategy. His work primarily focuses on understanding the strategic decisions of multi-channel retailers, online advertisers, retailing platforms, and consumers.
Prof. Bo TANG
Southern University of Science and Technology
Tenured Asscoiate Professor, PhD Advisor,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering;
Adjunct position at Department of Statistics and Data Science,
Southern University of Science and Technology
Dr. Bo Tang is a tenured associate professor at Southern University of Science and
Technology. His research interests are big data/large model systems. He always
published at top-tier conference and journals (e.g., SIGMOD, PVLDB, TODS). His
research outputs have been widely used in leading IT companies (e.g.,
Microsoft, Tencent, and Huawei). He won Huawei Spark Award (3 times). He is
awarded SIGMOD China Rising Star at 2021 and sponsored by NSFC excellent young
researcher grant at 2024.
Prof. Leye WANG
Peking University
Assistant Professor, Institute of Software, School of Computer Science, Peking University
Leye Wang is an assistant professor at Key Lab of High Confidence Software Technologies, School of Computer Science, Peking University, China. His research interests include ubiquitous computing, mobile crowdsensing, and urban computing. Wang received a Ph.D. in computer science from the Institut Telecom SudParis and University Paris 6, France, in 2016, and was a postdoc researcher with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has published 50+ papers and received 1500+ citations according to Google Scholar.
Prof. Tsz Nam CHAN
Shenzhen University
Distinguished Professor,
College of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Shenzhen University
Tsz Nam Chan (Edison) is currently a Distinguished Professor in the database group of the Big Data Institute in Shenzhen University (SZU). He is a data engineering researcher (for handling the efficiency issues in big data settings). He published several research papers in prestigious conferences and journals (CCF: A, CSRankings, and top ranking in Google scholar) in both database (data engineering) and data mining areas, including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, SIGKDD, and TKDE. Prior to joining the SZU, he was a Research Assistant Professor in the Hong Kong Baptist University from Sep 2020 to Aug 2023 and a postdoctoral researcher in The University of Hong Kong from Sep 2018 to Aug 2020. He received the PhD degree in computing and the BEng degree in electronic and information engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019 and 2014, respectively. He is an IEEE senior member and an ACM member.
Dr. Paul BONIOL
Inria
Researcher at Inria, Member of the VALDA project-team, a joint team between Inria Paris, École Normale Supérieure, and CNRS.
I am a researcher at Inria, member of the VALDA project-team, which is a joint team between Inria Paris, École Normale Supérieure, and CNRS.
Before that, I was a Postdoctoral researcher at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris Saclay (Centre Borelli) in the team of Prof. Laurent Oudre. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Paris and EDF R&D, working with Prof. Themis Palpanas, Emmanuel Remy, and Mohammed Meftah. During my Ph.D., I did an internship at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Prof. Michael J. Franklin and Prof. John Paparrizos. Before starting my Ph.D., I worked as a research engineer at the computer science lab of Ecole Polytechnique in Prof. Michalis Vazirgiannis’s team.
My research interest lies in the intersections between:
Massive time series analytics and management systems.
Unsupervised and supervised anomaly detection methods for large time series.
Machine learning for time series analytics.
Prof. Defu LIAN
University of Science and Technology of China
Professor, Ph.D advisor
School of Data Science, School of Computer Science and Technology,
University of Science and Technology of China
Defu Lian is a professor from University of Science and Technology of China. His main research interest lies in data mining and deep learning. He has published more than 160 papers at prestigious conferences and journals, and received a best paper runner-up in APWeb 2016, best paper candidate in WWW 2021 and best paper award in WISE 2022. He developed a highly-modularized recommender system (RecStudio) and a learned vector retrieval library (LibVQ). He received the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars.
Prof. Longbiao CHEN
Xiamen Univeristy
Associate Professor, Xiamen University
Department of Computer Science, School of Informatics
Fujian Key Laboratory of Sensing and Computing for Smart City
Longbiao CHEN is an associate professor with Department of Computer Science, Xiamen University, China. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Sorbonne University, France in 2018 and Zhejiang University, China in 2016, respectively. Before joining Xiamen University, he worked as a research assistant in Institut Mines-Télécom, France. His research interests include Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Crowdsensing, Urban Computing, and Big Data Analytics. Dr. Chen has published over 50 papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including ACM UbiComp, IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing, and IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems. He received two UbiComp Honorable Mention Awards in 2015 and 2016, respectively. He is a senior member of China Computer Federation (CCF), technical committee member of ACM SIGSPATIAL China Chapter and CCF Ubiquitous Computing Committee. He serves as the PC members of several conferences including IJCAI and UIC.