Keynote Speakers
Prof. Philippe Cudre Maoux
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.
Prof. John W Paisley
Columbia University
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Dept of Electrical Engineering
John Paisley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. John is also an affiliated member of the Data Science Institute at Columbia.
John received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University, where he worked with Lawrence Carin. He was then a post-doc in the Computer Science departments at Princeton University with David Blei and UC Berkeley with Michael Jordan.
John’s research is in the general area of statistical machine learning. His interests include probabilistic modeling and inference techniques, Bayesian nonparametric methods, dictionary learning and topic modeling.
Guest Speakers
Prof. Leye Wang
Peking University
Assistant Professor, Institute of Software, School of Computer Science, Peking University
Prof. Longbiao CHEN
Xiamen Univeristy
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. Mengzhou Zhuang
The University of Hong Kong
Assistant professor of Marketing at the University of Hong Kong
Mr. Paul Boniol
Inria