University of Rochester

RocData

Forum Schedule

Thursday Oct 4

Rush Rhees Library 



4:00-4:15

Welcome




Session: Dimensions of Big Data Research



4:15-4:50

Pedro Domingos (U Washington)                           Slides    Video Presentation Not Available                     A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning

4:50-5:25

Deborah McGuinness (RPI)                           Slides          Video Presentation                              Next Generation Data Provenance

5:25-6:00

Carlos Guestrin Presentation (U Washington)  Slides          Video Presentation                      GraphLab: A Distributed Abstraction for Maching Learning in the Cloud  



6:10,6:20,6:30

Buses depart to GEH



6:30-9:00

George Eastman House Reception



8:00,8:30,9:00

Buses depart GEH to River Campus



Friday Oct 5

Rush Rhees Library



9:00-10:20

Federal Big Data Programs and Initiatives


Peter Highnam (IARPA)


Purush Iyer (ARO)


Chris Greer (NIST)



10:20-10:40

Coffee Break




Session: Cloud Data



10:40-11:20

Alon Halevy (Google)                                      Slides          Video Presentation                                  Towards an Ecosystem of Structured Data on the Web

11:20-11:40

Daisy Zhe Wang (U Florida)                              Slides          Video Presentation                                  Probabilistic Knowledge Base Systems over Large-scal Unstructured Text




Session: E-Science



11:40-12:00

Raj Raizada (UR Brain & Cognitive Science)    Slides          Video Presentation                              How Big Data Can Help Big Theory: A View From Neuroscience

12:00-12:40

John Quackenbush (Harvard)                             Slides          Video Presentation                              The Road to Genomic Medicine is Paved with Data and Information



12:40-1:40

Lunch - May Room at Wilson Commons



1:40-2:00

Axel Wismueller (UR Biomedical Engineering)    Slides          Video Presentation                                  Big Data in Biomedicine: Multidimensional Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Image Patterns

2:00-2:20

Tal Yarkoni (Arizona)                                                    Slides          Video Presentation                                  New Horizions at the Interface of the Psychological and Computing Sciences

2:20-3:00

Heidi Newberg (RPI)                                    Slides          Video Presentation                                  The Sloan Digital Sky Survey From Big Data to Big Database to Big Compute



3:00-3:20

Coffee Break



3:20-4:00

Carla Gomes (Cornell)                                 Slides          Video Presentation                                  Computational Sustainability




Session: Health



4:00-4:40

Tanzeem Choudhury (Cornell)                              Slides          Video Presentation                                  Using Smartphones to Sense, Assess, and Improve Well-Being

4:40-5:00

Henry Kautz (UR Computer Science)                             Slides          Video Presentation                                   Predicting Disease Transmission from Geo-Tagged Micro-Blog Data

5:00-5:20

Xin Tu (UR Biostatistics)                              Slides          Video Presentation                                  Statistical Inference of Social Media Data on Neighborhood Violence Programs and It's Impact on the Field of Biostatistics




Session: Datamining I



5:20-6:00

Christos Faloutsos (CMU)                              Slides          Video Presentation                                  Larage Graph Mining-Patterns and It's Impact on the Field of Biostatistics



6:00-9:00

Goergen Hall Reception 


  7:15-8:00 Presentation and Book Signing,


 "The Infinite Emotions of Coffee" by Alon Halevy



Saturday Oct 6

Goergen Hall




Session: Business and Social Science



9:00-10:20

Industry Panel   Video Presentation


Naveen Sharma (Xerox)


Ed Pednault (IBM)


Rajiv Dewan (UR Simon School)



10:20-10:40

Huaxia Rui (UR Simon School)                              Slides          Video Presentation                                  Whose and What Chatter Matters?  the Effect of Tweets on Movie Sales

10:40-11:00

Matthew Blackwell (UR Political Science)       Slides          Video Presentation                                  Game-Changers: Detecting Shifts in the Flow of Campaign Contributions



11:00-11:20

Coffee Break




Sesson: Data Mining II



11:20-11:40

Ray Mooney (UT Austin)                              Slides          Video Presentation                                  Automatically Extracting Structured Information from Biomedical Text

11:40-12:00

Theophana Mitsa (Consultant)                             Slides          Video Presentation                             Temporal Data Mining For Small and Big Data

12:00-12:20

Mauro Maggioni (Duke)                               Slides          Video Presentation                                  Exploiting Geometry of High-Dimensional Data

12:20-12:40

Jiebo Luo (UR Computer Science)                              Slides          Video Presentation                                  Social Multimedia Mining: From Recommendation to Prediction and Forecast



12:40-1:40

Lunch with Poster Session - Goergen Hall Atrium




Session: Scalability



1:40-2:00

Vibhav Gogate (UT Dallas)                             Slides          Video Presentation                                  Scaling up Inference by Exploiting Logical Structure

2:00-2:20

Daniel Lowd (U Oregon)                              Slides          Video Presentation                                  Scalable Learning of Markov Network Structure




Session: From Deep Computing to Big Data

2:20-3:00

Murray Campbell (IBM)                                Slides          Video Presentation                                  From Deep Computing to Big Data