Committee Members
Conference Co-Chairs
Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan
Program Co-Chairs
Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Yukio Ohsawa. The University of Tokyo, Japan
Dirk Van den Poel, Ghent University, Belgium
Industry and Government Program Co-Chairs
Yoichi Motomura, The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Lingfei Wu, Pinterest, USA
Takuya Takagi, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, Japan
Special Session Co-chair
Akihiro Sato, Yokohama City University, Japan
Dominik Slezak, University of Warsaw, Poland
Workshop Co-chairs
Akinori Abe, Chiba University, Japan
Ying Xie, Kennesaw State University, USA
Tutorial Co-chairs
Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Dries Beniot, Ghent University, Belgium
Proceeding Co-Chairs
T.P. Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Big Data Cup Challenges Co-chairs
Aleksandra Gruca, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Mario Krenn, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Takashi Kido, Teikyo University, Japan
Big Data Sponsorship Co-chairs
Hideki Takeda, FRONTEO, Japan
Katsutoshi Yada, Kansai University, Japan
Big Data Poster Co-chairs
Mitsunori Matsushita, Kansai University , Japan
Local Arrangement Co-chairs
Daisuke Katagami, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan
Takafumi Koshinaka, Yokohama City University, Japan
Registration Chair
Akiko Yamanobe, May project, Japan
Financial Co-chairs
Mayumi Kamata-Itakura, Microsoft Japan
Tony Xiaohua Hu, Drexel University, USA
Publicity Chair
Weiping Ding, Nantong University, China
Sayaka Shiota, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Sakiko Mishima, NEC Corporation, Japan
Student Travel Award Chair
Yuan An, Drexel University, USA
Steering Committee Chair
Tony Xiaohua Hu, Drexel University, USA, xh29@drexel.edu
PC Vice-Co-Chairs
(1) Big Data Science and Foundations
Naoki Masuda, Univ. of Buffalo, USA
Hua Lu, Roskilde University, Denmark
(2) Big Data Infrastructure
Derrick I-Hsien, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Michele Ciavotta Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
(3) Big Data Management
Shaoxu Song, Tsinghua University, China
Wook-Shin Han, POSTECH, south Korea
(4) Big Data Search and Mining
Ilaria Bartonlini University of Bologna, Italy
Yongxin Tong, Beihang University, China
(5) Big Data Learning and Analytics
Sule Gunduz, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Yanyan Shen, SJTU, China,
Elisabetta Fersini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
(6) Data Ecosystem
Teruaki Hayashi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Alfredo Cuzzocrea University of Calabria, Italy
(7) Big Data Applications
Yu Yi, Nara Women's University, Japan
Xiang Lian, Kent State University, USA