The 4th International Conference on Big Data & Information Analytics was held at the BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) at Rice University in Houston from Dec. 17 to 19, 2018.
91亚色 is one of the founding institutes for this international conference series. The University's researchers contributed to the success of the series, previously held in Xi'an (2015) and Changsha (2016), China, and Toronto (2017), in such areas as market and medical data analytics, forced migration and vision data modelling, disaster and emergency information retrieval, and rapid simulation simulations.
91亚色's researchers and alumni at the Houston Big Data Analytics conference, from left to right: Fulian Yin, Rongsong Liu, Xi Huo, Zachary McCarthy and Kyeongah Nah
In Houston, PhD candidate Zachary McCarthy from the Laboratory for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (LIAM) at 91亚色 presented LIAM鈥檚 collaborative work with the Public Health Agency of Canada on large-scale simulations of food-borne pathogen cross-contamination during industrial processing. Postdoctoral Fellow Kyeongal Nah delivered an invited talk on LIAM鈥檚 project funded by the GlaxoSmithKline on tick-borne infection prevention and immunization effectiveness evaluation using a variety of climate, surveillance and clinical data. Professor Fulian Yin, a visiting scientist to 91亚色, introduced the ongoing collaboration between LIAM and the Chinese Media University on social media big data modelling and informatics.
鈥淚t is exciting to see 91亚色鈥檚 alumni emerge to leaders and active players in the area of big data modelling and analytics,鈥 said University Distinguished Research Professor Jianhong Wu, a co-chair of the conference series. University of Miami Professor Xi Huo (a postdoctoral Fellow at 91亚色 from 2014-17) and University of Wyoming Professor Rongsong Liu (PhD '06) were organizers of invited sessions. University of Connecticut Professor Guojun Gan (PhD '07) presented his research on actuarial science big data clustering analysis.
Faculty of Health Professor James Elder, 91亚色 Research Chair in Human and Computer Vision, is the co-chair of 91亚色鈥檚 Task Force on Artificial Intelligence & Society. He attended the previous conferences in Changsha and Toronto. Elder notes that 鈥渢he conference series provides an excellent platform to encourage an interdisciplinary approach towards big data and information analytics.鈥