Dates: 20-21 September, 2016

Venue: Qatar Science Campus Hall, Aobayama-Campus, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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Keynote Speaker

Prof. Masaru Kitsuregawa (Director General, National Institute of Informatics, Japan / The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Title: Big Data towards societal benefits rather than commercial profits

Invited Speakers

Prof. Xiaoyang Sean Wang (School of Computer Science, Fudan University, China)
Title: Query optimization techniques for large-scale exploratory text analysis
Prof. James Kwok (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Title: Big machine learning
Prof. Hisashi Kashima (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan)
Title: Crowdsourcing for big data analysis
Prof. Xiaoliang Wang (State key laboratory for Novel Software and Technology, Department of Computer Sciences ＆ Technology, Nanjing University, China)
Title: Fine-grained human activity recongnition using signal based mobile sensing
Prof. Takahiro Hara (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Japan)
Title: People as sensors: Technologies and platform for social media mining
Prof. Lingyang Song (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China)
Title: Full-duplex cognitive radio for future wireless networks
Prof. Hee-Kap Ahn (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea)
Title: Geometric algorithms on imprecise and streaming data
Prof. Srinivasa Rao Satti (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea)
Title: Space-efficient graph algorithms
Prof. Jyh-Shing Roger Jang (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Title: An overview of music information retrieval
Prof. Xavier Defago (Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Title: Intrusion-tolerance and dynamic faults in the internet of things
Prof. Wei Xu (Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, China)
Title: Making our cloud computing infrastructure smarter
Prof. Shan-Hung Wu (Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Title: Big data behind small apps
Prof. Toshiyuki Amagasa (Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Title: GPU-accelerated big data processing
Prof. Kentaro Inui (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan)
Title: Computational models of commonsense reasoning for natural language discourse understanding

Poster Presentation (16:00-17:00 on 20 September, 2016)

List of Poster Presentations

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20 September, 2016

09:45-10:20 Registration

Chair: Prof. Jinhee Chun, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University

10:20-10:30 Opening Remarks
Prof. Susumu Satomi (President, Tohoku University, Japan)

10:30-10:45 Group Photo

10:45-11:30 Keynote Talk
Prof. Masaru Kitsuregawa (Director General, National Institute of Informatics, Japan / The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Title: Big data towards societal benefits rather than commercial profits

11:30-12:00 Prof. Shan-Hung Wu (Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Title: Big data behind small apps

12:00-12:30 Prof. Jyh-Shing Roger Jang (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Title: An overview of music information retrieval

12:30-14:00 Lunch


Chair: Prof. Akira Suzuki, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University

14:00-14:30 Prof. Wei Xu (Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, China)
Title: Making our cloud computing infrastructure smarter

14:30-15:00 Prof. Hee-Kap Ahn (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea)
Title: Geometric algorithms on imprecise and streaming data

15:00-15:30 Prof. Takahiro Hara (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Japan)
Title: People as sensors: Technologies and platform for social media mining

15:30-16:00 CoffeeBreak

16:00-17:00 Poster Presentation

19:00-21:00 Reception
Venue: Room “Ginga," 21st Level, Hotel Metropolitan Sendai, 1-1-1 Chuo, Aoba-ku, Sendai

09:30-10:00 Registration

Chair: Prof. Shun Kataoka, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University

10:00-10:30 Prof. Hisashi Kashima (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan)
Title: Crowdsourcing for big data analysis

10:30-11:00 Prof. Kentaro Inui (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan)
Title: Computational models of commonsense reasoning for natural language discourse understanding

11:00-11:30 Prof. Srinivasa Rao Satti (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea)
Title: Space-efficient graph algorithms

11:30-13:00 Lunch


Chair: Dr. Yuichi Kawamoto, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University

13:00-13:30 Prof. James Kwok (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Title: Big machine learning

13:30-14:00 Prof. Xavier Defago (Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Title: Intrusion-tolerance and dynamic faults in the internet of things

14:00-14:30 Prof. Lingyang Song (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China)
Title: Full-duplex cognitive radio for future wireless networks

14:30-15:00 Coffee Break


Chair: Prof. Hasitha Muthumala Waidyasooriya, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University

15:00-15:30 Prof. Xiaoyang Sean Wang (School of Computer Science, Fudan University, China)
Title: Query optimization techniques for large-scale exploratory text analysis

15:30-16:00 Prof. Toshiyuki Amagasa (Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Title: GPU-Accelerated big data processing

16:00-16:30 Prof. Xiaoliang Wang (Department of Computer Sciences and Technology, Nanjing University, China)
Title: Fine-grained human activity recongnition using signal based mobile sensing

16:30-16:40 Closing Remarks

Prof. Takeshi Tokuyama (Dean, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan)

Organized by

Takeshi Tokuyama (Dean, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan)
Kazuyuki Tanaka (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan)

Supported by

Association of East Asian Research Universities (AEARU)
Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS), Tohoku University, Japan