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CREDIT Center / MCBDA2017

 

Second Workshop of Mission-Critical Big Data Analytics (MCBDA 2017)
May 16 – 17, 2017

Agenda
Tuesday: May 16, 2017 (MSC Ballroom)

9:00 – 9:10 AM Opening(Welcome and Logistic Issues)
Dr. Lijun Qian, PI and Director of the CREDIT Center
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Roy G. Perry College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University
9:10 – 9:30 AM Greetings and Overview of Prairie View A&M University
Dr. George Wright, President of Prairie View A&M University
9:30 – 9:50 AM DOD Center of Excellence Program
Ms. Evelyn Kent, OASD HBCU/MI Program Manager and
Dr. Timothy S. Kroecker, AFRL Program Manager
9:50 – 10:40 AM Keynote Speech I: “Using Big Data Analytics to Fight Identity Fraud”
Dr. Stephen Coggeshall, Chief Analytics and Science Officer, ID Analytics
Slides can be found here
10:40 – 10:50 AM Break
10:50 – 11:40 AM Keynote Speech II: “Fast Efficient VR Immersive Content from 2D video via Deep Learning for Mission Critical Applications”
Dr. Henry Chu, Executive Director, Informatics Research Institute Professor, School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Slides can be found here
11:40 – 11:55 AM Demo: “Remote 3D Big Data Volume Visualization on Cloud”
The CREDIT Center computing platform team led by Dr. Lei Huang
11:55 – 12:10 PM Student Presentation: “The Winning Strategies for the 2016 IEEE Big Data Competition and Valuable Experiences”
The winning student team of the CREDIT Center: Safat Mahmood, Joshua Bassey, Travon Johnson, De’Ahna Johnson
12:10 – 2:00 PM Luncheon with Featured Keynote Speech III:
“Privacy and Big Data: Can They Coexist? ” (12:50 – 1:40 PM)
Dr. Daniel J. Ragsdale, Director of the Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center
Professor of Practice, Computer Science and Engineering of Texas A&M University
Slides can be found here
2:00 – 2:35 PM Technical Presentation: “Tensor Decompositions for Big Multi-aspect Data Analytics”
Dr. Vagelis Papalexakis, Assistant Professor at the University of California Riverside
Slides can be found here
2:35 – 3:10 PM Technical Presentation: “Mass Movements and Their Adoption in Social Media”
Dr. Fang Jin, Assistant Professor at the Texas Tech University
Slides can be found here
3:10 -3:45 PM Technical Presentation: “Threat Modeling and Risk Analysis in Cyber-Physical
Systems”
Dr. Emeka Eyisi, United Technologies Research Center (UTRC)
Slides can be found here
3:45 – 4:00 PM Break
4:00 – 4:35 PM Technical Presentation: “IBM Watson”
LaShina B. Williams, IBM
Slides can be found here
4:35 – 5:10 PM Technical Presentation: “IBM Watson”
LaShina B. Williams, IBM
Slides can be found here
5:10 – 5:45 PM Technical Presentation: “An Overview of Processing and Exploitation at the Information Directorate”
Dr. Timothy S. Kroecker, AFRL
5:45 – 6:00 PM Break
6:00 – 7:30 PM Workshop Reception with Student Poster Session and Competition
Facilitator: Dr. Pamela Obiomon, Department Head of ECE at PVAMU

Wednesday: May 17, 2017
(Morning : MSC Ballroom )

9:00 – 9:10 AM Opening(Welcome and Logistic Issues)
Dr. Lijun Qian, PI and Director of the CREDIT Center
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Roy G. Perry College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University
9:10 – 9:30 AM Greetings and Overview of Prairie View A&M University
Dr. Felecia Nave, Provost and Senior Vice President of Prairie View A&M University
9:30 – 10:20 AM Keynote speech IV : “Fresh Breeze: A Radical Approach to Massively Parallel
Computer Architecture and Programming”
Dr. Jack B. Dennis, Professor, MIT CSAIL
Slides can be found here
10:20 – 10:35 AM Break
10:35 – 11:10 AM Technical Presentation: “Programming Model Challenges for Extreme Scale
Computing and Data Analytics”
Dr. Vivek Sarkar, Professor, Rice University
11:10 – 11:45 AM Technical Presentation: “Big Stream Data Analytics: Current & Future Trends”
Dr. Latifur Khan, Professor, UT Dallas
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11:45 – 12:20 PM Technical Presentation: “Efficient Krylov Subspace Approximation for Manifold Learning”
Dr. Shinjae Yoo, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Slides can be found here
12:20 – 2:00 PM Lunch Break

(Afternoon: Advanced Computing Lab in the Electrical Engineering Building)

2:00 – 3:30 PM Intensive Hands-on Training Part I:
Learning for Big Data using Cloud-based Platform Provided by the training team of the CREDIT Center
3:30 – 3:45 PM Intensive Hands-on Training Part II:
Deep Learning for Big Data using Google TensorFlow
Provided by the training team of the CREDIT Center
(All the training materials and use of the CPU and GPU clusters will be provided.)
Source codes and materials are available upon request.
Please contact the tutorial chair Dr.Hsiang-Huang Wu (PVAMU) at virtuoso.wu@gmail.com
2:00 – 4:00 PM Wrap up Discussions
(Concurrent with the training session)
All stakeholders (by invitation only)
(Room 315D, 3rd floor of the Electrical Engineering building)
5:30 PM Adjourn

Committee Members

STEERING COMMITTEE

  • Evelyn Kent, OSD/DOD (Chair)
  • Kendall T. Harris, PVAMU (Co-Chair)
  • Barbara Chapman, Stony Brook University
  • Qinqing (Christine) Zhang, UTRC
  • Renata Rawlings-Goss, NSF South Big Data Hub & GaTech

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General chairs

  • Timothy S. Kroecker, AFRL
  • Lijun Qian, PVAMU

Technical Program Chairs

  • Alex Aved, AFRL
  • Xiangfang Li, PVAMU
  • Lei Huang, PVAMU

Publications Chair

  • Yonggao Yang, PVAMU

Tutorial Chair

  • Hsiang-Huang Wu, PVAMU
  • Xishuang Dong, PVAMU
  • Yuzhong Yan, PVAMU

Student Poster Chair

  • Pamela Obiomon, PVAMU

Local Arrangement Chair

  • John Fuller, PVAMU

Industry Chair

  • Paul Potier, PVAMU
  • Abid M. Malik, BNL

Publicity Chairs

  • Sikha Bagui, UWF
  • Yonghui Wang, PVAMU
  • Lin Li, PVAMU

Finance Chair

  • Lijun Qian, PVAMU
  • Lei Huang, PVAMU

Registration Chair

  • Carolyn Wedeking, PVAMU

Main Event

The main event will be hosted in the Memorial Student Center (MSC) Ballroom at Prairie View A&M University. The Memorial Student Center is located on the corner of L.W. Minor and O.J. Thomas streets, directly across from the William J. Nicks Building (Baby Dome).

Address: Willie A. Tempton Memorial Student Center, 155 L.W. Minor Street, Prairie View, TX 77446

Driving Directions to the Memorial Student Center (MSC)

From the suggested hotels, take Hwy 290 WEST toward Austin, and exit Prairie View. Then follow the campus map provided below:

Driving Direction on Campus (download pdf here)

Parking: Please park at the MSC parking lot indicated in the above on-campus map.

Travel to Houston
Airport: Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH)

Airport website
It takes about 30 minutes from the plane landed to get your rental car since you need to take a bus to the rental car center:

Rental Car Center
Then it takes about 30-45 minutes to drive to the suggested hotels depending on traffic.

Suggested Hotels

Choice 1:

Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Waller
Address: 31380 Fm 2920 Rd, Waller, TX 77484
Website
This is the nearest one to the Prairie View A&M University.

Choice 2:

Homewood Suites by Hilton Houston Northwest Cy-Fair
Address: 13110 Wortham Center Dr, Houston, TX 77065
Website
Easy access to Hwy 290 and abundant shopping malls and restaurants nearby.

Choice 3:

Comfort Suites Northwest Houston
Address: 13355 FM 1960 West, Houston, TX, 77065
Website
Easy access to Hwy 290 and abundant shopping malls and restaurants nearby.

Registration

Please visit the following link for registration

Click here

Call for Sponsorship

You are invited to be part of this exciting event and support the success of the second workshop of Mission-Critical Big Data Analytics (MCBDA 2017), organized by Prairie View A&M University.

This is an ideal way to demonstrate your organization’s commitment to the field of Big Data Analytics, especially for advancing the mission-critical streaming data analytics research, and to publicize this support to many researchers and students in the field.

Corporate support is typically used to permit a greater number of students to attend MCBDA at reduced fees without increasing the general registration, and to allow student volunteers to receive complimentary registration. Exhibits by sponsors also help inform researchers – especially students and postdocs – about relevant applications and opportunities.

MCBDA 2017 has four sponsorship levels: Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Your support is very important to the workshop, and the workshop committee ensures that these contributions are well-recognized. We list the benefits and costs below.

PLATINUM

(US$10,000 or greater contribution) 

  • You will get 4 free registrations to the workshops and tutorials.
  • You will have the opportunity for sponsor-named keynote speech, Banquet, Reception, Panel Program, Best Paper awards, Travel awards, Lunches and coffee breaks
  • Availability to exhibit products at the workshop foyer space
  • Your company or institution (with logo and URL) will be listed in all workshop announcements, on the advance program, and on the conference web pages
  • We will specially acknowledge your company’s contribution and offer thanks at the opening and closing sessions of the conference
  • You will have the opportunity to include material and giveaways with the conference material for each attendee

GOLD SPONSORSHIP

(US$5,000 or greater contribution) 

  • You will get 3 free registrations to the workshops and tutorials.
  • You will have the opportunity for sponsor-named Banquet, Reception, Panel Program, Best Paper awards, Travel awards, Lunches, and coffee breaks
  • Availability to exhibit products at the workshop foyer space
  • Your company or institution (with logo and URL) will be listed in all workshop announcements, on the advance program, and on the conference web pages
  • We will specially acknowledge your company’s contribution and offer thanks at the opening and closing sessions of the conference
  • You will have the opportunity to include material and giveaways with the conference material for each attendee

SILVER SPONSORSHIP

(US$3,000 or greater contribution) 

  • You will get 2 free registrations to the workshops and tutorials.
  • We will name an event after your company if there are events left after those named for Platinum and Gold
  • Availability to exhibit products at the workshop foyer space
  • Your company or institution (with logo and URL) will be listed in all workshop announcements, on the advance program, and on the conference web pages
  • We will specially acknowledge your company’s contribution and offer thanks at the opening and closing sessions of the conference

BRONZE SPONSORSHIP

(US$1,500 or greater contribution) 

  • You will get 1 free registration to the workshops and tutorials.
  • Availability to exhibit products at the workshop foyer space
  • Your company or institution (with logo and URL) will be listed in all workshop announcements, on the advanced program, and on the conference web pages
  • We will specially acknowledge your company’s contribution and offer thanks at the opening and closing sessions of the conference

We welcome other types of support and are open to negotiating on specific terms.
Please contact MCBDA 2017 Sponsors Chair:

Dr. Lijun Qian
liqian@pvamu.edu

Contact Us

Any questions, please contact

Lijun Qian,
Prairie View A&M University
liqian@pvamu.edu