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CREDIT Center / MCBDA2018

Third Workshop of Mission-Critical Big Data Analytics (MCBDA 2018)

May 15 – 16, 2018

Prairie View A&M University

Organized by the Center of Excellence in Research and Education for Big Military Data Intelligence (CREDIT Center), Prairie View A&M University
Sponsored by the United States Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OASD(R&E)), Intel Corporation, Monsanto Company, and technically sponsored by Google, Dell, IBM, NVIDIA Corporation and Brookhaven National Lab.

Agenda (Tentative)

Tuesday: May 15, 2018 (MSC Ballroom)

9:00 – 9:10 AM Highlights of CREDIT Center and MCBDA 2018
Dr. Lijun Qian, PI and Director of the CREDIT Center,
AT&T Endowed Professor,
Prairie View A&M University
9:10 – 9:30 AM Greetings and Overview of Prairie View A&M University
Dr. Ruth Simmons, 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:  “HPC And Big Data: A Story of Continuing Toward Integration”
Dr. Barbara Chapman, Professor at Stony Brook University, and Head of the Computer
Science and Mathematics Group at Brookhaven National Lab
10:40 – 10:55 AM Break
10:55 – 11:10 AM Technical Presentation &Demo: “Real Time Video Analytics using Mobile GPU on UAVs”
Research Thrust 4 Team of the CREDIT Center
(All faculty researchers; Students: Joshua Bassey, Samuel Bamgbose)
11:10 – 11:25 AM Technical Presentation: “PVAMU Cloud Computing Research for Big Data Analytics”
Research Thrust 1 Team of the CREDIT Center
(Drs. Huang, Chapman; Students: Travon Johnson, De’Ahna Johnson)
11:25 – 11:40 AM Technical Presentation: “RF Spectrum Surveillance Using Deep Learning”
Research Thrust 2 Team of the CREDIT Center
(Drs. Qian, Fuller; Students: Oluwaseyi Omotere, Damilola Adesina)
11:40 – 11:55 AM Technical Presentation: “Hierarchical Transfer CNN for IOT”
Research Thrust 3 Team of the CREDIT Center
(Drs. Dong, Li, Obiomon;  Students: Olasunkammi Oluwadeyi, Shanta Chowdhury)
11:55 – 12:20 PM Students Lightning Round Presentations:
Each graduate/undergraduate research assistant will give a 5-minute presentation to highlight their research projects
The Student Team of the CREDIT Center
12:20 – 1:30 PM Luncheon with Featured Keynote Speech II:
“How to Establish Research Collaborations with RDECOM”(12:30 – 1:20 PM)
Dr. Jaret Riddick, Director, Vehicle Technology Directorate, US Army Research Lab (ARL)
1:30 – 2:20 PM Keynote Speech III: “How are Large Enterprises Implementing
‘Machine Learning’ to Make Their Business Predictable?”
Theresa Kushner, Senior Vice President, Business Intelligence, Dell
2:20 – 2:50 PM Technical Presentation: “Using a Modified Double-Well Oscillator
to Train Binary Neural Network Layers”
Lt. Aron R. Wing, Air Force Research Lab
2:50 – 3:20 PM Technical Presentation: “Big Data and Fake News”
Dr. Dongwon Lee, Associate Professor at the Penn State University
3:20 – 3:50 PM Technical Presentation: “The Convergence of HPC, Big Data Analytics, and AI in Future Workflows”
Dr. Henry Gabb, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
3:50 – 4:00 PM Break
4:00 – 4:30 PM Technical Presentation: “How Big Data and Analytics is Changing Agriculture?”
Dr. Prachee Chaturvedi, Project Lead, Monsanto Company
4:30 – 5:00 PM Technical Presentation: “Accelerating AI with GPUs”
Mr. Bob Crovella, Technical Lead of GPU Computing, NVIDIA
5:00 – 5:30 PM Technical Presentation: “Reducing Cycle Time for Upstream Processing and
Subsurface Characterization Processes using Machine Learning”
Dr. Kenton Prindle, Solutions Engineer, Google
5:30 – 6:00 PM Technical Presentation: “Large Scale Computer Vision Projects at BNL”
Dr. Yuewei Lin, Assistant Computational Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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 16, 2018
(Electrical Engineering Building)

Training Session

9:00 – 9:45 AM “Intel AI Academy”, presented by Arti Gupta, Manager of
Developer Programs Strategy and Experience, Intel Corporation
Advanced Computing Lab
Electrical Engineering Building
9:45 – 9:55 AM Break
9:55 – 10:40 AM “Intel BigDL”, presented by Kevin Bryan, Artificial Intelligence
Developer at Tata Consultancy Services
Advanced Computing Lab
Electrical Engineering Building
10:40 – 10:50 AM Break
10:50 – 11:20 AM “Giving AI Super-Powers: IBM Power AI”, presented by Raj Krishnamurthi
Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Advanced Computing Lab
Electrical Engineering Building
11:20 – 11:30 AM Break

Demo Session

11:30 – 12:30 PM Lab tour and project demonstrations by the CREDIT team
Deep Learning Lab
Electrical Engineering Building
12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch Break

Advisory Board Meeting

2:00 – 4:00 PM Wrap up Discussions in the conference room of the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering (Room 315D, 3 rd floor of the
Electrical Engineering building)All stakeholders (by invitation only)
4:00 PM Adjourn

Committee Members

STEERING COMMITTEE

  • Evelyn Kent, OSD/DOD (Chair)
  • Ruth Simmons, PVAMU (Co-Chair)
  • Qinqing (Christine) Zhang, UTRC
  • James Palmer,PVAMU

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General chairs

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

Technical Program Chairs

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

Publications Chair

  • Xishuang Dong, PVAMU

Tutorial Chair

  • Hsiang-Huang Wu, PVAMU

Student Poster Chair

  • Pamela Obiomon, PVAMU

Local Arrangement Chair

  • John Fuller, PVAMU
  • Yonggao Yang, PVAMU

Industry Chair

  • Xiangfang Li, PVAMU

Publicity Chairs

  • Latifur Khan, UT Dallas
  • Sikha Bagui, UWF
  • Yonghui Wang, 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 third workshop of Mission-Critical Big Data Analytics (MCBDA 2018), 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 2018 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 2018 Sponsors Chair:

Dr. Lijun Qian
liqian@pvamu.edu

Contact Us

Any questions, please contact

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