BigData Congress 2018 Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada
Program Chairs
Shadi Ibrahim, Inria
Isaac Triguero, University of Nottingham
Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore
Track Chairs
Big Data Models and Algorithms
Byron Choi, Hong Kong Baptist University
Sourav S Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University
Big Data Architectures
Qiang He, Swinburne University Technology
Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Big Data Management
Anna Queralt, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria
Big Data Security and Privacy
Haibo Hu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Xiaokui Xiao, National University of Singapore
Quality of Big Data Services
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna
Helene Coullon, IMT Atlantique
Big Data Science and Optimization
Patrick De Causmaecker, KU Leuven
Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham
Big Data Mining and Visualization
Mikel Galar Idoate, Public University of Navarre
Sebastian Ventura, University of Cordoba
Big Data Applications and Experiences
Sheng Di, Argonne National Laboratory
Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University
Enabling Resources for Big Data Research
Jaume Bacardit, Newcastle University
Sherif Sakr, The University of New South Wales
Special Track on Real-Time Big Data Analytics
Alberto Cano, Virginia Commonwealth University
Edward Curry, Insight Centre for Data Analytics
Special Track on Big Data/Smart Cities and IoT
Zengxiang Li, A*star
Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS
Special Track on Big Data/Health
Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez, University of Extremadura
Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Work-in-Progress Papers Track (Short papers track)
Marcos Dias de Assuncao, Inria
Shut Shang, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Technical Program Committee
Big Data Models and Algorithms
Adam Jatowt, Kyoto University
Bogdan Cautis, ENST Paris - UMR
Chengkai Li, University of Texas at Arlington
Da Yan, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
George H. L. Fletcher, Eindhoven University of Technology
Hua Lu, Aalborg University
Hui Li, Xidian University
James Cheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jan Hidders, VUB
Shuai Ma, Beihang University
Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore
Wook-Shin Han, POSTECH
Xin Huang, Hong Kong Baptist University
Yinghui Wu, University of California Santa Barbara
Yongluan Zhou, University of Copenhagen
Big Data Architectures
Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino
Bin Cheng, NEC Laboratories Europe
Liting Hu, Florida International University
Dingding Li, South China Normal University
Shaoning Pang, Unitec Institute of Technology
Lianyong Qi, Qufu Normal University
Shanjiang Tang, Tianjin University
Jianwu Wang, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Zeke Wang, ETH Zurich
Yunni Xia, Chongqing University
Quanqing Xu, A*STAR
Ramin Yahyapour, GWDG - University of Göttingen
Chi Yang, Unitec Institute of Technology
Dong Yuan, The University of Sydney
Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland
Yu Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Jianlong Zhong, GRAPHSQL INC
Big Data Management
Alberto Abelló, Technical University of Catalonia
Eugenio Cesario, ICAR-CNR
Patrizio Dazzi, CNR
Mario José Diván, Engineering School (UNLPam) & Divsar
Matthieu Dorier, Argonne National Laboratory
Florin Isaila, University Carlos III
Tahar Kechadi, University College Dublin
Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Michael Kuhn, University of Hamburg
Sunil Kumar Khatri, Amity University
Manolis Marazakis, Instutute of Computer Science, FORTH
Fabrizio Marozzo, University of Calabria
Jonathan Martí, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Meikel Poess, Oracle
Oscar Romero, Technical University of Catalonia
Rekha Singhal, Tata Consultancy Services
Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria
Guangyou Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Big Data Security and Privacy
Karl Aberer, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
Liyue Fan, State University of New York Albany
Gabriel Ghinita, University of Massachusetts
Le Gruenwald, The University of Oklahoma
Brad Malin, Vanderbilt University
Amirreza Masoumzadeh, State University of New York Albany
Zhan Qin, State University of New York Buffalo
Bharath Kumar Samanthula, Montclair State University
Pierangela Samarati, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano
Matthias Schunter, Intel
Weidong Shi, University of Houston
Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University
Fengyuan Xu, Nanjing University
Quality of Big Data Services
Frederico Alvares, Easyvirt
Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Rutgers University
Alexandru Costan, INSA Rennes
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien
Gr Gangadharan, Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology
Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University
Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa
Sébastien Limet, LIFO-Université d’Orléans
Donato Malerba, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Dimitri Pertin, Inria
Thomas Ropars, Grenoble Alpes University
Anthony Simonet, Rutgers University
Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida
Cheng Wang, University of Houston
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University
Big Data Science and Optimization
Emilio Carrizosa, University of Seville
Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers
Ahmed Kheiri Lancaster University
Andrea Lodi, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Andrew J. Parkes, University of Nottingham
Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School
Thomas Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Mercedes Torres, University of Nottingahm
Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University
Big Data Mining and Visualization
Veronica Bolon-Canedo, University of A Coruna
Alberto Cano, Virginia Commonwealth University
Alberto Fernández, University of Granada
Salvador García, University of Granada
Jarek Gryz, University of York
Mohamed Hamlich, FSTM
José María Luna, University of Cordoba
Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa
Miguel Molina-Solana, Imperial College London
Yusuke Nojima, Osaka Prefecture University
Daniel Peralta, Ghent University
Alessandro Provetti, Birkbeck University of London
Oscar Gabriel Reyes Pupo, University of Cordoba
Jose Antonio Sanz, Public University of Navarr
Big Data Applications and Experiences
Hanhua Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Dong Dai, Texas Tech Universify
Matthieu Dorier, Argonne National Laboratory
Min Du, University of Utah
Yanfei Guo, Argonne National Laboratory
Jiong He, Advanced Digital Sciences Centre
Yusen Li, Nankai University
Hao Liao, Shenzhen University
Shanjiang Tang, Tianjin University
Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University
Dingwen Tao, University of California, Riverside
Anis Yazidi, Oslo and Akershus University College
Orcun Yildiz, Inria
Dongfang Zhao, University of Nevada, Reno
Enabling Resources for Big Data Research
Ahmed Awad, Cairo University
Amin Beheshti, The University of New South Wales
Khouloud Boukadi, University of Sfax
Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Western Sydney University
Matthew Forshaw, Newcastle University
Shadi Khalifa, Queen’s University
Zuhair Khayyat, KAUST
Amr Magdy, University of California, Riverside
Raghava Mutharaju, GE Global Research
Abdelmounaam Rezgui, New Mexico Tech
Mohammad Sadoghi, University of California, Davis
Javid Taheri, Karlstad University
Hannes Voigt, TU Dresden
Special Track on Real-Time Big Data Analytics
Payam Barnaghi, University of Surrey
Rodrigo Barros, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Krzysztof Cios, Virginia Commonwealth University
Youcef Djenouri, LRIA_USTHB
Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University
Feng Gao, Wuhan Univ. of Science and Technology
Carlos García-Martínez, University of Cordoba
Souleiman Hasan, Maynooth University
Martin Hirzel, IBM T.J. Watson
Elisabeth Ilie-Zudor, MTA SZTAKI
Boris Koldehofe, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Bartosz Krawczyk, Virginia Commonwealth University
Edwin Lughofer, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Mykola Pechenizkiy, University of Jyvaskyla
Louie (Yongrui) Qin, University of Huddersfield
Oscar Gabriel Reyes Pupo, University of Cordoba
Luciano Sanchez, Universidad de Oviedo
Martin Strohbach, AGT International
José Antonio Sanz Delgado, Universidad Publica de Navarra
José Ramón Villar, University of Oviedo
Matthias Weidlich, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Michal Wozniak, Wroclaw University of Technology
Holger Ziekow, Furtwangen University
Special Track on Big Data/Smart Cities and IoT
Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne
Alexandra Carpen-Amarie, Vienna University of Technology
Subarna Chatterjee, Inria
Félix Cuadrado, Queen Mary University of London
Ismael Cuadrado-Cordero, University of Seville
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Zaheer Khan, University of the West of England
Young Chong Lee,Macquarie University
Yusen Li, Nankai University
Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University
Nathalie Mitton, Inria
Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University
Sebastien Varrette, University of Luxembourg
Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Qingsong Wei, A*Star
Jianguo Yao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Special Track on Big Data/Health
Miguel Cárdenas-Montes, CIEMAT
Hong-Ning Dai, Macau Univ. of Sci. and Tech.
Antonio Gómez-Iglesias, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
José M. Granado-Criado, University of Extremadura
Wenbo He, McMaster University
Guo Kehua, Central South University
Zhibo Pang, ABB Corporate Research
Lei Ren, Beihang University
Álvaro Rubio-Largo, University Nova of Lisbon
Sergio Santánder-Jiménez, University of Lisbon
Neeraj Singh, University of Toulouse
Di Wu, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Gengy Yang, Zhejiang University
Shih-Ching Yeh, Fudan University
Guoxian Yu, Southwest University
Work-in-Progress Papers Track (Short papers track)
Mohsen Amini Salehi, University of Louisiana Lafayette
Ana Paula Appel, IBM
Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Rutgers University
Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Western Sydney University
Xin Cao, The University of New South Wales
Carlos Cardonha, IBM
Lisi Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University
Shirley Chen, Two Sigma Investments
Yueguo Chen, Renmin University
Dilma Da Silva, Texas A&M University
Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University
Fernando Koch, The University of Melbourne
Ioana Manolescu, Inria
Marco Netto, IBM
Maria Alejandra Rodriguez Sossa, The University of Melbourne
Yanyan Shen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Hao Wang, Nanjing University
Bin Yang, Aalborg University
Quan Yuan, Facebook