|  Research Track  | 
  
|---|
      | Abdullah Uz Tansel | 
      Baruch College CUNY | 
  
  
      | Aixin Sun | 
      Nanyang Technological University | 
  
  
      | Alessandro Epasto | 
      Google Research | 
  
  
      | Alexandre Termier | 
      Irisa | 
  
  
      | Alfredo Cuzzocrea | 
      ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria | 
  
  
      | Alicia Troncoso | 
      Universidad Pablo de Olavide | 
  
  
      | Alipio Jorge | 
      Univ. do Porto, INESC Porto L.A. | 
  
  
      | Ana Carolina Lorena | 
      Universidade Federal de São Paulo | 
  
  
      | Andre de Carvalho | 
      University of Sao Paulo | 
  
  
      | Andreas Hotho | 
      University of Wuerzburg | 
  
  
      | Anne Laurent | 
      LIRMM – UM | 
  
  
      | Axel Soto | 
      University of Manchester | 
  
  
      | Bing Tian Dai | 
      Singapore Management University | 
  
  
      | Carlos Ferreira | 
      LIAAD INESC Porto LA | 
  
  
      | Carson Leung | 
      University of Manitoba | 
  
  
      | Celia Reyes | 
      Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca | 
  
  
      | Choochart Haruechaiy | 
      National Electronics and Computer Technology Center | 
  
  
      | Concha Bielza | 
      Technical University of Madrid | 
  
  
      | Dejing Dou | 
      University of Oregon | 
  
  
      | Denilson Barbosa | 
      University of Alberta | 
  
  
      | Dominique Laurent | 
      Université Cergy-Pontoise | 
  
  
      | Donato Malerba | 
      Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro | 
  
  
      | Du Zhang | 
      California State University | 
  
  
      | Ducdung Nguyen | 
      Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology | 
  
  
      | Elaine Faria | 
      Federal University of Uberlandia | 
  
  
      | En Zhu | 
      National University of Defense Technology | 
  
  
      | Fabiola Pereira | 
      Federal University of Uberlandia | 
  
  
      | Fabrice  Guillet | 
      Polytech’Nantes | 
  
  
      | Florent Masseglia | 
      INRIA | 
  
  
      | Francesco Masulli | 
      University of Genova | 
  
  
      | Geoffrey Holmes | 
      University of Waikato | 
  
  
      | Guo-Cheng Lan | 
      National Cheng Kung University | 
  
  
      | Guozhu Dong | 
      Wright State University | 
  
  
      | Gustavo Batista | 
      University of São Paulo | 
  
  
      | Hadi Fanaee | 
      University of Oslo, Norway | 
  
  
      | Hady Lauw | 
      Singapore Management University | 
  
  
      | Hiroshi Mamitsuka | 
      Kyoto University | 
  
  
      | Hisashi Kashima | 
      Kyoto University/RIKEN | 
  
  
      | Hsuan-Tien Lin | 
      National Taiwan University | 
  
  
      | Huzefa Rangwala | 
      Computer Science, George Mason University | 
  
  
      | Inaki Inza | 
      University of the Basque Country | 
  
  
      | Indre Zliobaite | 
      University of Helsinki | 
  
  
      | Irena Koprinska | 
      The University of Sydney | 
  
  
      | Jaroslaw Jankowski | 
      West Pomeranian University of Technology | 
  
  
      | Jesse Read | 
      Télécom ParisTech | 
  
  
      | Jianke Zhu | 
      Zhejiang University | 
  
  
      | Jianping Yin | 
      National University of Defense Technology | 
  
  
      | Jingrui He | 
      Arizona State University | 
  
  
      | Joao Gama | 
      University Porto | 
  
  
      | Joao Moreira | 
      University Porto | 
  
  
      | Josep Domingo-Ferrer | 
      Universitat Rovira i Virgili | 
  
  
      | Josep-Luis Larriba-Pey | 
      Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | 
  
  
      | Julien Velcin | 
      Université de Lyon 2 | 
  
  
      | Kai Ming Ting | 
      Federation University Australia | 
  
  
      | Khoat Than | 
      Hanoi University of Science and Technology | 
  
  
      | Kitsana Waiyamai | 
      Kasetsart University | 
  
  
      | Krishna Polepalli | 
      IIIT-H | 
  
  
      | Lilia Georgieva | 
      Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK | 
  
  
      | Lingfei Wu | 
      IBM T. J. Watson Research Center | 
  
  
      | Lipo Wang | 
      NTU | 
  
  
      | Mahito Sugiyama | 
      Osaka University | 
  
  
      | Marco Cristo | 
      University Federal Amazonia | 
  
  
      | Marzena Kryszkiewicz | 
      Warsaw University of Technology | 
  
  
      | Masashi Shimbo | 
      NAIST | 
  
  
      | Michelangelo Ceci | 
      Universita degli Studi di Bari | 
  
  
      | Mihai Lupu | 
      Vienna University of Technology | 
  
  
      | Min-Ling Zhang | 
      Southeast University | 
  
  
      | Mohand-Said Hacid | 
      Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 – UCBL | 
  
  
      | Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani | 
      KU Leuven | 
  
  
      | Motoharu Iwata | 
      NTT | 
  
  
      | Mykola Pechenizkiy | 
      University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands | 
  
  
      | Myra Spiliopoulou | 
      Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg | 
  
  
      | Nathalie Japkowicz | 
      American University | 
  
  
      | Nicolas Baskiotis | 
      LIP6/UPMC | 
  
  
      | Paolo Garza | 
      Politecnico di Torino | 
  
  
      | Pascal Poncelet | 
      LIRMM Montpellier | 
  
  
      | Paulo Azevedo | 
      Universidade do Minho | 
  
  
      | Paulo Pisani | 
      ICMC-University S. Paulo | 
  
  
      | Pedro Larranaga | 
      University of Madrid | 
  
  
      | Petko Bogdanov | 
      University at albany SUNY | 
  
  
      | Philip Chan | 
      Florida Institute of Technology | 
  
  
      | Raian Ali | 
      Bournemouth University, UK | 
  
  
      | Raquel Sebastião | 
      University Aveiro | 
  
  
      | Raymond Wong | 
      the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 
  
  
      | Ricard Gavalda | 
      Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya | 
  
  
      | Ricardo Campello | 
      James Cook University | 
  
  
      | Ricardo Cerri | 
      Federal University of Sao Carlos | 
  
  
      | Ricardo Sousa | 
      LIAAD\INESC | 
  
  
      | Richard Hugh Moulton | 
      University of Ottawa | 
  
  
      | Rita Ribeiro | 
      FCUP / LIAAD INESC TEC, University of Porto | 
  
  
      | Salvatore Ruggieri | 
      Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa | 
  
  
      | Sanjay Jain | 
      National University of Singapore | 
  
  
      | Satoshi Hara | 
      NII | 
  
  
      | Selcuk Candan | 
      Arizona State University | 
  
  
      | Shahin Rostami | 
      Bournemouth University | 
  
  
      | Shazia Tabassum | 
      INESC TEC | 
  
  
      | Sheng Gao | 
      BUPT | 
  
  
      | Sheng Li | 
      Northeastern University, USA | 
  
  
      | Shengrui Wang | 
      University of Sherbrooke | 
  
  
      | Shoji Hirano | 
      Shimane University | 
  
  
      | Stefania Marrara | 
      Consorzio C2T | 
  
  
      | Tadashi Nomoto | 
      National Institute of Japanese Literature | 
  
  
      | Takashi Washio | 
      ISIR, Osaka University | 
  
  
      | Takehisa Yairi | 
      University of Tokyo | 
  
  
      | Thiago Andrade | 
      INESC TEC | 
  
  
      | Tomoko Matsui | 
      Institute of Statistical Mathematics | 
  
  
      | Tongda Zhang | 
      CRCM | 
  
  
      | Toshihiro Kamishima | 
      National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology | 
  
  
      | Toshiyuki Amagasa | 
      University of Tsukuba | 
  
  
      | Vinícius Souza | 
      Universidade de São Paulo | 
  
  
      | Wei-Chang Yeh | 
      Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management | 
  
  
      | Wesllen Sousa Lima | 
      Federal University of Amazonas | 
  
  
      | Wynne Hsu | 
      National University of Singapore | 
  
  
      | Xin Huang | 
      Hong Kong Baptist University | 
  
  
      | Xuanvinh Nguyen | 
      The University of Melbourne | 
  
  
      | Yang-Sae Moon | 
      Kangwon National University | 
  
  
      | Yibo Yao | 
      Turn Inc. | 
  
  
      | Yiping Ke | 
      Nanyang Technological University | 
  
  
      | Yoshinobu Kawahara | 
      Osaka University | 
  
  
      | Zhao Zhang | 
      Soochow University | 
  
  
  |  Application Track  | 
  
|---|
      | Abhimanu Kumar | 
      Carnegie Mellon University; IMC Financial Markets | 
  
  
      | Adisak Sukul | 
      Iowa State University | 
  
  
      | Amy Shi-Nash | 
      Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 
  
  
      | Anahita Davoudi | 
      University of Central Florida | 
  
  
      | Deependra Singh | 
      Groupon | 
  
  
      | Elena Eneva | 
      Accenture / Data Science for Social Good | 
  
  
      | Emin Aksehirli | 
      DataSpark Pte. | 
  
  
      | Ewa Szymanska | 
      Rakuten | 
  
  
      | Gao Cong | 
      Nanyang Technological University | 
  
  
      | Giuseppe Manai | 
      DataSpark | 
  
  
      | Greg Makowski | 
      Ligadata | 
  
  
      | Hady Lauw | 
      Singapore Management University | 
  
  
      | Hua Li | 
      Microsoft Corporation | 
  
  
      | Jie Tang | 
      Tsinghua University | 
  
  
      | John Akred | 
      SVDS | 
  
  
      | Leo Cheng | 
      Turn. inc | 
  
  
      | Luo Shixin | 
      Singapore Telecommunications Limited | 
  
  
      | Mohit Kumar | 
      Flipkart | 
  
  
      | Ng Yibin | 
      DataSpark, Singtel | 
  
  
      | Nikunj Oza | 
      National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | 
  
  
      | Pavel Dmitriev | 
      Microsoft | 
  
  
      | Qiuping Xu | 
      AMAZON | 
  
  
      | Rajesh Parekh | 
      Facebook | 
  
  
      | Ron Bekkerman | 
      University of Haifa | 
  
  
      | Shanu Sushmita | 
      University of Washington | 
  
  
      | Sudeep Srivastava | 
      Facebook | 
  
  
      | Vu Ha | 
      Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence | 
  
  
      | Xin Fu | 
      LinkedIn Corporation | 
  
  
      | Yibo Yao | 
      Turn Inc | 
  
  
      | Ying Li | 
      DataSpark Pte. Ltd., Singtel | 
  
  
      | Zahra Ferdowsi | 
      Snap Inc | 
  
  
      | Zijian Zheng | 
      Visa | 
  
  
  
    | 
    Special Session on Game Data Science (GDS 2017)
     | 
  
  
      | África Periáñez | 
      Silicon Studio | 
  
  
      | Alessandro Canossa | 
      Northeastern University | 
  
  
      | Ben Weber | 
      University of California, Santa Cruz | 
  
  
      | Edward Melcer | 
      NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering | 
  
  
      | Georgios N. Yannakakis | 
      Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta | 
  
  
      | Julian Runge | 
      Wooga GmbH | 
  
  
      | Magy Seif El-Nasr | 
      Northeastern University | 
  
  
      | Paolo Burelli | 
      Aalborg University Copenhagen | 
  
  
      | Rafet Sifa | 
      Fraunhofer IAIS | 
  
  
      | Xavier Guardiola | 
      KING – Activision Blizzard | 
  
  
  
    | 
    Special Session on Environmental and Geo-spatial Data Analytics (EnGeoData 2017)
     | 
  
  
      | Bruno Martins | 
      University of Lisbon | 
  
  
      | Carmen Brando | 
      EHESS | 
  
  
      | Catherine Domingues | 
      IGN | 
  
  
      | Christian Sallaberry | 
      University of Pau et Pays de l’Adour | 
  
  
      | Corrado Loglisci | 
      University of Bari/td>
   | 
  
      | Danny Vandenbroucke | 
      Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | 
  
  
      | Darian Frajberg | 
      Politecnico di Milano | 
  
  
      | Diana Inkpen | 
      University of Ottawa | 
  
  
      | Dino Ienco | 
      Irstea | 
  
  
      | Elisabeth Métais | 
      CEDRIC Laboratory – CNAM Paris | 
  
  
      | Engelbert Mephu Nguifo | 
      University Clermont Auvergne | 
  
  
      | Florence Le Ber | 
      ENGEES | 
  
  
      | Gloria Bordogna | 
      National Research Council of Italy | 
  
  
      | Hakim Hacid | 
      Zayed University | 
  
  
      | Hugo Alatrista-Salas | 
      Universidad del Pacífico | 
  
  
      | Jean-Christophe Desconnets | 
      IRD | 
  
  
      | José M. Perea-Ortega | 
      University of Extremadura | 
  
  
      | Juan Antonio Lossio | 
      University of Florida | 
  
  
      | Julien Velcin | 
      Université de Lyon 2 | 
  
  
      | Juliette Dibie | 
      AgroParisTech/INRA | 
  
  
      | Liliana Ibanescu | 
      AgroParisTech-INRA | 
  
  
      | Maguelonne Teisseire | 
      Irstea | 
  
  
      | Maribel Yasmina Santos | 
      University of Minho | 
  
  
      | Mathieu Roche | 
      Cirad | 
  
  
      | Mete Celik | 
      Erciyes University | 
  
  
      | Rob Lokers | 
      Alterra, Wageningen UR | 
  
  
      | Ross Purves | 
      University of Zürich | 
  
  
      | Stephan Winter | 
      The University of Melbourne | 
  
  
      | Xin Wang | 
      University of Calgary | 
  
  
  
    | 
    Special Session on Data and Information Quality (DIQ)
     | 
  
  
      | David Belanger | 
      Stevens Institute of Technology | 
  
  
      | Divesh Srivastava | 
      AT&T Labs, Research | 
  
  
      | Fugee Tsung | 
      Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |   
  
      | Rong Duan | 
      Huawei | 
  
  
      | Tamraparni Dasu | 
      AT&T Labs, Research | 
  
  
      | Yun Ma | 
      Huawei | 
  
  
  
    | 
    Special Session on Data Science in Societal Debates (DSSD)
     | 
  
  
      | Alina Sirbu | 
      Dep. of Computer Science, University of Pisa | 
  
  
      | Angelo Spognardi | 
      Dep. of Computer Science, Sapienza Università di Roma | 
  
  
      | David Lazer | 
      Northeastern University | 
  
  
      | Dino Pedreschi | 
      Dep. of Computer Science, University of Pisa | 
  
  
      | Fred Morstatter | 
      Arizona State University | 
  
  
      | Gianmarco De Francisci Morales | 
      Qatar Computing Research Institute | 
  
  
      | Izabela Moise | 
      ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | 
  
  
      | Luca Maria Aiello | 
      Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge | 
  
  
      | Marcelo Mendoza | 
      Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María | 
  
  
      | Marinella Petrocchi | 
      IIT-CNR, Italy | 
  
  
      | Mark Coté | 
      King’s College London | 
  
  
      | Michael Mathioudakis | 
      Aalto University | 
  
  
      | Onur Varol | 
      Indiana University | 
  
  
      | Roberto Di Pietro | 
      Nokia Bell Labs, Paris | 
  
  
      | Takeshi Sakaki | 
      University of Tokyo | 
  
  
      | Thomas Risse | 
      Leibniz Universität Hannover | 
  
  
  
    | 
    Special Session on Evolving Networks (EvoNets)
     | 
  
  
      | Bruno Travençolo | 
      UFU | 
  
  
      | Carlos Ferreira | 
      LIAAD INESC Porto LA | 
  
  
      | Fabíola S. F. Pereira | 
      Federal University of Uberlandia | 
  
  
      | Jianpeng Zhang | 
      TU/e | 
  
  
      | Joao Gama | 
      University Porto | 
  
  
      | Luis E C Rocha | 
      Karolinska Institutet | 
  
  
      | Mario Cordeiro | 
      Universidade do Porto | 
  
  
      | Muhammad Ajmal Azad | 
      Newcastle University | 
  
  
      | Muhammad Imran | 
      Qatar Computing Research Institute | 
  
  
      | Orestis Kostakis | 
      Aalto University | 
  
  
      | Pedro Ribeiro | 
      Universidade do Porto | 
  
  
      | Ricardo Sousa | 
      LIAAD/INESC | 
  
  
      | Shazia Tabassum | 
      Universidade do Porto | 
  
  
  
    | 
    Special Session on Beyond IID: Non-IID Learning (NonIIDLearning)
     | 
  
  
      | Chengzhang Zhu | 
      University of Technology Sydney | 
  
  
      | Guansong Pang | 
      University of Technology Sydney | 
  
  
      | Lingyun Xiang | 
      Changsha University of Science and Technology | 
  
  
      | Longbing Cao | 
      University of Technology Sydney | 
  
  
      | Shoujin Wang | 
      University of Technology Sydney | 
  
  
      | Teng Li | 
      National University of Defense Technology | 
  
  
      | Yang Gao | 
      Nanjing University | 
  
  
      | Yi Zheng | 
      University of Technology Sydney | 
  
  
      | Yinghuan Shi | 
      Nanjing University | 
  
  
  
    | 
    Special Session on Big Data and Disaster Management (BDDM)
     | 
  
  
      | Asanobu Kitamoto | 
      National Institute of Informatics | 
  
  
      | Celimuge Wu | 
      University of Electro-Communications | 
  
  
      | Guoliang Xue | 
      Arizona State University | 
  
  
      | Kiyoshi Takano | 
      Earthquake Research Institute,The University of Tokyo | 
  
  
      | Lei Zhong | 
      National Institute of Informatics | 
  
  
      | Shigeki Yamada | 
      National Institute of Informatics | 
  
  
      | Shui Yu | 
      Deakin Univeristy | 
  
  
      | Wei Gao | 
      University of Tennessee | 
  
  
      | Xiaoyan Wang | 
      Ibaraki University | 
  
  
      | Yoshitaka Shibata | 
      Iwate Prefecture University | 
  
  
      | Yusheng Ji | 
      National Institute of Informatics | 
  
  
      | Zhu Han | 
      University of Houston | 
  
  
  
    | 
    Special Session on Advanced Informatic Measurement using Statistics, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition (AimSMLPR)
     | 
  
  
      | Alexandre Termier | 
      Universitat de Rennes 1 | 
  
  
      | Hayaru Shouno | 
      University of Electro-Communications | 
  
  
      | Mahito Sugiyama | 
      Osaka University | 
  
  
      | Saso Dzeroski | 
      Jozef Stefan Institute | 
  
  
      | Shunsuke Ono | 
      Tokyo Institute of Technology | 
  
  
      | Takashi Washio | 
      ISIR, Osaka University | 
  
  
      | Tamiki | 
      Komatsuzaki, RIES, Hokkaido University | 
  
  
      | Tomoyuki Higuchi | 
      The Institute of Statistical Mathematics | 
  
  
      | Tu Bao Ho | 
      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |