2016 NSF BIGDATA PI MEETING
APRIL 20TH-21ST -- ARLINGTON, VA
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Agenda

 
 
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
 
8:15 AM – 9:00 AM Registration; continental breakfast
 
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Welcome & Workshop Goals
 
Lisa Singh, Georgetown University
Jim Kurose, National Science Foundation (CISE)
Chaitan Baru, National Science Foundation (CISE)
 
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs Panel
 
Northeast Hub [slides]
René Bastón, Columbia University
 
South Hub [slides]
Renata Rawlings-Goss, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lea Shanley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
Midwest Hub [slides]
Melissa Cragin, University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign
 
West Hub [slides]
Meredith Lee, University of California, Berkeley
 
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Break
 
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Emerging Big Data Topics
 
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota [slides]
Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning and Data Mining
 
danah boyd, Microsoft Research
Interpretation Pitfalls in Big Data
 
Anthony Townsend, Bits and Atoms [slides]
Cities of Data: Making Sense of the New Urban Science
 
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch (provided by workshop)
 
Jason Schultz, Office of Science and Technology Policy
 
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM Breakout Sessions - Part 1
 
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM Break
 
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM NSF Funders Panel
 
Reed Beaman, Biological Sciences (BIO/DBI) [slides]
John Cherniavsky, Education and Human Resources (EHR/DRL) [slides]
Nandini Kannan, Mathematical Sciences (DMS/MPS) [slides]
Sylvia Spengler, Computer and Information Science & Engineering (CISE/IIS) [slides]
Chengshan Xiao, Engineering (ENG/ECCS) [slides]
Heng Xu, Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE/SES) [slides]
Eva Zanzerkia, Geosciences (GEO/EAR) [slides]
 
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM Poster and Demo Setup
 
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM Poster and Demo Session
 
6:30 PM Evening Reception and Dinner
 
Table Talk
 
 
Thursday, April 21, 2016
 
8:15 AM – 9:00 AM Registration; continental breakfast
 
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Opening Remarks
 
Chaitan Baru, National Science Foundation (CISE)
 
9:15 AM - 10:25 AM Asian International Partnerships
 
Etsuya Shibayama, University of Tokyo [slides]
Takeaki Uno, National Institutes of Informatics [slides]
Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology [slides]
Hayato Yamana, Waseda University [slides]
 
 
10:25 AM - 11:20 AM Breakout Sessions - Part 2
 
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM Break
 
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Breakout Session Presentation & Working Lunch
 
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Federal Agency Data & Funders Panel
 
Chaitan Baru, National Science Foundation (NSF) [slides]
Allen Dearry, National Institutes of Health (NIH) [slides]
Stephen Dennis, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [slides]
Daniel Duffy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) [slides]
Charles Fay, Department of Transportation (DOT) [slides]
Greg Feldberg, Department of Treasury (OFR)
James St. Pierre, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
 
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Plenary Discussion
 
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Concluding Remarks