The Rise of Data Science from Information Management to Big Data Analytics
May 30-31, 2014
Boelter Hall 3551P, UCLA
Program:
FRIDAY, MAY 30
1:00pm Opening remarks by Reza Sadri and Carlo Zaniolo
Foreword
1:30-4:00pm Languages and Systems for Big Data Analytics
- A Unified Big Data Runtime Stack
Tyson Condie (UCLA) - Recursive Queries with Monotonic Aggregates in DeAL
Alex Shkapsky (UCLA) - Parallel and Distributed Recursive Query Evaluation
Mohan Yang (UCLA) - Scalable Approximate Query Processing through Scalable Error Estimation
Kai Zeng (UCLA) - Impact of new hardware trends on the design of next generation data management and analytics systems
Reza Sadri (Levyx)
4:00-4:30pm Break
4:30-7:00pm Advanced Analytics
- Popularity-Aware Topic Model for Social Graphs
John Cho (UCLA) - Toward a Universal Unsupervised Clustering Method
Massimo Mazzeo (UCLA) - SWIM System: From Structured Summaries to Integrated Knowledge Base
Shi Gao (UCLA) - High Performance Spatial Queries and Analytics for Spatial Big Data
Fusheng Wang (Emory University) - Stock Trade Volume Prediction with Yahoo Finance User Browsing Behavior
Nikolay Laptev (Yahoo)
7:45-10:00pm Dinner
Skylight Gardens restaurant in Westwood
SATURDAY MAY 31
8:30-10:30am Big Data in the Cloud
- Query Petabytes of Data in a Blink Time!
Barzan Mozafari (University of Michigan) - Query Optimization in Cloud Environment
Cindy Chen (University of Massachussetts Lowell) - Reservation-based scheduling: If you are late don’t blame us!
Carlo Curino (Microsoft) - Flexible and Robust Co-Regularized Multi-Domain Graph Clustering
Wei Wang (UCLA)
10:30–11:00am Break
11:00-12:00pm Analytics for the Semantic Web
- Short Text Understanding
Haixun Wang (Google Research) - Harvesting Wikipedia and Large Text Corpora
Hamid Mousavi (Apple)
12:00-1:00pm Panel Discussion: New trends in Advanced Analytics and their Applications
- An Industrial Data Management Platform Perspective
Giovanni Giuffrida (University of Catania) - Yijan Bai (Google)
- Shu-Yao Chien (ACXIOM)
- Fang Chu (Google)
- Hyun J. Moon (Google)
- Charles Perng (Google)
- Reza Sadri (Levyx)
- Xin Zhou (Google)
1:00-1:45pm Lunch, Closing Celebrations, and visit to the ScAi Lab
Hosted by: Wei Wang (UCLA)