Keynote
User-centric Techniques for Big Data Exploration
Professor Panos Chrysanthis
Department of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
Abstract:
As the amount of data being generated every day increases exponentially,
the term "Bid Data" has been adopted to represent the challenge of
large-scale data processing. Given the volume of data, the challenge is how
to avoid overwhelming the users with irrelevant results. In this talk, we
will focus on recent research challenges and opportunities in the emerging
area of Data Exploration that aim to guide users to reveal valuable
insights from large volumes of data (e.g., financial and scientific
databases). We will overview the recent data analysis techniques underlying
some of the new data exploration tools, and we will introduce our new
framework, called Preferential Diversity (PrefDiv), which is capable of
generating results that are not only relevant to users' preference but are
also diverse. We will also briefly present our annotation framework,
designed for biological data, that enables users to collaboratively explore
large data sets.
About the Speaker:
Panos K. Chrysanthis is a Professor of Computer Science and a founder
and director of the Advanced Data Management Technologies Laboratory at the
University of Pittsburgh. He is also an adjunct Professor at
Carnegie-Mellon University. His research interests lie within the areas of
data management and has fostered interdisciplinary collaborations between
computer science, medicine, astronomy and mechanical engineering, both
within and outside the University of Pittsburgh. His research contributions
in principles, algorithms and prototypes to data management have been
documented in more than 150 papers in top journals and prestigious,
peer-reviewed conferences and workshops. His editorial service includes
VLDB J (2001-2007), IEEE TKDE (2010-present) and DAPD (2010-present).
Chrysanthis is a NSF CAREER award recipient, an ACM Distinguished Scientist
and a Senior Member of IEEE. He was honored with seven teaching awards and
in 2015, he received the University of Pittsburgh's Provost Award for
Excellence in Mentoring (doctoral students).