2016 International Workshop on Mathematical Issues in Information Sciences (MIIS)
2016 International Workshop on Mathematical Issues in Information Sciences (MIIS)
Dec. 17-20, 2016
CUHK (SZ), Shenzhen
Organizer:
Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
MIIS 2016 will take place in Shenzhen, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, from December 17 to December 20, 2016. The goal of the workshop is to bring together leading scientists, researchers, and practitioners from the world to exchange and share ideas in using mathematics especially modern computation techniques to model and solve practical problems in information sciences and big data analytics.
Speaker:
Prof. Amir Beck
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Tutorial Title: Proximal-based Methods
Talk Title: Primal and Dual Variables Decomposition Methods in Convex Optimization
Prof. Jianfei Cai
Nanyang Technological University
Talk Title: RGB-D Visual Computing: from Low-Level Segmentation to High-Level Scene Understanding
Prof. Cong Gao
Nanyang Technological University
Talk Title: Querying, Exploring and Mining Geospatial Social Media Data
Prof. Alfred Hero
The University of Michigan
Talk Title: Continuum Limits: A Promising Frontier for Large Scale Data Analysis
Prof. Feifang Hu
George Washington University
Talk Title: The Role of Statistics in the Big Data Era
Prof. Tao Jiang
University of California, Riverside
Talk Title: Toward More Sensitive Differential Expression Analysis on RNA-Seq Data
Dr. Hang Li
Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Talk Title: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing: Past, Present, and Future
Prof. Ali H. Sayed
The university of California, Los Angeles
Talk Title: Adaptation and Learning by Networked Agents
Prof. David Tse
Stanford University
Talk Title: The Science of Information: Case studies from DNA and RNA Assembly
Prof. Madeleine Udell
The Cornell University
Tutorial Title: Generalized Low Rank Models
Talk Title: Sketchy Decisions: Matrix Optimization with Optical Storage
Prof. Yonggang Wen
Nanyang Technological University
Talk Title: Optimizing Network Performance for Large-Scale Distributed Machine Learning on Parameter Server Framework
Prof. Xiaokui Xiao
Nanyang Technological University
Talk Title: Privacy Preserving Data Publishing: From K-Anonymity to Differential Privacy
Prof. Zixiang Xiong
The U.S. state of Texas a&m university
Talk Title: Adaptive Boosting for Image Denoising: Beyond Low-Rank Representation and Sparse Coding
Prof. Liuqing Yang
Colorado state university
Talk Title: Cross-Object Coding and Allocation (COCA) in Distributed Storage Systems
Prof. Jieping Ye
University of Michigan
Talk Title: Big Data at Didi Chuxing
Prof. Jun Zhang
University of Michigan
Talk Title: Information Geometry: Mathematical Foundation for Information Science
Prof. Yin Zhang
Rice university
Talk Title: Big-Data clustering: K-means versus K-indicators