Launch of Data Science Center at UMass

This is quite the exciting week with not only one of my doctoral students (Sara Saberi) defending her dissertation proposal on Thursday but also the launch of the new Data Science Center at UMass Amherst. The program looks terrific and I will be there before the proposal defense and shortly thereafter for the poster session, where we will be presenting our latest research on cyber crime and cybersecurity, done with another doctoral student of mine, Shivani Shukla, who also prepared the poster below.

The program is as follows:

Center for Data Science Launch Symposium

Thursday, April 9th 2015

Life Sciences Laboratories, 6th floor
240 Thatcher Road Amherst, MA, 01003
The event will bring together leaders in academia, industry and government.

Expected Agenda

9:00am	Light breakfast and social networking
10:00am	Welcome by Chancellor, Provost and other dignitaries
10:10am	Andrew McCallum, Professor & Director of Center for Data Science, UMass Overview of day's agenda and the Center for Data Science
10:20am	Pat Larkin, Director, Innovation Institute at Mass Tech Collaborative Data Science and the Massachusetts economy
10:30am	Jim Kurose, head of Computer & Information Science and Engineering, NSF Keynote presentation
11:00am	Examples of our Research and Interaction with Industry Industry and Academic spotlights Information Economy Steve Vinter, Site Director & Engineering Director, Google Cambridge Andrew McCallum, Professor, UMass CS (information integration) Misha Davidson, Director of Engineering, HP Vertica Yanlei Diao, Associate Professor, UMass CS (big and fast data analytics) Energy and Sustainability Brian Beauregard, Electric Division Head, Holyoke Gas & Electric Prashant Shenoy, Professor, UMass CS (distributed systems) Scott Schwenk, North Atlantic LCC Coordinator, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Dan Sheldon, Assistant Professor, UMass CS (computational ecology) Business and Analysis Gareth Ross, SVP Data, MassMutual David Jensen, Professor, UMass CS (causality) Andrew Merlino, Founder & CEO, Pixel Forensics Erik Learned-Miller, Associate Professor, UMass CS (computer vision) Health and Medicine Deb Bulger, Executive Director of Strategic Programs, McKesson Benjamin Marlin, Assistant Professor, UMass CS (machine learning) Joel Vengco, CIO, BayState Health Deepak Ganesan, Associate Professor, UMass CS (wearable sensors)
12:00pm	Lunch and TV, radio and print press interviews
1:30pm	Industry and Government panel statements and discussion Brian Ulicny, Director of Data Science, Thomson Reuters Rohit Prasad, Director of Research, Echo & Speech, Amazon Eric Brown, Director of Watson Technologies, IBM Alex Cosmas, Chief Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton Raj Subbu, Analytics Leader, Pratt & Whitney C.A. Webb, Executive Director, NE Venture Capital Association Mark Corner, CTO, Fiksu Jennifer Chayes, Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England and New York City Steve Strassmann, CTO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
2:30pm	Education panel statements and discussion Using Data Science to improve education & Data Science Education Beverly Woolf, Professor and White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, UMass CS Rick Adrion, Professor, Director or ECEP,  UMass CS James Allan, Professor & future Chair, UMass CS  Ben Marlin, Assistant Professor, UMass CS Kathy McKeown, Director, Data Science Institute, Columbia Univ.
3:20pm	Provost Katherine Newman & Andrew McCallum.  Closing remarks
3:30pm	Poster session and open discussion Browse posters describing Data Science research by faculty from across UMass, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Amherst and Hampshire Colleges, as well as industry representatives.
4:30pm	End of formal event.  Open discussion continues.