IEEE 2016 ICWS/SCC/CLOUD/BigDataCongress/MS/

SERVICES Plenary Panel Sessions

Plenary Panel 1: IoT in Practice (SERVICES2016-7007)

(06/28 Tuesday, 16:50-18:00; Peacock Court)

Moderator: Tony Shan, Chief IoTologist at Wipro, USA Panelists:

• Amit Fisher, Program Director of Watson IoT at IBM • Jim Heising, Head of Platform at IFTTT • Jonathan Anderson, CTO of IoT Security at Intel Security • Kerrie Holley, VP and CTO of Software Platform Group at Cisco

Abstract: There has been an unprecedented explosion of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for various industries recently. Cisco estimates the IoT will consist of 50 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020. A Gartner report reveals that 6.4 billion connected "Things" will be in use in 2016 and 43% of organizations are using or plan to implement IoT this year. Companies are taking advantage of IoT to optimize every aspect of business and adapt to new business models.

However, the reality is that over two-thirds of IoT projects will fail, according to IBM. The daunting challenge is how to become the one that succeeds. What will help you turn into an IoT winner? Where can you find the low hanging fruits? What pitfalls should be aware of? How can you leverage open source? What about interoperability? Do standards matter now? How can you defog and simplify in this immature space?

We need a pragmatic approach to deal with this paradigm shift. The industry leaders and field practitioners on this panel will shed light on these aspects through their forward-looking perspectives, insights, predictions, and advice.

About the Moderator

Tony Shan is a renowned thought leader and innovative visionary with decades of field experience and guru-level expertise on cutting-edge enterprise computing technologies. He leads incubating and nurturing interdisciplinary practice and enablement on emerging technologies like IoT, big data and cloud. He drives award-winning innovation and transformation of most complex enterprise systems. He directs and advises the

pragmatic lifecycle design of large-scale distributed solutions on diverse platforms in Fortune 500

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companies and public sector organizations. He is a regular speaker and organizer in preeminent conferences. As a book author and an editor/editorial advisory board member of IT research journals, he also founded several user groups/forums. About the Panelists (in alphabetic order of first name):

Amit Fisher is the IBM Watson IoT Cognitive Lead, owning strategic directions and offering management for Watson IoT cognitive capabilities and solutions. Prior to this role, Amit was the CTO, IBM IoT Continuous Engineering Solutions, where he was in charge of promoting and pushing forward new innovative IoT and Continuous

Engineering solutions in the Aerospace and Defense, Automotive and Electronic industries. He is also a member of IBM Industry Academy, the most prestige IBM Industry forum. Prior to his CTO role, Amit was a senior manager at IBM Research, Haifa, where he worked closely with selective IBM clients in developing new approaches for complex solution design and analytics, business optimization and transformation solutions. Prior to joining IBM, Amit served as Information Systems engineer officer at the Israeli Air Force. Amit has a B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management and a M.SC. degree in Information System Engineering from the Technion, Israel.

Jim Heising is an entrepreneur with 20 year experience in building and leading software products and companies in eCommerce, security, mobile platforms, and the Internet of Things. Jim is currently the Head of Platform at IFTTT where he manages a thriving ecosystem of over 300 popular interconnected devices and services. He is also the creator

of a suite of popular IoT focused services, dweet.io and freeboard.io.

Jonathan Anderson is responsible for technical strategy, and integrating security into future IoT solutions at Intel Security. Previous to joining Intel, he served 14 years across both Cisco and HP where he continuously interlocked with customers, sales force, and product teams to develop, execute and validate security, data center, and network services strategy. He also served in customer production environments as an architect, implementer and business owner at Home Depot, BellSouth and Bank of America

throughout his technical career.

Kerrie Holley is VP and CTO for Software Platform Group at Cisco. Kerrie drives the application of Cisco's analytics and automation software portfolio into vertical markets and cross-industries. He was previously an IBM Fellow appointed in 2006. Prior to joining IBM Research, he was CTO for IBM's Global Business Services' Application Innovation Service. He holds several patents, authored two books, and published articles. He appeared on ABC News and a TED talk when IBM Watson was

first introduced describing Watson's next job. He holds a mathematics, Juris Doctorate and honorary Ph.D. degree from DePaul University

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Plenary Panel 2: Cloud Computing (SERVICES2016-7008) (06/29 Wednesday, 10:50-12:00; Peacock Court)

Moderator: Nimish Radia, Ericsson Research, USA Panelists:

• Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA • Bob Bae, Engineering Director – Software Ericsson IT & Cloud Computing, CTO NodePrime • Babak Hodjat, Founder and Chief Scientist at Sentient Technologies • Lorraine M Herger, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA

Abstract: With increasingly larger number of devices, people, and processes getting connected, real-time analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven decision making will become a mission critical workload for cloud computing. Such workloads will be exercised in research, R&D, and production (devOps) environments in heterogenous and distributed cloud scenarios. In this panel, we will explore some of the characteristics of such a workload and how cloud computing needs to evolve to support them. It will cover the aspects such as on-demand software driven allocation of public and private resources (compete, storage, network, and memory), orchestration of the micro-, and even nano-, services spanning basic anomaly detection to deep-neural-network/evolutionary-learning based distributed algorithms, enabling SLA+trust+compliance of such services and bringing various resources into existing environments in the heterogenous and distributed virtualized infrastructure. About the Moderator

Nimish Radia has more than 20 years of experience in the IT, mobile, telecom and finance industry with a strong combination of technology expertise and business acumen. Dr. Radia has proven leadership in transforming technology into multi-million dollar profitable vertical and horizontal solutions. Currently, he is Director of Research and Innovation leading Ericsson's efforts in Silicon Valley for next generation services and

software in areas such as big data, social computing, and contextual user-centered solutions for networked society challenges, such as healthcare, public safety, media, and smart energy. Before joining Ericsson, he was Advanced Technology Executive at Sun for US Communications, Media, and Entertainment Sales. In that role, he led a cross-company R&D team that was accountable for creating revenue-generating solutions. Prior to Sun, he was a Senior Member of the IBM Research and Advanced Software Technology Group driving R&D projects with customers globally. Dr. Radia holds 8 patents and more than 15 invention disclosures and industry publications. About the Panelists

Dennis Gannon is Professor Emeritus in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. From 2008 until he retired in 2014 Dennis Gannon was with Microsoft Research, most recently as the Director of Cloud Research Strategy. In this role he helped provide access to Azure cloud computing resources to over 300 projects in the research and education community in the U.S., Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. His previous roles at Microsoft include directing research as a member of the Cloud Computing Research Group and the Extreme Computing Group. From 1985 to 2008 Gannon was with the Department of Computer Science at Indiana University where he was Science Director

for the Indiana Pervasive Technology Labs and, for seven years, Chair of the Department of Computer Science. In 2012 he received the President’s Medal for his service to Indiana University. His current research involves cloud computing architecture and microservices, large-scale cyberinfrastructure, distributed computing, parallel programming, data analytics and machine learning, computational science, problem solving environments and performance analysis of scalable computer systems. His publications include more than 200 refereed articles and three co-edited books. Gannon received his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Davis.

Bob Bae works as an Engineering Director at Ericsson in the bay area. He served as CTO at NodePrime, a startup focused on immutable infrastructure, which has been acquired by Ericsson. Prior to that, Bob has contributed to various products from companies such as Wind River, NetApp, SGI, Aspera, Mylex, Primary Data, Accensus, and Activision. Bob has a BS from Ohio State University.

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Babak Hodjat is co-founder and chief scientist of Sentient, responsible for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed artificial intelligence system. Babak is a serial entrepreneur, having started a number of Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist. Prior to co-founding Sentient, Babak was senior director of engineering at Sybase iAnywhere, where he led mobile solutions engineering. Prior to Sybase, Babak was co-founder, CTO and board member of Dejima Inc., acquired by

Sybase in April 2004. Babak is the primary inventor of Dejima's patented, agent-oriented technology applied to intelligent interfaces for mobile and enterprise computing – the technology behind Apple’s Siri. Babak is a published scholar in the fields of Artificial Life, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence, and has 25 granted or pending patents to his name.

Lorraine M. Herger IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA (herger@us.ibm.com). Ms. Herger is the Director of Research Integrated Solutions and CIO of IBM Research, a Master Inventor, with over 35 patents, and a Senior Technical Staff Member. Ms. Herger is President of the Society of Women Engineers, New York Section (SWE-NY), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and an ABET (Accreditation Board for

Engineering and Technology) Board member, representing SWE.

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Plenary Panel 3: Disruptive Technologies for Cyber-Physical

Mobile Services (SERVICES2016-7009) (06/29 Wednesday, 16:50-18:00; Peacock Court)

Moderator: Steve Yau, Arizona State University, USA

Panelists: • Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA • Dima Rekesh, IBM, USA

Abstract: Cyber-physical mobile services are fueling a historical transformation of our society because of rapid advances in sensors, smart mobile devices, high-speed wireless communications, Internetof-Things, cloud computing, and big data analytics. Various disruptive technologies are being explored to facilitate the realization of the expected value of the transformation. For example, 5G wireless networks would enable pervasive broadband mobile services for physical world monitoring, information delivery, and social networking. Fog/edge computing would scale and optimize the consumption of computing and storage resources for cyber-physical mobile services. Blockchain technologies promise a scalable and tamper-roof public distributed ledger. Security, privacy, regulatory, and compliance requirements for gathering, storing, analyzing, and distributing cyber-physical mobile data have become show-stoppers for deploying various disruptive business models. This panel will focus on the discussion of the challenges of the aforementioned disruptive technologies in terms of the state-of-the-art cyber-physical mobile services. About the Moderator

Stephen S. Yau is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the director of Information Assurance Center at Arizona State University (ASU), USA. He served as the chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at ASU in 1994-2001. Previously, he was on the faculties of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and University of Florida. He served as the president of the Computer Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and was on the IEEE Board of

Directors, and the Board of Directors of Computing Research Association. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE COMPUTER magazine. He organized many major conferences, including the 1989 World Computer Congress sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and the IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) sponsored by IEEE Computer Society. He has served as a honorary co-chair and general co-chair of the IEEE World Congress on Services and co-located conferences on Service Computing, Cloud Computing, Web Services and Mobile Services. His current research includes services and cloud computing systems, cyber security, trustworthy computing, software engineering, Internet of things, and ubiquitous computing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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About the Panelists Carl K. Chang is Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Director of Software Engineering Laboratory at Iowa State University. He received a PhD in computer science from Northwestern University in 1982, and worked for GTE Automatic Electric and Bell Laboratories before joining the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1984. He joined Iowa State University in 2002

as Department chair of Computer Science, and completed three terms (2002-2013) as its chairman in an eleven-year sprint. His research interests include requirements engineering, net-centric computing, situational software engineering and successful aging. Chang is 2004 President of IEEE Computer Society. Previously he served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Software (1991-94). He received the Computer Society’s Meritorious Service Award, Outstanding Contribution Award, the Golden Core recognition, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. In 2006 he received the prestigious Marin Drinov Medal from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and was recognized by IBM with the IBM Faculty Award in 2006, 2007 and 2009. From 2007-1010 he served the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computer, the flagship publication of IEEE Computer Society. He is the 2012 recipient of the Richard E. Merwin Medal from the IEEE Computer Society. Most recently he was elected the 2014 Distinguished Alumnus by the National Central University in Taiwan, and received the 2014 Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award from China Computer Federation. Chang is an IEEE and AAAS Fellow, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences.

Dima is a Distinguished Engineer with the Cloud Innovation Team at IBM. He currently works on extending the cloud to the edge, between the Internet of Things, Cloud, and Analytics spaces. His interests include computational genomics, machine learning and huge data.

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Plenary Panel 4: Services Computing for IoT/IoE (SERVICES2016-7010) (06/30 Thursday, 15:30-16:30; Peacock Court)

Moderators: Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK John Miller, University of Georgia, USA

Panelists: • Onur Altintas, Fellow at Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA • Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA & China • Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA

Abstract The Panel “What can service computing do for IoT/ IoE” is a joint panel from ICWS and SCC and hence focused on Services. Service Computing has come a long way in the last 20 years, with many fundamental questions well researched, many problems solved, many uses of technologies in industrial practice but also many emerging challenges. Challenges arise through the rapid progress and emergence of new technologies that one could see as enabled through service computing. The Internet of Things/ Internet of Everything is one of the key areas of IT research and practice in recent times. IoT/IoE is a vast distributed systems combining real world artefacts with Computer Systems, it is heavily data driven and requires software engineering methods and software architectures to reach is destined scale. The panel members will explore the role that service computing techniques can play in the space of IoT/IoE. They will be asked to consider which research and practice can map directly from Service Computing to IoT/IoE, which requires some adaptation across, and most interestingly for the service community they will explore which specific challenges are created by the new world of IoT for the adaptation of current service techniques. Overall we hope that the panel will provide an insight into a research agenda for service computing for IoT/IoE. About the Moderators

John A. Miller is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Georgia. He has been the Graduate Coordinator for the department for 9 years and is currently the Associate Head. His research interests include (i) Modeling & Simulation, (ii) Web Services/Workflow, (iii) Database Systems, (iv) Big Data, and (v) Bioinformatics. Dr. Miller received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University in 1980 and an M.S.

and Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1986, respectively. As part of his co-operative undergraduate education program, he worked as a Software Developer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. In his areas of interest, Dr. Miller has authored of over 180 research papers. He is an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, and previously IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, as well as an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Simulation and International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling. He has also served as General/Program Chair for four international research conferences: ANSS, WSC, ICWS and SCC, as well as one regional research conference ACM-SE.

Stephan Reiff-Marganiec is a Senior Lecturer (a role akin to Associate Professor in the US) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Leicester, which he joined in 2003. Prior, he worked in the computer industry in Germany and Luxembourg for several years, held research position sat the Universities of Glasgow (where he obtained his PhD) and Stirling. Dr Reiff-Marganiec has published in excess of 90 papers

in international conferences and journals and has been a member of a large number of programme committees, with chair roles in BCTCS, YR-SOC, ICFI, and ICWS. Dr

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Reiff-Marganiec was co-editor of the Handbook of Research on Service-Oriented Systems and Non-Functional Properties: Future Directions. He has been site and work package leader in the EU funded projects Leg2Net, Sensoria and inContext focusing on automatic service adaption, context aware service selection, workflows and rule based service composition and held guest professor position at the China University of Petroleum, China and Lamsade at the University of Dauphine, Paris (France). He was elected Fellow of the BCS (FBCS).

About the Panelists

Onur Altintas is a Fellow of Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Co. Ltd, in Tokyo. From 1999 to 2001 he was with Toyota Motor Corporation and from 2001 to 2004 he was with Toyota InfoTechnology Center USA, and was also a visiting researcher at Telcordia Technologies between 1999 and 2004. He is the co-founder and general co-chair of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC). He is an IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer.

Dr. Rong N. Chang is Member of IBM Academy of Technology at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, leading in-market R&D on API-defined IoT Cloud services. He has received five IBM corporate-level Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards in the field of Internet-based distributed services computing. He is Chair of IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Services Computing, General Chair of 2016 IEEE World Congress on Services, Steering Committee Member of 2016 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing, Associate EIC of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, EIC of

the Services Transactions on Cloud Computing,and Distinguished Member of ACM. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan, USA and his B.S. degree from the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He holds an ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Services Management and a Micro MBA certificate. Before joining IBM, he was with Bellcore researching on B-ISDN based context-aware personal ubiquitous application services. He co-authored more than 20 patents and 40 refereed technical papers.

Lakshmish Ramaswamy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Georgia. He directs the Data Intensive Pervasive Systems Lab. Dr. Ramaswamy's research interests include Data Intensive Systems, Pervasive Systems, Cloud Computing, Health Informatics, Online Social Media, and Information Security, Privacy and Trust. He received the best paper award at the CoopIS-2010 conference for

his research on cooperative mashup execution. He also received the best paper award at the WWW-2004 conference and the Pat Goldberg best paper award for the work on dynamic web content caching and delivery. Dr. Ramaswamy obtained his PhD from the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also has an MS degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

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Plenary Panel 5: Digital Health, Smart Cities and Services Computing (SERVICES2016-7011)

(07/01 Friday, 13:00-14:10; Peacock Court) Moderator: Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA Panelists:

• Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas, USA • Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA • Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, Kingdee International Software Group Ltd, China

Abstract: We are entering the services computing era fueled with Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT). Digital Health is widely recognized as a killer application for Big Data research and development. Smart Cities are known as a killer application for IoT. In both Digital Health and Smart Cities, predictive data analysis is becoming the dominating model for deep learning and real-time decision making. This panel brings expertise from business analytics, big data, IoT, services computing, security and privacy. The panelists will discuss and debate on the challenges and open issues in Digital Health and Smart cities, and how Digital Health and Smart cities, the two seemingly different applications, can benefit from services computing research and development. About the Moderator

Dr. Ling Liu is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. She directs the research programs in Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL), examining various aspects of large scale data intensive systems, including performance, availability, security and privacy. Prof. Liu is an IEEE Fellow, a recipient of IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award in 2012. She has published over 300 international journal and conference articles and is a recipient of the best paper award from a number of top venues, including ICDCS 2003, WWW 2004, 2005 Pat Goldberg

Memorial Best Paper Award, IEEE Cloud 2012, IEEE ICWS 2013, Mobiquitous 2014, ACM/IEEE CCGrid 2015. In addition to service as general chair and PC chairs of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences in data engineering, very large databases, distributed computing, cloud computing fields, Prof. Liu has served on editorial board of over a dozen international journals. Currently Prof. Liu is the editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Service Computing. Prof. Liu’s current research is primarily sponsored by NSF, IBM and Intel. About the Panelists

Bhavani Thuraisingham is the Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. DistinguishedProfessor in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas, Dallas (UTD) and the executive director of UTD’s Cyber Security Research and Education Institute. Her current research is on integrating cyber security, cloud computing and big data analytics. Prior to joining UTD she worked at the MITRE Corporation for 16 years including a three year stint as a Program Director at the NSF. She initiated the Data and

Applications Security program at NSF and was part of the Cyber Trust theme. Prior to MITRE, she worked for the commercial industry for six years. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the IEEE CS 1997 Technical Achievement Award, the ACM SIGSAC 2010 Outstanding Contributions Award, and a 2013 IBM Faculty Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, the AAAS and the British Computer Society. She has published mover than 100 journal articles, more than 200 conference papers and 12 books and has delivered more than 100 keynote and invited addresses.

Michael Goul serves as Associate Dean for Research at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He works with the School’s portfolio of research centers, coordinates the School’s Ph.D. Program, and he represents the School on University research initiatives such as those associated with advanced analytics. For the six years prior, he served as chair of the school’s department of information systems. Goul

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spearheaded the development of the nine-month Master of Science in Business Analytics program, and he administered the launch of the School’s undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Business Data Analytics degree. Michael also administered the launch of the online version of Carey’s highly successful Master’s of Science in Information Management program. U.S. News and World Report recently included that program in its ranking of Carey’s online graduate offerings as 2nd best in the nation. Carey’s graduate program’s information systems specialty was recently ranked 10th, and the undergraduate program was ranked 18th. Goul is passionate about how the concomitant explosion of big data, the shift to services computing and the emergence of the mobile/social web does and will impact the global economy. His most recent research efforts are in the area of big data, services computing and data science governance. He has published over one hundred articles, authored cases and he conducted analytics research at companies including American Express, eBay, Intel and Teradata.

Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang is Senior Vice President, Chief Scientist & Director of Research at Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited. Prior to joining Kingdee, he was a Research Staff Member and Program Manager at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Zhang has published more than 160 technical papers in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has 50 granted patents. He chaired the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Services Computing from 2003 to 2011. He also chaired the Services Computing Professional Interest Community at IBM Research

from 2004 to 2006. Dr. Zhang has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Web Services Research since 2003 and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2011, and in the same year won the Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering contributions to Application Design Techniques in Services Computing" from IEEE Computer Society.

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Plenary Panel 6: Big Data (SERVICES2016-7012) (07/01 Friday, 16:50-18:00; Peacock Court)

Moderators: Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Calton Pu, Georgia Tech, USA

Panelists: • Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Kirk Bresniker, HP, USA • Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

About the Moderators

Ernesto Damiani is the Director of the Information Security Research Center at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, and the leader of the Big Data Initiative at the Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Center (EBTIC). Ernesto is on extended leave from the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, where he leads the SESAR research lab (http://sesar.si.unimi.it) and coordinates several large scale research

projects funded by the European Commission, the Italian Ministry of Research and by private companies such as British Telecom, Cisco Systems, SAP, Telecom Italia and many others. Ernesto’s research interests include process analysis and privacy-preserving Big Data analytics. Ernesto is the Principal Investigator of the TOREADOR H2020 project on models and tools for Big Data-as-a-Service.

Calton Pu was born in Taiwan and grew up in Brazil. He received his PhD from University of Washington in 1986 and served on the faculty of Columbia University and Oregon Graduate Institute. Currently, he is holding the position of Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software in the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He has worked on several projects in systems and database research. His

contributions to systems research include program specialization and software feedback. His contributions to database research include extended transaction models and their implementation. His recent research has focused on automated system management in clouds (Elba project), information quality (e.g., spam processing), and big data in Internet of Things. He has collaborated extensively with scientists and industry researchers. He has published more than 70 journal papers and book chapters, 280 conference and refereed workshop papers. He served on more than 120 program committees, including the co-PC chairs of SRDS'95, ICDE’99, COOPIS’02, SRDS’03, DOA’07, DEBS’09, ICWS’10, CollaborateCom'11, ICAC’13, CLOUD’15, and co-general chair of ICDE'97, CIKM'01, ICDE’06, DEPSA’07, CEAS’07, SCC’08, CollaborateCom’08, World Service Congress’11, CollaborateCom’12, and IEEE CIC’15.

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About the Panelists Dr. Peter Chen is Distinguished Career Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. International known for his Entity-Relationship (ER) model, used widely in database design, software development, and CASE tools, Peter is IEEE, ACM, and AAAS Fellow and received many prestigious awards including ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award, IEEE Harry Goode Award, Stevens Software Award, Data Management Hall of Fame,

Software Engineering Society Transformative Award, and Pan Wen-Yuan Award. He served on NSF/CISE and Air Force Scientific Advisory Committees and consultant to many organizations. He is listed in Who’s Who in the World.

Kirk M. Bresniker is chief architect of systems research at Hewlett Packard Labs, where he guides research and advanced development of novel hardware and software system designs. Prior to joining Labs in 2014, he spent 25 years in Hewlett Packard Enterprise Group Servers global business unit, the last five years as Chief Technologist. He received a BS in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University. Bresniker is an Hewlett

Packard Enterprise Fellow.

Dr. Latifur Khan is currently a full Professor (tenured) in the Computer Science department at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA where he has been teaching and conducting research since September 2000. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC) in August of 2000, and December of 1996 respectively. Dr. Khan is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He has received prestigious awards including the IEEE Technical Achievement Award for

Intelligence and Security Informatics. He has chaired several conferences including 2015 IEEE Big Data Congress and serves (or has served) as associate editor on multiple editorial boards including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) journal. Dr. Khan has published over 200 papers in prestigious journals, and in peer reviewed conference proceedings. Currently, his research area focuses on big data management and analytics, data mining, complex data management including geo-spatial data and multimedia data. More details can be found at: www.utdallas.edu/~lkhan/

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