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Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director, Microsoft ResearchSurajit Chaudhuri, Distinguished Scientist and a Managing Director at Microsoft Research, will discuss the key secular trends that characterize the field of Big Data with respect to enterprise analytics. He will describe some of the open challenges for enterprise analytics in the context of Big Data.
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Professor, University of PennsylvaniaSanjeev Khanna is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His primary research interests are in the design and analysis of algorithms for combinatorial optimisation and in complexity theory. His research has been supported by National Science Foundation, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an IBM Faculty Award. Sanjeev serves on the Editorial boards of SICOMP, ACM TALG, and Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science and served as an area editor for Encyclopaedia of Algorithms.
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Scientific Director, Max Planck Institute for InformaticsGerhard Weikum is a Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbruecken, Germany, and also an Adjunct Professor at Saarland University. His research spans transactional and distributed systems, self-tuning database systems, DB&IR integration, and automatic knowledge harvesting from Web and text sources. He co-authored a comprehensive textbook on transactional systems, received the VLDB 10-Year Award for his work on automatic DB tuning, and is one of the creators of the Yago knowledge base. Gerhard Weikum is an ACM Fellow and a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering. He received a Google Focused Research Award in 2010, and the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award in 2011.