October 29, 2018 -
October 30, 2018
Workshop on Data Science Innovation with NSF Big Data Hubs
Location: Redmond, WA
Monday, October 29, 2018
| Time (PDT) | Session | Location |
| 8:00 AM–9:00 AM | Breakfast | Building 92, Memphis Room |
| 9:00 AM–9:15 AM | Welcome Evelyne Viegas, Director, Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Research Vani Mandava, Director Data Science, Microsoft Research |
Building 92, Memphis Room |
| 9:15 AM–10:15 AM | Session 1: Earth Science Lucas Joppa, Chief Environmental Officer, Microsoft Erin Robinson, Executive Director, Earth Science Information Partners Shashi Shekar, Distinguished University Professor, University of Minnesota |
Building 92, Memphis Room |
| 10:15 AM–10:30 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM–12:00 PM | Session 2: Health and Genomics Geralyn Miller, Director, Microsoft Genomics Franco Pestilli, Assistant Professor Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Indiana Bloomington Gari Clifford, Interim Chair & Associate Professor Biomedical Informatics, Emory University Braden Tierney, PhD Candidate, Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program, Harvard Medical School |
Building 92, Memphis Room |
| 12:00 PM–1:00 PM | Lunch (and optional visit to Company Store & Visitor Center) | Building 92 |
| 1:00 PM–1:30 PM | TBA Adam Fourney, Computer Scientist, Microsoft Research Besmira Nushi, Researcher, Microsoft Research |
Building 92, Memphis Room |
| 1:30 PM–2:00 PM | Travel to Building 99 | |
| 2:00 PM–3:00 PM | PhD Summit: Big Data Hub Executive Director Career Panel René Bastón, Melissa Cragin, Meredith Lee, Renata Rawlings-Goss, Lea Shanley Moderated by Vani Mandava |
Building 99, Room 1919 |
| 3:00 PM–3:15 PM | Break | |
| 3:15 PM–4:30 PM | Microsoft Research Lab Tour | Building 99 |
| 4:30 PM–5:30 PM | PhD Poster Session or Informal Networking | Building 99 Atrium |
| 5:30 PM–6:00 PM | Travel to Dinner | |
| 6:00 PM–9:00 PM | Dinner at Purple Café & Wine Bar, Bellevue |
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
| Time (PDT) | Session | Location |
| 8:00 AM–9:00 AM | Breakfast | Building 92, Tahoe Room |
| 9:00 AM–9:15 AM | Welcome Vani Mandava, Director Data Science, Microsoft |
Building 92, Jolt Room |
| 9:15 AM–9:45 AM | Keynote Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow, Managing Director, Microsoft Research |
Building 92, Jolt Room |
| 9:45 AM–10:15 AM | Break | |
| 10:15 AM–10:25 AM | Thoughts from the National Science Foundation Meghan Houghton, Strategic Engagements, National Science Foundation |
Building 92, Jolt Room |
| 10:30 AM–12:00 PM | Session 3: Beacons of Collaboration Pietro Michelucci, Director Human Computation Institute Renata Rawlings-Goss, Data Science, Georgia Institute of Technology Karen Matthys, Executive Director, Stanford ICME Ranveer Chandra, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research |
Building 92, Jolt Room |
| 12:00 PM–1:00 PM | Lunch (and optional visit to Company Store & Visitor Center) | |
| 1:00 PM–2:00 PM | Session 4: Data Science for Social Good Sarah Stone, Co-Executive Director, eScience Institute, University of Washington Andrew Hoffman, Research Scientist, Data Ecologies Lab (Human Centered Design & Engineering/UW) Kristin Tolle, Principal Data Scientist, Microsoft Philanthropies |
Building 92, Jolt Room |
| 2:00 PM–2:15 PM | Wrap-up | Building 92, Jolt Room |
| 2:15 PM–2:45 PM | Travel to Building 42 | |
| 3:00 PM–4:30 PM | Tour of Azure Cloud Collaboration Center Tour | Building 42 |
| 4:30 PM | Farewell |
*Agenda subject to change without notice