The purpose of this workshop is to highlight novel research addressing high dimensionality and at the same time bringing in contact prominent researchers and practitioners in the particular aspect of big data analysis. The dual keynote talks from both the academia and the industry emphasizes the importance of bridging the gap between state-of-the-art research and practical applications.

The workshop's interests range from applications involving high dimensional data to the theoretical aspects of the problem. In addition, there is a particular interest in techniques that take advantage of data-parallel/graph-parallel platforms to effectively handle truly large-scale real world problems, and techniques that improve memory efficiency, a premium in streaming and distributed environments.

Research topics included in the workshop

The topics of this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• "Large p, small n" settings

• Supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised dimensionality reduction

• Large-scale network analysis

• Data clustering

• Random projections for big data

• High-dimensional data streams

• Manifold learning for big data

• Kernel-based approaches for big data

• Non-negative matrix factorization for big data

• Big data applications involving high dimensionality

• Big Biomedical data mining

Invited keynote speakers

Academic Keynote Speaker: TBA

Industry Keynote Speaker: TBA

Previous keynote speakers:

• Ben Snively, AI/ML Principal Solution Architect, Big Data and Analytics, Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Bin Yu, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Statistics, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley, USA.

• Dimitris Tasoulis, Senior Execution, Researcher, Winton Capital Management, UK.

• Tony Jebara, Netflix and Columbia University, USA.

• Maxime Fournes, Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer, Seldon Technologies , UK.

Chaired by

• Vassilis P. Plagianakos, Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece.

• Sotiris Tasoulis, Assistant Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece.

• Nicos Pavlidis, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University, UK.

• Aristidis Vrahatis, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ionian University, Greece.

Program Committee Members (PREVIOUS and current)

• Jussi Kangasharju, Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland.

• Paulo Lisboa, Professor, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

• Zhirong Yang, Research fellow, HIIT, University of Helsinki, Finland.

• Jon Crowcroft, Professor, University of Cambridge, UK.

• Teemu Roos, Associate Professor, HIIT, University of Helsinki, Finland.

• Daniel Lawson, Research Fellow, University of Bristol, UK.

• Spyros Sioutas, Professor, University of Patras, Greece.

• Themis Exarchos, Assistant Professor, Ionian University, Greece.

• Angelos Marnerides, Associate Professor, University of Glasgow , UK.

• Richard Samworth, Professor, University of Cambridge, UK.

• David Hofmeyr, Assistant Professor, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

• Michael Epitropakis, Lecturer, Lancaster University, UK.

• Liang Wang, Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge, UK.

• Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Associate Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece.

• Sandra Ortega-Martorell, Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

• Luca Martino, Assistant Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid , Spain.

• Ilias Maglogiannis, Associate Professor, University of Piraeus, Greece.

• Michael Mathioudakis, Assistant Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland.

• Rohit Babbar, Assistant Professor, Aalto University, Finland.