Invited Speakers
Dr. Marti Hearst is a professor in the School of Information and EECS Department at UC Berkeley. Her primary research interests are user interfaces for search engines, information visualization, natural language processing, and improving MOOCs. She wrote the first book on Search User Interfaces. Prof. Hearst is an ACM Fellow, a member of the CHI Academy, and has received an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Faculty Award, two Google Research Awards, and an Okawa Foundation Fellowship. Prof. Hearst has served as the President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). She has also served on the Advisory Council of NSF's CISE Directorate and is currently on the Web Board for CACM, member of the Usage Panel for the American Heritage Dictionary, and on the Edge.org panel of experts. She is on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) and was formerly on the boards of ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Computational Linguistics, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), and IEEE Intelligent Systems.
AnHai Doan is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His interests cover databases, AI, and Web, with a current focus on data integration, data science, and machine learning. AnHai received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2003, a CAREER Award in 2004, and a Sloan Fellowship in 2007. He co-authored ``Principles of Data Integration'', a textbook by Morgan-Kaufmann in 2012. AnHai was on the Advisory Board of Transformic, a Deep Web startup acquired by Google in 2005, and was Chief Scientist of Kosmix, a social media startup acquired by Walmart in 2011. From 2011 to 2014 he was Chief Scientist of WalmartLabs, the R&D arm of Walmart devoted to analyzing and integrating data for e-commerce. AnHai serves on the SIGMOD Advisory Board and co-chairs SIGMOD 2020.