Keynote Speakers

Amir Averbuch (Tel Aviv University & ThetaRay)

Prof. Averbuch is a world renowned expert in applied and computational harmonic analysis, Big Data processing and analysis, wavelets, signal/image processing and scientific computing. At the Tel Aviv University, Prof. Averbuch has supervised fourteen post-doctoral researchers, as well as more than 30 PhD students and 100 MSc students. Prior to founding ThetaRay, Prof. Averbuch was Research Staff Member with IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center in New York.

Nong Ye (Arizona State University)

Professor Nong Ye’s research focuses on modeling, mining and analyzing massive data to understand dynamics of computer and network systems and biological brain systems. Her recent research involves understanding statistical/mathematical data characteristics of normal use and attack activities on computers and networks to develop intrusion detection algorithms. Dr. Ye’s past and current research activities have received over $8M external funding support and have produced seventy-eight journal papers and three books.