DSAA 2016 Committees
General Chairs
Osmar R. Zaiane
University of Alberta, Canada
Stan Matwin
Dalhousie University, Canada
Research Track Chairs
Ravi Kumar
Google, USA
Evangelos Milios
Dalhousie University, Canada
Application Track Chairs
Denilson Barbosa
University of Alberta, Canada
Gautam Shroff
Tata Consultancy Services, India
Special Session Chairs
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
University of Paris 6, France
Davood Rafiei
University of Alberta, Canada
Richard De Veaux
Williams College, USA
Trends and Controversies Chairs
Huan Liu
Arizona State University, USA
Tanya Berger-Wolf
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Tutorial Chairs
Anastasia Ailamaki
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Ioana Manolescu
INRIA, France
Panel Chairs
Jennifer Neville
Purdue University, USA
Moufid Harb
LARUS Technologies Corporation, Canada
Invited Industrial Talk Chair
Nathalie Japkowicz
University of Ottawa
Awards Chairs
Olfa Nasraoui
University of Louisville
Geoff Webb
Monash University
Travel Awards Chair
Xin Wang
University of Calgary
Sponsorship Chair
Longbing Cao
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Jiabin Zhao
Cisco, USA
Publicity Chair
Diane Cook
Washington State University, USA
Local Publicity Chairs
Andrea Lodi
Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Valérie Bécaert
Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Finance Chair
Carson Leung
University of Manitoba, Canada
Web and Social Media Chair
Osmar R. Zaiane
University of Alberta, Canada
Local Arrangement Committee Chairs
Mounir A. Boukadoum
Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Benjamin Fung
McGill University, Canada
Proceedings Chair
Nizar Bouguila
Concordia University, Canada
Registration Chair
Marina Sokolova
University of Ottawa/Big Data Analytics Institute
Advisory/Steering Committees
Advisory Committee
Rakesh Agrawal
Data Insights Laboratories
Usama Fayyad
Barclays Bank, UK
Masaru Kitsuregawa
University of Tokyo, Japan
Rao Kotagiri
University of Melbourne, Australia
Vipin Kumar
University of Minnesota, USA
Bengchin Ooi
National University of Singapore
Xin Yao
University of Birmingham, UK
Philip S Yu
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Steering Committee
Hiroshi Motoda
Osaka University and AFOSR/AOARD, Japan
Geoff Webb
Monash University, Australia
Osmar Zaiane
University of Alberta, Canada
Longbing Cao
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Vincent Tseng
National Cheng kung University, Taiwan
Limsoon Wong
National University of Singapore
Herve Martin
Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble, France
Jian Pei
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Diane J. Cook
Washington State University
Bart Goethals
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Ming-Syan Chen
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Geun-Sik Jo
Inha University, South Korea
