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 (opens in new tab), Executive Director, Earth Science Information Partners Shashi Shekar (opens in new tab), 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 (opens in new tab), Director, Microsoft Genomics Franco Pestilli (opens in new tab), Assistant Professor Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Indiana Bloomington Gari Clifford (opens in new tab), Interim Chair & Associate Professor Biomedical Informatics, Emory University Braden Tierney (opens in new tab), 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 (opens in new tab), Melissa Cragin (opens in new tab), Meredith Lee (opens in new tab), Renata Rawlings-Goss (opens in new tab), Lea Shanley (opens in new tab) 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 (opens in new tab), Strategic Engagements, National Science Foundation |
Building 92, Jolt Room |
| 10:30 AM–12:00 PM | Session 3: Beacons of Collaboration Pietro Michelucci (opens in new tab), Director Human Computation Institute Renata Rawlings-Goss (opens in new tab), Data Science, Georgia Institute of Technology Karen Matthys (opens in new tab), 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 (opens in new tab), Co-Executive Director, eScience Institute, University of Washington Andrew Hoffman (opens in new tab), 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