On Friday September 30th, the University of Chicago will host an NSF Midwest Big Data Hub sponsored workshop: Midwest Big Data Opportunities and Challenges (MBDOC). This workshop is designed to bring together junior researchers from top universities and industry leaders to discuss active areas of research and development in Big Data. The primary goals will be to (i) allow local industry leaders to discuss current big data infrastructures, open challenges encountered, and what they believe to be the next important problems, (ii) give junior researchers the ability to discuss active and future research areas, and (iii) allow regional practitioners and researchers to connect and identify areas of potential collaboration. In addition to presentations from junior faculty, senior faculty, postdocs, and graduate students will be invited to participate. While any area related to Big Data is open for discussion, there will be a particular focus on systems, visualizations, databases, and analytics. We hope to get an engaging set of participants to ensure an informative workshop and hopefully lay the foundation for an annual midwest data retreat!
The workshop will be held at the scenic University of Chicago, located about 20 minutes south of downtown Chicago.
Limited travel support is available and there is no cost to attend. Please contact us if you would like to apply for travel support.
