Loading…

The new Frontiers in Computing Systems group,  part of Columbia’s Data Science Institute, is hosting an inaugural full-day symposium, with leading speakers and panelists, to highlight the advances and grand challenges in Big Data infrastructure:  extreme-scale computing systems (hardware, parallel computing, software, databases) and their application to solve diverse cutting-edge problems in climate and ocean science, population-scale biomedical informatics, genomics, materials science, neuroscience, astrophysics and engineering.

The symposium includes an exciting keynote by Ruchir Puri, the chief architect of IBM’s Watson system, on "Engineering the Future of Cognitive Systems."  Other speakers include those developing state-of-art high-performance parallel computers and large-scale Python-based software platforms, as well as experts on computational problems in climate science, astrophysics, and protein folding simulation.

The event will include a keynote talk, lunch, two talk presentation sessions, a networking and poster session, and a panel of experts with audience participation.

 

avatar for Ryan Abernathey

Ryan Abernathey

Columbia University
Associate Professor
avatar for Eran Agmon

Eran Agmon

Stanford
avatar for Emilio Cota

Emilio Cota

Columbia Engineering
PhD Candidate in Computer Science
avatar for Yipeng Huang

Yipeng Huang

Columbia Engineering
PhD Candidate in Computer Science
avatar for Weiwei Jiang

Weiwei Jiang

Columbia Engineering
PhD Candidate in Computer Science
avatar for Rebecca Latto

Rebecca Latto

APAM/ NASA GISS
Student Research Assistant
avatar for Paolo Mantovani

Paolo Mantovani

Columbia Engineering
PhD Candidate in Computer Science
avatar for Fernanda Polubriaginof

Fernanda Polubriaginof

Columbia University
PhD Candidate in Biomedical Informatics
avatar for Iñigo Urteaga

Iñigo Urteaga

Columbia Data Science Institute
Postdoctoral Research Scientist