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.
Moderator:
Kyle Mandli, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Columbia University
Panelists:
Sankar Basu
Program Director, National Science Foundation (CISE/CCF)
Leslie Greengard
Director, Center for Computational Biology, Simons Foundation (Flatiron Institute)
Professor, Courant Institute, NYU
Sitharthan Kamalakaran
Director of Bioinformatics, Institute for Genomic Medicine
Columbia University
Brad Spiers
Principal Solutions Architect, Micron Technology
Renata Wentzcovitch
Professor of Materials Science, and Earth & Environmental Sciences
Columbia University