Program

8:00 am - 8:45 am

Registration and Refreshments, GCC Lobby

8:45 am - 10:30 am

Session 1    Chair: Jie Chen, PhD

• 8:45 am - 9:15 am

Opening Remarks:

Neil MacKinnon, PhD, Provost & Executive VP, Augusta University
Mark Hamrick, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Research, Medical College of Georgia, AU

• 9:15 am - 10:05 am

Privacy: Challenges and Road Ahead
James Joshi, PhD, National Science Foundation (SaTC) and University
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

• 10:05 am - 10:15 am

Q & A

• 10:15 am - 10:30 am

Coffee Break GCC Lobby

10:30 am - 12:30 pm 

Session 2    Chair: Ahmed Aleroud, PhD

• 10:30 am - 11:20 am

Securing Big Data in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Murat Kantarcioglu, PhD, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX

• 11:20 am - 11:30 am

Q & A

• 11:30 am - 12:20 pm

New Methods for Robust Time-Series Mining
Aditya Prakash, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

• 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm

Q & A

12:30 pm - 2:10 pm   

Poster Session and Lunch, GCC Lobby

CHAIRS: AHMED ALEROUD, PHD & SANTU GHOSH, PHD

2:10 pm - 4:30 pm

Session 3    Chair: Hongyan Xu, PhD

• 2:10 pm - 3:00 pm

Learning from Data in Single-Cell Transcriptomics
Sandrine Dudoit, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, CA

• 3:00 pm - 3:10 pm 

Q & A

• 3:10 pm - 4:00 pm

Ensemble Methods for Testing a Global Null with Applications to Whole Genome Sequencing Studies
Xihong Lin, PhD, Harvard University, Boston, MA

• 4:00 pm - 4:10 pm

Q & A

• 4:10 pm - 4:30 pm

Coffee Break GCC Lobby

4:30 pm - 5:15 pm

Integrated Panel Discussion I  INTRODUCTION OF THE PANEL LEAER: STEVEN WELDON, MS

Leader: Doug Miller, MD, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 

6:00 pm - 8:45 pm 

Social Hour & Banquet (The Pinnacle Club)

699 Broad Street, 17th Floor

• 6:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Social Hour (Cash bars for drinks)

• 6:45 pm - 8:45 pm

Banquet

Remarks: Alex Schwarzmann, PhD, Dean, School of Computer & Cyber Science, AU

8:00 am - 8:30 am

Registration and Refreshments, GCC Lobby

8:30 am - 10:45 am

Session 4             Chair: Jie Chen, PhD

• 8:30 am - 9:20 am 

Applications of Machine Learning to Privacy and Security
Gagan Agrawal, PhD, Augusta University, Augusta, GA

• 9:20 am - 9:30 am

Q & A

• 9:30 am - 10:20 am 

Privacy, Data Privacy, and Differential Privacy
Xiao-Li Meng, PhD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

• 10:20 am - 10:30 am

Q & A

• 10:30 am - 10:45 am 

Coffee Break GCC Lobby

10:45 am - 11:45 am 

Five-Minutes Presentations       Chair:  Steven Weldon, MS

11:45 am - 12:30 pm

Lunch    GCC Lobby

12:30 pm - 2:45 pm

Session 5             Chair: Santu Ghosh, PhD

• 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm 

Modeling complex data using Bayesian Local Models
Bani Mallick, PhD, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

• 1:20 pm - 1:30 pm

Q & A

• 1:30 pm - 2:20 pm

Bayesian Multiset Canonical Correlation Analysis through Laten Factors
Elizabeth Slate, PhD, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

• 2:20 pm - 2:30 pm

Q & A

• 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm

Coffee Break GCC Lobby

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm

Integrated Panel Discussion II INTRODUCTION OF THE PANEL LEAER: HONGYAN XU, PHD

Leader: Jennifer Priestley, PhD, Professor Emerita of Statistics and Data Science, Kennesaw State University & Chief Data Officer, Flock Specialty Finance

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm 

Poster / Five-Minutes Presentation Awards and Conclusion

Workshop Organizing Committee

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Closing Remarks

Workshop Organizing Committee