CIS Distinguished Lecture Series, Nov 18, 2009, 11:00AM

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CIS Distinguished Lecture Series, Nov 18, 2009, 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Wachman 447

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Prof. Zoran Obradovic and Prof. Eduard Dragut have been awarded the NSF grant aimed to assessing influence of news articles on emerging events.
This project will transform the streams of social media chatter at hundreds of news outlets into data signals and mine those signals foretelling the imminence of an (important) event, and to develop sound predictive analytics on top of those signals. more ...

Prof. Zoran Obradovic is General Chair and Principal Investigator of the NSF US-Serbia and West Balkan Data Science Workshop Grant.
This workshop will facilitate closing the gap between data science research in the US and Serbia and the region and will bring together data scientists with researchers from disciplines that until recently had little exposure to data science methods, potentially enabling collaborative breakthroughs in those scientific fields. more ...

Best paper award at ICHI 2018.
Xi Cao, Chao Han and Prof. Zoran Obradovic won the best paper award at ICHI 2018. more ...

Prof. Zoran Obradovic Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Big Data.
We are very pleased to announce that Zoran Obradovic, PhD has been appointed to assume the role of Editor-in-Chief of Big Data in the Spring of 2018. more ...

Prof. Obradovic chairs the selection committee for 2018 SDM/IBM Early Career Data Mining Researcher Award.
Prof. Obradovic chairs the selection committee for 2018 SDM/IBM Early Career Data Mining Researcher Award. more ...

Recent events & colloquiums

Oct 06, 2017 (Department of Statistical Science & Center for High-Dimensional Statistics) Cynthia Rudin, Recent work on Interpretable Machine Learning , Speakman Hall 318, 03:00PM - 04:00PM

Oct 04, 2017 (Department of Statistical Science & Center for High-Dimensional Statistics) Dennis Lin, Design of Order-of-addition Experiments , Alter Hall 748, 03:00PM - 04:00PM

Nov 03, 2016 (DABI invited CIS Colloquium) Dr. Veljko Milutinovic , DataFlow SuperComputing for BigData , SERC 306, 11:00AM - 12:00PM

Oct 07, 2016 (BIOENGINEERING SEMINAR ) Aviv Bergman , Everything Not Forbidden is Allowed , Engineering Room 126, 12:00PM - 01:00PM

May 11, 2016 (BIG DATA SEMINAR SERIES) Bin Liu , PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS IN MOBILE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS , Alter Hall 505, 10:00AM - 11:00AM

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CIS Distinguished Lecture Series, Nov 18, 2009, 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Wachman 447

Cloud Computing: Virtual Clusters, Security and Geospatial Applications

Kai Hwang, University of Southern California

Gartner Report has ranked virtualization and cloud computing as the top two technologies in 2009. In this talk, Dr. Hwang will assess the role of virtualization technology in protecting cloud resources and datasets in three Cloud service models, namely the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. He will present virtualization techniques to secure clouds and a hierarchical reputation system for data protection in distributed datacenters. Virtual machines enable dynamic cloud resource provisioning and secure the datacenters in web-scale cloud applications. In particular, security and privacy protection in geospatial query processing will be assessed in a cloud-enabled environment. This talk is based on joint research work performed at USC Internet and Cloud Computing Lab directed by Dr. Hwang in collaboration with Tsinghua University in China and the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Kai Hwang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Univ. of Southern California (USC). He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Univ. of California, Berkeley. He has published 8 books and over 210 scientific papers in computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, network security, and Internet applications. He was awarded an IEEE Fellow in 1986 for making significant contributions in computer architecture, digital arithmetic, and parallel processing. He received the 2004 Outstanding Achievement Award from China Computer Federation.
Hwang is the founding Editor of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He has produced 21 Ph.D. students at USC and Purdue. Several of his former students are elevated to IEEE Fellows and IBM Fellow. His latest research publications cover e-commerce, cloud computing, P2P networks, reputation systems, Grid performance, and copyright protection. He has delivered 30 keynote addresses in major IEEE/ACM Conferences and performed advisory and consulting work for IBM, Intel, MIT Lincoln Lab., Academia Sinica, ETL in Japan, and INRIA in France. Contact him at kaihwang (at) usc.edu.