2013年1月5日，应软件学院邀请，美国Drexel大学Xiaohua Tony Hu教授在软件楼208会议室为北理工师生带来了题为“大数据的研究及其应用”的报告，王树良教授主持了本次学术报告会。华体会体育软件学院院长丁刚毅教授，以及薛静锋教授、王勇副教授等教职工和华体会体育的部分本科生、研究生参加了此次报告会。
 
        Xiaohua Tony Hu教授首先从大数据的定义讲起，阐述了大数据所具备的特征，以及工业界和学术界所要应对的挑战。接着，他介绍了在大数据领域国内外的研究成果和研究现状，将此领域的整体概况呈现在了在座师生的眼前。在介绍大数据领域的同时，他还向在座师生介绍了自己承担大数据领域相关的项目情况。在主要内容介绍结束后，他与在座师生就大数据领域的相关问题展开了热烈讨论。

        Xiaohua Tony Hu教授精彩的报告博得了在座师生热烈的掌声，更重要的是进一步引发了在座师生对大数据领域现状和发展的思考。通过本次报告会，在座师生既丰富了专业知识，又开阔了学术视野，明确了今后的学习和研究提方向。

　　附：Xiaohua Tony Hu简介

Brief Introduction of Professor Hu

Xiaohua Tony Hu is a full professor and the founding director of the data mining and bioinformatics lab at the College of Information Science and Technology, one of the best information science schools in USA (ranked as #1 in 1999 and #6 in 2010 in information systems by U.S. News & World Report).  He is also serving as the founding Co-Director of the NSF Center (I/U CRC) on Visual and Decision Informatics (NSF CVDI), IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Steering Committee Chair, IEEE Computer Society Big Data Steering Committee Chair. Tony is a scientist, teacher and entrepreneur. He joined Drexel University in 2002, was early tenured/promoted to be an associate professor in 2007, and early promoted to be a full professor in 2011.  He founded the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (SCI indexed) in 2006, International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems in 2008. Earlier, he worked as a research scientist in the world-leading R&D centers such as Nortel Research Center, and Verizon Lab (the former GTE labs). In 2001, he founded the DMW Software in Silicon Valley, California. He has a lot of experience and expertise to convert original ideas into research prototypes, and eventually into commercial products, many of his research ideas have been integrated into commercial products and applications in data mining fraud detection, database marketing.

Tony’s current research interests are in data/text/web mining, bioinformatics, information retrieval and information extraction, social network analysis, healthcare informatics, rough set theory and application. He has published more than 210 peer-reviewed research papers in various journals, conferences and books. His research projects are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), US Dept. of Education, the PA Dept. of Health, the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).  He has obtained more than US$7.8 million research grants in the past 8 years as PI or Co-PI (PIs of 6 NSF grants, PI of 1 IMLS grant in the last 6 years). He has graduated 10 Ph.D. students from 2006 to 2012 and is currently supervising 10 Ph.D. students.

Tony is the founding Co-Director of the NSF Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (NSF CVDI), there are about 60 such centers nationwide supported by the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center program in all the research disciplines covered by NSF.  The CVDI is the “National Center of Excellence” to deal with the Big Data Challenges. The center is funded by NSF, the members from industry and government, and university matching funds. The current industry members and government agencies associated with Drexel University are: Children Hospital of Philadelphia, Elsevier, Institute of Museum and Library, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft Research, Penn Dept. of Health, Thomson Reuters, SunGuard LLP, Lockheed Martin. The CVDI serves to drive continuous innovation through knowledge sharing among partners leading to invention and commercialization of information and knowledge engineering technologies for decision support, research and develop next generation data mining, visual and decision support tools & techniques to enable decision makers in government and industry to fundamentally improve the way their organization’s information is interpreted and analyzed. Currently, there are about 30 faculty and staff from Drexel University and University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and 12 industry companies/government agencies participated in various research projects.

Tony has 8 years solid industry R& D experience and has converted many original research ideas into research prototype systems and eventually into commercial products. From 1994-1998, he was a research scientist in data mining in Nortel Network Research Center, GTE Labs (Verizon Labs) etc. He had worked in many data mining related projects for real-time telephone switch system diagnosis, data managements, and wireless churn prediction. Among them, the CHAMP (CHurn Analysis, Modeling and Prediction) project was nominated for GTE’s highest technical achievement award in 1997. From 1998-2002, he had designed and developed data mining commercial software in various start-up companies (KSP, Blue Martini Software), KSP was acquired by Exchange Applications for $52 million in April 2000. In 2001, Tony founded the company DMW software (Data Mining and Warehousing) in Silicon Valley, California.  He has successfully deployed a few data mining products/systems to some Fortune 100 companies such as Chase, Citibank, Sprint for credit fraud detection, e-personalization and customer management systems.
 
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