Organizing Committee
- Philip Kegelmeyer
Sandia National Laboratories - Tamara Kolda
Sandia National Laboratories - Randall LeVeque
University of Washington - Aleksandra (Saska) Mojsilovic
IBM - Linda Ness
QEDelta and part-time visiting Professor at DIMACS, Rutgers University - Alyson Wilson
North Carolina State University
Abstract
The goal of this workshop is to bring together mathematicians and data scientists to participate in a discussion of current methods and outstanding problems in data science. The workshop is particularly aimed at mathematicians interested in pursuing research or a career in data science who wish to gain an understanding of this rapidly evolving field and the ways in which mathematics can contribute.
Researchers currently working in data science are also encouraged to attend, to share ideas about mathematical methodologies and challenges. A number of experienced data scientists with a variety of backgrounds from academics, national laboratories, and industry (including startups) will be invited. The program will include overview and technical talks, several panels consisting of practitioners with different experience levels, and one or more poster sessions.

The image to the right is an illustration of the BTER (block two-level Erdös-Renyí) graph model. The nodes are color-coded: darker nodes are of higher degree. The blue edges correspond to highly-connected affinity blocks, and the green edges to “random” connections. Image created by Nurcan Durak and provided courtesy of Tamara Kolda, based on work at Sandia National Laboratories*. * Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
Career Panelists
- June Andrews
LinkedIn - Justin Basilico
Netflix - Tom LaGatta
Splunk - Randall LeVeque
University of Washington - Jake VanderPlas
University of Washington - Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson
Pacific-Northwest National Laboratory
Math in Data Science Panel
- Justin Basilico
Netflix - Susan Holmes
Stanford University - Xiaoming Huo
National Science Foundation/Georgia Tech - Peter Jones
Yale University - Tamara Kolda
Sandia National Laboratories - Linda Ness
Applied Communications Sciences - Randall LeVeque
University of Washington - Amit Singer
Princeton University - Yi-Qiao Song
Schlumberger-Doll Research Center
Confirmed Speakers & Participants
Talks will be presented virtually or in-person as indicated in the schedule below.
- Speaker
- Poster Presenter
- Attendee
- Virtual Attendee
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Mahesh Agarwal
University of Michigan-Dearborn
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Ronay Ak
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Montaz Ali
University of the Witwatersrand
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Javier Amezcua
University of Reading
-
June Andrews
LinkedIn
-
Salman Asif
Rice University
-
Paul Atzberger
UC Santa Barbara
-
Ulas Ayaz
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
-
Bubacarr Bah
University of Texas - Austin
-
Anthony Bak
Stanford University
-
Jon Bannon
Siena College
-
Justin Basilico
Netflix
-
Janine Bennett
Sandia National Laboratories
-
Ghanshyam Bhatt
Tennessee State University
-
Henry Boateng
STFC Daresbury Laboratory
-
Jeffrey Brock
Brown University
-
Hilla Brot
Northwestern University
-
Xiongzhi Chen
Princeton University
-
Qianyong Chen
UMass Amherst
-
Haiyan Cheng
Willamette University
-
Eric Chi
North Carolina State University
-
Andra Constantinescu
TripAdvisor
-
Jaqueline Davis
Arizona State University
-
Persi Diaconis
Stanford University
-
David Dunson
Duke University
-
Adam Earle
WITS
-
Ellen Eischen
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
-
Fariba Fahroo
DARPA
-
Kathleen Finlinson
University of Colorado at Boulder
-
Nicolas Garcia Trillos
Carnegie Mellon University
-
Ramesh Garimella
University of Central Arkansas
-
Timothy Goodrich
North Carolina State University
-
David Guarrera
DARPA
-
Andrea Hairston
The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences
-
Emilie Hogan
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
-
Susan Holmes
Stanford University
-
Mayer Humi
WPI
-
Xiaoming Huo
Georgia Institute of Technology
-
YunKyong Hyon
National Institute for Mathematical Sciences
-
Jiahua Jiang
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
-
Qingtang Jiang
University of Missouri - St. Louis
-
Matthew Johnson
City University of New York
-
Chris Johnson
University of Utah
-
Peter Jones
Yale University
-
Sunnie Joshi
Temple University
-
Mahta Khosravi
University of British Columbia
-
Saeja Kim
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
-
Christine Klymko
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
-
Andrew Knyazev
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
-
Tamara Kolda
Sandia National Laboratories
-
Jey Kottalam
UC Berkeley AMPLab
-
Bala Krishnamoorthy
Washington State University
-
Ben Kunsberg
Brown University
-
Yu-Ju Kuo
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
-
Tom LaGatta
Splunk
-
Roy Lederman
Princeton University
-
Benedict Leimkuhler
University of Edinburgh
-
Randall LeVeque
University of Washington
-
Sivan Leviyang
Georgetown University
-
Antonios Liakopoulos
Brown University
-
Kevin Matulef
Sandia National Labs
-
Timothy McDevitt
Elizabethtown College
-
Yevhen Mohylevskyy
York University
-
Elizabeth Munch
University at Albany - SUNY
-
Carmeliza Navasca
University of Alabama at Birmingham
-
Linda Ness
QEDelta and part-time visiting Professor at DIMACS, Rutgers University
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Michael O'Brien
North Carolina State University
-
Zoran Obradovic
Temple University
-
Omayra Ortega
Arizona State University
-
Jason Pacheco
Brown University
-
Randy Paffenroth
WPI
-
Paris Perdikaris
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
Thomas Peters
University of Connecticut
-
Ivana Petrovic
Brown University
-
Sarah Powers
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
-
Vincent Quenneville-Belair
Columbia University
-
John Ringland
Univeristy at Buffalo
-
Henry Romero
University of Colorado at Boulder
-
Michael Salpukas
Raytheon
-
Lixin Shen
Syracuse University
-
Jennifer Shin
Nielsen and 8 Path Solutions LLC
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Olivia Simpson
UC San Diego
-
Amit Singer
Princeton University
-
Yi-Qiao Song
Shlumberger-Doll Research
-
Ravi Srinivasan
The University of Texas at Austin
-
Erik Sudderth
Brown University
-
Blair Sullivan
North Carolina State University
-
Daniel Sussman
University of Pennsylvania
-
Minh Tang
Johns Hopkins University
-
Gabriel Alin Terejanu
University of South Carolina
-
Charalampos Tsourakakis
Harvard University
-
Konstantinos Vamvourellis
Vencore Labs/ACS
-
Andrew John Van Der Poel
North Carolina State University
-
Jake Vanderplas
University of Washington
-
Oleksiy Varfolomiyev
NJIT
-
Eugene Vecharynski
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
-
Daniele Venturi
University of California Santa Cruz
-
Graziano Vernizzi
Siena College
-
Soledad Villar
UT Austin
-
Alexander Volfovsky
Harvard University
-
Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
-
Chris Wiggins
New York Times
-
Manda Winlaw
University of Waterloo
-
Yu-Jiang Wu
Columbia University
-
Mengjia Xu
Brown University
-
Karamatou Yacoubou Djima
Amherst College
-
Ming Yan
University of California, Los Angeles
-
Ping Ye
Quincy University
-
Izzet Burak Yildiz
IBM Research - Almaden
-
Bin Yu
University of California, Berkeley
-
Jane Zhao
NYU