BIDMA 2017

Committee

• Honorary Chair
• Jon RokneUniversity of Calgary, Canada
• General Chairs
• Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
• Behrouz Far, University of Calgary, Canada
• Program Chairs
• Academic Track:
• Mehmet Kaya, Firat University, Turkey
• Mahmood Mousavi, University of Calgary, Canada
• Industry Track:
• Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary, Canada
• Tansel Ozyer, TOBB University, Turkey
• Thesis Track:
• Elham Akhond Zadeh Noughabi, University of Calgary, Canada
• Communications Chair
• Jalal Kawash, University of Calgary, Canada
• Publicity Chair
• Manmeet DhaliwalUniversity of Calgary, Canada
• Registration Chairs
• Yasaman AmannejadUniversity of Calgary, Canada
• Tamer Jarada University of Calgary, Canada
• Local Arrangement Chairs
• Sepideh Afkhami GoliUniversity of Calgary, Canada
• Salim AfraUniversity of Calgary, Canada
• Raoufeh HashemianUniversity of Calgary, Canada
• Web Chair
• Tansel OzyerTOBB University, Turkey
• Program Committee
• Basem Alkazemi,Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
• Toshiyuki Amagasa,University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Annalisa Appice,University Aldo Moro of Bari, Italy
• Martin Atzmueller,University of Kassel, Germany
• Antonio Badia,University of Louisville, USA
• Tania Cerquitelli,Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Lijun Chang,University of New South Wales, Australia
• Haopeng Chen,Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Silvia Chiusano,Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Pietro Colombo,Universita dell'Insubria, Italy
• Alfredo Cuzzocrea,ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
• Jerome Darmont,Universite de Lyon, France
• Raj Das,University of Auckland, New Zeland
• Pasquale De Meo,VU University, Italy
• Luigi Di Caro,U. of Torino, Italy
• Chen Ding,Ryerson University, Canada
• Zhihui Du,Tsinghua University, China
• Xiaoliang Fan,Lanzhou University, China
• Simon Fong,University of Macau, China
• Enrique Frias-Martinez,Telefonica Research, Spain
• Paolo Garza,Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Manolis Gergatsoulis,Department of Archive and Library Sciences, Greece
• Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis,IBM Watson Health, USA
• Ulrich Hoppe,University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Bahman Javadi,Western Sydney University, Australia
• Theodore Johnson,at&t labs - research, USA
• David Kaeli,Northeastern University, USA
• Michal Kozielski,Silesian University of Technology, Poland
• Konstantin Kuzmin,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Carson Leung,University of Manitoba, Canada
• Gang Li,Deakin University, Australia
• Cheng-Te Li,Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Weifeng Liu,China University of Petroleum, China
• Xumin Liu,Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
• Lin Liu,Tsinghua University, China
• Hamid Mcheick,University of Quebec At Chicoutimi, Canada
• Suzanne McIntosh,NYU Courant Institute, and Cloudera Inc., USA
• Ningfang Mi,Northeastern University, USA
• Mohamed Nadif,University Paris Descartes, France
• Mirco Nanni,ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy
• Marco Netto,IBM Research, USA
• Samia Oussena,University of West London, United Kingdom
• Dana Petcu,West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Helena Ramalhinho,Universitat Pompeu Fabra, USA
• Zbigniew Ras,University of North Carolina, USA
• Florin Rusu,University of California, Merced, USA
• Nick Sahinidis,Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Christoph Schommer,University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Man-Kwan Shan,National Chengchi University, Taiwan
• Pierre Sutra,Telecom SudParis, France
• Domenico Talia,University of Calabria, Italy
• Abdullah Uz Tansel,Baruch College CUNY, USA
• Theodoros Tzouramanis,University of the Aegean, Greece
• Giorgio Valentini,Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
• Iraklis Varlamis,Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
• Liqiang Wang,University of Wyoming, USA
• Geng Yang,Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China
• Chao-Tung Yang,Tunghai University, Taiwan
• Qi Yu,Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
• Bin ZhouUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA