Big Data Technology in the Era of Internet

Speaker:        Professor Tong ZHANG
                Baidu & Rutgers University

Title:          "Big Data Technology in the Era of Internet"

Date:           Thursday, 13 November 2014

Time:           11:00am - 12 noon

Venue:          Room 2503 (via lifts 25/26), HKUST

Abstract:

Big data has become the driving force of innovations and developments in
our society. Consequently the key technologies for analyzing big data
become increasingly important. In our current information age, internet
companies have collected large amounts of data, and have made significant
progress in big data technology and its commercial applications.

This talk will present an overview of the current status of big data
technology on the internet. In particular I'd use Baidu's example to
describe the innovations and future trends of big data technology.


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Biography:

Tong Zhang received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University
in 1999. After graduation, he worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in
Yorktown Heights, New York, and Yahoo Research in New York city. He is
currently a professor of statistics at Rutgers University, and the head of
Baidu Big Data Lab. His research interests include machine learning,
algorithms for statistical computation, their mathematical analysis and
applications.