Applied Data Science and AI

Victoria Room
City University of Seattle

521 Wall St Suite 100,

Seattle, WA, 98121

Aug 20-21, 2018 (Mon-Tue)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Simon Cleveland

Ph.D., PMP, CSM, CSPO, ITIL, CSSBB


Executive Director and Associate Dean, Technology Institute | Professor

  • Ph.D. in Information Systems - Nova Southeastern University
  • MS in Project Management - The George Washington University
  • BS in Management and Marketing - George Mason University

After more than 20 years of experience as a technology manager, program manager, and PMO director for organizations such as MD Anderson Cancer Center, the Department of Homeland Security, NASA, Accenture, and AOL, Dr. Simon Cleveland has joined CityU as the Technology Institute’s executive director and associate dean.

The author of over 25 peer-reviewed publications in journals and conferences, Dr. Cleveland is the acting associate editor for the International Journal of International Journal of Smart Education and Urban Society and is on the editorial review boards for seven other journals.

He holds the following professional certifications: PMP, CSM, CSPO, ITIL, SSBB, and was awarded the inaugural Outstanding Faculty Award at Georgetown University for his contributions to their Master of Professional Studies in Project Management program. He sits on several dissertation committees; belongs to PMI, IEEE, AIS, ACM, and UPE; sponsors events supporting at-risk youth, adventure scholarships, and literacy programs; and is always in search of a great book to read, and a steep path to hike.

YingYing Zhuang

Ph.D.

Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon

  • Ph.D. in Biostatistics - University of Washington

I am a machine learning scientist at Amazon where we solve problems that impact the experience of millions of Amazon customers. Together with a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, economists, product managers, we define the research and experiment strategy with an iterative approach to create machine learning models and progressively improve the results over time.

Prior to joining Amazon, I obtained my PhD in biostatistics at the University of Washington, where I worked on developing machine learning methodology for estimation of causal parameters of interest in randomized clinical trials.

Outside of work, I enjoy hiking, baking, playing tennis, and exploring the many fun activities Seattle and PNW have to offer with my Fiance and my pup Drogo.

Yun Tse Wu

Mercedes Benz Research and Development North America (MBRDNA)

Yun Tse Wu is a DevOps Engineer at MBRDNA(Mercedes Benz Research and Development North America) who researches, develops, and contributes to infrastructure/application continuous integration and deployment strategies. He looks at problems and solutions from automated aspect of Integration, Deployment, Security, and Monitoring, which closes the gaps of toolsets between multiple roles (development, QA, security, operations, business) in application lifecycle. He’s specialties are solutions for Infrastructure as Code, Container Orchestration, and Centralized Logging and Data Pipeline using various best practices of the industry.

Prior to MBRDNA, he was working with large enterprises and start-up sized companies, work history includes: Avanade, Cloud Coreo, DreamBox, MBRDNA(Consultant affiliated to Luxoft), Disney(Consultant affiliated to Dev9).

Sam Chung

Ph.D.

Program Director, Master of Science in Information Security

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science - University of South Florida
  • Applied Scientist in Computer Science - George Washington University
  • MS in Computer Science - Korea Advanced Institute of Technology
  • BE in Computer Engineering - Kyoong Pook National University

Sam Chung, Ph.D., is a City University of Seattle professor and the Master of Science in Information Security program director.

Dr. Chung earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, and has M.S. degrees in computer science from George Washington University and the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He graduated with a B.S. from the Department of Electronics/Computer Engineering at Kyungpook National University.

Before joining CityU, Dr. Chung was a tenured professor and the director of the School of Information Systems and Applied Technologies at Southern Illinois University. He administered three degree programs: electronics systems technologies, information systems technologies, and technical resource management. Before joining SIU, he was an endowed associate professor of information systems and information security, and a founder of the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and Systems program at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Dr. Chung also served as an associate director of cyber physical systems for the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the University of Washington.

Dr. Chung led a research group in Smart and Secure Computing (SSC), which focused on making Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) smart and secure by developing and using Software Reengineering approaches. Dr. Chung has mentored many undergraduate and graduate students through his student-oriented research program. He has been a Co-Principal Investigator and Principal Investigator for multiple funded projects from organizations including NSF, KITECH and T-Mobile.

Sarah Stone

Ph.D.

Executive Director | Professor

Sarah Stone became the Executive Director of the eScience Institute in September 2016, a position she job shares with Micaela Parker. Together with Dr. Parker, Stone handles eScience operations and planning, serving as the primary administrative contact for university and industry partners, funding agencies and the public. She helps to manage joint activities with partner institutions, including UC Berkeley and NYU, coordinates eScience outreach activities, and jointly runs the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program. Dr. Stone has a passion for fostering education and research collaborations across disciplines. As Deputy Director of the West Big Data Innovation Hub (WBDIH), she is involved in the thematic development of the WBDIH Urban Science working group

Prior to joining eScience as a Program Manager in 2014, Dr. Stone was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oceanography at Humboldt State University in northern California. She has been involved in many large, interdisciplinary research projects in oceanography and has a specialty in zooplankton ecology. Her research foci included the effects of krill swimming behavior on ocean particle dynamics; the role of ocean eddies in structuring animal diversity and abundance; zooplankton vertical migration and carbon sequestration.

Grayson Williams

Ph.D.

Mercedes Benz Research and Development North America (MBRDNA)

Grayson Williams, Ph.D. is a software engineer at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America who works with Java, microservices, cloud computing, Kubernetes, and Docker. Prior to that, he was a data engineer at RealSelf using Python and SQL to manipulate and analyze business-critical data. Before that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at A*STAR in Singapore, working on high-performance computing problems across the physical sciences.

He earned his PhD in experimental particle physics at CERN, where he worked in areas such as hardware design and operation, grid and distributed computing, data analysis, and mathematical modeling.

Bill Kaghan

Ph.D., MBA

Associate Program Director | Associate Professor

  • Ph.D. in Technology Management - University of Washington
  • MBA - University of Washington
  • MS in Electrical Engineering - University of Tennessee
  • BS in Electrical Engineering - University of Tennessee

Bill Kaghan is an engineer and an ethnographer who researches, teaches, and consults on technology and information systems management. Bill began his career as an R&D engineer (Guidance and Control Systems Analysis) at the Boeing Aerospace Corporation where he developed an intense and lasting curiosity about the social nature of engineering work and technological innovation.

His dissertation research was centered around a three-year participant-observer field study at a major university technology transfer office where he studied the everyday practices of professional university technology transfer managers and the roles that they played in pushing forward the transfer of basic research results into industrial applications. He has published several journal articles and book chapters on this topic.

He continues to be particularly interested in the roles of non-engineering and non-executive personnel (like professional technology transfer managers and user experience professionals) who play an important but often invisible role in the process of technological innovation. Since receiving his doctorate in 1998, he has continued to do research and write, has taught both as a lecturer/adjunct in a campus environment and in distance education/online settings, and done contracting and consulting in the area of technology and information systems entrepreneurship, user-centered design, open innovation, and sustainability and sustainable development.

Specialties: open innovation and university-industry technology transfer, organizational/sociotechnical design and change management, technology strategy, research and development collaborations.

Anderson C A Nascimento

Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Institute of Technology, Center for Data Science, University of Washington, Tacoma

  • Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering - University of Tokyo, Japan
  • MS in Information and Communication Engineering - University of Tokyo, Japan
  • BS in Electrical Engineering - University of Brasilia, Brazil

Anderson C A Nascimento is currently a tenured associate professor at the University of Washington – Tacoma. Previously he was a faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering – University of Brasilia, Brazil, and a research scientist with Nippon Telegraph and Telecom Corp, Japan.  He has obtained a Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2004 in cryptography.

 

Dr. Nascimento has extensive experience in cryptographic protocols and information security as a professor, consultant, and a research scientist. He has published over 70 technical papers in prestigious conference proceedings and journals and edited four books. He has partnered extensively with the security industry, including leading the design and development of a two-factor authentication scheme for financial transactions currently used by hundreds of thousands of users.

 

Throughout his career, Dr. Nascimento has amassed over 2 million dollars in research grants and gifts from industry and government. The Brazilian Ministry of Defense has funded his research, as well as the Ministry of Health in Brazil, Intel Corp, Infoblox and the Brazilian Intelligence Agency. He is an associate editor of the IET Information Security Journal and was general chair, technical program committee chair and invited speaker for several international conferences on information security and cryptography. Dr. Nascimento also was a panelist and reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the European Science Foundation.