Special Sessions
The program for DSW 2019 will include Special Sessions that complement the regular program with topics of emerging interest that are in line with the data science theme of this workshop. The aim of a special session is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art as well as to highlight current research directions and challenges in specific fields of data science. We are particularly interested in cross-cutting topics that intersect with either the machine learning or statistics community.
Accepted Special Sessions
- Nonconvex Optimization for Data Science
Organizers: Mingyi Hong (University of Minnesota, USA) and Qing Ling (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
- Tensor Methods
Organizer: Lieven De Lathauwer (KU Lieven, Belgium)
- Data Analytics for Power Systems
Organizers: Ali Tajer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA), and Samir M. Perlaza (INRIA, France)
- Omics Data Processing and Analysis
Organizers: Idoia Ochoa (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) and Marco Mattavelli (EPFL, Switzerland)
- Statistical Inference in Complex Network Data
Organizers: Yuguo Chen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) and Subhadeep Paul (The Ohio State University, USA)
- Reinforcement Learning
Organizer: Maxim Raginsky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Submission of Special Session Proposals
To submit a special session proposal, please prepare a document (PDF, plain text, or Word) with the following information and e-mail it to the Special Sessions Co-Chairs, Drs. Olgica Milenkovic (milenkov@illinois.edu) and Hao Zhu (haozhu@utexas.edu), by December 23, 2018. Prior to submitting your special session proposal, please invite and confirm the participation of each participant and solicit a tentative paper title for each paper in the special session.
Each special session is expected to have 5 papers. All papers will be presented in oral sessions. Each organizer may not contribute more than one paper to his/her special session. If a special session has more than one organizer, no more than two (2) papers of the special session can have an organizer as an author.
Notification of acceptance is by December 28, 2018. If your proposal is accepted, your speakers will be required to submit the final papers by February 8, 2019.
A template for the special session form can be downloaded here.
Organizer Information
- - Names of all special session organizers
- - Email addresses of all special session organizers
- - Brief biography of all special session organizers in IEEE format
Session Information
- - Tentative session title
- - Summary of the special session
- - Motivation and rationale of the special session with a discussion on the key issues of the special session, what makes the special session topic timely and state-of-the-art, and any special, unique, or distinctive features of the special session
Invited Paper Information
- For each invited paper in the special session (5 papers total), please provide:
- - Tentative paper title
- - List of authors