8:45 - 10:40, Tue, May 21: Plenary Session and Signing Ceremony
Chair: Prof. Jun Li, Executive Deputy Director of TNList, THU
8:45 – 8:50: Welcome Remark from THU SIST (Dean Jiaguang Sun)
8:50 – 9:00: Greetings from USC Viterbi School of Engineering (Dean Yannis Yortsos)
9:00 – 9:10: Greetings from THU Graduate School (Deputy Dean Hong Gao)
9:10 – 9:20: Greetings from the Sponsor (Mr. Feng Deng)
9:20 – 9:25: Signing ceremony of THU-USC Joint Double Degree Program (Jiaguang Sun, Yannis Yortsos)
9:25 – 9:30: Group Photo
9:30 - 10:05: Plenary speech #1: “The Big Data Solution is Powered by Cloud Computing”
 Dr. Bill Huang, General Manager of China Mobile Research Institute
10:05-10:40: Plenary speech #2: “Geo-Immersion: A Data-Centric (Big-Data) Approach Towards Situational Awareness”
Prof. Cyrus Shahabi, Director of the NSF's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at USC
10:40-11:10: Coffee break
11:10 - 12:00, Tue, May 21: Technical Session on Big Data and Cloud (1)
Chair: Prof. Wenguang Chen, Dept of Computer Science and Technology, THU
11:10-11:35: “Big data Services for Biomedical Data”
Prof. Carl Kesselman, USC
11:35-12:00: “GreenOrbs and CitySee: Lessons Learned from Large-Scale Sensor Networks”
                        Prof. Yunhao Liu, School of Software, THU
14:00-15:40: Technical Session on Big Data and Cloud (2)
Chair: Prof. Yunhao Liu, School of Software, THU
14:00-14:25: “Industrial Process Big Data Analytics”
Prof. Joe S. Qin, USC
14:25-14:50: “Profit Maximization in Cloud Services”
                        Prof. Junwei Cao, Research Institute of Information Technology, THU
14:50-15:15: “Data Driven Predictive Analytics and Applications”
Prof. Cauligi Raghavendra, USC
15:15-15:40: “Scalable Learning of Discriminative Representations from Data”
                        Prof. Jun Zhu, Dept of Computer Science and Technology, THU
15:40-16:00: Coffee Break
16:00-17:40: Technical Session on Big Data and Cloud (3)
Chair: Prof. Jun Zhu, Dept of Computer Science and Technology, THU
16:00-16:25: “When can Goliath help David?  Statistical Learning Techniques for Using Big Data to Help Small Data Problems”
Prof. Fei Sha, USC
16:25-16:50: “Social Influence Analysis in Large Networks”
           Prof. Jie Tang, Dept of Computer Science and Technology, THU
16:50-17:15: “Learning and Mining in Large-scale Time Series Data”
Prof. Yan Liu, USC
17:15-17:40: “Trend in Traffic Flow and Detrending Based Traffic Flow Prediction”
               Prof. Li Li, Dept of Automation, THU