Scientific Program Committee

  • Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
  • Research interests: models for dynamic networks, dynamic text networks, adversarial risk analysis (i.e., Bayesian behavioral game theory), human rights statistics, agent-based models, forensics, and certain topics in high-dimensional data analysis.
  • Professor and Director,  Foundations of Data Science, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
  • Research interests: statistics, machine learning, computational biology.
  • Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, Feng Chia University
  • Research interests: Bayesian statistics, time series analysis, Bayesian econometrics, forecasting, statistical computing, statistical methods in epidemiology
  • Research Fellow and Director, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica
  • Research interests: bioinformatics, data/information visualization, dimension reduction, matrix visualization, multivariate statistical methods, pattern recognition
  • Professor, Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, Vienna University of Technology
  • Research interests: robust statistics, multivariate analysis, compositional data analysis, geostatistics, and many more
  • Professor, Econometric Institute, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam 
  • Research interests: data science, exploratory multivariate analysis, multidimensional scaling, visualization, optimization
  • Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Stellenbosch University
  • Research interests: multivariate data analysis, visualization of high dimensional data
  • Professor, Applied Mathematics (speciality statistics) at Toulouse School of Economics 
  • Research interests: multivariate data analysis, robust statistics, survey sampling, spatial econometrics and statistics
  • Professor, Statistics and Data Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Research interests: the development and application of robust statistical methods for financial, actuarial and economic data sets
  • Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology 
  • Research interests: information visualization, visual analytics, and mathematical visualization.