Keynote speaker I: Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information

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Bio:
Eric Yu is Professor at the University of Toronto, in the Faculty of Information. His research aims to advance the practice of information systems by incorporating intents and motivations of social actors into the analysis and design process. Social concepts are needed for dealing with complex issues such as security, privacy, and trust, knowledge management, business process innovation and strategy, policy and compliance, etc. Professor Yu received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Earlier, he held positions in research and development labs at Bell and Nortel Networks in Ottawa. He also supervises graduate students in the Department of Computer Science through a status-only cross-appointment, and at the University of Ottawa through an adjunct appointment. Professor Yu’s specialties are in information systems analysis and design, requirements engineering, software engineering, knowledge management, business modeling, social modeling and goal modeling.

Keynote speaker II: Dr. Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research, China

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Bio:
Dr. Yu Zheng is a lead researcher from Microsoft Research and a Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include big data analytics, spatio-temporal data mining, and ubiquitous computing. Currently, he is leading the research on urban computing in Microsoft Research, passionate about using big data to tackle urban challenges. He has published over 50 referred papers as a leading author at prestigious conferences and journals, such as KDD, VLDB, UbiComp, Artificial Intelligence and IEEE TKDE. He received five best paper awards from ICDE'13 and ACM SIGSPATIAL’10, etc. Zheng is currently the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (Impact Factor: 9.39) and a member of Editorial Advisory Board of IEEE Spectrum. He has served as chair on over 10 prestigious international conferences—most recently, as the program co-chair of ICDE 2014 (Industrial Track). He has been invited to give over 10 keynote speeches at international conferences and forums (e.g.IE 2014 and APEC 2014 Smart City Forum) and guest lectures in universities like MIT, CMU, and Cornell. Zheng has been featured multiple times by influential journals. In 2013, he was named one of the Top Innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review (TR35) and featured by Time Magazine for his research on urban computing. In 2014, he was named one of the Top 40 Business Elites under 40 in China by Fortune Magazine, because of the business impact of urban computing he has been advocating since 2008. Zheng is also an Adjunct Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and an Affiliate Professor at Southwest Jiaotong University.