Keynote Speech

Zoran Obradovic is a Distinguished Professor and Center Director at Temple University, an Academician at the Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe), and a Foreign Academician at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has mentored 74 postdoctoral fellows and Ph.D. students, many of whom have established independent research careers at academic institutions (e.g., Northeastern University, Ohio State University) and industrial research labs (e.g., Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Hitachi Big Data, IBM T.J. Watson, Microsoft, Yahoo Labs, Uber, Verizon Big Data, Spotify).

Zoran serves as the editor-in-chief of the Big Data journal and is the steering committee chair for the SIAM Data Mining conference. He is also a member of the editorial boards for 13 journals and has held roles as general chair, program chair, or track chair for 11 international conferences. His research interests encompass data science and complex networks in decision support systems, addressing challenges related to big, heterogeneous, spatial, and temporal data analytics, motivated by applications in healthcare management, power systems, and earth and social sciences. His studies have received funding from AFRL, DARPA, DOE, NIH, NSF, ONR, the PA Department of Health, US Army ERDC, US Army Research Labs, and various industry sources. He has published 470 articles and has been cited more than 35,000 times (H-index 70). For more details, see http://www.dabi.temple.edu/zoran-obradovic.