First Annual PI Meeting for the NSF Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs Program

该项目将为NSF大数据中心和大数据辐条项目组织第一次年度PI会议。本次会议将与NSF BIGDATA项目项目负责人会议同时举行。这些会议共同召集这些项目的所有主要研究人员。会议将于2017年3月15日至17日在华盛顿特区举行。这将为学术研究人员、行业参与者和政府机构代表提供一个互动的机会，了解大数据的最新研究和应用，确定合作机会、未来研究方向和资助机会，并讨论障碍和差距。会议将包括邀请演讲、由这些项目资助的研究人员的演讲、由学术界、工业界和政府代表组成的小组讨论、海报会议和多个专题分组会议。NSF通过其大数据项目资助研究，涵盖大数据生态系统的各个方面，包括基础设施开发、方法进步、应用开发和社区建设。这些研究项目涵盖数学、统计和算法基础，新技术和新工艺的开发，硬件和软件基础设施建设，以及需要创新使用大数据的应用。PI会议将为所有这些社区提供一个主要机会，让他们走到一起，探索新的想法和伙伴关系。本次会议预计将在大数据社区的广泛领域和技术发展中发挥重要作用，并与其他有兴趣了解这些项目的人进行联系，并作为未来的提案人、赞助商或合作伙伴做出贡献。

This project will organize the first annual PI Meeting for the NSF Big Data Hubs and Big Data Spokes programs. This meeting will be held in conjunction with the PI meeting of the NSF BIGDATA program. Together, these meetings convene all Principal Investigators in these programs. The meeting is to take place on March 15-17, 2017 in Washington DC. This will be an opportunity for academic researchers, industry participants, and representatives from government agencies to interact, learn about the latest research and applications in Big Data, identify opportunities for collaboration, future research directions, and funding opportunities, and to discuss barriers and gaps. The meeting will consist of invited talks, presentations by researchers funded through these programs, panels with academic, industry, and government representatives, a poster session, and multiple topical breakout sessions. NSF is funding research through its programs in Big Data to cover all aspects of the Big Data ecosystem, including infrastructure development, methodological progress, application development, and community-building. These research programs cover mathematical, statistical, and algorithmic foundations, the development of new technologies and techniques, hardware and software infrastructure-building, and applications requiring innovative uses of Big Data. The PI meeting will serve an the main opportunity for all these communities to come together and explore new ideas and partnerships. This meeting is expected to play a major role in growing the Big Data community across a broad range of sectors and technologies, and performing outreach to others interested in learning about these programs and contributing as future proposers, sponsors, or partners.