Big Data Concepts, Theories, and Applications

Dr. Shui Yu
received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from University
of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, P. R. China, in 1993
and 1999, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Deakin University, Victoria,
Australia, in 2004. He is currently a Senior Lecturer with the School of
Information Technology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has
published around 100 peer review papers; many of them are in top journals and
top conferences, such as IEEE TPDS, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TFS, IEEE TMC, and IEEE
INFOCOM. His research interests include networking theory, network security,
and mathematical modeling. Dr. Yu actively serves his research communities in
various roles, which include the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials,
and three other international journals, TPC of IEEE INFOCOM, symposium
co-chairs of IEEE ICC 2014, IEEE ICNC 2013 and 2104, and many different roles
of international conference organizing committees. He is a senior member of
IEEE, and a member of AAAS.

Dr. Song Guo
received the PhD degree in
computer science from the University of Ottawa, Canada in 2005. He is currently
a Senior Associate Professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering, the
University of Aizu, Japan. His research interests are mainly in the areas of
protocol design and performance analysis for reliable, energy-efficient, and
cost effective communications in wireless networks. Dr. Guo is an associate
editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and three
other journals, and an editor of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.
He has published over 120 papers in referred journals and conferences. He
received the Best Paper Awards at IEEE HPCC 2008 and IEEE SCE 2011, the
Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE ISPA 2008, the Outstanding Service Award
at IEEE ICESS 2010, and the prestigious Information Technology Award of Funai
Foundation for Information Technology 2008. He guest edited special issues in
IEEE Transactions on Emergent Topics in Computing, and four other journals. He
has also served on organizing committees and program committees for over 70
international conferences and workshops, like IEEE INFOCOM 2012, IEEE MASS
2011, IEEE WCNC 2008-2012, PIMRC 2009-2011, etc. He is a senior member of the
IEEE and the ACM.