Panel Discussion

Title

"What does LLM (ChatGPT) Bring to Data Science Research and Education? Pros and Cons"

 

Panel Chairs

Lei CHEN

Prof. Lei Chen

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Bio:

Lei Chen received his BS degree in Computer Science at Tian Jin University ,P.R.China(BS 94), and an MA degree in computer science at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Asian Institute of Technology (MS 97). He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at University of Waterloo. Lei Chen is an IEEE Fellow and ACM Distinguished Scientist.


 

XiaochunYang

Prof. Xiaochun Yang

Northeastern University, China

Bio:

Yang Xiaochun is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Northeastern University, China. She was a recipient of NSFC Outstanding Youth Award and was selected in the National High-Level Personnel Recruitment Program, the New Century Excellent Talents Program in Universities, and the CCF Distinguished Speaker Program. She is an IEEE senior member and CCF distinguished member. Her current research interests are in the area of text and time series management, data privacy preserving, recommendation systems, and etc. She has co-authored two books, one text book, an invited paper in ACM Sigmod Record 2010, and more than 150 papers, including four Best Paper awards of international conferences, and five best paper awards of national conferences. She served as a General Co-chair for ADMA 2023, Program Co-chair for ADMA 2020, NDBC 2020. She has also been serving on Program Committees of the leading database and AI conferences including SIGMOD, SIGKDD, VLDB, ICDE, AAAI, IJCAI, CIKM.

 

Panelist

Amer-Yahia

Dr. Sihem Amer-Yahia

CNRS, France

Bio:

Sihem Amer-Yahia is a Silver Medal CNRS Research Director and Deputy Director of the Lab of Informatics of Grenoble. She works on exploratory data analysis and fairness in job marketplaces. Before joining CNRS, she was Principal Scientist at QCRI, Senior Scientist at Yahoo! Research and Member of Technical Staff at at&t Labs. Sihem is PC chair for SIGMOD 2023 and vice president of the VLDB Endowment. She currently leads the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative for the database community.


 

Kyuseok Shim

Prof. Kyuseok Shim

Seoul National University, Korea

Bio:

Kyuseok Shim is a Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea. He is currently an Editor-In-Chief of the VLDB Journal and was previously an Associate Editor for the IEEE TKDE, VLDB as well as PVLDB journals. He also served as a Program Co-chair for PAKDD 2003, WWW 2014, ICDE 2015, APWeb 2016, BigComp 2019 and ICDM 2019 conferences and have been serving on Program Committees of the leading database as well as data mining conferences including SIGMOD, SIGKDD, ICDE, ICDM, EDBT, VLDB, WWW and CIKM. He became an ACM fellow and an IEEE fellow for the contributions to scalable data mining and query processing in 2013 and 2019 respectively. He was previously a member of the VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees and is currently a steering committee member of PAKDD as well as DASFAA conferences. He served as the president of the Korean Information Scientist and Engineers (KIISE) in 2022 and became a member of Member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea in 2023. He has been working in the area of data mining, machine learning, privacy preservation, query processing, query optimization, data warehousing, semi-structured data (XML), stream data and histograms.


 

Angela Bonifati

Prof. Angela Bonifati

Lyon 1 University, France

Bio:

Angela Bonifati (PhD, 2002) is a Professor of Computer Science at Lyon 1 University and at the CNRS Liris research lab, where she leads the Database Group. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada since 2020. Her current research interests are on several aspects of graph databases, knowledge graphs and data integration. She has also co-authored more than 150 publications in top venues of the data management field, including two Best Paper awards (ICDE22, VLDB22 runner up). She is the recipient of the TCDE Impact Award 2023 and a co-recipient of an ACM Research Highlights Award 2022. She has co-authored two books (on Schema Matching and Mapping edited by Springer in 2011 and on Querying Graphs edited by Morgan & Claypool in 2018) and an invited paper in ACM Sigmod Record 2018 on Graph Queries. She was the Program Chair of ACM Sigmod 2022 and EDBT 2020 and she is currently an Associate Editor for both Proceedings of VLDB and IEEE ICDE. She is an Associate Editor for several journals, including the VLDB Journal and ACM TODS. She is currently the President of the EDBT Executive Board and a member of the Sigmod Executive Committee.


 

Guoliang LI

Prof. Guoliang Li

Tsinghua University, China

Bio:

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