Every year, MIDAS brings preeminent data scientists to Ann Arbor for our annual symposium.
2019
Embracing the Challenge: Data Science for the Next Ten Years
Keynote speakers:
• Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Tina Eliassi-Rad, Northeastern University
• Rayid Ghani, Carnegie Mellon University
2018
Serving Society through Data Science
Keynote speakers:
• Dawn Tilbury, University of Michigan
• Patrick Wolfe, Purdue University
• Katherine Ensor, Rice University
• Raghu Machiraju, Ohio State University
2017
A Data-Driven World: Potentials and Pitfalls
Keynote speaker:
Cathy O’Neil, Author of “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy”
2016
Big Data: Advancing Science, Changing the World
Keynote speakers:
• Robert Groves, Georgetown University
• Sudip Bhattarcharjee, U.S. Census Bureau
2015
The Future of Data Science: A Convergence of Academia, Industry and Government
Keynote speaker:
Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
2014
Joint Symposium with Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE)
Speakers included:
• Usama Fayyad, Barklays Bank
• Michael Mahoney, ICSI and UC Berkeley
• Thomas Hacker, Purdue University
• Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research
• Sandra Cannon, Data Management Expert