Asia is in the midst of a historic transformation. Asia’s per capita income is projected to rise sixfold and its share of global gross domestic product is expected to increase to 52 percent by 2050. Science and technology has been cited as one of the key pillars for the success of Asia’s development.
The plenary panel, titled “Data Engineering in Asia: Unique Technical Challenges and Opportunities“, organized by Rakesh Agrawal at the 31st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2015), pondered how data engineering can uniquely contribute to the emergent Asian century.
Each panelist described a data-centric problem from their personal experience that had uniquely Asian flavor in the problem definition, or the solution approach, or preferably both.
They also presented one open problem each that merits close attention from data researchers.
The panelists were:
Dr. Rakesh Agrawal (Data Insights Laboratories, Chair)
Prof. Longbing Cao (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Dr. Jong-Deok Choi (Samsung, Korea)
Prof. Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Prof. Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay, India)
Prof. Sean Wang (University of Vermont)
Prof. Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan)
TR-2015-005 contains the panel statement and the biographies of the panelists.