Expert: Big Data Requires Scaling and Accessibility
Big Data has transformed business and may hold the key to battling complex diseases such as cancer. Taking advantage of Big Data, however, requires …
Dr. Weijia Xu is a research scientist and the group manager for Data Mining & Statistics group at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Xu's main research interest is to enable data-driven discoveries through developing new methods and applications that facilitate the data-to-knowledge transfer process. Dr. Xu has over 40 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications in similarity-based data retrieval, data analysis, and information visualization with data from various scientific domains. He has a master’s degree in biological sciences and a doctoral degree in computer science from The University of Texas at Austin. This article was co-authored with Xiaohua Tony Hu, a professor and the founding director of the data mining and bioinformatics lab at the College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University.
Big Data has transformed business and may hold the key to battling complex diseases such as cancer. Taking advantage of Big Data, however, requires …