Big Data Summit 2

Abstract submission is extended to 22nd August 2018

Check out our agenda (last update 17 August 2018)

NADYA WILLIAMS (RESEARCH SCIENTIST at UC SAN DIEGO, USA)

Nadya Williams is a Research Scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego. She served as a functional lead in the design, specification and evaluation of software architectures for the scientific computing environments focusing on high performance, hight throughput and virtual environments for PRAGMA and NBCR projects at UCSD.

She is actively involved with PRAGMA since 2007 where she now leads Resources and Data working group. Nadya has years of global collaborative experience working with the scientists from Europe, PRAGMA and other communities. She recently joined the technical team for the Pacific Research Platform where she continues to work in the area of virtualization, distributed applications and cloud computing to provide a computational science support to the domain scientists. Nadya earned an M.S. in Oceanography and an M.S. in Computer Science.

DR. DZAHARUDIN MANSOR (National Technology Officer, Microsoft Malaysia)

Dr. Dzaharudin Mansor is the National Technology Officer (“NTO”) for Microsoft Malaysia. As the NTO, Dzahar drives the engagement with key national technology stakeholders, which include academics, policy takers & advisors, and interest groups with the intention to builds trust while contribute to national development.

Dr Dzahar joined Microsoft in 2005 and has more than 33 years of professional experience in ICT and telecommunications. He started his career as a lecturer at the department of Computer Science, La Trobe University, and moved on to as a R&D engineer at Telecom Australia Research Laboratories in Melbourne. On returning to Malaysia, he joined Celcom as a R&D manager, and left the company as the Vice President for R&D, Intelligent Network and IT divisions. He subsequently worked at HP in Singapore and other technology companies in R&D, operations, business, as well as leadership positions.

He also presently holds, and has held, several associate positions including as an Adjunct Professor at IIUM, a councillor at PIKOM and academic advisor at several public and private universities. In 2010, he had the honour of leading the Business Services Economic Transformation Program (ETP) Labs that has been one of the key initiatives by the Malaysian Government to transform Malaysia into a developed nation by 2020. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Dr. Dzahar received a First Class Honors Degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Monash University, Australia in 1985, and subsequently awarded Australian University
Graduate scholarships to completed his PhD in Computer Science in 1988. In 1985, he was awarded the Digital Award for Computer Engineering, the University Tasmania award for
achieving top 10 position in HSC, and the MCE Top Student Award at MCKK in 1979.

Dr. Dzahar is passionate about technology, where he works closely with academia and research on topics such as Software Engineering, Computer Architectures, Cyber Security, Telecommunications, Data Science and AI. He aspires to contribute towards the nation’s Digital Economy initiative.