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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:51:26 -0500

The Program Planning Committee is pleased to announce the Vision
Speakers for the 32nd Annual NASIG Conference.

Dr. Michel Dumontier is an expert in the development and use of
semantic technologies and machine learning for knowledge discovery.
Since January 2017, he is a University Professor of Data Science at
Maastricht University, where he leads a new Institute for Data Science
that acts as a focal point for data science research and teaching
across the University, enhances the management and analysis of public
and private data, and pursues the development of effective approaches
for knowledge exploration, analysis, and discovery across all domains.

Previously he was an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at
Stanford University, and an Associate Professor of Bioinformatics at
Carleton University.  Dr. Dumontier's research aims to develop methods
to integrate, mine, and make sense of large, complex, and
heterogeneous data. His current research interests include (1) using
multi-scale biomedical data for drug repositioning and combination
therapy, and (2) developing predictive and crowdsourcing methods to
improve the quality of experimental metadata. Dr. Dumontier is an
Advisory Committee Representative for the World Wide Web Consortium, a
co-Chair for the W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life
Sciences Interest Group, a scientific advisor for the EBI-EMBL
Chemistry Services Division, and the Scientific Director for Bio2RDF,
an open source project to build a network of Linked Data for the Life
Sciences. He is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief for a Data
Science, a new journal with IOS Press to feature open access, open
review, and semantic publishing.

April Hathcock is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at NYU where
she educates the campus community on issues of ownership, access, and
rights in the research lifecycle. Before entering librarianship, she
practiced intellectual property and antitrust law for a global private
firm. Her research interests include diversity and inclusion in
librarianship, cultural creation and exchange, and the ways in which
social and legal infrastructures benefit the works of certain groups
over others. She is the author of the article “White Librarianship in
Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS” and the blog At the
Intersection, which examines issues at the intersection of feminism,
libraries, social justice, and the law.

Carol Tilley is an associate professor in the School of Information
Sciences at University of Illinois. She studies the intersection of
young people, comics, and libraries, particularly in the United States
during the mid-twentieth century. Her research on anti-comics advocate
Fredric Wertham was featured in the New York Times and other media
outlets. An in-demand speaker on the history of comics readership and
libraries, Tilley was a 2016 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards judge
and currently serves as Vice-President / President-Elect of the Comics
Studies Society.

The Conference will be held June 8-11, 2017 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Watch the conference website further information.

Steve Kelley and Violeta Ilik

NASIG PPC Chair and Vice-chair

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Leigh Ann DePope
Publicist, NASIG, Inc.
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