演讲题目：Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21st century

Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA. He is the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University.Professor Contractor has published or presented over 250 research papers dealing with communicating and organizing.

演讲题目：Some Computing Challenges in Understanding Social Media Data

Huan Liu is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering in Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University. His research focuses on developing computational methods for data mining, machine learning, and social computing, and designing efficient algorithms to enable effective problem solving ranging from basic research, text/Web mining, bioinformatics, image mining, to real-world applications.

演讲题目：Can Statistical Physics Contribute to Social Science?

Harry Eugene Stanley is a physicist and University Professor at Boston University. He has made seminal contributions to statistical physics and is one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary science. His current research focuses on understanding the anomalous behavior of liquid water, but he had made fundamental contributions to complex systems, such as quantifying correlations among the constituents of the Alzheimer brain, and quantifying fluctuations in noncoding and coding DNA sequences, interbeat intervals of the healthy and diseased heart. He is one of the founding fathers of econophysics.

演讲题目：Cloud-centric Assured Information Sharing and Social Networking

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham (aka Dr. Bhavani) is the Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. I Distinguished Professor in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) since September 2010. She joined UTD in October 2004 as a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center. She is an elected Fellow of several organizations including the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2002), the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003), the BCS (British Computer Society, 2005), and the SPDS (Society for Design and Process Science – a society that promotes transdisciplinary research – 2011).

演讲题目：大数据背景下商务管理研究若干前沿课题

现为清华大学经济管理学院EMC信息系统讲席教授。2005年度获聘教育部长江学者特聘教授。2007年度复旦管理学奖基金会“管理学杰出贡献奖”获得者。2009年度国际模糊系统学会授予IFSA Fellow。1999年度国家杰出青年科学基金获得者。担任国家信息化专家咨询委员会成员、教育部管理科学与工程类学科教学指导委员会副主任、国家自然科学基金委工商管理学科专家评议组副组长。国际信息系统协会中国分会（CNAIS）主席、中国信息经济学会副理事长、管理科学与工程学会副理事长。担任多个国际学术杂志编辑/编委、国际学术会议主席。现为国家自然科学基金委重大项目（新兴电子商务领域）主持人。主要研究领域包括管理信息系统、电子商务与商务智能、软计算等。