International Conference on Big Data and Information Analytics (BigDIA), which is co-founded by York University (Canada), National University of Defense Technology (China) and Xi’an Jiaotong University (China) since 2015, is to bring together research scientists from academia, industries, and government agencies to report progress and exchange ideas to address challenges in fundamental research and rapid knowledge translation in collecting, processing, analyzing, integrating, annotating and visualizing Big Data for scientific exploration, business and policy decision-making.

This is the eighth meeting of the annual conference series previously held in USA, Canada and China. The primary goal of the annual conference is to exchange and stimulate innovative ideas of state-of-art data science approaches and technologies to collect, process, analyze, integrate, annotate and visualize Big Data; to promote interactions and collaborations among all scientists, researchers and practitioners who develop data science theories, algorithms and methods to deal with and analyze Big Data from different aspects such as computer science, statistics, mathematics and other quantitative/computational sciences as well as domain-specific applications.