Speakers

CAC-2018 will feature a renowned group of international speakers who will present the latest chemometrics research in a variety of application areas. In addition to Plenary, Keynote and Award Lectures, there will also be a special session in honour of Prof. Yizeng Liang.

Plenary Speakers:

	Rasmus Bro University of Copenhagen, Denmark How to Utilize Machine Learning in Chemometrics		Federico Marini University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy PLS-DA: One, None and a Hundred Thousand
	Steven D. Brown University of Delaware, USA The Tao of Bruce: Bruce Kowalski and the Early Days of Chemometrics		Jean-Michel Roger Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (IRSTEA), France Orthogonal Projections in the Row and the Column Spaces
	Peter Harrington Ohio University, USA Cascading and Enhanced Restricted Bolzmann Machines for Feature Expansion of Spectra		(* Note: Hector Goicoechea, who was originally advertised as a Plenary Speaker, is unable to attend the conference.)

Keynote Speakers:

	Anna de Juan University of Barcelona, Spain Data Fusion: What Else on Data Structures and Fusion Levels?		Marcelo Sena Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Combining Chemometrics and Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry for Forensic Analysis and Food Authenticity
	Biao Huang University of Alberta, Canada Advanced Data Analytics for Image Processing with Application in Oil-water Interface Detection		Johan Westerhuis University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Variable Selection and Classification in the Presence of Observations Below the Detection Limit using Error Rate p-values
	Mohsen Kompany-Zareh Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran Least dependent components analysis: Miracle or mirage

Elsevier Chemometrics Award Speaker:

Jaoquim Jaumot University of Barcelona, Spain Chemometric Strategies for MS-Based Omics Data Analysis: From Chromatograms to Images

Liang Symposium Speakers:

	Philip Hopke Clarkson University, USA Differential Probability Functions for Investigating Long-Term Changes in Local and Regional Air Pollution Sources		Beata Walczak University of Silesia, Poland Working with log Ratios
	Hongmei Lu Central South University, China Application of Chemometrics in Untargeted Metabolomics		Hai-Long Wu Hunan University, China Aspects of Recent Developments of Smart Multiway Calibration Methods in Analytical Chemistry
	Roma Tauler Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Diagnostic, Spain Characterization of Multivariate Curve Resolution Rotation Ambiguities