Privacy-aware computational genomics 2015 PRIVAGEN 2015 An official satellite workshop of GIW/InCoB 2015 September 8, 2015. Tokyo, Japan Call for abstracts & participation ============================================ PRIVAGEN 2015 is an official satellite workshop of GIW/InCoB 2015 focusing on privacy-aware technologies that assist computational genomics, and aims to facilitate discussion among researchers in diverse fields including bioinformatics, genome ethics, machine learning, data-mining and cryptography. PRIVAGEN 2015 seeks abstract submissions to be peer-reviewed and selected either oral presentations or posters. A few oral presenters are eligible for travel fellowships. Keynote Speakers: Emiliano De Cristofaro (University College London) Kazuto Kato (Osaka University) Key Dates: Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2015 Notifications of selected talks: July 20, 2015 Late abstract submission deadline*: August 10, 2015 Registration Ends: August 20, 2015 Workshop Date: September 8, 2015 *Late submissions are not considered for oral presentations. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: - Privacy-preserving machine learning and data mining for genomics - Cryptographic techniques that potentially assist genomic sequence retrieval/medical information analyses/epi-genomic information analyses - Genome ethics - Privacy evaluation of personal genome - Genome-hacking - An efficient biological database design for privacy protection Venue: AIST Tokyo Waterfront Bio-IT Res. Build. (Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan) URL: http://aistcrypt.github.io/Privacy-Aware-Computational-Genomics/ General Co-Chairs: Kana Shimizu (AIST) Takahiro Matsuda (AIST) Antti Honkela (University of Helsinki) Confirmed PC members: Xiaoqian Jiang (UC San Diego) Samuel Kaski (Aalto University) Hiroaki Kikuchi (Meiji University) Noman Mohammed (University of Manitoba) Valtteri Niemi (University of Helsinki) Koji Nuida (AIST) Jun Sakuma (Tsukuba University) Shuang Wang (UC San Diego) Natsuko Yamamoto (Osaka University)