Our paper Adjusting to the GDPR: The Impact on Data Scientists and Behavioral Researchers (Greene et al., 2019) is now freely available on Big Data journal website. We thank the editor for using fast track to review this time-sensitive paper!

Here's the abstract:

Rapid growth in the availability of behavioral big data (BBD) has outpaced the speed of updates to ethical research codes and regulation of data privacy and human subjects' data collection, storage, and use. The introduction of the European Union's (EU's) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018 will have far-reaching effects on data scientists and researchers who use BBD, not only in the EU, but around the world. Consequently, many companies are struggling to comply with the Regulation. At the same time, academics interested in research collaborations with companies are finding it more difficult to obtain data. In light of the importance of BBD in both industry and academia, data scientists and behavioral researchers would benefit from a deeper understanding of the GDPR's key concepts, definitions, and principles, especially as they apply to the data science workflow. We identify key GDPR concepts and principles and describe how they can impact the work of data scientists and researchers in this new data privacy regulation era.

I am delighted to receive the 2018 Outstanding Mentor Award by the NTHU College of Technology Management. The real award is the opportunity to work with so many wonderful students and colleagues!

Mentoring is an incredibly important relationship, which sows many seeds in both the mentor and the mentee. This award comes at a very meaningful (and sad) time, with the unexpected passing away of my beloved graduate advisor Prof. Aya Cohen (for whom we created a commemorating blog). Knowing how important she's been in my life, receiving the mentoring award is extremely meaningful to me.