Welcome to the IEEE Transactions on Big Data

IT is with great excitement that we are publishing the first issue of the IEEE Transactions on Big Data. Big data has been an important topic for the IEEE for many years and big data is already transforming our world. Now is the time to publish a high quality, peer reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal that will document research that will help us navigate the opportunities and potential pitfalls, both ethical and technical, of big data. As described in our charter, IEEE TBDATA “will provide cross disciplinary innovative research ideas and applications results for big data including novel theory, algorithms and applications. Research areas for big data include, but are not restricted to, big data analytics, big data visualization, big data curation and management, big data semantics, big data infrastructure, big data standards, big data performance analyses, intelligence from big data, scientific discovery from big data security, privacy, and legal issues specific to big data.” IEEE TBDATA is fortunate to have both financial and technical sponsorship from eight IEEE societies and one council (IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Sensors Council, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, IEEE Systems Council, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, IEEE Control Systems Society, IEEE Power and Energy Society, and IEEE Biometrics Society), with the IEEE Computer Society serving as the administrative partner. Each sponsor nominates an associate editor and the collection of sponsors behind IEEE TBDATA illustrates its importance to the IEEE community and provides both technical depth and breadth to our editorial board, which ensures the highest quality and relevance of our content. I am especially pleased to introduce Qiang Yang as our founding editor-in-chief. Professor Yang’s biography speaks for itself, but I would like to express the gratitude of the Steering Committee to Qiang for his service. We are very fortunate to have such a uniquely qualified founding EIC. Qiang’s qualifications in research and management and editorial experience made him a unanimous selection as EIC, and he has been a pleasure to work with. I would like to encourage our readership to follow the highest quality research in big data by subscribing to IEEE TBDATA and to contribute articles in response to both general and special issue calls for papers. Information on subscribing and submitting can be found at our website: http://www.computer.org/web/tbd.