The 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data will be held virtually during Dec 15-18, 2021. The following papers were accepted and will be included in the conference proceedings.

“Hidden Buyer Identification in Darknet Markets via Dirichlet Hawkes Process” auhored by Panpan Zheng, Shuhan Yuan, Xintao Wu, and Yubao Wu,  has been accepted as a **regular paper**.

“Fairness-aware Bandit-based Recommendation” authored by Wen Huang, Kevin Labille, Xintao Wu, Dongwon Lee, and Neil Hefferna,  has been accepted as a **short paper** .

“Achieving Differential Privacy in Vertically Partitioned Multiparty Learning” authored by Depeng Xu, Shuhan Yuan, and Xintao Wu, has been accepted to the special session of Privacy and Security of Big data (PSBD).

This year the conference received 486 submissions, accepted 97 regular papers (19.9%), and 96 short papers (19.7%). Congratulations to all authors!