- Big Data, Chair: Longzhi Yang, Co-Chairs: Chengyu Liu and Wenbing Zhao.
- Data Science and Advanced Analytics, Chair: Longbin Cao, Vice Chairs: Eric Gaussier, Bart Goethals, George Karypis, Vincent S. Tseng.
- Educational Data Mining, Chair: Gang Li, Vice Chairs: Ly Tran, Christos Douligeris, Aswani Kumar Cherukuri, Xiaoliang Fan.
- Medical Data Analysis, Chair: José D. Martín, Vice Chairs: Paulo Lisboa, Alfredo Vellido.
- Process Mining, Chair: Boudewijn van Dongen, Vice Chairs: Moe Wynn.
- Granular Data Mining for Big Data, Chair: Weiping Ding, Vice Chairs: Witold Pedrycz, Zehong Cao.
- Reservoir Computing, Chair: Kohei Nakajima, Vice Chairs: Gouhei Tanaka, Xavier Hinaut, Benjamin Paassen.
- Explainable Machine Learning, Chair: Alfredo Vellido, Vice Chairs: Paulo Lisboa, Qi Chen
- High Dimensional Data Analysis, Chair: Ata Kaban, Vice-Chairs: Prof. Dr. Frank-Michael Schleif, and Prof. Dr Thomas Villmann.