Organizing Committee

Honorary Chairs

Guojie Li ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Hong Mei Shanghai Jiaotong University

General Co-Chairs

Xueqi Cheng ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Hang Li Huawei Technologies

Co-Organizer

Xuanjing Huang Fudan University

Advisor

Irwin King Chinese University of Hong Kong

PC Co-Chairs

Evgeniy Gabrilovich Google

Jie Tang Tsinghua University

Local Chair

Qi Zhang Fudan University

Winter School Co-Chairs

Minyi Guo Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Maosong Sun Tsinghua University

Best Paper Award Committee Chair

Qiang Yang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Workshop Co-Chairs

Jiafeng Guo ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yoelle Maarek Yahoo

Tutorial Co-Chairs

Eytan Adar University of Michigan

Min Zhang Tsinghua University

Doctorial Consortium Co-Chairs

Tie-Yan Liu Microsoft Research Asia

Cheng Xiang Zhai UIUC

Practice and Experience Track Co-Chairs

Vanja Josifovski Google

Ying Li EV Analysis Corporation

Finance Chair

Xiaolong Jin ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sponsorship Co-Chairs

Pavel Serdyukov Yandex

Dou Shen Baidu

Publicity Co-Chairs

Chia-Jung Lee UMass

Xipeng Qiu Fudan University

Proceedings Chair

Jing Zhang Tsinghua University

Web Master

Junming Huang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Winter School Organizer

Long Zheng Shanghai Jiaotong University

WSDM Steering committee

Ricardo Baeza-Yates Yahoo	Paolo Boldi University of Milano	Andrei Broder Google
Brian D. Davison Lehigh University	Nick Koudas University of Toronto	Hang Li Huawei Technologies
Bing Liu University of Illinois at Chicago	Marc Najork Google