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The 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
San Francisco, California, USA. February 22-25, 2016.
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Senior Program Committee
Program Committee
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Best Paper Award Committee
Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs
Paul N. Bennett
Microsoft Research
Vanja Josifovski
Pinterest
PC Co-Chairs
Jennifer Neville
Purdue University
Filip Radlinski
Microsoft
Workshop Co-Chairs
Eugene Agichtein
Emory University
Dafna Shahaf
Hebrew University / Microsoft Research
Tutorial Co-Chairs
Sergei Vassilvitskii
Google
Kira Radinsky
SalesPredict
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Kevyn Collins-Thompson
University of Michigan
Andrew Tomkins
Google
VC & Industry Day Chair
Lance Riedel
Pinterest
WSDM Cup Co-Chairs
Alex Wade
Microsoft Research
Kuansan Wang
Microsoft Research
Antonio Gulli
Elsevier B.V.
Yizhou Sun
Northeastern University
Best Paper Award Committee Chair
Brian Davison
Lehigh University
Treasurer
Milad Shokouhi
Microsoft
Local Chair
Sandeep Tata
Google
Media, Publicity, Web Chair
Polo Chau
Georgia Tech
Sponsorship Co-Chairs
James G. Shanahan
NativeX
Rodrygo L.T. Santos
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Proceedings Chair
Anne Schuth
University of Amsterdam
Webmaster and Web Designer
Minsuk (Brian) Kahng
Georgia Tech
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
Senior Program Committee
Lada Adamic
, Facebook
Deepak Agarwal, LinkedIn
Eugene Agichtein
, Yahoo Labs and Emory University
Leman Akoglu
, Stony Brook University
Aris Anagnostopoulos
, Sapienza University of Rome
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
, Yahoo Labs
Ron Bekkerman, University of Haifa
Ben Carterette, University of Delaware
Deepayan Chakrabarti, University of Texas Austin
Kenneth Church, IBM
Charles Clarke
, University of Waterloo
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, University of Michigan
Nick Craswell
, Microsoft
Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cornell University
Ian Davidson, University of California Davis
Brian Davison
, Lehigh University
Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
Fernando Diaz, Microsoft Research
Ariel Fuxman, Google
Evgeniy Gabrilovich
, Google
Ravi Kumar
, Google
Mounia Lalmas
, Yahoo Labs
Ronny Lempel, Outbrain
Hang Li, Huawei Technologies
Jimmy Lin
, University of Maryland
Yan Liu, University of Southern California
Yoelle Maarek
, Yahoo Labs
Vanessa Murdock, Microsoft
Marc Najork
, Google
Alice Oh, KAIST
B. Aditya Prakash, Virginia Tech
Steffen Rendle, Google
Pavel Serdyukov, Yandex
Fabrizio Silvestri
, Yahoo Labs
Yaron Singer, Harvard University
Evimaria Terzi
, Boston University
Ingmar Weber
, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Ryen W. White
, Microsoft Research
Emine Yilmaz, University College London
Yisong Yue
, California Institute of Technology
Program Committee Members
Mikhail Ageev, Moscow State University
Amr Ahmed, Google Research
James Allan
, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Omar Alonso, Microsoft
Tim Althoff, Stanford University
Ashton Anderson, Stanford University
Javed Aslam
, Northeastern University
Josh Attenberg
, Etsy and NYU Stern School of Business
Leif Azzopardi
, University of Glasgow
James Bagrow
, University of Vermont
Ashraf Bah Rabiou, University of Delaware
Peter Bailey, Microsoft
Leandro Balby Marinho, Federal University of Campina Grande
Krisztian Balog
, University of Stavanger
Nicola Barbieri, Yahoo Labs
Justin Basilico, Netflix
Luca Becchetti
, Sapienza University of Rome
Andras A. Benczur
, Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Michael Bendersky, Google
Fabricio Benevenuto
, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Klaus Berberich
, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Smriti Bhagat, Facebook
Albert Bifet
, Télécom ParisTech
Roi Blanco, Yahoo Labs
Sebastian Blohm, Microsoft
David Bodoff, University of Haifa
Francesco Bonchi, ISI Foundation
Ceren Budak, University of Michigan
Suratna Budalakoti
, Oracle Labs
Jamie Callan
, Carnegie Mellon University
Carlos Castillo
, Qatar Computing Research Institute
James Caverlee, Texas A&M University
Stefano Ceri
, DEI, Politecnico di Milano
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Microsoft
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yi Chang
, Yahoo Labs
Laurent Charlin, Columbia University
Duen Horng Chau
, Georgia Institute of Technology
Wei Chen
, Microsoft Research
Lu Chen
, Wright State University
Justin Cheng
, Stanford University
David Choi, Carnegie Mellon University
Aleksandr Chuklin, University of Amsterdam
Paul Clough
, University of Sheffield
Aron Culotta, Illinois Institute of Technology
Jeffrey Dalton, Google
Ovidiu Dan
, Lehigh University
Van Dang
, Google
Anirban Dasgupta, IIT Gandhinagar
Mimno David, Cornell University
Munmun De Choudhury
, Georgia Institute of Technology
Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aalto University
Gerard de Melo
, Tsinghua University
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
Pavel Dmitriev, Microsoft
Peter Dolog
, Aalborg University
Debora Donato, StumbleUpon Inc
Doug Downey, Northwestern University
Alexey Drutsa
, Yandex
Susan Dumais
, Microsoft Research
Carsten Eickhoff
, ETH Zurich
Hoda Eldardiry, Palo Alto Research Center
Alessandro Epasto
, Brown University
Alex Fabrikant, Google
Xin Fan, Baidu
Hui Fang, University of Delaware
Henry Feild
, Endicott College
Paolo Ferragina
, University of Pisa
Dennis Fetterly
, Microsoft Research
Aram Galstyan, USC Information Sciences Institute
Zeno Gantner
, Nokia gate5 GmbH
Luis Garcia Pueyo, Google
Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella
, Aalto University
Aristides Gionis, Aalto University
Nazli Goharian
, Georgetown University
Behzad Golshan, Boston University
Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, MPI for Software Systems
Siddharth Gopal, Carnegie Mellon University
Antonino Gulli, Elsevier
Krishna Gummadi, MPI for Software Systems
Qi Guo
, Microsoft
Manish Gupta
, Microsoft
Gleb Gusev
, Yandex
Ido Guy, Yahoo Labs
Hamed Haddadi
, Queen Mary University of London
Ahmed Hassan
, Microsoft Research
Claudia Hauff, Delft University of Technology
Eshcar Hillel, Yahoo Labs
Jake Hofman
, Microsoft Research
Katja Hofmann
, Microsoft
Petter Holme
, Sungkyunkwan University
Liangjie Hong
, Yahoo Labs
Xia Hu, Texas A&M University
Xuanjing Huang, Fudan University
Grace Hui Yang
, Georgetown University
Seung-Won Hwang, Yonsei University
Stratis Ioannidis, Northeastern University
Dietmar Jannach
, TU Dortmund
Xin Jiang, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab
Jiepu Jiang
, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Xiaoming Jin, Tsinghua University
Gareth Jones
, Dublin City University
Joemon Jose
, University of Glasgow
Jaap Kamps
, University of Amsterdam
Bhargav Kanagal
, Google
U Kang
, Seoul National University
Nattiya Kanhabua, Aalborg University
Evangelos Kanoulas
, University of Amsterdam
Zohar Karnin, Yahoo Labs
Makoto P. Kato
, Kyoto University
Emre Kıcıman, Microsoft Research
Aleksander Kolcz, Twitter
Arnd Christian König
, Microsoft Research
Nick Koudas
, University of Toronto
Ioannis Koutis
, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
Udo Kruschwitz
, University of Essex
Oren Kurland
, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Branislav Kveton
, Adobe Research
Wai Lam
, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Renaud Lambiotte
, University of Namur
Theodoros Lappas
, Stevens Institute of Technology
Daniel Larremore
, Santa Fe Institute
Silvio Lattanzi, Google
Joonseok Lee
, Google Research
Sune Lehmann
, Technical University of Denmark
Jochen Leidner
, Thomson Reuters Corporation
Kristina Lerman
, University of Southern California
Jure Leskovec
, Stanford University
Liane Lewin-Eytan, Yahoo Labs
Cheng Li, University of Michigan
Yingyu Liang, Princeton University
David Liben-Nowell
, Carleton College
Dan Liebling
, Microsoft Research
Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University
Christina Lioma, University of Copenhagen
Nelly Litvak
, University of Twente
Huan Liu
, Arizona State University
Yuanhua Lv
, Microsoft Research
Michael Lyu
, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Craig Macdonald
, University of Glasgow
Debapriyo Majumdar
, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata
Amin Mantrach, Yahoo Labs
Winter Mason
, Facebook
Julian Mcauley
, University of California, San Diego
Richard Mccreadie, University of Glasgow
Yelena Mejova, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Peter Mika, Yahoo Labs
Einat Minkov, University of Haifa
Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft
Dunja Mladenic
, Jozef Stefan Institute
Franco Maria Nardini
, ISTI-CNR
Wolfgang Nejdl
, L3S Research Center & University of Hannover
Jian-Yun Nie, Universite de Montreal
Alexandros Ntoulas, Samsung Research America
Neil O'Hare, Yahoo Labs
Joel Oren
, University of Toronto
Liudmila Ostroumova Prokhorenkova, Yandex
Aditya Pal, IBM
Sinno Jialin Pan
, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Rong Pan
, Sun Yat-sen University
Spiros Papadimitriou
, Rutgers University
Paolo Papotti
, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Virgil Pavlu
, Northeastern University
Leto Peel
, Université catholique de Louvain
Jian Pei
, Simon Fraser University
Barbara Poblete
, University of Chile
Daniele Quercia
, Bell Labs
Kira Radinsky, SalesPredict
Hema Raghavan, IBM Research
Fiana Raiber, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Karthik Raman
, Cornell University
Sujith Ravi, Google
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto
, Google & UFMG
Derek Ruths
, McGill University
Barna Saha
, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Rodrygo Santos
, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Tamas Sarlos
, Google
Anne Schuth
, University of Amsterdam
Lior Seeman
, Harvard University
Erik Selberg
, Amazon
Dafna Shahaf, Stanford University
James G. Shanahan, Independent Consultant, San Francisco
Yue Shi, Yahoo Labs
Milad Shokouhi, Microsoft
Ambuj Singh
, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sameer Singh
, University of Washington
Steven Skiena
, Stony Brook University
Ian Soboroff, NIST
Aya Soffer, IBM
Oren Somekh, Yahoo Labs
Daria Sorokina, A9 (Amazon)
Ramakrishnan Srikant, Google
Isabelle Stanton
, Google
Bogdan State, Stanford University
Harald Steck, Netflix
Fabian M. Suchanek
, Télécom ParisTech
Torsten Suel
, New York University
Neel Sundaresan, Microsoft
Marcin Sydow
, PJIIT and ICS PAS, Warsaw
Partha Talukdar
, Indian Institute of Science
Kunal Talwar, Google
Chenhao Tan
, Cornell University
Lei Tang
, Clari
Jie Tang
, Tsinghua University
Sandeep Tata, Google
Paul Thomas, CSIRO
Hanghang Tong, Arizona State University
Dolf Trieschnigg
, Mydatafactory and University of Twente
Panayiotis Tsaparas, University of Ioannina
Charalampos Tsourakakis
, Harvard University
Oren Tsur
, Harvard University & Northeastern University
Yury Ustinovskiy, Yandex
Sergei Vassilvitskii, Google
Quan Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ting Wang, Lehigh University
Chi Wang, Microsoft Research
Kuansan Wang, Microsoft Research
Jun Wang
, University College London
Yue Wang, University of Michigan
Hongning Wang
, University of Virginia
Gerhard Weikum, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Udi Weinsberg, Facebook
Ji-Rong Wen, Renmin University of China
Tim Weninger
, University of Notre Dame
Robert West, Stanford University
Hua Wu, Baidu
Wei Wu, Microsoft Research
Rongjing Xiang, Google
Jun Xu
, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tao Yang
, Ask.com and UCSB
Mi-Yen Yeh, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research
Shuai Yuan, University College London
Mustafa Zengin, University of Delaware
Dan Zhang, Facebook
Qi Zhang, Fudan University
Weinan Zhang
, University College London
Shiqi Zhao, Baidu
Bo Zhao, LinkedIn
Jun Zhao, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhe Zhao, University of Michigan
Vincent W. Zheng, Advanced Digital Sciences Center
Imed Zitouni, Microsoft
Additional Reviewers
Daniel Agun, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dyaa Albakour, Signal Media
Victor Amelkin, University of California, Santa Barbara
Oren Anava, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Cigdem Aslay, University Pompeu Fabra
Jordan Atlas, Microsoft
Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli, Yahoo Labs
Joel Barajas, University of California, Santa Cruz
Christian Bauckhage, Fraunhofer IAIS
Ghazaleh Beigi, Arizona State University
Richard Berendsen, University of Amsterdam
Edward Bortnikov, Yahoo Labs
Janez Brank, Jozef Stefan Institute
Marc Cartright, Google
Andrea Ceroni, L3S Research Center
Xixian Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shirley Zhe Chen, University of Michigan
Tao Cheng, Microsoft
Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh
Luis Cruz, University of Porto
Andrea Cuttone, Technical University of Denmark
Liang Dai, NativeX, University of California Santa Cruz
Ron Daniel, Elsevier
Shiri Dori-Hacohen, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tianming Du, University College London
Yuan Fang, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR
Mehrdad Farajtabar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Donatella Firmani, Sapienza University of Rome
John Foley, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Gaurang Gavai, Palo Alto Research Center
Ricard Gavalda, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Phil Gooch, City University London
Paul Groth, Elsevier
Francesco Gullo, UniCredit
Francisco J. Gutierrez, University of Chile
Richard Guy, Microsoft
John Hanley, Palo Alto Research Center
Faegheh Hasibi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Jose Miguel Herrera, Universidad de Chile
Chaya Hiruncharoenvate, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tao Hoang, Advanced Digital Sciences Center
Tad Hogg, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Maya Hristakeva, Mendeley
Juhua Hu, Simon Fraser University
Xin Jin, University of California, Santa Barbara
Isaac Jones, Arizona State University
Jaya Kawale, Adobe
Blaž Kažič, Jozef Stefan Institute
Dongwoo Kim, Microsoft
Pigi Kouki, University of California, Santa Cruz
Timothy La Fond, Purdue University
Omer Lev, University of Toronto
Jundong Li, Arizona State University
Xin Li, Baidu
Yongsub Lim, KAIST
Nedim Lipka, Bauhaus University, Weimar
Ahmad Mahmoody, Brown University
Kleanthis Malialis, University College London
Giuseppe Manco, ICAR-CNR
Ilya Markov, University of Amsterdam
Sourav Medya, University of California, Santa Barbara
Qiaozhu Mei, University of Michigan
Pavel Metrikov, Northeastern University
Tom Minka, Microsoft Research
Enys Mones, Technical University of Denmark
Fred Morstatter, Arizona State University
Tu Ngoc Nguyen, L3S Research Center
Anh Van Dong Nguyen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Inna Novalija, Jozef Stefan Institute
Daan Odijk, University of Amsterdam
Adi Omari, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Sujit Pal, Elsevier
Ha-Myung Park, KAIST
Yuval Pinter, Yahoo Labs
Dror Porat, IBM
Mauricio Quezada, University of Chile
Suhas Ranganath, Arizona State University
Luis Rei, Jozef Stefan Institute
Kan Ren, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Matteo Riondato, Two Sigma Labs
Petar Ristoski, University of Mannheim
Xin Rong, University of Michigan
Yifei Rong, YOYI Inc.
Michael Rowell, Microsoft
Karankumar Sabhnani, University of Delaware
Egor Samosvat, Yandex
Justin Sampson, Arizona State University
Aharon Satt, IBM
Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, IBM
Isaac Sijaranamual, University of Amsterdam
Arlei Silva, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jaspreet Singh, L3S Research Center
Janez Starc, Jozef Stefan Institute
Luka Stopar, Jozef Stefan Institute
Arkadiusz Stopczynski, Technical University of Denmark
Acar Tamersoy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Xun Tang, University of California, Santa Barbara
Fangbo Tao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mohamad Ali Torkamani, University of Oregon
Nam Khanh Tran, L3S Research Center
Anh Tuan Tran, L3S Research Center
Gareth Tyson, Queen Mary University of London
Utkarsh Upadhyay, MPI for Software Systems
Isabel Valera, MPI for Software Systems
George Valkanas, Stevens Institute of Technology
Pim van der Hoorn, University of Twente
Christophe Van Gysel, University of Amsterdam
Garnet Vaz, Microsoft
Nikos Voskarides, University of Amsterdam
Suhang Wang, Arizona State University
Wenbo Wang, Wright State University
Ran Wolff, Yahoo Labs
Liang Wu, Arizona State University
Yu Wu, Beihang University
Liang Wu, Columbia University
Xiaokui Xiao, Nanyang Technological University
Chenyan Xiong, Carnegie Mellon University
Hui Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Amit Yadav, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata
Zi Yang, Carnegie Mellon University
Yu Yang, Simon Fraser University
Yang Yang, Beihang University
Junjie Yao, East China Normal University
Shanshan Ying, Advanced Digital Sciences Center
Hongyuan You, University of California, Santa Barbara
Qi Yu, University of Southern California
Ruirong Zhang
Zihan Zhang
Yuting Zhang
Hongyi Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shenglin Zhao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lu Zheng, Facebook
Bo Zong, University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel Agun, University of California, Santa Barbara
Best Paper Award Committee
Charlie Clarke
, University of Waterloo
Nick Craswell
, Microsoft
Tina Eliassi-Rad
, Rutgers University
Irwin King
, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mounia Lalmas
, Yahoo Labs
Huan Liu
, Arizona State University
Andrew Tomkins
, Google
Ingmar Weber
, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Ryen W. White
, Microsoft Research