The 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

San Francisco, California, USA. February 22-25, 2016.

Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs

PC Co-Chairs

Workshop Co-Chairs

Tutorial Co-Chairs

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs

VC & Industry Day Chair

WSDM Cup Co-Chairs

Best Paper Award Committee Chair

Treasurer

Local Chair

Media, Publicity, Web Chair

Sponsorship Co-Chairs

Proceedings Chair

Webmaster and Web Designer

WSDM Steering Committee

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