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

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

Schedule Overview

WSDM 2016 has an exciting program with 3 keynotes, 4 invited talks for Practice & Experience Track, paper presentations, 5 workshops, 3 tutorials, a doctoral consortium, and a VC/Industry Day.

Mon - Thu registration desk hours: 8:30am - 5:30pm

Mon, 2/22
Workshops, Tutorials, VC/Industry Day, Doctoral Consortium

Monday, February 22
Robertson 1 Robertson 2 Conf Room 1 Robertson 3 Conf Room 2 Conf Room 3 Conf Room 4
9am
Keynote
Ron Conway (SVAngel)

Founders Panel 1
The role of data science in startups
Query Understanding for Search on All Devices
Organizers:
Ethics of Online Experimentation
Organizers:
Understanding Offline Political Systems by Mining Online Political Data
Oren Tsur, David Lazer and Tina Eliassi-Rad
SEXI - Search and Exploration of X-Rated Information
Organizers:
Doctoral Consortium
Student presentations 1
Doctoral Consortium Break-out Meetings
10:30am
Coffee Break
Fisher Banquet Room
11am
Keynote
Qi Lu (Microsoft)
Query Understanding for Search on All Devices
Organizers:
Ethics of Online Experimentation
Organizers:
Understanding Offline Political Systems by Mining Online Political Data
Oren Tsur, David Lazer and Tina Eliassi-Rad
SEXI - Search and Exploration of X-Rated Information
Organizers:
Doctoral Consortium
Poster/discussion 1
(Fisher Banquet Room)

Student presentations 2
12pm
VC & Industry Day
Poster Session, Company Expo
(Fisher Banquet Room)
12:30pm
Lunch (12:30-2pm)
Fisher Banquet Room
1:30pm
TargetAd: Ad Targeting at Scale
Organizers:
2pm
Invited Talk
Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate)

Panel 2
How to transform business with data science
Click Models for Web Search and their Applications to IR
Ilya Markov, Maarten de Rijke and Aleksandr Chuklin
Ethics of Online Experimentation
Organizers:
WSDM Cup: Entity Ranking
Organizers:
Doctoral Consortium
Poster/discussion 1
(Fisher Banquet Room)

Mentor 1-1 meetings A
Large Scale Distributed Data Science using Apache Spark
James Shanahan and Liang Dai
3:30pm
Coffee Break
Fisher Banquet Room
4pm
Invited Talk
Ronny Lempel (OutBrain)

Panel 3
Data Science and Machine Learning in the Sharing Economy
Click Models for Web Search and their Applications to IR
Ilya Markov, Maarten de Rijke and Aleksandr Chuklin
Ethics of Online Experimentation
Organizers:
TargetAd: Ad Targeting at Scale
Organizers:
WSDM Cup: Entity Ranking
Organizers:
Doctoral Consortium
Mentor 1-1 meetings B
Panel discussion
Large Scale Distributed Data Science using Apache Spark
James Shanahan and Liang Dai
5pm
5:30pm              
6pm Industry Day Reception - Sponsored by Adobe
Fisher Banquet Room
(6-9pm)
9pm              

Tue, 2/23 - Thu, 2/25
Main Conference

Tuesday, February 23 Wednesday, February 24 Thursday, February 25
Robertson Auditorium Robertson Auditorium Robertson Auditorium
9am
Jeff Dean
Google Research
Yiling Chen
Harvard University
Foster Provost
New York University
10am
Coffee Break
Fisher Banquet Room
10:30am
Paper Presentations

Paper Presentations
Paper Presentations
12pm Poster Session 1 & Lunch
(Posters will comprise all papers scheduled for presentation on Tue and Thurs AM)
Room: Fisher Banquet Room
Poster Session 2 & Lunch
(Posters will comprise all papers scheduled for presentation on Wed and Thurs PM)
Room: Fisher Banquet Room
Business Lunch
1:30pm
WSDM Cup Winner
Paper Presentations
2pm
Paper Presentations
Paper Presentations
Coffee Break
Fisher Banquet Room
3:30pm
Coffee Break
Fisher Banquet Room
3:40pm
Mor Naaman
Cornell Tech / Seen.co
4pm
Yoelle Maarek
Yahoo
Jie Tang
Tsinghua University
Paper Presentations
Paper Presentations
Lars Backstrom
Facebook
5:05pm
Conference Close
5:30pm      
6:30pm   Conference Banquet
Hyatt Regency Embarcadero (Grand Ballroom A)
6:30-9:30pm
 
9:30pm