WSDM 2017 features a Doctoral Consortium, to be held on Monday February 6, 2017. The Doctoral Consortium is limited to invited students and mentors only.
Detailed Program
| 8:30 | Introductions + Coffee |
| 9:00 | Student presentations 1 |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Student presentations 2 |
| 12:30 | Lunch: working lunch (boxed) and discussions |
| 13:30 | Keynote talks: Susan Dumais and Charlie Clarke: Tips on Successful Research Projects and Career |
| 14:30 | Mentor-student break-out sessions |
| 16:00 | Student reports from break-out sessions |
| 17:00 | Academia, Industry careers panel (all mentors) |
| 18:00 | Wrap-up --> WSDM Social/beer |
Accepted papers are divided into 2 sessions:
- Session 1
- Modeling Navigation in Information Networks
Dimitar Dimitrov, GESIS - Quantifying and Bursting the Online Filter Bubble
Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Aalto University - Scalable Text Analysis
Zijun Xue, University of California, Los Angeles - Modeling Source Code to Support Retrieval-Based Applications
Venkatesh Vinayakarao, IIITD-Delhi - Mining Medical Causality for Diagnosis Assistance
Sendong Zhao, Harbin Institute of Technology
- Session 2
- A Generative Framework to Query Recommendation and Evaluation
Matthew Mitsui, Rutgers University - Recommender Systems: Approaches and Research Direction
Manoj Reddy Dareddy, University of California - New probabilistic models for recommender systems with rich contextual and content information
Eliezer de Souza Da Silva, Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Adapting Information Retrieval to User Signals via Stochastic Models
Maria Maistro, University of Padua