Organizing Committee

General Chairs

J. Shane CulpepperRMIT University

Alistair MoffatThe University of Melbourne

PC Chairs

Paul BennettMicrosoft

Kristina LermanUniversity of Southern California

Poster and Demo Chairs

Laurianne Sitbon Queensland University of Technology

Paul Thomas Microsoft

Industry Day Chairs

Daria Sorokina Amazon

Jussi Karlgren Gavagai

Tutorial Chairs

Jeff Dalton Glasgow University

Claudia Hauff Delf University of Technology

Workshop Chairs

Hideo Joho University of Tsukuba

Min Zhang Tsinghua University

WSDM Cup Chairs

Zhifeng Bao RMIT University

Jianzhong Qi The University of Melbourne

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

Laura Dietz University of New Hampshire

Carsten Eickhoff Brown University

Best Paper Award Chair

Arjen de Vries Radboud University

Test of Time Award Chair

Mark Smucker University of Waterloo

Sponsorship Chair

Damiano Spina RMIT University

Media and Publicity Chair

Guido Zuccon Queensland University of Technology

Proceedings Chair

Joel Mackenzie RMIT University

Start Times
Monday 11 February Tutorials and Industry Day
Commences: 9:00am
Tuesday 12 February Welcome to Country Ceremony
Commences: 8:45am

Please arrive and complete your registration prior to these times.

WSDM 2019 is now completed, thank you for your interest.

Initial planning has commenced for WSDM 2020 in Houston, Texas; please visit their upcoming webpage via the main WSDM page at www.wsdm-conference.org

Recordings of the Industry Day talks are now available on the ACM YouTube channel

WSDM 2019 Best Paper Award Recipient:

"Slice: Scalable Linear Extreme Classifiers trained on 100 Million Labels for Related Searches", by Himanshu Jain, Venkatesh Balasubramanian, Bhanu Teja Chunduri, and Manik Varma.

WSDM 2019 Test of Time Award Recipient:

"Opinion Spam and Analysis", Nitin Jindal and Bing Liu, WSDM 2008.

Best Industry Day Presentation:

"Reinforcement Learning for Recommender Systems: A Case Study on Youtube," by Minmin Chen.

Outstanding SPC and PC Members:

A list of referees recognized for their significant contributions is available at https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/ammoffat/wsdm19-outstanding.html

A WSDM 2019 photo album is available at https://photos.app.goo.gl/HA83CfsFLCQz1CCn9

Links to Published Papers in ACM Digital Library

All WSDM activities will take place at the
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre