WSDM Doctoral Consortium 2020

9:00AM Opening Remarks
9:10-11AM Parallel Sessions (7 min poster presentation + 8 min feedback)
Mentors:
Li Hang (Bytedance AI Lab)
Marc Najork (Google)
Alistair Moffat (Uni of Melbourne)

  • Beyond Sessions: Exploiting Hybrid Contextual Information for Web Search.
    Jia Chen, Tsinghua Univ.
    (chenjia0831@gmail.com)
  • Impact of Online Job Search and Job Reviews on Job Decision.
    Faiz Ahamad, Tata Inst. of Social Sciences.
    (mp2017mls017@tiss.edu)
  • User Intent Inference for Web Search and Conversational Agents.
    Ali Ahmadvand, Emory University.
    (ali.ahmadvand@emory.edu)
Mentors:
Ravi Kumar (Google)
Vagelis Papalexakis (UC Riverside)


  • Network Analysis with Negative Links.
    Tyler Derr, Michigan State University.
    (derrtyle@msu.edu)
  • Temporal Pattern of Retweet(s) help to Maximize Information Diffusion in Twitter.
    Ayan Kumar Bhowmick, IIT Kharagpur.
    (ayankumarbhowmick@gmail.com)
  • Learning from Heterogeneous Networks: Methods and Applications.
    Chuxu Zhang, University of Notre Dame.
    (czhang11@nd.edu)
Coffee break (10:00-10:30AM)
  • Think like a human: constructing cognitive-oriented retrieval model for Web search.
    Xiangsheng Li, Tsinghua University.
    (lixsh6@gmail.com)
  • Hybrid Utility Function for Unexpected Recommendations.
    Pan Li, New York University.
    (pli2@stern.nyu.edu)
  • Overlapping Community Detection in Static and Dynamic Networks.
    Renny Márquez, Universidad de Chile.
    (marquezrennyj@ug.uchile.cl)
  • Decision Boundary of Deep Neural Networks: Challenges and Opportunities.
    Hamid Karimi, Michigan State University.
    (karimiha@msu.edu)
11:05-11:50AM Panel on “Options after a PhD” (open to all conference attendees)
Panelists:
Li Hang (Bytedance AI Lab)
Ravi Kumar (Google)
Alistair Moffat (Uni of Melbourne)
Marc Najork (Google)
Vagelis Papalexakis (UC Riverside)
11:55-12:45PM Breakout sessions (2 DC participants + 1 mentor)
12:45-2:00PM Lunch break (not provided at the conference)

Contact

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs

Questions about the doctoral consortium should be directed to: wsdm-2020-doctoral@googlegroups.com