Together with Isabel Valera, I will teach a tutorial on
Learning with Temporal Point Processes at ICML 2018!
(30.03.18)
Preprint on "On the
Complexity of Opinions and Online Discussions" (with U.
Upadhyay, A. De and A. Pappu)! (21.02.18)
Our paper "Steering Social Activity: A Stochastic Optimal Control Point of View"
(with A. Zarezade, A. De, U. Upadhyay and H. Rabiee) has been accepted at the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)! (20.02.18)
Preprint on "Designing Random Graph Models
Using Variational Autoencoders with Applications to Chemical Design" (with B.
Samanta, A. De and N. Ganguly)! (19.02.18)
Our paper "Fake News Detection in Social Networks via Crowd
Signals" (with S. Tschiatschek, A. Singla. A. Merchant and A. Krause)
has been accepted at the Alternate Track on Journalism, Misinformation, and Fact-checking
of The Web Conference 2018 (aka WWW
2018)! (15.02.18)
Our paper "On the Causal Effect of Badges"
(with T. Kusmierczyk) has been accepted at The Web Conference
2018 (aka WWW 2018)! (22.12.17)
Preprint on "Optimizing
Human Learning" (with B. Tabibian, U. Upadhyay, A. De, A. Zarezade and Bernhard
Schoelkopf)! (06.12.17)
Check out the paper,
code and
supporting
website for
our WSDM 2018 paper "Leveraging
the Crowd to Detect and Reduce the Spread of Fake News and
Misinformation" (with J. Kim, B. Tabibian, A. Oh and B. Schoelkopf)!
(24.11.17)
I will teach a GIAN seminar on Social and
Information Networks Analysis: Problems, Models and Machine Learning
Methods on Dec 11-14 at IIT Hyderabad. This will be an
updated
version of the short course I recently taught at Carlos III
University
and University of
Sydney (07.11.17)
Our paper "Leveraging the Crowd to
Detect and Reduce the Spread of Fake News and Misinformation"
(with J. Kim, B. Tabibian, A. Oh and B. Schoelkopf) has been accepted at WSDM 2018! Soon preprint and code! (24.10.17)
Our paper "From Parity to
Preference-based Notions of Fairness in Classification" (with B. Zafar,
I. Valera, K. Gummadi and A. Weller) has been accepted at NIPS 2017! (04.09.17)
Preprint on "Harnessing Natural
Experiments to Quantify the Causal Effect of Badges" (with T.
Kusmierczyk)! (05.08.17)
I will teach an updated version of the short course on Machine Learning
Methods for Dynamic Social Network Analysis, with a focus on temporal on
temporal point processes, at Carlos III
University
in Madrid! Check out the
slides! (09.05.17)
Our paper "Fairness
Beyond Disparate Treatment & Disparate Impact: Learning Classification
without Disparate Mistreatment" (with B. Zafar, I. Valera and K.
Gummadi) got a Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at WWW
2017!
(09.04.17)
I recently gave a short course on Machine Learning
Methods for Dynamic Social Network Analysis, with a focus on
temporal point
processes, at the University of Sydney.
Check the slides out!
(31.01.17)
Our paper "Fairness
Constraints: Mechanisms for Fair Classification" (with B. Zafar, I. Valera and K. Gummadi) has been accepted at AISTATS 2017! (25.01.17)
Our paper "Uncovering the Spatiotemporal Patterns of
Collective Social Activity" (with M. Jankowiak) has been accepted at SDM 2017! (21.12.16)
- Our papers "Modeling
the Dynamics of Online Learning Activity " (with C. Mavroforakis and I.
Valera), "Distilling
Information Reliability and Source Trustworthiness from Digital Traces"
(with B. Tabibian, I. Valera, M. Farajtabar, L. Song
and B. Schoelkopf), and "Fairness
Beyond Disparate Treatment & Disparate Impact: Learning Classification
without Disparate Mistreatment" (with B. Zafar, I. Valera and K.
Gummadi)
have been accepted at WWW 2017! (20.12.16)
Our papers "Uncovering the Dynamics of Crowdlearning and
the Value of Knowledge" (with
U. Upadhyay and I. Valera) and "RedQueen: An Online Algorithm for
Smart Broadcasting in Social Networks" (with A. Zarezade, U. Upadhyay and H.
Rabiee) have been accepted at WSDM 2017! (18.10.16)
Our paper "Learning and Forecasting Opinion Dynamics in
Social Networks"
(with A. De, I. Valera, N. Ganguly and S. Bhattacharya) has been accepted
at NIPS 2016! Check out the arxiv version!
(12.08.16)
Our papers "Smart
broadcasting: Do you want to be seen?"
(with M. Karimi, E. Tavakoli, M. Farajtabar and L. Song) and "Recurrent Marked
Temporal Point
Process: Embedding Event History to Vector" (with N. Du, H. Dai, R.
Trivedi, U.
Upadhyay and L. Song) have been accepted at KDD 2016! (11.05.16)
We have release a easy-to-use implementation of fair classifiers.
Check
it out here! (21.04.16)
- Preprints on "Learning
Fair Classifiers" (with B. Zafar,
I. Valera and K. Gummadi) and "Learning Opinion Dynamics in
Social Networks" (with A. De, I. Valera, N.
Ganguly and S. Bhattacharya)! (04.03.16)
Our paper "On the Efficiency of the Information Networks
in Social Media"
(with M. Babaei, P. Grabowicz, I. Valera and K. Gummadi) has been accepted
at WSDM 2016! (13.10.15)
If you are a TU KL student, check out our seminar "Social and
information networks: Models and Machine Learning methods". Starts
October 28! (29.09.15)
Our paper "COEVOLVE: A Joint Point Process Model for
Information Diffusion and Network Co-evolution"
(with M. Farajtabar, Y. Wang, S. Li, H. Zha and L. Song) has been accepted at NIPS 2015 for full oral presentation (15
out of 1838 submission)! Check out the arXiv version!
(04.09.15)
Our paper "Modeling
Adoption and Usage of Competing Products"
(with I. Valera) has been accepted
at ICDM 2015!
Check out the
arXiv
version! (07.08.15)
Check out our KDD 2015 tutorial
material on "Diffusion in Social
and
Information Networks: Problems, Models & Machine Learning Methods"!
(30.07.15)
Our tutorial proposal "Diffusion in Social and
Information Networks: Research Problems, Probabilistic Models & Machine
Learning Methods" (with L. Song) has been
accepted at WWW 2015!
(01.02.15)
Check out our paper "Back to the Past: Source Identification in Diffusion Networks from Partially Observed Cascades" (with
M. Farajtabar, N. Du, M. Zamani, H. Zha and L. Song), to appear at AISTATS 2015! (26.01.15)
- Submit to our WWW
2015 workshop
"Diffusion, Activity
and Events in Networks: Models, Methods & Applications"! The
deadline is February 7! (25.01.15)
We have released the code for
our
NIPS 2014 paper "Shaping
Social Activity by Incentivizing Users"! (24.12.14)
Our paper "Modeling Adoption of
Competing Products and Conventions in Social Media" (with I. Valera and K. Gummadi) has been accepted at the Workshop in Networks: From Graphs to Rich Data at NIPS 2014! (07.11.14)
We have released our NIPS
2014 paper "Shaping Social
Activity by Incentivizing Users" (with M. Farajtabar, N. Du, I. Valera,
H. Zha and L. Song) (07.11.14)
Our paper "Shaping Social Activity by Incentivizing Users"
(with M. Farajtabar, N. Du, I. Valera, H. Zha and L. Song) has been accepted at NIPS 2014!
Check out the
arXiv
version! (09.09.14)
I will be joining the Max Planck
Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) as a tenure-track faculty (W2),
starting November 2014! If you would like to work on
networks and machine learning, join me as an intern,
phd student
or
postdoc!
(03.07.14)
Check out our COLT 2014 open problem Finding Good Cascade Sampling Processes
for the Network Inference Problem (with L. Song and B. Schoelkopf)! (18.05.14)
We have released our ICML 2014 paper Estimating
Diffusion Network Structures: Recovery
Conditions, Sample Complexity & Soft-thresholding Algorithm (with H.
Daneshmand, L. Song and B. Schoelkopf)! (12.05.14)
Our paper "Estimating
Diffusion Network Structures: Recovery
Conditions, Sample Complexity & Soft-thresholding Algorithm" (with H.
Daneshmand, L. Song and B. Schoelkopf) has been accepted at ICML 2014! (12.04.14)
Our Network Science paper Uncovering the structure and temporal
dynamics of information propagation (with J. Leskovec, D. Balduzzi and B. Schoelkopf) just got published! (04.04.14)
We have released our ICWSM 2014 paper "Quantifying
Information Overload in Social Media and its Impact on Social
Contagions" (with K. Gummadi and B. Schoelkopf). Check it out! (25.03.14)
Our conference paper "Quantifying
Information Overload in Social Media and its Impact on Social
Contagions" (with K.
Gummadi and B. Schoelkopf) has been accepted at ICWSM 2014. It will be online soon!
(11.03.14)
Our journal paper Uncovering the Structure and Temporal Dynamics of
Information Propagation" (with J. Leskovec, D. Balduzzi and B. Schoelkopf) has been accepted
at Network Science (NWS). It will be online soon! (10.01.14)
We have released the website
and code for our
NIPS 2013 paper "Scalable Influence Estimation in Continuous-Time Diffusion
Networks"! (22.12.13)
Our paper "Scalable
Influence Estimation in Continuous-Time Diffusion Networks" (with N. Du,
L. Song and H. Zha) got a outstanding paper award at
NIPS 2013! (05.12.13)
We have released our NIPS 2013 paper "Scalable Influence Estimation in Continuous-Time Diffusion Networks" (with N. Du, L. Song and H. Zha).
Soon we will also release some code! (13.11.13)
Check out the website
and the Call for Papers
(CFP) for the WSDM 2014 workshop "Diffusion Networks and Cascade Analytics", which I am co-organizing! (14.10.13)
Our paper "Scalable Influence Estimation in Continuous-Time Diffusion Networks"
(with N. Du, L. Song and H. Zha) has been accepted at NIPS 2013 for full oral presentation (20 out of 1420 submission)! Soon preprint
and code! (05.09.13)
Our extended abstract "Quantifying the Impact of Information Overload
on Information Dissemination in Social Media" (with K. Gummadi and B. Schoelkopf) has been
accepted at WIN 2013 for a spotlight presentation and
a poster! (01.09.13)
I am co-organizing the workshop "Diffusion Networks and Cascade
Analytics" with Peng Cui, Fei Wang and Hanghang Tong at WSDM 2014! We will soon have a website and
release a call for papers (CFP)! (01.09.13)
We just started building a new dataset of blogs and news sites at MPI
for Intelligent Systems
thanks to Spinn3r! (26.07.13)
I will teach a practical on network modeling and information propagation at the
Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) in Tuebingen on 26.08-06.09! (25.06.13)
My Ph.D. thesis "Structure and Dynamics of Diffusion Networks" has been approved. If you would like to have a review of my work the last three years, you can find it here! (31.5.13)
We have released our ICML 2013 paper "Modeling Information Propagation with Survival Theory" (with J. Leskovec and B. Schoelkopf)! (14.5.13)
Our paper "Modeling Information Propagation with Survival Theory" (with J. Leskovec and B. Schoelkopf) has been accepted at ICML 2013! Soon preprint! (16.04.13)
I will visit Krishna Gummadi at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrucken (Germany) April 15-19! (25.3.13)
I will give a talk on InfoPath at Google HQ in Mountainview, California on 18.1.13! (6.1.13)
I am a Research Scientist at MPI for Intelligent Systems in Bernhard Schoelkopf's research group! (6.1.13)
I will give a talk on InfoPath at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, California next thursday 13.12.12, at 11.00am! (8.12.12)
We have released the paper,
website, and
data for
our WSDM 2013 paper "Structure and Dynamics of Information Pathways in On-line Media"! (04.12.12)
I passed my Ph.D. Oral Defense in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University! (04.12.12)
Our paper "Structure and Dynamics of Information Pathways in On-line Media" (with J. Leskovec and B. Schoelkopf) has been
accepted at WSDM 2013! Soon preprint, website and code! (26.10.12)
Our paper "Modeling Information Propagation with Survival Theory" (with B. Schoelkopf) has been accepted for oral presentation at the
Workshop in Algorithmic and Statistical Approaches
for Large Social Networks at NIPS 2012! (16.10.12)
I will do my oral examination to earn a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University on Dec 3, 2012 at 7.30am in Packard 204! (15.10.12)
"Bridging Offline and Online Social Graph Dynamics" (with M. Rogati) has been accepted as a poster at CIKM 2012, we have also a long version! (30.7.12)
I am organizing a workwhop in "Networks: Processes and Causality"
in Menorca (Spain), 3-6 Sept. Applications are open until July 15th! (11.6.12)
We have released the paper and website for our ICML 2012 paper "Influence Maximization in Continuous Time Diffusion Networks"! (8.5.12)
We have released the paper and website for our ICML 2012 paper "Submodular Inference of Diffusion Networks from Multiple Trees"! (8.5.12)
I will be visiting Jure Leskovec's lab and working with him during 3 weeks in June! (4.5.12)
"Influence Maximization in Continuous Time Diffusion Networks" and "Submodular Inference of Diffusion Networks from Multiple Trees" (with B. Schoelkopf) have been accepted at ICML 2012! Soon preprints, websites and code! (30.4.12)
I will give a talk on network inference and influence maximization in diffusion networks at IBM Research (Jan 30th) and Google Research (Jan 31st) in New York City! (17.1.12)
Our journal paper "Inferring Networks of Diffusion and Influence" (with J. Leskovec and A. Krause) has been accepted at ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). It will be online soon! (24.11.11)
I will be attending NIPS 2011 in December, in beautiful Granada! (01.11.11)
I will give a talk on diffusion networks on Oct 28th at the Math Dept and the TSC Dept of UC3M in Madrid! (05.10.11)
I have been featured in the newspaper Faro de Vigo! (31.08.11)
The video of our ICML 2011 presentation on NETRATE is now online at techtalks! (27.07.11)
Our work on "Uncovering the Temporal Dynamics of Diffusion" is featured in the blog Tous Passagers! (24.05.11)
I have received a student scholarship to attend ICML 2011! (24.05.11)
"Uncovering the Temporal Dynamics of Diffusion" (with D. Balduzzi and B. Schoelkopf) has been accepted at ICML 2011! Check out the paper and the supporting website! (20.04.11)
"Closing the Sensorimotor Loop: Haptic Feedback Helps Decoding of Motor Imagery" (with J. Peters, J. Hill, B. Schoelkopf, A. Gharabaghi and M. Grosse-Wentrup) is now published in the Journal of Neural Engineering! (08.04.11)
I will be an intern at LinkedIn working in the Data Analytics group in Mountainview this incoming Summer 2011! (25.02.11)