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Nov. 7, 2018Giving Hesburgh Lecture at Notre Dame Club of Pittsburgh
Oct. 11, 2018Giving Hesburgh Lecture at Notre Dame Club of Cincinnati
Oct. 9, 2018Speaking at Google's Credibility on the Web Workshop in NYC
Oct. 1, 2018Received USAID Grant on Media Literacy for New Digital Arrivals in Developing Countries with IREX, Moonshot, and GeoPoll
Sept. 30, 2018Featured in Notre Dame's What Would you Fight for? video
Aug. 25, 2018Co-organizing KDD Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs
Apr. 3, 2018Assisting in the instruction of a new course on Media and Global Affairs with Katherine Corcoran and Notre Dame's new Keogh School of Global Affairs
Feb. 12, 2018Congrats to Dr. Salvador Aguinaga on successfully defending and depositing his dissertation! Sal will join Kyndi after graduation.
Feb. 9, 2018Co-organizing WSDM Workshop on Heterogeneous Information Network Analysis and Mining (HeteroNAM) with Shobeir Fakhraei, Yanen Li, and Yizhou Sun
Jan. 10, 2018Received HSAP/URAP Grant from Army Research Office to train students in data science and machine learning
Dec. 12, 2017Received Grant from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to study the spread of deception on social media
Nov. 3, 2017Received DARPA Grant with IU and USC to study social simulation
May 15, 2017Received Army Young Investigator Award!
Jun. 25, 2017Selected for ACM's inagural Future of Computing Academy
Jun. 23, 2017Poster with Sal Aguinaga will appear at NetSci 2017 in Indianapolis
May 15, 2017Received NSF CAREER Award!
May 15, 2017Giving a talk and panelist at ICWSM
Mar. 22, 2017Congrats to Salvador Aguinaga for winning the DOE Graduate Student Research Award!
Feb. 17, 2017Giving invited talk at University of Oklahoma.
Feb. 14, 2017Giving invited talk at IBM TJ Watson Research Center.
Feb. 4, 2017Paper with Dash Shi and titled ProjE: Embedding Projection for Knowledge Graph Completion accepted at AAAI.
Dec. 12, 2017Paper with Maria Glenski titled Rating Effects of Social News and Comments is in press in ACM's Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.
Nov. 27, 2016Paper with Dash Shi and Lin Yang titled Forward Backward Similarity Search in Knowledge Networks accepted at Knowledge Based Systems.
Nov. 14, 2016I am happy to be the Workshops co-chair of SocInfo-2016. Let me know if you have any ideas for Workshop proposals.
Oct. 28, 2016Giving Keynote Talk at DAta mining meets Visual Analytics (DAVA) Workshop
Oct. 26, 2016Paper with Salvador Aguinaga, Rodrigo Palacios and David Chiang titled "Growing Graphs with Hyperedge Replacement Graph Grammars" accepted at CIKM
Oct. 17, 2016Giving invited talk at Indiana University
Oct. 7, 2016Giving invited talk at Wayne State University
Sept. 30, 2016Giving a Talk at Midwest Big Data Challenges and Opportunities Workshop
Aug. 19, 2016Paper with Salvador Aguinaga titled "The Infinity Mirror Test for Analyzing the Robustness of Graph Generators" accepted at KDD Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs
July. 7, 2016Giving a talk at Roma Tre University
Jun. 27, 2016Paper with Cataolt co-founder and CTO Glenn Osborne, titled "Ozy - a general orchestration language" accepted at the International Conference on Web Services.
May. 18, 2016Headed to Rome as part of Notre Dame's Rome Global Gateway
Apr. 15, 2016Paper with Baoxu Shi titled " Discriminative Predicate Path Mining for Fact Checking in Knowledge Graphs" accepted at Knowledge Based Systems
Apr. 11, 2016Paper with Baoxu Shi titled "Fact Checking in Heterogeneous Information Networks" accepted at WWW
Apr. 7, 2016Speaking at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute.
Mar. 24, 2016Ryan McCune defends his thesis titled, "Decentralization in Distributed Systems for Graph Processing and Multi-Agent Simulation Modelling"
Feb. 15, 2016Speaking at Arizona State University.
Feb. 13, 2016Attended AAAI Conference in Phoenix, AZ.
Dec. 28, 2015Paper with Baoxu Shi titled "Scalable Models for Computing Hierarchies in Information Networks." accepted at Knowledge and Information Systems
Dec. 11, 2015Received research support from Notre Dame's Rome Global Gateways Initiative. PhD students will spend a few months collaborating with Roma Tre researchers in 2016.
Dec. 8, 2015Received research support renewal from Templeton Foundation and the KnolwedgeLab at the University of Chicago for our research on Concept Genesis and Natural Navigation.
Nov. 20, 2015Gave invited talk titled Creation, Relation and Navigation in Knowledge Networks to the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago.
Oct. 29, 2015Paper with Salvador Aguinaga, Aditya Nambiar and Zuozhu Liu titled ``Concept Hierarchies and Human Navigation'' presented at IEEE International Conference on BigData in Santa Clara, CA. Oct 2015
Sept. 1, 2015Paper with Maria Glenski titled ``Random Voting Effects in Social-Digital Spaces: A case study of Reddit Post Submissions'' presented at ACM Hypertext Conference at METU Cyprus
August 20, 2015Paper with Rodrigo Palacios, Valter Crescenzi, Thomas Gottron and Paolo Merialdo titled ``Web Content Extraction - a Meta-Analysis of its Past and Thoughts on its Future.'' accepted to SIGKDD Exporlations
August 10, 2015Paper with Corey Pennycuff titled ``Fast, Exact Graph Diameter Computation with Vertex Programming'' presented at SIGKDD Workshop on High Performance Graph Mining in Sydney, Australia
July 27-31, 2015Attending MetaKnowledge Retreat in Monterry, CA
July 6, 2015Attending ICML in Lille, France
June 22, 2015Paper with R. Ryan McCune and Prof Gregory Madey titled ``Thinking Like a Vertex: a Survey of Vertex-Centric Frameworks for Distributed Graph Processing'' accepted to ACM Computing Surveys
June 1, 2015Presenting at NetSci in Zaragoza, Spain.
May 11, 2015Speaking at Air Force Office of Scientific Research Program Review at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
April 27, 2015Speaking at Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop at UIC Forum in Chicago.
April 17, 2015Maria Glenski wins Kaneb Center Teaching Assistant Award.
April 2, 2015Ryan McCune wins IBM PhD Fellowship.
March 30, 2015Ryan McCune wins US AID Fellowship.
March 23, 2015Attending MetaKnowledge Retreat at Univ of Chicago.
January 11, 2015Attending International Symposium on Occupational Exposure to deliver keynote on Data Science for ALARA tasks.
January 8, 2015Hosting Danilo Bustos as a visiting student for Spring 2014
Dec 3, 2014Received grant from Templeton Foundation and .
December 3, 2014Received grant from Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
December 14, 2014Baoxu "Dash" Shi will present out paper "Mining Interesting Meta-Paths from Complex Heterogeneous Information Networks" at ICDM on December 14th, 2014.
November 13, 2014Traveling to the United States National Academies of Science as Fellow of the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative.
August 24, 2014Attending MetaKnowledge Meeting in Asilomar, CA on August 27-29, 2014.
August 24, 2014Attending the KDD Conference in New York City on August 24-27, 2014.
June 23, 2014Attending WebSci Conference in Bloomington, IN.
June 16, 2014AFOSR Program Review in Washington DC.
Summer 2014Hosting Aditya Nambiar and Zuozhu Liu as iSURE students.
May 19, 2014Attending Digital Science Conference at the the University of Chicago.
March 5, 2014TEDx Talk Selected as Editors Pick
February 27, 2014TEDx Talk Available: Changing the Hivemind
January 21, 2014Giving a TEDx talk
January 15, 2014Hosting fireside chat with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian at Notre Dame
January 2, 2014I'll be in New Orleans for the NETI Workshop.
October 7, 2013I'll give an invited talk at Texas A&M University in College Station.
October 4, 2013I'll give a talk at the 2013 Workshop on Informaiton Networks at NYU's Stern School of Business.
September 1, 2013Journal article entitled "The Parallel Path Framework for Entity Discovery on the Web" will appear in September's Issue of ACM Transactions on the Web.
August 25, 2013I'll be speaking at the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining in Niagra Falls, Canada on August 25-28, 2013.
August 11, 2013I'll be attending at the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases in Chicago on August 11-14, 2013.
July 1, 2013Officially joined the University of Notre Dame as Assistant Professor.
June 21, 2013New website is up and running.
June 1, 2013Defended and deposited dissertation at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.