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