Microsoft Research @ WSDM 2018

Venue: The Ritz-Carlton (opens in new tab)

Website: WSDM 2018 (opens in new tab)

Microsoft Research is excited to be a platinum sponsor of the 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), from February 5-9, 2018 at The Ritz-Carlton, Marina del Rey, in Los Angeles, CA.

WSDM is one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining and we will be well represented. Harry Shum, executive vice president of the Microsoft AI and Research Group, will be a keynote speaker; many of our researchers are participating on the organizing, steering, and program committees and are presenting papers. We will also have a booth in the exhibitor area, and attendees are encouraged to stop by to learn more about our work and opportunities with Microsoft Research.

Keynote speakers

Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, Microsoft
From Search to Research: Direct answers, Perspectives and Dialog
February 6, 9:00–10:00 AM

Igor Perisic, Chief Data Officer, LinkedIn
Conversations, Machine Learning and Privacy: LinkedIn’s Path towards Transforming Interaction with its Members
February 6, 2:00–3:00 PM

Committee chairs

WSDM Cup chair – Xing Xie

Steering committee chair – Susan Dumais

Senior program committee members

Paul Bennett, Ryen White

Program committee members

Adam Fourney, Adith Swaminathan, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Arnd Christian Konig, Bin Gao, Chi Wang, Elad Yom-Tov, Emre Kiciman, Fangzhao Wu, Hao Ma, Imed Zitouni, Jiang Bian, Nick Craswell, Omar Alonso, Ruihua Song, Wei Wu, Yuxiao Dong

Microsoft attendees

Ahmed Hasan Awadallah
Paul Bennett
Jiang Bian
Ryan Congdon
Anlei Dong
Yuxiao Dong
Susan Dumais
Rosa Enciso
Emre Kiciman
Yi Li
Weiqing Liu
Jordi Ribas
Mir Rosenberg
Saurabh Tiwary
Kuansan Wang
Ryen White
Kyle Williams
Jason Xia
Junyuan Zhang
Roy Zimmermann