Program
August 24th (Sunday), 2014
Date: 8:30AM – 6:00PM, Sunday, August 24, 2014
Venue: Room Liberty 4, Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, New York City, USA [Details]
Schedule
| Time Period | Activity | Presenter/Author |
| 8:30AM – 8:45AM | Opening Remark | Chairs [Slides] |
| 8:45AM – 9:30AM | Invited Talk | Lihong Li Researcher at Microsoft Research Multi-armed Bandits on the Internet: Successes, Lessons and Challenges [Slides] |
| 9:30AM – 10:00AM | Long Presentation | Luo Lu – Twitter Inc., Chang Liu – Twitter Inc. Separation Strategies for Three Pitfalls in A/B Testing [PDF] [Slides] |
| 10:00AM – 10:30AM | Break | |
| 10:30AM – 11:15AM | Invited Talk | Alex Smola Professor at Carnegie Mellon University & Google Least mean squares matrix completion considered harmful or Do you really need to know how much I hate ‘Notting Hill’? |
| 11:15AM – 11:45AM | Long Presentation | Pengyuan Wang – Yahoo Labs, A Unified Framework for Evaluating Online User Treatment Effectiveness, with Advertising Application [PDF] |
| 11:45PM – 12:05PM | Short Presentation | Amit Goyal – Twitter Inc., Praveen Bommannavar – Twitter Inc., Stuart Anderson – Twitter Inc., Alek Kolcz – Twitter Inc., Kurt Smith – Twitter Inc. Detecting User Interests on Twitter via Seed Set Expansion [PDF] [Slides] |
| 12:05PM – 12:25PM | Short Presentation | Eunyee Koh – Adobe, Neha Gupta – Adobe An Empirical Evaluation of Ensemble Decision Trees to Improve Personalization on Advertisement [PDF] |
| Noon Break (12:30PM – 2:00PM) | ||
| 2:00PM – 2:45PM | Invited Talk | Lars Backstrom Engineering Manager at Facebook Generating a Billion Personal Newspapers: News Feed Ranking at Facebook |
| 2:45PM – 3:05PM | Short Presentation | Athanasios Noulas – Booking.Com, Mats Einarsen – Booking.Com User Engagement through Topic Modelling [PDF] [Slides] |
| 3:05PM – 3:35PM | Long Presentation | El Mehdi Rochd – Aix-Marseille University, Mohamed Quafafou – Aix-Marseille University, Eric Cholet – Marketshot A Topic Model-based Personalization Over Time [PDF] |
| 3:35PM – 4:00PM | Break | |
| 4:00PM – 4:45PM | Invited Talk | Suju Rajan Senior Manager for Personalization Science – Yahoo Labs Making the Stream a Daily Habit : Optimizing for long term behavior |
| 4:45PM – 5:05PM | Short Presentation | Krishna Kamath – Twitter Inc., Aneesh Sharma – Twitter Inc., Dong Wang – Databricks Inc., Zhijun Yin – Twitter Inc. RealGraph: User Interaction Prediction at Twitter [PDF] |
| 5:05PM – 5:35PM | Long Presentation | Arvind Agarwal – Palo Alto Research Center, Saurabh Kataria – Palo Alto Research Center Multi-Task CRF Model for Predicting Issue Resolution Status in Social Media based Customer Care [PDF] |
| 5:35PM – 6:00PM | Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks | |