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Workshop Chair: Milad Shokouhi
Senior Program Committee Members: Gabriella Kazai, Emre Kiciman, Xing Xie
Program Committee Members: Jiang Bian, Yuxiao Dong, Adam Fourney, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Arnd Christian König, Xiaolu Lu, Bhaskar Mitra, Ruihua Song, Fangzhao Wu, Wei Wu, Elad Yom-Tov
Sessions
Microsoft presentation schedule
Monday, February 3
9:00 AM–5:00 PM | Regency CD | Industry Day
Search and Recommendation in the Modern Workplace
Keynote Speaker: Nitin Agrawal
AI-Driven Email Subject Lines for Marketing Campaigns
Short Talk: Jun Ye
9:00 AM–5:15 PM | Regency B | Workshop
HSDM 2020: Workshop on Health Search and Data Mining
Co-organizer: Ryen White
Program Committee Member: Elad Yom-Tov
9:00 AM–12:00 PM | West Alabama | Tutorial
Challenges, Best Practices and Pitfalls in Evaluating Results of Online Controlled Experiments
Somit Gupta, Xiaolin Shi, Pavel Dmitriev, Xin Fu, Avijit Mukherjee
Tuesday, February 4
3:30 PM–5:00 PM | Spotlight Presentations
Sequential Recommendation with Dual Side Neighbor-based Collaborative Relation Modeling
Jiarui Qin, Kan Ren, Yuchen Fang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
Model Compression with Two-stage Multi-teacher Knowledge Distillation for Web Question Answering System
Ze Yang, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Wutao Lin, Daxin Jiang
Influence Maximization with Spontaneous User Adoption
Lichao Sun, Albert Chen, Philip Yu, Wei Chen
Wednesday, February 5
2:00 PM–3:00 PM | Paper Session
Extreme Regression for Dynamic Search Advertising
Yashoteja Prabhu, Aditya Kusupati, Nilesh Gupta, Manik Varma
Thursday, February 6
3:30 PM–5:00 PM | Paper Session
Toward Activity Discovery in the Personal Web
Tara Safavi, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Marcin Juraszek, Shane Williams, Ned Friend, Danai Koutra, Paul Bennett
1:30 PM–4:00 PM | Demo Session
FAQAugmenter: Suggesting Questions for Enterprise FAQ Pages
Ankush Chatterjee, Manish Gupta, Puneet Agrawal
Friday, February 7
9:00 AM–12:00 PM | Rice
NLP4REC 2020: Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Recommendations
9:25 AM–10:00 AM: Invited speaker, Julia Kiseleva
11:20 AM–11:50 AM: Panelist: Julia Kiseleva
9:00 AM–12:00 PM | Regency C
SUM 2020: Workshop on State-based User Modelling
Invited Speaker: Ahmed Hassan Awadallah
Career opportunities
Job openings are always searchable at https://careers.microsoft.com/ including:
- Principal Applied Science Leader
- Applied Scientist
- Research Intern – Information and Data Sciences
- Full Time Opportunities for PhD Students or Recent Graduates: Researcher
- Senior Researcher – Causality and Machine Learning
- Full Time Opportunities for PhD Students or Recent Graduates: Data & Applied Sciences
- Career opportunities at the MSR AI Lab