{"id":631884,"date":"2020-01-21T17:03:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T01:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=631884"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:53:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:53:33","slug":"wsdm-2020","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/wsdm-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft at WSDM 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

Venue:<\/strong> Hyatt Regency Houston\/Galleria (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\n2626 Sage Road
\nHouston, TX 77056<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> WSDM 2020 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft is a proud Silver sponsor for one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. Stop by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about\u202fcareer opportunities\u202fwith Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Workshop Chair:<\/strong> Milad Shokouhi<\/a><\/p>\n

Senior Program Committee Members:<\/strong> Gabriella Kazai (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Emre Kiciman<\/a>, Xing Xie<\/a><\/p>\n

Program Committee Members:<\/strong> Jiang Bian<\/a>, Yuxiao Dong<\/a>, Adam Fourney<\/a>, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah<\/a>, Arnd Christian K\u00f6nig<\/a>, Xiaolu Lu (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Bhaskar Mitra<\/a>, Ruihua Song<\/a>, Fangzhao Wu<\/a>, Wei Wu<\/a>, Elad Yom-Tov<\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft presentation schedule<\/h2>\n

Monday, February 3<\/h3>\n

9:00 AM\u20135:00 PM | Regency CD | Industry Day
\nSearch and Recommendation in the Modern Workplace<\/strong>
\nKeynote\u00a0Speaker:\u00a0Nitin Agrawal (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

AI-Driven Email Subject Lines for Marketing Campaigns<\/strong>
\nShort Talk:\u00a0Jun Ye (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

9:00 AM\u20135:15 PM | Regency B | Workshop
\nHSDM 2020: Workshop on\u00a0Health Search and Data Mining\u00a0<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nCo-organizer:\u00a0Ryen White<\/a>
\nProgram Committee Member:\u00a0Elad Yom-Tov (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

9:00 AM\u201312:00 PM\u00a0| West Alabama\u00a0|\u00a0Tutorial
\nChallenges, Best Practices and Pitfalls in Evaluating Results of Online Controlled Experiments<\/strong>
\nSomit\u00a0Gupta (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Xiaolin Shi,\u00a0Pavel Dmitriev, Xin Fu, Avijit Mukherjee<\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 4<\/h3>\n

3:30 PM\u20135:00 PM | Spotlight Presentations
\nSequential Recommendation with Dual Side Neighbor-based Collaborative Relation Modeling\u00a0<\/strong>
\nJiarui\u00a0Qin,\u00a0Kan Ren<\/a>,\u00a0Yuchen\u00a0Fang,\u00a0Weinan\u00a0Zhang, Yong Yu<\/p>\n

Model Compression with Two-stage Multi-teacher Knowledge Distillation for Web Question Answering System\u00a0<\/strong>
\nZe Yang (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Linjun\u00a0Shou (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Ming Gong (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Wutao\u00a0Lin<\/b>,\u00a0Daxin\u00a0Jiang (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Influence Maximization with Spontaneous User Adoption\u00a0<\/strong>
\nLichao\u00a0Sun, Albert Chen, Philip Yu,\u00a0Wei Chen<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 5<\/h3>\n

2:00 PM\u20133:00 PM\u00a0|\u00a0Paper Session
\nExtreme Regression for Dynamic Search Advertising<\/strong>
\nYashoteja\u00a0Prabhu (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Aditya\u00a0Kusupati,\u00a0Nilesh Gupta (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Manik Varma<\/a><\/p>\n

Thursday, February 6<\/h3>\n

3:30 PM\u20135:00 PM | Paper Session
\nToward Activity Discovery in the Personal Web<\/strong>
\nTara\u00a0Safavi,\u00a0Adam\u00a0Fourney<\/a>,\u00a0Robert Sim<\/a>,\u00a0Marcin\u00a0Juraszek (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Shane Williams<\/a>, Ned Friend (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Danai\u00a0Koutra,\u00a0Paul Bennett<\/a><\/p>\n

1:30 PM\u20134:00 PM | Demo Session
\nFAQAugmenter: Suggesting Questions for Enterprise FAQ Pages<\/strong>
\nAnkush Chatterjee (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Manish Gupta<\/a>, Puneet Agrawal (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Friday,\u00a0February 7<\/h3>\n

9:00 AM\u201312:00 PM | Rice
\nNLP4REC 2020: Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Recommendations<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\n9:25 AM\u201310:00 AM: Invited speaker, Julia\u00a0Kiseleva (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\n11:20 AM\u201311:50 AM: Panelist: Julia\u00a0Kiseleva (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

9:00 AM\u201312:00 PM | Regency C
\nSUM 2020: Workshop on State-based User Modelling<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nInvited Speaker:\u00a0Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Job openings are always searchable at https:\/\/careers.microsoft.com\/ (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> including:<\/p>\n