Research Track Program Committee Members

Senior Program Committee

Naoki Abe
IBM Research

Arindam Banerjee
University of Minnesota

Paul Bennett
Microsoft Research

Tanya Berger-Wolf
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

Wray Buntine
Monash University

James Caverlee
Texas A&M University

Hong Cheng
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Flavio Chierichetti
Sapienza University

Diane Cook
Washington State University

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Cornell University

Anirban Dasgupta
IIT Gandhinagar

Ian Davidson
U.C. Davis

Martin Ester
SFU

Peter Flach
University of Bristol

Benjamin C. M. Fung
McGill University

Johannes Fürnkranz
TU Darmstadt

Thomas Gaertner
University of Nottingham

Aristides Gionis
Aalto University

David Gleich
Purdue University

Dimitrios Gunopulos
University of Athens

Stratis Ioannidis
Northeastern University

Panos Ipeirotis
New York University

George Karypis
University of Minnesota

Eamonn Keogh
UC Riverside

Tamara Kolda
Sandia National Laboratories

Jure Leskovec
Stanford

Edo Liberty
Yahoo Labs

Chih-Jen Lin
National Taiwan University

Tie-Yan Liu
Microsoft Research Asia

Qiaozhu Mei
University of Michigan

Katharina Morik
TU Dortmund

Benjamin Moseley
Washington University in St. Louis

Siegfried Nijssen
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Srinivasan Parthasarathy
Ohio State University

B. Aditya Prakash
Virginia Tech

Matteo Riondato
Two Sigma Investments, LP

Arno Siebes
Universiteit Utrecht

Ambuj Singh
University of California, Santa Barbara

Yizhou Sun
UCLA

Jie Tang
Tsinghua University

Dacheng Tao
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Evimaria Terzi
Boston University

Charalampos Tsourakakis
Harvard University

Sergei Vassilvitskii
Google

Tim Weninger
University of Notre Dame

David P. Woodruff
IBM Almaden

Elad Yom-Tov
Microsoft Research

Jeffery Xu Yu
Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Yisong Yue
California Institute of Technology

Mohammed Zaki
RPI

Program Committee

Bruno Abrahao
Stanford University

Tim Althoff
Stanford University

Aris Anagnostopoulos
Sapienza University of Rome

Ira Assent
Aarhus University

Renato Assuncao
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Stephen Bach
Stanford University

Mohammad Taha Bahadori
Georgia Institute of Technology

Eric Balkanski
Harvard University

Richard Baraniuk
Rice University

Nicola Barbieri
Tumblr

Senjuti Basu Roy
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Gustavo Batista
University of São Paulo

Andras A. Benczur
Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Austin Benson
Stanford University

Klaus Berberich
Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Michael Berthold
University of Konstanz

Alex Beutel
Google

Sahely Bhadra
Network Science Institute, Northeastern University

Smriti Bhagat
Facebook

Aditya Bhaskara
University of Utah

Siddhartha Bhattacharyya
Information and Decision Sciences, College of Business, University of Illinois, Chicago

Jinbo Bi
University of Connecticut

Jiang Bian
Microsoft Research

Albert Bifet
Telecom ParisTech

Mustafa Bilgic
Illinois Institute of Technology

Christian Böhm
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Klemens Böhm
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Francesco Bonchi
The ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy

Rajesh Bordawekar
IBM research

Alessandro Bozzon
Delft University of Technology

Ulf Brefeld
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

David Buttler
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Jose Cadena
Virginia Tech

Deng Cai
Zhejiang University

B. Barla Cambazoglu
NTENT Inc.

Jian Cao
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Longbing Cao
Faculty of IT, University of Technology Sydney

Michele Catasta
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Luasanne

Jeffrey Chan
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne

Vineet Chaoji
Amazon

Duen Horng Chau
Georgia Tech

Sanjay Chawla
Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), HBKU, Doha, Qatar

Bee-Chung Chen
LinkedIn

Enhong Chen
University of Science & Technology of China

Ming-Syan Chen
National Taiwan Univeresity

Ping Chen
UMB

Rui Chen
Samsung Research America

Shu-Ching Chen
Florida International University

Shuo Chen
Blizzard Entertainment

Songqing Chen
George Mason University

Wei Chen
Microsoft Research Asia

Yixin Chen
Washington University

James Cheng
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ingemar Cox
University College London & University of Copenhagen

Mark Crovella
Boston University

Philippe Cudre-Mauroux
University of Fribourg

Bin Cui
Peking University

Abhimanyu Das
Google

Mahashweta Das
Visa Research

Gianluca Demartini
University of Sheffield

Ayhan Demiriz
Gebze Technical University

Alex Deng
Microsoft

Amit Dhurandhar
IBM TJ Watson

Djellel Eddine Difallah
University of Fribourg

Bolin Ding
Microsoft Research

Nemanja Djuric
Uber ATG

Guozhu Dong
Wright State University

Yuxiao Dong
University of Notre Dame

Petros Drineas
Purdue

Nan Du
Google

Saso Dzeroski
Jozef Stefan Institute

Alina Ene
Boston University

Alessandro Epasto
Google Research

Alex Fabrikant
Google Research

Boi Faltings
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Liyue Fan
State University of New York Albany

Ad Feelders
Universiteit Utrecht

Yun Fu
Northeastern University

Pavid Fuhry
The Ohio State University

Aram Galstyan
USC/ISI

Joao Gama
University Porto

Bin Gao
Microsoft Research

Byron Gao
Texas State University

Jing Gao
University at Buffalo

David Garcia
ETH Zurich

Wolfgang Gatterbauer
Carnegie Mellon University

Yong Ge
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Rumi Ghosh

University of Southern California

Amol Ghoting
LinkedIn Corporation

Fosca Giannotti
Istituo di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, National Research Council of Italy

Derek Greene
University College Dublin

Quanquan Gu
University of Virginia

Francesco Gullo
UniCredit

Krishna Gummadi
MPI-SWS

Stephan Günnemann
Technical University of Munich

Abhishek Gupta
LinkedIn

Wook-Shin Han
POSTECH

Mohammad Hasan
Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

Xiaofeng He
East China Normal University

Andreas Hotho
University of Wuerzburg

Cho-Jui Hsieh
UC Davis

Hsun-Ping Hsieh
National Taiwan University

Chun-Nan Hsu
UC San Diego

Xia Ben Hu
Texas A&M University

Jun Huan
University of Kansas

Sheng-Jun Huang
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Yen E. H. Ian
Carnegie Mellon University

Tomoharu Iwata
NTT

Szymon Jaroszewicz
Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences

David Jensen
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Shuiwang Ji
WSU

Yexi Jiang
Florida International University

Wen Jin
Independent Researcher

Panos Kalnis
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

U Kang
Seoul University University

Murat Kantarcioglu
University of Texas at Dallas

Ben Kao
The University of Hong Kong

Komal Kapoor
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Amin Karbasi
Yale University

Panagiotis Karras
Aalborg University

Hisashi Kashima
Kyoto University

Latifur Khan
UTD

Emre Kiciman
Microsoft Research

Deguang Kong
Yahoo Research

Xiangnan Kong
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Nicolas Kourtellis
Telefonica Research

Ioannis Koutis
University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras

Tim Kraska
Brown University

Srijan Kumar
University of Maryland, College Park

Himabindu Lakkaraju
Stanford University

Laks Lakshmanan
University of British Columbia

Theodoros Lappas
Stevens Institute of Technology

Longin Jan Latecki
Temple University

Neal Lathia
Skyscanner

Silvio Lattanzi
Google

Kyumin Lee
Utah State University

Kristen Lefevre
Google

Kristina Lerman
University of Southern California

Cheng Li
University of Michigan

Cheng-Te Li
National Cheng Kung University

Chengkai Li
University of Texas at Arlington

Jiuyong Li
University of South Australia

Kai Li
University of Central Florida

Shuai Li
University of Cambridge

Yanen Li
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Zhenhui Li
Penn State University

Hsuan-Tien Lin
National Taiwan University

Xuemin Lin
The University of New South Wales

Chuanren Liu
Rutgers Business School

Guimei Liu
Institute for Infocomm Research

Huan Liu
Arizona State University

Jun Liu
SAS Institute Inc.

Xuanzhe Liu
Peking University

David Lo
Singapore Management University

Peter Lofgren
Stanford

Felipe Llinares Lopez
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich

Bo Long
Yahoo! Labs

Yin Lou
Airbnb

Chang-Tien Lu
Virginia Tech

Patrick Lucey
STATS

Jiebo Luo
University of Rochester

Ping Luo
Institute of Computing Technology, CAS

Hao Ma
Microsoft Research

Shuai Ma
Beihang University

Richard Maclin
University of Minnesota Duluth

Malik Magdon-Ismail
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Anirban Majumder
Amazon

Hiroshi Mamitsuka
Kyoto University

Nikos Mamoulis
University of Hong Kong

Amin Mantrach
Yahoo!

Michael Mathioudakis
Aalto University

Julian Mcauley
UC San Diego

Wagner Meira Jr.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Weiyi Meng
Department of Computer Science, Binghamton University

Pauli Miettinen
Max Planck Instutute for Informatics

Baharan Mirzasoleiman
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich

Dunja Mladenic
Jozef Stefan Institute

Joshua Moore
Cornell

Sebastian Moreno
Universidad Adolfo Ibañez

Abdullah Mueen
University of New Mexico

Kamesh Munagala
Duke University

Emmanuel Müller
Hasso-Plattner-Institute

Mirco Nanni
KDD-Lab ISTI-CNR Pisa

Olfa Nasraoui
University of Louisville

Wilfred Ng
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Feiping Nie
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Zaiqing Nie
Microsoft Research Asia

Eirini Ntoutsi
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover

Tim Oates
University of Maryland Baltimore County

Zoran Obradovic
Temple University

Rasmus Pagh
IT University of Copenhagen

Themis Palpanas
Paris Descartes University

Rong Pan
Sun Yat-sen University

Rina Panigrahy
Microsoft Research

Evangelos Papalexakis
University of California Riverside

Jian Pei
Simon Fraser University

Bryan Perozzi
Google Research

Francois Petitjean
Monash University

Bernhard Pfahringer
University of Waikato

Dinh Phung
Deakin University

Claudia Plant
University of Vienna

Tao Qin
Microsoft Research Asia

Vladan Radosavljevic
Uber Advanced Technology Group

Chedy Raïssi
INRIA

Karthik Raman
Google

Jan Ramon
INRIA

Huzefa Rangwala
George Mason University

Sayan Ranu
IIT Delhi

Chotirat Ratanamahatana
Chulalongkorn University

Xiang Ren
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Steffen Rendle
Google

Matthias Renz
Ludwig-Maximilians University

Bruno Ribeiro
Purdue University

Manuel Gomez Rodriguez
MPI for Software Systems

Oleg Rokhlenko
Amazon

Salvatore Ruggieri
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa

Joerg Sander
University of Alberta

Raul Santos-Rodriguez
University of Bristol

Nishanth Sastry
King’s College London

Assaf Schuster
Technion

C. Seshadhri
University of California, Santa Cruz

Aneesh Sharma
Twitter Inc

Pannaga Shivaswamy
Netflix Inc.

Milad Shokouhi
Microsoft

Vikas Sindhwani
IBM Research

Yaron Singer
Harvard University

Kaushik Sinha
Wichita State University

Kevin Small
Amazon

Yangqiu Song
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Anna Squicciarini
The Pennsylvania State University

Mudhakar Srivatsa
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Michael Steinbach
University of Minnesota

Torsten Suel
New York University

Mahito Sugiyama
Osaka University

Masashi Sugiyama
RIKEN/The University of Tokyo

Huan Sun
The Ohio State University

Jimeng Sun
Georgia Tech

Einoshin Suzuki
Kyushu University

Adith Swaminathan
Cornell University

Ichiro Takeuchi
Nagoya Institute of Technology

Partha Talukdar
Indian Institute of Science

Chenhao Tan
Cornell University

Jian Tang
University of Michigan

Yufei Tao
The University of Queensland

Nikolaj Tatti
Aalto University

Kai-Ming Ting
Federation University Australia

Volker Tresp
Siemens AG

Panayiotis Tsaparas
University of Ioannina

Vincent S. Tseng
National Chiao Tung University

Antti Ukkonen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Jaideep Vaidya
Rutgers University

Kush Varshney
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Michail Vlachos
IBM Research

Jilles Vreeken
Max-Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University

Slobodan Vucetic
Temple University

Anil Kumar Vullikanti
Virginia Tech

Can Wang
Zhejiang University

Dashun Wang
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Dong Wang
University of Notre Dame

Guan Wang
Nio Automotive

Hongning Wang
University of Virginia

Jian Wang
LinkedIn Corporation

Ke Wang
Simon Fraser University

Ting Wang
Lehigh University

Wei Wang
UCLA

Xiang Wang
IBM Research

Takashi Washio
ISIR, Osaka Univ.

Ingmar Weber
Qatar Computing Research Institute

Robert West
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Luasanne

Anthony Wirth
The University of Melbourne

Ran Wolff
Yahoo Labs

Raymond Chi-Wing Wong
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Weng-Keen Wong
Oregon State University

Jungie Wu
Beihang University

Xindong Wu
University of Louisiana of Lafayette

Xintao Wu
University of Arkansas

Keli Xiao
Stony Brook University

Xiaokui Xiao
Nanyang Technological University

Hui Xiong
Rutgers University

Chang Xu
University of Technology Sydney

Jiajing Xu
Pinterest

Xiaowei Xu
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Takeshi Yamada
NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Xifeng Yan
University of California at Santa Barbara

Zhijun Yin
Twitter

Hsiang-Fu Yu
Amazon

Kui Yu
Hefei University of Technology

Lei Yu
Binghamton University

Xiao Yu
Google

Yang Yu
Nanjing University

Chunqiu Zeng
Florida International University

Duo Zhang
Kunlun Inc.

Kun Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University

Min-Ling Zhang
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University

Peng Zhang
Fictitious Economics & Data Technology Research Centre

Ping Zhang
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Rui Zhang
IBM Research - Almaden

Shichao Zhang
Guangxi Normal University

Weinan Zhang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Wenlu Zhang
Old Dominion University

Xiang Zhang
The Pennsylvania State University

Ya Zhang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Yu Zhang
HKUST

Zhenjie Zhang
Advanced Digital Sciences Center

Bo Zhao
Pinterest

Peixiang Zhao
Florida State University

Yuchen Zhao
AppDynamics

Vincent W. Zheng
Advanced Digital Sciences Center

Yu Zheng
Microsoft Research

Jiayu Zhou
Michigan State University

Mianwei Zhou
Yahoo Lab

Wenjun Zhou
University of Tennessee

Feida Zhu
Singapore Management University

Xingquan Zhu
Florida Atlantic University