Scholar
Djellel Difallah
Google Scholar ID: K5d-OHEAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, NYU Abu Dhabi
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,007
H-index
18
i10-index
22
Publications
20
Co-authors
27
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Papers: KDD'25: WikiRAG: Revisiting wikidata KGC datasets with community updates and retrieval-augmented generation; SDM'24: XGExplainer: Robust evaluation-based explanation for graph neural networks. Awards: NYU Abu Dhabi Palm Teaching Award, 2025; Best Computer Science PhD Thesis Award, University of Fribourg 2015; Fulbright Scholarship, 2009-2011.
Research Experience
- Was a Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation and a Data Science Fellow at NYU CDS; Previously, a Fulbright Fellow, Microsoft Research Intern, and Google Summer of Code participant; Currently an Assistant Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Education
- Ph.D. from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
Background
- Research Interests: Developing effective methods to reason over large, incomplete, and heterogeneous knowledge bases, aiming to enhance knowledge completeness and discovery for informed decision-making. Specializes in knowledge graph completion, graph reasoning, and multimodal data integration.
Miscellany
- Other projects: OLTP-Bench, a multi-threaded load generator framework designed for any JDBC-enabled relational database.
