- Paper 'Scalable Anomaly Ranking of Attributed Neighborhoods' awarded Best Paper Runner-up at SDM'16.
- 'Ties That Bind: Characterizing Classes by Attributes and Social Ties' accepted at WWW'17 (Web Science Track).
- 'When Recommendation Goes Wrong: Anomalous Link Discovery in Recommendation Networks' accepted at KDD'16.
- 'Freshman or Fresher? Quantifying the Geographic Variation of Internet Language' accepted at ICWSM'16.
- 'DeepWalk: Online Learning of Social Representations' accepted at KDD'14 (full paper acceptance rate: 14.6%).
- 'Focused Clustering and Outlier Detection in Large Attributed Graphs' accepted at KDD'14 (full paper acceptance rate: 14.6%).
- 2015 Catacosinos Fellowship for Excellence in Computer Science (awarded to the top PhD students in the department).
- 2014 Junior Researcher Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) at Stony Brook University.
Research Experience
Works in the areas of data mining and knowledge discovery, machine learning, network science, and natural language processing.
Background
Research interests include data mining, graph mining, graph theory, distributed algorithms, natural language processing, and machine learning. Particularly interested in local graph algorithms.
Miscellany
Projects:
- DeepWalk: Uses deep learning techniques to learn representations of graphs for semi-supervised learning problems.
- Focused Clustering: Examines user-oriented clustering and anomaly detection in attributed graphs.
- Inducing Language Networks: Investigates making meaningful language networks from distributed word representations.
- Polyglot: A publicly available repository of word embeddings for over 100 languages.