Wei Chen
Principal Researcher
Talks and Tutorials
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- Guest lecture at Peking University: Information diffusion in social networks. Nov. 18, 2015. Also given at Tsinghua University.
- Guest lecture at Tsinghua University: Online learning. June 9, 2015.
- KDD 2012 Tutorial: Infomation and influence spread in social networks, with Carlos Castillo and Laks V. S. Lakshamanan. Beijing, China, Aug. 12, 2012.
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- ISAAC’2019 Keynote Speech: Influence Maximization: Pushing the Limits of Combinatorial Optimizations and Online Learning, Shanghai, China, December 11, 2019
- ISAAC’2019 Paper Presentation: On Adaptivity Gaps of Influence Maximization under the Independent Cascade Model with Full-Adoption Feedback, Shanghai, China, December 11, 2019
- Chinese National Computer Conference (CNCC) 2019 invited talk, “Classical Algorithm Past and Future — Data Mining and Machine Learning” Forum: Influence Maximization: Integrating and Expanding Classical Algorithms into the Social Network Context. Suzhou, China, October 18, 2019.
- Young European Probabilists Workshop on Information Diffusion on Random Graphs, Invited Talk: Information and Influence Propagation in Social Networks: Modeling and Influence Maximization, Eindhoven, Netherlands, March 27, 2019
- NCTCS’2017 (中国理论计算机年会) Keynote Speech: Combinatorial Online Learning. Wuhan, China, Oct. 14, 2017
- WWW’2017 Paper Presentation: Interplay between social influence and network centrality: A comparative study of Shapley centrality and single-node-influence centrality. Perth, Australia, April 6, 2017
- Chinese National Computer Conference (CNCC) 2016 invited talk, “Online Algorithms” Forum: Combinatorial Online Learning. Taiyuan, China, October 21, 2016.
- KDD’2016 Paper Presentation: Robust influence maximization. San Francisco, U.S.A., August 15, 2016.
- Keynote speech at IJCAI’15 Social Influence Analysis Workshop: Computational Social Influence. Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 27, 2015.
- WWW’2015 Paper Presentation: A game theoretic model for the formation of navigable small-world networks. Florence, Italy, May 21, 2015.
- Talk at CS Department, University of British Columbia: Combinatorial learning for combinatorial optimization — A trilogy. Vancouver, Canada, March 27, 2015.
- NIPS’2014 Full Oral Presentation: Combinatorial pure exploration in multi-armed bandits. Montreal, Canada, Dec. 10, 2014.
- Invited talk at the Institute of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences:Influence maximization: The new frontier — non-submodular optimizations. Beijing, China, Sept. 15, 2014.
- Keynote speech at the 10th Chinese National Mathematical Programming Conference: Influence diffusion modeling and optimizations in social networks. Luoyang, China, May 11, 2014.
- ACM EC’2013 Paper Presentation: Sybil-proof mechanisms in query incentive networks. Atlanta, U.S.A., June 20, 2013.
- ICML’2013 Paper Presentation(revised): Combinatorial multi-armed bandit: General framework, results, and applications. Philadelphia, U.S.A., June 18, 2013.
- Chinese National Computer Conference (CNCC) 2012 invited talk: Influence diffusion dynamics and influence maximization in complex social networks. Dalian, China, Oct. 18, 2012.
- Talk at EconCS Group of Harvard University.: Influence diffusion dynamics and influence maximization in complex social networks. Cambridge, MA. U.S.A, Oct. 18, 2011.
- CASIN 2011 talk: Influence maximization when negative opinions may emerge and propagate. Beijing, China, July 20, 2011.
- ICDM 2010 Paper Presentation: Scalable influence maximization in social networks under the linear threshold model. Sydney, Australia, Dec. 15, 2010.
- KDD 2010 Paper Presentation: Scalable influence maximization for prevalent viral marketing in large-scale social networks. Washington D.C, U.S.A., July 27, 2010.