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| About the Organizers |
Sinan Aral
Sinan Aral studies how the flow of information in organizational networks affects information worker
productivity, and how information diffusion in massive online networks influences demand patterns, ecommerce behaviors and word of mouth marketing. Some recent representative papers include: |
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Sinan Aral obtained his PhD in Information Systems from MIT. He is a faculty member in the Information, Operations and Management Sciences department of the NYU Stern School of Business and affiliated faculty at MIT
His research has won the ICIS Best Overall Paper Award (2006, 2008), the ICIS Best Paper in IT Economics Award (2006), the ICIS Best Paper in IT Business Value Research Award (2006), the ACM SIGMIS Best Dissertation Award (2007), and the 2009 IBM Faculty Award. Sinan is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Northwestern University and holds masters degrees from the London School of Economics and Harvard University. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and is currently on the Academic Advisory Board of the Institute for Innovation and Information Productivity.
Sinan Aral
Assistant Professor, NYU Stern School of Business.
Research Affiliate, MIT Sloan School of Management.
Personal Webpage: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~saral
SSRN Page: http://ssrn.com/author=110270
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Foster Provost
 Foster Provost studies statistical data mining and predictive modeling with networked data. Some recent representative papers include:
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- Predictive Modeling with Social Networks. Tutorial given at ACM SIGKDD 2008 and AAAI 2008.
- Classification in Networked Data: A Toolkit and a Univariate Case Study. Journal of Machine Learning Research 8, 935‐‐983, 2007.
- Modeling Complex Networks for (Electronic) Commerce. Tutorial given at the 2007 ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC07).
- Learning and Inference in Massive Social Networks. The 5th International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, August 2007.
- Social Network Collaborative Filtering. Working Paper. Stern School. 2008.
- Network‐based Marketing: Identifying Likely Adopters Via Consumer Networks. Statistical Science 21 (2) 256–276, 2006.
Foster Provost is a Professor of Information Systems and NEC Faculty Fellow at New York University Stern School of Business. He has won several awards, including IBM Faculty Awards for outstanding research in data mining and machine learning, a President’s Award from NYNEX Science and Technology, a Best Paper Award from the ACM SIGKDD conference, and two awards in SIGKDD’s annual KDDCUP data mining competition. Professor Provost is editor-in-chief of the journal Machine Learning and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). He was elected as a founding board member of the International Machine Learning Society. He also has advised several U.S. government agencies on policy and investments in data mining research.
Professor Provost has a B.S. from Duquesne University in Physics and Mathematics and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Arun Sundararajan
 Arun Sundararajan studies the economics of networks, how information technology alters interpersonal interaction and the formation of social structures, how local (network) effects are mediated by underlying social networks, and the diffusion of information and economic influence in online networks. Some recent representative papers include:
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- Economic Influence in Massive Online Social Networks. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, 2008
Arun Sundararajan is an Associate Professor and NEC Faculty Fellow in the Information, Operations and Management Sciences department of NYU Stern School of Business. He coordinates Stern’s undergraduate core course in information systems and is director of their IS doctoral program. Professor Sundararajan has published in journals that include Decision Support Systems, Economics Letters, Information Systems Research, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Management Information Systems, Management Science and Statistical Science, and has given over 100 conference and invited presentations internationally. His research has won three Best Paper awards and has been profiled by numerous trade publications. His opinion pieces have appeared in the Financial Times, the Economic Times and Business World. Professor Sundararajan has served on the editorial boards of Management Science, MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research, and serves on the advisory board of the business/ecommerce journal of the Social Sciences Research Network. He consults for leading technology, electronic commerce and media organizations.
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Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Northeastern University |
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, a Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center for Complex Network Resear..
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Alex Pentland, MIT |
Professor Alex (“Sandy”) Pentland is the Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a pioneer in organizational engineering, mobil..
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Bernardo Huberman, HP Labs |
Bernardo Huberman is a Senior HP Fellow and Director of the Social Computing Lab at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and is curren..
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Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon |
Christos Faloutsos is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award by the National Science Foundation (1989), the Researc..
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Damon Centola, MIT |
Damon Centola received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University. He is currently a faculty member in Economic Sociology and System Dynamics at MIT. Damon's research focuses on the diffusion o..
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David Lazer, Harvard University |
David Lazer is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Program on Networked Governance at Harvard University, Kennedy School of Governance. His research interests include ..
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Duncan Watts, Yahoo! Research |
Duncan Watts is a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research, where he directs the Human Social Dynamics group. He is also an adjunct senior research fellow at Columbia University, and an ..
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James Fowler, University of California, San Diego |
James Fowler is an Associate Professor in the Center for Wireless and Population Health at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and the Political Science Depar..
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Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University |
Jon Kleinberg is on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, where he holds the position of Tisch University Professor. His research focuses on issues at the interface ..
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Jure Leskovec, Stanford |
Jure Leskovec received his Ph.D. from Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in September 2008. His research focuses on mining and modeling larg..
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Lada Adamic, University of Michigan |
Lada A. Adamic is an assistant professor in the School of Information and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan. Her research interests center on information dyn..
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Matthew Jackson, Stanford University |
Matt Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is also Director of the Stanford Institute of Theoretical Economics and Director of the CEME-NSF Decent..
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Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania |
Since 2002, Michael Kearns has been a Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also holds the National Center Chair in Resource Manag..
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Michael Macy, Cornell University |
Michael Macy is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology, Graduate Faculty of the College of Computing and Information Science, and Director of the Social Dynamics Laboratory at Cornell University...
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Pedro Domingos, University of Washington |
Associate Professor Pedro Domingos of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington is the author or co-author of over 150 technical publications in machine l..
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Rachel Kranton, Duke University |
Rachel Kranton is Professor of Economics at Duke University. She studies how institutions, networks, and the social setting affect economic outcomes. Her teaching and research span several fields i..
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Ronald Burt, University of Chicago |
Ronald Burt, the Hobart Williams Professor of Psychology and Strategy at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, studies the social structure of competitive advantage in careers, organ..
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Sanjeev Goyal, University of Cambridge |
Sanjeev Goyal is Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College. He is a pioneer in the economic study of networks, with research published in leading journals..
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Key Dates
Workshop Dates:
Sept 25th-26th, 2009.
Abstract Submission Deadline:
Aug. 20, 2009.
Notification to Authors:
Sept. 1, 2009.
Final Abstract Submission for Publication in Workshop Notes:
Sept. 15, 2009.
Early Registration Deadline:
Sept. 10, 2009.
Onsite Registration:
Sept. 25, 2009 |
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