Online Social Influence Analysis

Jie Tang is an associate professor with Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. His interestsinclude social network analysis, data mining, and machine learning. He published more than 100 journal/conference papers andholds 10 patents. He served as PC Co-Chair of WSDM'15, ASONAM'15, ADMA'11, SocInfo'12, KDD-CUP Co-Chair of KDD'15,Poster Co-Chair of KDD'14, Workshop Co-Chair of KDD'13, Local Chair of KDD'12, Publication Co-Chair of KDD'11, and as the PCmember of more than 50 international conferences. He is the principal investigator of National High-tech R&D Program (863), NSFCproject, Chinese Young Faculty Research Funding, National 985 funding, and international collaborative projects with MinnesotaUniversity, IBM, Google, Nokia, Sogou, etc. He leads the project Arnetminer.org for academic social network analysis and mining,which has attracted millions of independent IP accesses from 220 countries/regions in the world. He was honored with the CCFYoung Scientist Award, NSFC Excellent Young Scholar, and IBM Innovation Faculty Award.

Jimeng Sun is an associate professor with School of Computational Science and Engineering of College of Computing at GeorgiaInstitute of Technology. He received a Bachelor and MPhil in Computer Science from Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology in 2002 and 2003. After that, he obtained a MS and PhD degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon Universityin 2006 and 2007. His research interests include data mining for streams and networks, databases and healthcare analytics. He hasreceived the best research paper award in ICDM 2008, the best research paper award in SDM 2007. He has published over 40refereed articles and two book chapters. He led four patents and has given five tutorials. He has served as a program committeemember of KDD, ICDM, SDM, CIKM, and SIGMOD, senior committee member for SDM 2010-2011, 2013, for KDD 2013.