Robustly Poly-Skilled
On 25 June 2024, Lee Ween Jiann successfully defended his dissertation, titled “Incorporating Intrinsic Structures into Entity Matching and Representation Learning”. The work came...
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The Web Conference 2024 in Singapore
In May 2024, a majority of the Preferred.AI members were involved in The Web Conference 2024, in various capacities, as organizers, authors, and attendees....
Good Things Come in Threes
On 27 November 2023, Chia Chong Cher (that’s three C’s) successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Effective and Efficient Semantic Representations and Their Applications”. His...
KDD 2023 in Long Beach, California
In August 2023, Hady attended the 2023 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, also known as KDD 2023. The conference...
Connecting The Dots
On 12 May 2023, Zhang Ce successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Document Graph Representation Learning”. The gist of it is to derive more holistic...
The Web Conference 2023 in Austin, Texas
In May 2023, Hady attended The Web Conference 2023 (previously the conference series was known as World Wide Web or WWW). The conference was...
Multi-Modal Recommender Systems: Towards Addressing Sparsity, Comparability, and Explainability
Hoang, Tuan, Aghiles, and Hady will be delivering a tutorial at the ACM Web Conference 2023 conference that will take place in May 2023...
Conferred With Wisdom at WSDM-23
WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. The WSDM-23 conference took place in Singapore...
All Good Recommendations Come with an Explanation
On November 29, 2022, Hoang successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Mining Product Textual Data for Recommendation Explanations”. While we were then coming out of...
Preferably Nonsentimental Defense of Sentiments and Preferences
On 10 February 2022, Tuan Truong successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Modeling Sentiments and Preferences from Multimodal Data”. In a sign of the times,...
