{"638197":{"#nid":"638197","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of Computational Science and Engineering Showcases Research at Premier Data Mining Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the first time in its 21-year history, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kdd.org\/kdd2020\/\u0022\u003EKnowledge Discovery and Large-scale Data Analytics Conference\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(SIGKDD) will be held virtually from Aug. 23 to 27. Despite its new socially-distanced format, SIGKDD will continue presenting the world\u0026rsquo;s premier data mining research, which will include highlights provided by Georgia Tech faculty and students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s presence is led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CSE) researchers, with CSE Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chaozhang.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChao Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;co-authoring four papers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn total, Georgia Tech faculty are set to present five papers next week during the conference\u0026rsquo;s technical proceedings and one paper as part of the workshop,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mason.gmu.edu\/~lzhao9\/venues\/DeepSpatial2020\/\u0022\u003EDeepSpatial\u003C\/a\u003E. These presentations offer proposals for a range of topics including\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2008.04063\u0022\u003Eonline frameworks for healthcare applications\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2006.15509\u0022\u003Eimproving the prediction performance of named entity recognition models.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the pandemic lingers on and another election year looms, disease and misinformation on the web are two subjects that are top of everyone\u0026rsquo;s mind. In a timely fashion, CSE Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESrijan Kumar\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand CSE Associate Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;B. Aditya Prakash\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eare providing cutting-edge research that takes on these key issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKumar is helping lead a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/truthdiscoverykdd2020.github.io\/\u0022\u003Eworkshop on ensuring web content credibility\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in an era of misinformation and techniques such as deep fakes. Kumar will provide an invited talk as part of the workshop at\u0026nbsp;2:45\u0026nbsp;p.m. PDT on Aug. 24,\u0026nbsp;to discuss emerging ideas and advances in malicious behavior detection and countering misinformation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrakash is orchestrating\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epidamik.github.io\/\u0022\u003EInternational Workshop on Epidemiology meets Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;This day-long workshop aims to gather leading epidemiologists in a discussion to develop theoretical principles and transformative computational approaches to address diseases through data mining and knowledge discovery methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother workshop highlight includes a keynote talk by CSE Associate Professor and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mlatgt.blog\/\u0022\u003EMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Associate Director\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~lsong\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELe Song\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;Song\u0026nbsp;is set to present the keynote at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/deep-learning-graphs.bitbucket.io\/dlg-kdd20\/#organization\u0022\u003EInternational Workshop on Deep Learning on Graphs: Methods and Applications\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on Aug. 24.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESee below for a full listing of KDD20 workshops Georgia Tech faculty are participating in:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/deep-learning-graphs.bitbucket.io\/dlg-kdd20\/#organization\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Second International Workshop on Deep Learning on Graphs: Methods and Applications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epidamik.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EepiDAMIK 3.0: The 3rd International workshop on Epidemiology meets Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mlhat.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMLHat: The First International Workshop on Deployable Machine Learning for Security Defense\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mason.gmu.edu\/~lzhao9\/venues\/DeepSpatial2020\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDeepSpatial 2020\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/truthdiscoverykdd2020.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETruth Discovery and Fact Checking workshop\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETo view the complete Georgia Tech at KDD20 research roundup,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/gtkdd2020\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eclick here.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/cc.gatech.edu\/kdd2019\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[Related Links: GT@KDD2019]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/news\/609815\/georgia-tech-faculty-and-students-take-lead-kdd-2018-premier-data-mining-research\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[Related Links: GT@KDD2018]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"KDD2020 is one of the world\u0027s premier data science conferences in the world and Georgia Tech faculty are presenting 5 leading research pages this week."}],"uid":"34540","created_gmt":"2020-08-21 18:21:16","changed_gmt":"2020-08-21 18:23:55","author":"Kristen 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