Brainstorm - Precog's Reading Boulevard
Brainstorm is the group's reading session, which focuses on developing a wholesome knowledge about various topics (Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Cyber crime, Privacy, and Usable Privacy and Security) in which research is being conducted at Precog. It provides an opportunity for focused discussions and exploring current state of the art. We believe these sessions help in developing scientific approach to problem articulation, sound research practices, and fact-based learning through accepted publications and case studies. The current reading group is comprised of vivacious graduate and undergraduate students at IIIT-H, with common interest in improving and contributing towards above mentioned areas of work.
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Proceedings
The group Brainstorm's every week during the regular semester (Fall / Spring). The sessions are preceded by different members of the group; members volunteer to moderate the paper for the week. The moderator leads the discussion with briefing about the paper, highlighting various strengths and weakness of the paper. This is followed by other participants in roles like archeologist, industry practitioner etc. who share findings from their perspective. Read more about role-playing paper-reading seminar here. This session concludes with comments and constructive discussion on the work and attendees leave with some interesting takeaways and conclusions reached from the exchange.

Fall 2024 | Summer 2024 | Fall 2023 | Spring 2023 | Fall 2022 | Spring 2022 | Fall 2021 | Summer 2021 | Spring 2021 | Fall 2020 | Winter 2017 | Monsoon 2016 | Summer 2016 | Winter 2014 | Monsoon 2013 | Spring 2013 | Fall 2012

Fall 2024 Schedule
When: 2045-2145 hrs IST, Mondays

Date Presenters Publication / Paper
17 August 2024 Vamshi Krishna Wu, Zhaofeng, Linlu Qiu, Alexis Ross, Ekin Akyürek, Boyuan Chen, Bailin Wang, Najoung Kim, Jacob Andreas, and Yoon Kim. (2023). "Reasoning or reciting? exploring the capabilities and limitations of language models through counterfactual tasks."
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24 August 2024 Sreeram Vennam Malach, Eran. (2023). "Auto-regressive next-token predictors are universal learners."
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31 August 2024 Akshit Sinha Daigavane, Ameya, Balaraman Ravindran, and Gaurav Aggarwal. (2021). "Understanding convolutions on graphs."
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9 September 2024 Monish Singhal Dudzik, Andrew J., and Petar Veličković. (2022). "Graph neural networks are dynamic programmers."
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TBD Debangan Mishra Wang, Sinong, et al. (2020). "Linformer: Self-attention with linear complexity."
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Summer 2024 Schedule
When: 1530-1630 hrs IST, Saturdays

Date Presenters Publication / Paper
11 May 2024 Ameya Rathod, Ishan Kavathekar Albert Gu, & Tri Dao. (2023). Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces.
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18 May 2024 Anish R Joishy, Varshita Kolipaka Takuya Akiba, Makoto Shing, Yujin Tang, Qi Sun, & David Ha. (2024). Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes.
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25 May 2024 Sumit Kumar, Shiven Sinha Nicholas Carlini, Daniel Paleka, Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham, Thomas Steinke, Jonathan Hayase, A. Feder Cooper, Katherine Lee, Matthew Jagielski, Milad Nasr, Arthur Conmy, Eric Wallace, David Rolnick, & Florian Tramèr. (2024). Stealing Part of a Production Language Model.
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1 June 2024 Hari, Vamsi Krishna Shuming Ma, Hongyu Wang, Lingxiao Ma, Lei Wang, Wenhui Wang, Shaohan Huang, Li Dong, Ruiping Wang, Jilong Xue, & Furu Wei. (2024). The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits.
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8 June 2024 Swarang Joshi, Prishanshul Govil Collin Burns, Pavel Izmailov, Jan Hendrik Kirchner, Bowen Baker, Leo Gao, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Yining Chen, Adrien Ecoffet, Manas Joglekar, Jan Leike, Ilya Sutskever, & Jeff Wu. (2023). Weak-to-Strong Generalization: Eliciting Strong Capabilities With Weak Supervision.
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Spring 2023 Schedule
When: 1530-1630 hrs IST, Saturdays

Date Presenters Publication / Paper
20 January 2023 Vansh
Shreyansh, Pulak, Anmol G 		Ilias Chalkidis, Tommaso Pasini, Sheng Zhang, Letizia Tomada, Sebastian Schwemer, and Anders Søgaard. 2022. FairLex: A Multilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Fairness in Legal Text Processing. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 4389–4406, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics
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28 January 2023 Kshitijaa Jaglan
Aravind N, Priyanshul, Abhijeeth 		Park, S., Kim, S., & Cha, M. (2022). Knowledge Sharing via Domain Adaptation in Customs Fraud Detection. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 36(11), 12062-12070. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v36i11.21465
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11 February, 2023 Shashwat Singh
Vamshi, Mann, Tejasvi 		Kevin Meng, David Bau, Alex Andonian, and Yonatan Belinkov. "Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (2022).
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25 February 2023 Shashwat Goel
Rohan, Keyur, Hitkul 		Shaily Bhatt, Sunipa Dev, Partha Talukdar, Shachi Dave, and Vinodkumar Prabhakaran. 2022. Re-contextualizing Fairness in NLP: The Case of India. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 727–740, Online only. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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4 March 2023 Priyanshul Govil
Saurav, Aditya, Geetika 		Lund, H. N., Hannibal, N., Mainz, J., MacDonald, R., & Nygaard Pedersen, I. (2022). Music, sleep, and depression: An interview study. Psychology of Music, 50(3), 830–848. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356211024350
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11 March 2023 Arvindh A and Aakash A
Nidhi, Vamshi, Shrey 		Jiaxuan You, Tianyu Du, and Jure Leskovec. 2022. ROLAND: Graph Learning Framework for Dynamic Graphs. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2358–2366. https://doi.org/10.1145/3534678.3539300
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25 March 2023 Harsha Vardhan
Pooja, Srijan, Pratyush 		Darshan Singh S, Anchit Gupta, C.V. Jawahar and Makarand Tapaswi Unsupervised Audio-Visual Lecture Segmentation, WACV, 2023.
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1 April 2023 Vamshi Krishna
Anmol A, Mehul, Aryamann 		Jiawei Liu, Yangyang Kang, Di Tang, Kaisong Song, Changlong Sun, Xiaofeng Wang, Wei Lu, and Xiaozhong Liu. 2022. Order-Disorder: Imitation Adversarial Attacks for Black-box Neural Ranking Models. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2025–2039. https://doi.org/10.1145/3548606.3560683
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8 April 2023 Anmol G
Shivangi, Aakash, Bhavyajeet 		Josef Valvoda, Tiago Pimentel, Niklas Stoehr, Ryan Cotterell, and Simone Teufel. 2021. What About the Precedent: An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Common Law. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 2275–2288, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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15 April 2023 Tejasvi C
Aravind, Anirudh, Amul 		Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Dibyendu Mishra, Sachita Nishal, Faisal M. Lalani, and Joyojeet Pal. 2022. Voting with the Stars: Analyzing Partisan Engagement between Celebrities and Politicians in India. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW1, Article 134 (April 2022), 29 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3512981
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24 April 2023		 Ritwik
Swetha, Tanmay, Ansh 		Ziyi Zhang, Shuofei Zhu, Jaron Mink, Aiping Xiong, Linhai Song, and Gang Wang. 2022. Beyond Bot Detection: Combating Fraudulent Online Survey Takers✱. In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022 (WWW '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 699–709. https://doi.org/10.1145/3485447.3512230
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Fall 2022 Schedule
When: 1530-1630 hrs IST, Saturdays

Date Moderator Publication / Paper
13 August 2022 Kshitijaa Jaglan, IIIT H Nadeem, M., Bethke, A. and Reddy, S., 2020. Stereoset: Measuring stereotypical bias in pretrained language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.09456.
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20 August 2022 Soumyasis Gun, IIIT H Bhuiyan, M.M., Bautista Isaza, C.A., Mitra, T. and Lee, S.W., 2022, April. OtherTube: Facilitating Content Discovery and Reflection by Exchanging YouTube Recommendations with Strangers. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-17).
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03 September 2022 Shashwat Goel, IIIT H Birhane, A., Kalluri, P., Card, D., Agnew, W., Dotan, R. and Bao, M., 2022, June. The values encoded in machine learning research. In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 173-184).
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10 September 2022 Arvindh A, IIIT H Fabbri, F., Wang, Y., Bonchi, F., Castillo, C. and Mathioudakis, M., 2022, April. Rewiring What-to-Watch-Next Recommendations to Reduce Radicalization Pathways. In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022 (pp. 2719-2728).
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17 September 2022 N Harsha Vardhan, IIIT H Li, H., Hecht, B. and Chancellor, S., 2022, May. Measuring the Monetary Value of Online Volunteer Work. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (Vol. 16, pp. 596-606).
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24 September 2022 Shashwat Singh, IIIT H Park, C., Arian, M., Liu, X., Sasson, L., Kahn, J., Patel, S., Mariakakis, A. and Althoff, T., 2021, April. Online mobile app usage as an indicator of sleep behavior and job performance. In Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 (pp. 2488-2500).
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1 October 2022 Vanshpreet Singh Kohli, IIIT H Lahnala, A., Welch, C., Neuendorf, B. and Flek, L., 2022. Mitigating toxic degeneration with empathetic data: Exploring the relationship between toxicity and empathy. arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.07233.
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8 October 2022 Vamshi, IIIT H Mooseder, A., Malik, M.M., Lamba, H., Erowid, E., Thyssen, S. and Pfeffer, J., 2022, May. Glowing Experience or Bad Trip? A Quantitative Analysis of User Reported Drug Experiences on Erowid. org. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (Vol. 16, pp. 675-686).
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5 November 2022 Aditya Kadam, IIIT H Coutrot, A., Manley, E., Goodroe, S., Gahnstrom, C., Filomena, G., Yesiltepe, D., Dalton, R.C., Wiener, J.M., Hölscher, C., Hornberger, M. and Spiers, H.J., 2022. Entropy of city street networks linked to future spatial navigation ability. Nature, 604(7904), pp.104-110.
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12 November 2022 Priyanshul, IIIT H Weld, G., West, P., Glenski, M., Arbour, D., Rossi, R.A. and Althoff, T., 2022, May. Adjusting for confounders with text: Challenges and an empirical evaluation framework for causal inference. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (Vol. 16, pp. 1109-1120).
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Spring 2022 Schedule
When: 1715 to 1815 hrs IST, Tuesdays

Date Moderator Publication / Paper
4 January Hitkul Jangra, IIITD Burke, M. and Kraut, R.E., 2014, April. Growing closer on Facebook: Changes in tie strength through social network site use. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 4187-4196).
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11 January Saksham Mrig, IIITD Ansolabehere, S. en Hersh, E. (2012) “Validation: What Big Data Reveal About Survey Misreporting and the Real Electorate”, Political Analysis.
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18 January Akshay Goindani, IIITH Lintott, C. J. et al. (09 2008) “Galaxy Zoo: morphologies derived from visual inspection of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey*”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 389(3), bll 1179–1189. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13689.x.
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25 January Ritwik Mishra IIITD Benoit, K., Conway, D., Lauderdale, B.E., Laver, M., & Jankin, S.M. (2016). Crowd-sourced Text Analysis: Reproducible and Agile Production of Political Data. American Political Science Review, 110, 278 - 295.
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8 February Jivitesh Jain, IIITH Kelling, S., Fink, D., La Sorte, F.A. et al. Taking a ‘Big Data’ approach to data quality in a citizen science project. Ambio 44, 601–611 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-015-0710-4
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15 February Mehul Mathur & Pooja Desur, IIITH Burnett, S. en Feamster, N. (2015a) “Encore: Lightweight Measurement of Web Censorship with Cross-Origin Requests”, SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 45(4), bll 653–667. doi: 10.1145/2829988.2787485.
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22 February Vibhu Agrawal, IIITD Jonas, E. en Kording, K. P. (01 2017) “Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?”, PLOS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science, 13(1), bll 1–24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268.
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8 March Ashwin Singh, IIITH Garimella, A. et al. (2021) “He is very intelligent, she is very beautiful? On Mitigating Social Biases in Language Modelling and Generation”, in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Online: Association for Computational Linguistics, bll 4534–4545. doi: 10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.397.
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15 March Ayushi Jain, IIITD Leskovec, J., Huttenlocher, D. en Kleinberg, J. (2010) “Predicting Positive and Negative Links in Online Social Networks”, in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (WWW ’10), bll 641–650. doi: 10.1145/1772690.1772756.
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22 March TBD TBD
5 April TBD TBD
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Fall 2021 Schedule
When: 1715 to 1815 hrs IST, Tuesdays

Date Moderator Publication / Paper
17 August Nidhi Goyal, IIITD Mislove, A., Viswanath, B., Gummadi, K. P., & Druschel, P. (2010, February). You are who you know: inferring user profiles in online social networks. In Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (pp. 251-260).
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24 August Kumari Neha, IIITD Leskovec, J., Backstrom, L. and Kleinberg, J., 2009, June. Meme-tracking and the dynamics of the news cycle. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (pp. 497-506).
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31 August Aditya Kadam & Anmol Agarwal, IIITH Cho, Eunjoon & Myers, Seth & Leskovec, Jure. (2011). Friendship and Mobility: User Movement In Location-Based Social Networks. Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 1082-1090. 10.1145/2020408.2020579.
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14 September Anmol Goel, IIIT H Faloutsos, M., Faloutsos, P. and Faloutsos, C., 2011. On power-law relationships of the internet topology. In The Structure and Dynamics of Networks (pp. 195-206). Princeton University Press.
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21 September Shivangi Singhal, IIITD R. Girshick, J. Donahue, T. Darrell and J. Malik, "Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation," 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2014, pp. 580-587, doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2014.81.
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28 September Ashwin Singh, IIITH Gross, R., Acquisti, A. & Heinz, H.J., 2005. Information revelation and privacy in online social networks. Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society - WPES '05.
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5 October Hitkul Jangra, IIITD Cranshaw, J., Schwartz, R., Hong, J. and Sadeh, N., 2012, May. The livehoods project: Utilizing social media to understand the dynamics of a city. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (Vol. 6, No. 1).
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12 October Mehul Mathur & Pulak Malhotra, IIITH I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, vol. 4, no. 3 (2008), 543-568.
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26 October Shashwat Goel, IIITH Dwork C. (2006) Differential Privacy. In: Bugliesi M., Preneel B., Sassone V., Wegener I. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4052. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11787006_1
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2 November Arvindh, IIITH Adamic, L. and Adar, E., 2003. Friends and neighbors on the Web. Social Networks, 25(3), pp.211-230.
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9 November Jushaan Singh Kalra, NSUT Shan, S., Wenger, E., Zhang, J., Li, H., Zheng, H. and Zhao, B.Y., 2020. Fawkes: Protecting privacy against unauthorized deep learning models. In 29th {USENIX} Security Symposium ({USENIX} Security 20) (pp. 1589-1604).
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16 Nov 2021 Ritwik Mishra, IIITH Bender, E.M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A. and Shmitchell, S., 2021, March. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?🦜. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 610-623).
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Summer 2021 Schedule
When: 1715 to 1815 hrs IST, Tuesdays

Date Moderator Publication / Paper
4 May Nidhi Goyal, IIITD Xu, D. et al. (2020) “Product knowledge graph embedding for E-commerce,” in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. New York, NY, USA: ACM.
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11 May Prashant Kodali, IIITH Turing, A. M. (1950) “I.—computing machinery and intelligence,” Mind; a quarterly review of psychology and philosophy, LIX(236), pp. 433–460.
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18 May Vibhu Aggarwal, IIITD Marwick, A. E. and Boyd, D. (2011) “I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience,” New media & society, 13(1), pp. 114–133.
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25 May Shashwat Goel. IIIT H Meurisch, C. and Mühlhäuser, M. (2021) “Data protection in AI services: A survey,” ACM computing surveys, 54(2), pp. 1–38.
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1 June Rupanshu Yadav, IIITD Alharbi, A. et al. (2021) “Social media identity deception detection: A survey,” ACM computing surveys, 54(3), pp. 1–35.
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8 June Rishi Raj Jain, IIITD Granovetter, M. S. (1977) “The strength of weak ties,” in Social Networks. Elsevier, pp. 347–367.
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15 June Pulak Malhotra, IIITH Das, N. et al. (2018) “SHIELD: Fast, practical defense and vaccination for deep learning using JPEG compression,” in Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining. New York, NY, USA: ACM.
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22 June TH Arjun, IIITH Silva, L., Mondal, M., Correa, D., Benevenuto, F. and Weber, I. (2016) “Analyzing the Targets of Hate in Online Social Media”, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 10(1).
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29 June Jivitesh Jain, IIITH Cha, M. et al. (2007). "I tube, you tube, everybody tubes: analyzing the world's largest user generated content video system." Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement - IMC '07. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, pp. 1-14.
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6 July Shradha Sehgal, IIITH Mosleh, M., Pennycook, G., Arechar, A. A., & Rand, D. G. (2021). Cognitive reflection correlates with behavior on Twitter. Nature Communications, 12(1), 921.
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13 July Shivangi Singhal, IIITD De Choudhury, M., Gamon, M., Counts, S. and Horvitz, E. (2013) “Predicting Depression via Social Media”, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 7(1).
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20 July Tanvi Karandikar, IIITH Mota, N. et al. (2020) “On the desiderata for online altruism: Nudging for equitable donations,” Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction, 4(CSCW2), pp. 1–21.
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27 July Mallika Subramanian, IIITH Yang, K.-C., Varol, O., Hui, P.-M. and Menczer, F. (2020) “Scalable and Generalizable Social Bot Detection through Data Selection”, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(01), pp. 1096-1103.
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Spring 2021 Schedule
When: 1715 to 1815 hrs IST, Tuesdays

Date Moderator Publication / Paper
4 January Akhila, NIT Calicut Liu, N. et al. (2019) “Is a single vector enough?: Exploring node polysemy for network embedding,” in Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining - KDD ’19. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press.
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19 January Amandeep Kaur & Srinidhi Ayyagari, IGDTUW Ziems, C., Vigfusson, Y. and Morstatter, F. (2020) “Aggressive, Repetitive, Intentional, Visible, and Imbalanced: Refining Representations for Cyberbullying Classification”, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 14(1), pp. 808-819.
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2 February Hitkul Jangra, IIITD Lu, J. et al. (2019) “Investigate transitions into drug addiction through text mining of reddit data,” in Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining - KDD ’19. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press.
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9 February Ritwik Mishra, IIITD Rogers, A., Kovaleva, O. and Rumshisky, A. (2020) “A primer in BERTology: What we know about how BERT works,” Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 8, pp. 842–866.
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16 February Mohit Chandra, IIITH Papadimitriou, I. and Jurafsky, D. (2020) “Learning music helps you read: Using transfer to study linguistic structure in language models,” in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics.
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23 February Anmol Goel, GGSIPU Pimentel, T. et al. (2020) “Speakers fill lexical semantic gaps with context,” in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics.
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2 March Avinash Tulasi, IIITD Almerekhi, H. et al. (2020) “Are these comments triggering? Predicting triggers of toxicity in online discussions,” in Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020. New York, NY, USA: ACM.
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16 March Shivangi Singhal, IIITD Panda, A. et al. (2020) “Topical Focus of Political Campaigns and its Impact: Findings from Politicians’ Hashtag Use during the 2019 Indian Elections,” Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction, 4(CSCW1), pp. 1–14.
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23 March Pragya Sethi, IIITD Huang, X. et al. (2019) “Knowledge graph embedding based question answering,” in Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining - WSDM ’19. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press.
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30 March Omkar Gurjar, IIITH Agarwal, P., Garimella, K., Joglekar, S., Sastry, N. and Tyson, G. (2020) “Characterising User Content on a Multi-Lingual Social Network”, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 14(1), pp. 2-11.
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6 April Arnav Kapoor, IIITH Mathew, B., Saha, P., Tharad, H., Rajgaria, S., Singhania, P., Maity, S. K., Goyal, P. and Mukherjee, A. (2019) “Thou Shalt Not Hate: Countering Online Hate Speech”, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 13(01), pp. 369-380.
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13 April Shivangi Singhal, IIITD Sims, M. and Bamman, D. (2020) “Measuring information propagation in literary social networks,” in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 642–652.
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Fall 2020 Schedule
When: 1530 to 1630 hrs IST, Mondays

Date Moderator Publication / Paper
28 September Neha Janith Weerasinghe, et al. “The Pod People: Understanding Manipulation of Social Media Popularity via Reciprocity Abuse”, In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020 (WWW '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1874–1884. PDF
5 October Avinash Aditya Pal, et al. "PinnerSage: Multi-Modal User Embedding Framework for Recommendations at Pinterest", In Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2020. PDF
12 October Prashant Kashyap Popat, et al. "STANCY: Stance Classification Based on Consistency Cues", In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). PDF
19 October Saurabh Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, et al. “Leaky Images: Targeted Privacy Attacks in the Web”, In Usenix Security, pp. 923–39. 2019. PDF
26 October Prof. PK Lia Bozarth, et al. "Higher Ground? How Groundtruth Labeling Impacts Our Understanding of Fake News About the 2016 US Presidential Nominees", In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (Vol. 14, pp. 48-59) (2020, May). PDF | OpenToAll | Register to attend
2 November Ritwik Divyanshu Kakwani, et al. "IndicNLPSuite: Monolingual Corpora, Evaluation Benchmarks and Pre-trained Multilingual Language Models for Indian Languages", Findings of EMNLP, 2020. PDF
9 November Hitkul Justin Cheng, et al. "How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior", In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2014. PDF | OpenToAll | Register to attend
23 November Shivangi Shan Jiang, et al. "Factoring Fact-Checks: Structured Information Extraction from Fact-Checking Articles", In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020 (WWW '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1592–1603. PDF | OpenToAll | Register to attend
30 November Nidhi Xunxian Wu, et al. "Trend-Aware Tensor Factorization for Job Skill Demand Analysis", In International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 3891-3897. 2019. PDF
7 December Biswesh Mohapatra, IIIT BLR Marco Tulio Ribeiro, et al. "Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP models with CheckList", In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. PDF | OpenToAll
14 December Anmol Goel Bohan Li, et al. "On the Sentence Embeddings from Pre-trained Language Models", In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). PDF
21 December, 1715 to 1815 hrs IST Nishtha Ahuja, DTU Van-Hoang Nguyen, et al. "FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation", In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM '20), October 2020, pp. 1165–1174. PDF | OpenToAll

Winter 2017
Where: Board Room, Fifth Floor, Academic Building, IIIT-D

Schedule 2017
Date Moderator Publication / Paper
25 January Anupama Aggarwal Ribeiro, Marco Tulio, Sameer Singh, and Carlos Guestrin. "Why Should I Trust You?: Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier." Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. ACM, 2016. PDF
30 January Srishti Gupta Nicholas Jing Yuan, Yuan Zhong, Fuzheng Zhang, Xing Xie, Chin-Yew Lin, and Yong Rui. 2016. Who Will Reply to/Retweet This Tweet?: The Dynamics of Intimacy from Online Social Interactions. In Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA. ACM download link
16 February TBD Ma, Jing, et al. "Detecting rumors from microblogs with recurrent neural networks." Proceedings of IJCAI. 2016. PDF
March 2 TBD Bian, Jiang, et al. "Learning to recognize reliable users and content in social media with coupled mutual reinforcement." Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web. ACM, 2009. PDF

Monsoon 2016
Where: Board Room, Fifth Floor, Academic Building, IIIT-D
When: 1300 to 1430 hrs IST, Tuesdays

Schedule 2016
Date Moderator Publication / Paper
23 August Srishti Chandok & Mansi Goel Zheleva, E., & Getoor., L.To join or not to join: the illusion of privacy in social networks with mixed public and private user profiles, WWW, 2009 PDF
30 August Indira Sen & Kushagra Singh Nobata, C., Tetreault, J., Thomas, A., Mehdad, Y., &Chang, Y.Abusive Language Detection in Online User Content, WWW, 2016 PDF
6 September Ayush Shah Cao, Q., Sirivianos, M., Yang, X., & Pregueiro, T.Aiding the Detection of Fake Accounts in Large Scale Social Online Service, NSDI, 2012 PDF
13 September Vrinda Malhotra & Amod Agrawal Doerr, B., Fouz, M., & Friedrich, T.Why Rumors Spread Fast in Social Networks, CACM, 2012 PDF
18 October Shrey Bagroy Choudhury, M., Jhaver, S., Sugar, B., & Weber, I.Social Media Participation in an Activist Movement for Racial Equality, ICWSM, 2016 PDF


Summer 2016
Where: A Wing, Fourth Floor, Academic Building, IIIT-D
When: 1630 to 1800hrs IST, Fridays

Schedule 2016
Date Moderator Publication / Paper
03 June Anupama Aggrawal Jessica Su, Aneesh Sharma & Sharad Goel,The Effect of Recommendations on Network Structure, WWW, 2016 PDF
10 June Varun Bharadhwaj Quanzeng You, Jiebo Luo, Hailin Jin & Jianchao Yang, Robust Image Sentiment Analysis Using Progressively Trained and Domain Transferred Deep Networks , 2015 PDF
17 June Srishti Bhargava Takaaki Hasegawa, Satoshi Sekine and Ralph Grishman, Discovering Relations among Named Entities from Large Corpora , ACL, 2004 PDF
24 June Divam Gupta C´ıcero Nogueira dos Santos & Maira Gatti, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis of Short Texts, COLING, 2015 PDF
1 July Bhavna Nagpal Jamie Mahoney, Tom Feltwell, Obinna Ajuruchi & Shaun Lawson, Constructing the Visual Online Political Self: An Analysis of Instagram Use by the Scottish Electorate, CHI, 2016 PDF
8 July Anshuman Suri Kurt Thomas, Frank Li, Chris Grier & Vern Paxson, Consequences of Connectivity: Characterizing Account Hijacking on Twitter, CCS, 2014 PDF


Winter 2014
Where: A Wing, Fourth Floor, Research Building, IIIT-D
When: 12:30 to 13:30 IST, Tuesday

Schedule 2014
Date Moderator Publication / Paper
04 Feb Aditi Morstatter, F., Pfeffer, J., Liu, H., & Carley, K. M. (2013). Is the sample good enough? Comparing data from Twitter's streaming API with Twitter's firehose. Proceedings of ICWSM. PDF
11 Feb Sudip Abisheva, A., Garimella, V. R. K., Garcia, D., & Weber, I. (2013). Who Watches (and Shares) What on YouTube? And When? Using Twitter to Understand YouTube Viewership. arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.4511. PDF
25 Feb Abhishek Cohen, R., & Ruths, D. (2013, June). Classifying Political Orientation on Twitter: It's Not Easy!. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. PDF
04 Mar Anupama Ribeiro, B. Modeling and Predicting the Growth and Death of Membership-based Websites. WWW 2014. PDF
11 Mar Niharika Grevet, C., Terveen, L., & Gilbert, E. Managing Political Differences in Social Media. CSCW 2014. PDF
18 Mar Neha Nikiforakis, N., Maggi, F., Stringhini, G., Rafique, M. Z., Joosen, W., Kruegel, C., ... & Zanero, S. Stranger Danger: Exploring the Ecosystem of Ad-based URL Shortening Services. WWW 2014. PDF
25 Mar Srishti User Profiling in an Ego Network: Co-profiling Attributes and Relationships. R. Li, C. Wang, and K. C.-C. Chang. In WWW, 2014. PDF
01 Apr Paridhi Yuan, N. J., Zhang, F., Lian, D., Zheng, K., Yu, S., & Xie, X. (2013, October). We know how you live: exploring the spectrum of urban lifestyles. In Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Online social networks (pp. 3-14). ACM. PDF
08 Apr Mayank TBD
15 Apr Hemank TBD
22 Apr TBD TBD
29 Apr TBD TBD


Monsoon 2013
Where: A Wing, Fourth Floor, Research Building, IIIT-D
When: 15:30 to 16:30 IST, Wednesday

Schedule 2013
Date Moderator Publication / Paper
21 Aug Aditi Denef, S., Bayerl, P. S., & Kaptein, N. A. (2013, April). Social media and the police: tweeting practices of british police forces during the August 2011 riots. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 3471-3480). ACM. PDF
27 Aug Anupama Akhawe, D., & Felt, A. P. Alice in Warningland: A Large-Scale Field Study of Browser Security Warning Effectiveness. PDF
4 Sept Neha Amleshwaram, A. A., Reddy, N., Yadav, S., Gu, G., & Yang, C. (2013, January). CATS: Characterizing automation of Twitter spammers. In Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), 2013 Fifth International Conference on (pp. 1-10). IEEE. PDF
11 Sept Abhishek Patil, A., Liu, J., & Gao, J. (2013, May). Predicting group stability in online social networks. In Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web (pp. 1021-1030). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. PDF
18 Sept Niharika Jung, Y., Gray, R., Lampe, C., & Ellison, N. (2013, April). Favors from facebook friends: unpacking dimensions of social capital. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 11-20). ACM. PDF
25 Sept Paridhi Zafarani, R., & Liu, H. Connecting Users across Social Media Sites: A Behavioral-Modeling Approach. PDF
2 Oct Megha Schulz, A., Hadjakos, A., Paulheim, H., Nachtwey, J., & Muhlhäuser, M. (2013, June). A Multi-Indicator Approach for Geolocalization of Tweets. In Seventh International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. PDF
TBD Prateek Cohen, R., & Ruths, D. (2013, June). Classifying Political Orientation on Twitter: It’s Not Easy!. In Seventh International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. PDF
TBD Prachi Morstatter, F., Pfeffer, J., Liu, H., & Carley, K. M. (2013). Is the sample good enough? comparing data from twitter’s streaming api with twitter’s firehose. Proceedings of ICWSM. PDF
TBD Hemank Anderson, A., Huttenlocher, D., Kleinberg, J., & Leskovec, J. (2013, May). Steering user behavior with badges. In Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web (pp. 95-106). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. PDF
TBD PK Wang, G., Gill, K., Mohanlal, M., Zheng, H., & Zhao, B. Y. (2013, May). Wisdom in the social crowd: an analysis of quora. In Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web (pp. 1341-1352). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. PDF
TBD Shristi Lee, K., Tamilarasan, P., & Caverlee, J. (2013). Crowdturfers, Campaigns, and Social Media: Tracking and Revealing Crowdsourced Manipulation of Social Media. PDF
TBD Sudip Thomas, K., Grier, C., Song, D., & Paxson, V. (2011, November). Suspended accounts in retrospect: an analysis of twitter spam. In Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference (pp. 243-258). ACM.PDF
TBD Soumya Huang, T. K., Rahman, M. S., Madhyastha, H. V., & Faloutsos, M. (2013, May). An analysis of socware cascades in online social networks. In Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web (pp. 619-630). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. PDF


Spring 2013
Where: A Wing, Fourth Floor, Research Building, IIIT-D
When: 12:00 - 13:00 IST, Monday

Schedule 2013
Date Moderator Publication / Paper
10 Jan Anupama Chao Yang,Robert Harkreader,Jialong Zhang,Seungwon Shin, Guofei Gu, Analyzing Spammer's Social Networks for Fun and Profit. WWW'12. PDF
14 Jan Paridhi Mohamed Shehab, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Arik Friedman, Roksana Boreli, Is more always merrier?: a deep dive into online social footprints. WOSN '12. PDF
21 Jan Niharika Jialiu Lin,Shahriyar Amini,Jason I. Hong,Norman Sadeh,Janne Lindqvist,Joy Zhang ,Understanding Users' Mental Models of Mobile App Privacy through Crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Sep 2012. PDF
28 Jan Srishti Eytan Bakshy,Itamar Rosenn,Cameron Marlow,Lada Adamic, The Role of Social Networks in Information Diffusion. WWW'12 PDF
04 Feb Prachi Farshad Kooti, Winter A. Mason, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Meeyoung Cha., Predicting Emerging Social Conventions in Online Social Networks. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'12), Hawaii, USA 2012. PDF
18 Feb Sudip Andreas Pitsillidis, Chris Kanich, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Kirill Levchenko, and Stefan Savage, Taster's Choice: A Comparative Analysis of Spam Feeds. IMC'12 PDF
04 March Neha Ratan Dey , Cong Tang , Keith Ross, Nitesh Saxena, Estimating Age Privacy Leakage in Online Social Networks. International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM) PDF
11 March Sumit G. Magno, G. Comarela, D. Trumper, M. Cha, and V. Almeida. New Kid on the Block: Exploring the Google+ Social Graph.In Proc IMC'2012 PDF
18 March Nikita Ceren Budak, Rakesh Agrawal, On Participation in Group Chats on Twitter. To Appear at Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web, 2013 (WWW'13) PDF
8 April Vani Gabriela Marcu, Anind K. Dey, Sara Kiesler, Parent-driven use of wearable cameras for autism support: a field study with families. Ubicomp'12PDF
15 April PK Saptarshi Ghosh, Naveen Sharma, Fabricio Benevenuto, Niloy Ganguly, and Krishna Gummadi, Cognos: Crowdsourcing Search for Topic Experts in Microblogs. In Proceedings of the Annual Int'l SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'12) PDF
22 April Prateek Gonzalez, Roberto, et al. Google+ or google-?. dissecting the evolution of the new osn in its first year. WWW'13 PDF


Fall 2012
Where: A Wing, Fourth Floor, Research Building, IIIT-D
When: 12.30 - 13.30 IST, Wednesdays

Schedule 2012
Date Moderator Publication / Paper
22 Aug Niharika Y. Xu, G. Reynaga, S. Chiasson, J.M Frahm, F. Monrose, P.C. van Oorchot, Security and Usability Challenges of Moving-Object CAPTCHAs: Decoding Codewords in Motion, USENIX Security, 2012. PDF
5 Sept Anupama J. Cranshaw, R. Schwartz, J. Hong, N. Sadeh, The Livehoods Project: Utilizing Social Media to Understand the Dynamics of City, in Proc. of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM, 2012. PDF
12 Sept Paridhi A. Narayanan and V. Shmatiko, De-annonymizing Social Networks, Oakland, 2009. PDF
19 Sept Srishti I. Martinovic‚ D. Davies‚ M. Frank‚ D. Perito‚ T. Ros and D. Song, On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interfaces, USENIX Security, 2012. PDF
26 Sept Aditi Eduardo J. Ruiz, Vagelis Hristidis, Carlos Castillo, Aristides Gionis, and Alejandro Jaimes. 2012. Correlating financial time series with micro-blogging activity. In Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM '12). PDF
3 Oct Prachi C. Wagner , V. Liaoy, P. Pirolliz, L. Nelsonz and M. Strohmaier, It’s not in their tweets: Modeling topical expertise of Twitter users, SocialCom, 2012. PDF
10 Oct Tatiana C. Davis Jr., G. Pappa, D. Oliveira, and F. Arcanjo, Inferring the Location of Twitter Messages Based on User Relationships. Transactions in GIS, 15(6):735–751, 2011. PDF
26 Oct PK V. Dave, S. Guha, Y. Zhang, Measuring and Fingerprinting Click-Spam in Ad Networks. SIGCOMM, 2012. PDF
2 Nov Neha M Srivatsa, M Hicks, Deanonymizing Mobility Traces: Using Social Networks as a Side-Channel. CCS 2012 PDF
9 Nov Vani M. Sato, I. Poupyrev, C. Harrison, Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects. CHI 2012. PDF

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