{"623870":{"#nid":"623870","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Data Mining Experts Showcase Research at KDD 2019\u00a0","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EData mining allows us\u0026nbsp;to extract\u0026nbsp;meaningful insights from\u0026nbsp;raw data, enabling us to make more informed decisions in\u0026nbsp;many areas of our lives. From healthcare, education, to social media, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kdd.org\/kdd2019\/\u0022\u003E25\u003Csup\u003Eth\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/sup\u003EACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(KDD 2019) is the premier conference that brings data mining leaders across industries together to explore and discuss the latest findings in this quickly-evolving field of research.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThis year, Georgia Tech will present eight\u0026nbsp;papers from 18\u0026nbsp;different authors at KDD. These papers discuss everything from identifying concepts within social science publications, unsupervised construction of knowledge graphs, to defense of image classification machine learning models, and more.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMany of those attending and presenting from Georgia Tech hail from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CSE),\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E, and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(GTRI). CSE Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chaozhang.org\/\u0022\u003EChao Zhang\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eleads Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s presence with three research papers and will serve as a committee member of the Program Committee Research track.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s participation\u0026nbsp;continues outside of the research track with several faculty and students participating through\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kdd.org\/kdd2019\/organizers\/research-program-committee\u0022\u003Ecommittee involvement\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kdd.org\/kdd2019\/hands-on-tutorials?utm_source=mailchimp\u0026amp;utm_campaign=0300d0c2e1f0\u0026amp;utm_medium=page\u0022\u003Ehands-on tutorials\u003C\/a\u003E, or acting as guest speakers for several workshops, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bigmine.github.io\/bigmine19\/organization.html\u0022\u003EBigMine\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/usc.edu\/kdd19-dmaic-workshop\/people?authuser=0\u0022\u003EData Mining and AI for Conservation\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eda.cispa.saarland\/events\/lemincs19\/\u0022\u003ELearning and Mining for Cybersecurity\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/aiotworkshop.github.io\/\u0022\u003EThe 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence of Things\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dlg2019.bitbucket.io\/\u0022\u003EThe First International Workshop on Deep Learning on Graphs: Methods and Applications\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/advml\u0022\u003EThe First Workshop on Adversarial Learning Methods for Machine Learning and Data Mining\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/kdd2019.cs.ucdavis.edu\/#sec_Organization\u0022\u003ETensor Methods for Emerging Data Science Challenges\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Data science is transforming our society, and KDD is the flagship conference in data science,\u0026rdquo; Zhang said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;So many of our talented students and faculty are showcasing cutting-edge research results, giving invited talks, or organizing workshops at KDD. Such diverse and robust participation simply demonstrates we are in a strong position in this research area, and we are contributing our efforts to push this area forward.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKDD will be held Aug. 4 through 8 in Anchorage, Alaska, at the Dena\u0026rsquo;ina Convention Center and William Egan Convention Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about Georgia Tech at KDD, please\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/cc.gatech.edu\/kdd2019\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers head to Anchorage, Alaska for KDD 2019."}],"uid":"34540","created_gmt":"2019-07-31 18:37:22","changed_gmt":"2019-07-31 18:39:35","author":"Kristen Perez","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623869":{"id":"623869","type":"image","title":"KDD Banner","body":null,"created":"1564597368","gmt_created":"2019-07-31 18:22:48","changed":"1564597368","gmt_changed":"2019-07-31 18:22:48","alt":"KDD banner for the SIGKDD 2019 Conference","file":{"fid":"237608","name":"sigkdd-926x1801.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sigkdd-926x1801.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sigkdd-926x1801.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":242789,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sigkdd-926x1801.jpg?itok=3oTsnNYD"}}},"media_ids":["623869"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181315","name":"cse-dse"},{"id":"181845","name":"KDD 2019"},{"id":"92811","name":"data science"},{"id":"9168","name":"data mining"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKristen Perez\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kristen.perez@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}