Meet Yahoo Research at KDD 2019
<p>By <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-capps-tanaka-6b7a39/">Kim Capps-Tanaka</a>, Chief of Staff, Yahoo Research</p><p>If you’re attending <a href="https://www.kdd.org/kdd2019/">KDD</a> in Anchorage, Alaska, the Yahoo Research team would love to meet you! Send us an <a href="mailto:yahookdd@verizonmedia.com">email</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/YahooResearch">tweet</a> to discuss research or job opportunities on the team.<br/></p><p>In addition to hosting a booth, we’re excited to present papers, posters, and talks. </p><p><b></b></p><p><b>Sunday, August 4th</b></p><p><b></b></p><ul><li>“Modeling and Applications for Temporal Point Processes”, Junchi Yan, Hongteng Xu, <b>Liangda Li</b><br/></li><ul><li> 8am - 12pm, Summit 8-Ground Level, Egan<br/></li></ul></ul><p><b>Monday, August 5th</b><br/></p><ul><li>“Time-Aware Prospective Modeling of Users for Online Display Advertising”, <b>Djordje Gligorijevic</b>, <b>Jelena Gligorijevic</b>, <b>Aaron Flores</b></li><ul><li>8:40am - 9am, Kahtnu 2 - Level 2, Dena’ina</li></ul><li>“The Future of Ads”, <b>Brendan Kitts</b><br/></li><ul><li>3pm-3:30pm, Kahtnu 2 - Level 2, Dena’ina</li></ul><li>“Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”, <b>Shaunak Mishra</b>, <b>Jelena Gligorijevic</b>, <b>Narayan Bhamidipati</b><br/></li><ul><li>4:35pm-4:55pm, Kahtnu 2- Level 2, Dena’ina</li></ul><li>“Automatic Feature Engineering From Very High Dimensional Event Logs Using Deep Neural Networks”, <b>Kai Hu</b>, <b>Joey Wang</b>, <b>Yong Liu</b>, <b>Datong Chen </b></li><ul><li>7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall<br/></li></ul></ul><p><b><b>Tuesday, August 6th</b><br/></b></p><ul><li>“Predicting Different Type of Conversions using Multi-Task Learning”, <b>Junwei Pan</b>, <b>Yizhi Mao</b>, Alfonso Ruiz, Yu Sun, <b>Aaron Flores</b></li><ul><li>7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall</li></ul><li>“Carousel Ads Optimization in Yahoo Gemini Native”, <b>Oren Somekh</b>, Michal Aharon, Avi Shahar, Assaf Singer, Boris Trayvas, Hadas Vogel, Dobri Dobrev<br/></li><ul><li>7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall</li></ul><li>“Understanding Consumer Journey using Attention-based Recurrent Neural Networks”, Yichao Zhou, <b>Shaunak Mishra</b>, <b>Jelena Gligorijevic</b>, <b>Tarun Bhatia</b>,<b> Narayan Bhamidipati</b><br/></li><ul><li>7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall</li></ul><li>“Recurrent Neural Networks for Stochastic Control in Real-Time Bidding”, <b>Nicolas Grislain</b>, <b>Nicolas Perrin</b>, <b>Antoine Thabault</b><br/></li><ul><li>7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall</li></ul></ul><p>* Bold authors denotes Yahoo Researchers</p><p>Hope to see you at KDD!</p>