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• Received the 2021 IEEE ICDM Tao Li Award

• Our ICDM 2021 paper invited to KAIS Journal Special Issue (ICDM Best papers).

• Top 1 winner in the task of modality prediction from OpenProblems-NeurIPS2021 Single-Cell Multimodal Data Integration

• So humbled and grateful to receive this special gift from my current and formal students in the Chinese Teacher's Day!!!

• Received the Rising Star Award from Association of Chinese Scholars in Computing

• Our new book: Deep Learning on Graphs. (English Version for Sale from Amazon) , (Chinese Version for Sale)

• News from MSU Today: Decoding crop genetics with artificial intelligence

• Received the IEEE Big Data Security Junior Research Award

• Welcome four new professors from my group: Yao Ma (NJIT), Wenqi Fan (PolyU@HK), Hamid Karimi (Utah State) and Xiangyu Zhao (CityU@HK). They are recruiting students and feel free to contact them.

• Invited to serve as the PC Chair of WSDM2022. Call for Paper

• Received the ACM SIGKDD Rising Star Award that aims to celebrate the early accomplishments of the SIGKDD communities' brightest new minds. Official News, MSU News, An Interview in Chinese
• KDD tutorial: Adversarial Attacks and Defenses: Frontiers, Advances and Practice
• KDD tutorial: Recent Advances in Multimodal Educational Data Mining in K-12 Education
• My student Tyler Derr will join Vanderbilt University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in EECS starting Fall20!!!
• My student Yao Ma Won the Outstanding Graduate Student Award
• DeepRobust: A PyTorch Library for Adversarial Attacks and Defenses
• Won 2020 Distinguished Withrow Research Award
• MSU receives $1.2M NSF grant to study intelligent social network interventions
• My book "trust in social media" is one of the most read books in Synthesis Lectures on Information Security,Privacy, and Trust
• News Press It's possible to reverse-engineer AI chatbots to spout nonsense, smut or sensitive information
• Tutorial on graph neural networks at AAAI2020. Slides
• Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Education at AAAI2020.
• Early Career Inivted Talks from IJCAI2019.
• Workshop about Deep Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Discoveray at KDD2019.
• Best paper (or poster) awards (or shortlist) from ICHI2019, SECON2019 and SDM2019.
• Received the NSF Career Awards. Research@MSU , MSU Today, and News of Colledge of Engineering MSU
• Papers accepted by NAACL-HTL2019, SIGWEB, TVT and AIED2019 (The 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education)
• We received the best poster award in the MSU Engineering Symposium 2019 for our work: “Learning Hierarchical Discourse-level Structure for Fake News Detection”
• Received the NSF Career Award
• Workshop about Deep Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Discoveray is accepted by KDD2019
• AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award (2007~2017)
• My student Tyler Derr won the "people of choice" award in Graduate Academic Conference at MSU
• My student Hamid Karimi won the 2019 outstanding service award at CSE@MSU
• Papers accepted by ICDE2019, SDM2019 and WWW2019
• CFP: Machine learning with graphs
• Invited to serve as the proceeding chair for KDD2019
• Preprints: Reinforcement Learning for Online Information Seeking and Dynamic Graph Convolutional Networks
• Invited to serve as a Senior PC member of ICWSM2019
• Received Grants (or gift money) from industry collaborators
• Won the best paper award from ASONAM 2018
• Received a grant from NSF SaTC to support our research about Side-channel Attacks Against Mobile Users
• 1 paper accepted by CIKM2018 and 1 paper accepted by ICDM2018
• Received a grant from Living PlantIT to support our streaming modeling research
• Received the Criteo Faculty Research Award
• Invited to serve as the Associate Editor of Neurocomputing
• 1 paper got accepted by RecSys2018
• papers got accepted by COLING2018 and ASONAM2018
• 1 paper got accepted by KDD2018
• "Crime in Urban Areas: A Data Mining Perspective" to appear in SIGKDD Explorations
• Invited to serve the vice program committee chair of IEEE BIGDATA 2018
• My student Hamid Karimi Won best oral presentation in 10th MSU Graduate Academic Conference
• My students Haochen and Xiangyu received a travel award to attend SDM2018 and participate in the Doctoral Forum
• Won the best student paper award from WSDM2018
• Gratefully receive a grant from MSU Business Center
• 1 paper is accepted by IEEE Access and 1 paper is accepted by ICC
• 2 papers are accepted by TKDE
• 2 papers are accepted by WWW2018
• Gratefully receive an award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) to support our education research
• I am elected as the secretary of the SIAM activity group on data mining and analytics
• I am invited to give a keynote speech at HeteroNAM@WSDM2018
• A Survey on Dialogue Systems:Recent Advances and New Frontiers is to appear in SIGKDD Explorations
• 4 papers are accepted by WSDM2018
• I am invited to serve as the associate editor of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
• A survey about ``Fake News Detection on Social Media:A Data Mining Perspective" , KDNuggets Blog , Most Shared Last Week
• I will serve as the information director of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
• I will serve as the proceeding co-chair of KDD18
• 1 paper is accepted by ACM Computing Surveys
• 1 paper is accepted by SIGKDD Explorations
• My students Zhiwei and Xiangyu received travel awards to attend CIKM2017
• Gratefully receive a NSF grant (IIS-1714741) as the PI to support our research on unsupervised feature selection for big data
• I am invited to give a keynote speech in MLG@KDD
• Job Matching Program in KDD2017
• 4 papers are accepted by CIKM2017, especial congratulations to Zhiwei, Tyler and Xiangyu for their first papers with DSE@MSU
• WSDM18 calls for workshop proposals: More information
• Gratefully receive a NSF grant (IIS-1715940) as the PI to support our research on dynamic attributed networks
• 1 paper is accepted by TIST
• My students Tyler and Daniel received travel grants to attend KDD17
• 1 paper is accepted by KDD2017
• I am invited to attend the Adobe Data Science Symposium
• 1 paper titled ``Large-scale Location Prediction for Web Pages" is accepted by IEEE Trans on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• 1 paper is acctepd by IJCAI2017
• 1 paper titled ``Facilitating Time Critical Information Seeking in Social Media" is accepted by IEEE Trans on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• Our dimension reduction package is among 5 Machine Learning Projects You Can No Longer Overlook
• A tutorial "Recent Advances in Feature Selection: A Data Perspective" is accepted by KDD2017. It is based on our survey paper and the software scikit-feature
• My student Tyler Derr and I will give an invited lecture for the department of education about signed network analysis
• My student Tyler Derr received a NSF travel grant to attend SDM2017.
• Gratefully receive a NSF grant (IIS-1719275) as the PI to support students to attend SDM17
• Gratefully receive two grants from CBSA to support our misinformation research
• The online home of Data Science and Engineering Lab at MSU! If you want to know recent research and openings from DSE Lab, please visit our home
• 4 papers are accepted by SDM2017
• Gratefully receive a grant from TRIFECTA
• 3 papers are accepted by WWW2017
• Our survey paper "User Identity Linkage across Online Social Netwroks: A Review" is to appear in SIGKDD Explorations
• 2 papers are accepted by AAAI2017
• I will serve as the job matching chair of KDD2017
• 1 paper titled "Delving Deep into Personal Photo and Video Search" is accepted by WSDM2017
• Kenote Speeches in 2016: AAAI WIT-EC 2016 , Big Network Analytics Workshop
• Our article about research trends in social media " The good, the bad, and the ugly: uncovering novel research opportunities in social media mining "
• Depature from Yahoo! Inc and join the CSE department of Michigan State University as an assistant professor
• Won the best paper award in the applied data science track from KDD2016
• I will serve as the sponsorship chair of SDM2017 and the workshop co-chair of WSDM2018
• A Survey of Signed Network Mining in Social Media is accepted by ACM Computing Suverys
• News coverage of our paper on "Predicting Online Protest Participation of Social Media Users" -- Defenceone.com , mic.com , timeofindia , inverse.com , usinessinsider.in , newindianexpress.com , business-standard.com , freepressjournal.in , bgr.in , nextgov.com , newsgram.com , newkerala.com
• scikit-feature, an open-source feature selection repository in Python, -- News Blog , kdNuggets
• I serve as the post chair of KDD2016. KDD Call for Papers
• Our Book " Trust in Social Media '' is online available