News

2019-12-22 Dawei was invited to serve as Senior Program Committee at SIGIR 2020.

2019-12-20 Dawei was invited to serve as Senior Program Committee at KDD 2020.

2019-10-20 Dawei was invited to serve as Senior Program Committee at IJCAI 2020.

2019-08-11 Dawei was invited to serve as Senior Program Committee at The Web Conference 2020 (WWW 2020).

2019-08-09 A survey paper entitled “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Search, Recommendation, and Online Advertising: A Survey” was published in SIGWEB Newsletter.

2019-07-25 Dawei was invited to serve as Sponsorship Chair at SIGIR 2020.

2019-07-25 Dawei (with Lixin Zou, Zhuo Zhang and Long Xia) won the Runner-up Award in KDD CUP 2019 “Research for Humanity” Reinforcement Learning Track.

2019-06-12 One paper entitled “Weight Loss Prediction in Social-Temporal Context” received ICHI 2019 Best Paper Honorable Mention.

2019-03-16 Workshop proposal “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Discovery” has been accepted by KDD 2019.

2018-11-05 Dawei was invited to Senior Program Committee at SIGIR 2019.

2018-08-20 One paper entitled “Explicit State Tracking with Semi-Supervision for Neural Dialogue Generation” was accepted into CIKM 2018.

2018-07-18 One paper entitled “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Page-wise Recommendations” was accepted into RecSys2018.

2018-07-08 Dawei (with Zhaochun Ren, Xiangnan He, and Maarten de Rijke) gave a half day tutorial, entitled “Information Discovery in E-commerce” at SIGIR 2018.

2018-05-14 Dawei was invited to Senior Program Committee at WSDM 2019.

2018-05-07 One paper entitled “Recommendations with Negative Feedback via Pairwise Deep Reinforcement Learning” was accepted into KDD2018.

2018-04-21 Two papers entitled “Knowledge Diffusion for Neural Dialogue Generation” and “Simplifying Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Single Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures” were accepted into ACL2018.

2018-04-18 One paper entitled “Learning Tag Dependencies for Sequence Tagging” was accepted into IJCAI2018.

2018-04-03 One paper entitled “Optimizing Whole-Page Presentation for Web Search” was accepted by ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB).

2018-02-08 One paper entitled “A Path-constrained Framework for Discriminating Substitutable and Complementary Products in E-commerce” won Best Student Paper Award at WSDM 2018.

2018-01-25 One paper entitled “A Path-constrained Framework for Discriminating Substitutable and Complementary Products in E-commerce” was nominated for Best Paper Award at WSDM 2018.

2017-12-29 Dawei was invited to serve as Industry Track Chair at SIGIR 2018.

2017-12-22 One paper entitled “Hierarchical Variational Memory Network for Dialogue Generation” was accepted into WWW2018.

2017-10-25 Three papers entitled “Multidimensional network embedding with hierarchical structures”, “A Path-constrained Framework for Discriminating Substitutable and Complementary Products in E-commerce”, and “Micro Behaviors: A New Perspective in E-commerce Recommender Systems” were accepted into WSDM2018.

2017-08-09 Dawei was invited to the program committee of WWW 2018.

2017-06-28 Dawei was invited to the program committee of AAAI 2018.

2017-04-26 Dawei was invited to the senior program committee of WSDM 2018.

2017-04-21 JD.com’s Data Science Lab is hiring! please drop me a message at [yindawei at acm.org], if interested.

2017-04-20 One paper entitled “Large-scale Location Prediction for Web Pages” was accepted by IEEE Trans on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

2016-12-20 One paper entitled “Streaming Recommender Systems” was accepted into WWW2017.

2016-12-09 Dawei gave an invited talk “Ranking Relevance in Web Search” at China Big Data Technology Conference, Beijing, China.

2016-11-04 Dawei was invited to the program committee of SIGIR 2017.

2016-10-11 Dawei was invited to the program committee of WWW 2017.

2016-09-06 Dawei gave an invited talk “Ranking and Beyond-ranking in Web Search” at Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd., Beijing, China.

2016-09-01 Dawei gave an invited talk “Ranking and Beyond-ranking in Web Search” at Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.

2016-08-06 JD.com’s recommendation science team is hiring! please drop me a message at [yindawei at acm.org], if interested.

2016-08-04 Dawei was invited to the program committee of AAAI 2017.

2016-07-29 Dawei was invited to serve as Sponsorship Chair at WSDM 2018.

2016-07-29 One paper entitled “Ranking Relevance in Yahoo Search” won Best Paper Award at KDD 2016.

2016-07-21 One paper entitled “Learning to rewrite queries” was accepted into CIKM 2016.

2016-05-31 Dawei was invited to the program committee of CIKM 2016

2016-05-11 Two papers entitled “Ranking Relevance in Yahoo Search” and “Positive-Unlabeled Learning in Streaming Networks” were accepted into KDD 2016.

2016-04-04 One paper entitled “Timeline Summarization with Publications Life Cycle Models” was accepted into IJCAI 2016.

2016-03-29 Two papers entitled “Leveraging User Interaction Signals for Web Image Search” and “Learning Query and Document Relevance from Web-scale Click Graph” were accepted into SIGIR 2016.

2016-02-25 One paper entitled “Beyond Ranking: Optimizing Whole-Page Presentation” won Best Paper Award at WSDM 2016.

2015-12-08 Dawei presented “Ranking in Yahoo Search Technology” in Yahoo Tech Pulse (Yahoo Tech conference).

2015-12-08 Dawei was invited to the program committee of SIGIR 2016.

2015-11-06 Dawei was invited to the program committee of IJCAI 2016.

2015-10-12 One paper entitled “Beyond Ranking: Optimizing Whole-Page Presentation” was accepted into WSDM 2016.

2015-08-02 Dawei was invited to the program committee of SDM 2016.

2015-07-06 Dawei was invited to the program committee of AAAI 2016.

2015-02-23 One poster paper entitled “Rethink Targeting: Detect ‘Smart Cheating’ in Online Advertising through Causal Inference” was accepted into WWW 2015.

2015-01-11 One paper entitled “Consistent Collective Matrix Completion under Joint Low Rank Structure” was accepted into AISTATS2015.

2015-01-04 Dawei received Yahoo! Invention Award in recognition of the filed Yahoo! patent application entitled “Measureing Complex Online Strtegy Effectiveness“.

2014-12-28 Dawei was invited to the program committee of SIGIR 2015.

2014-11-09 One paper entitled “Causal Inference via Sparse Additive Models with Application to Online Advertising” was accepted into AAAI 2015.

2014-10-23 One paper entitled “Robust Tree-based Causal Inference for Complex Ad Effectiveness Analysis” was accepted into WSDM 2015.

2014-07-30 Dawei will co-organize the 2nd vertical search relevance workshop at WSDM 2015.

2014-07-30 Dawei was invited to the program committee of SDM 2015.

2014-06-10 One paper entitled “Recommendations in Academia: a Joint Multi-Relational Model” was accepted into ASONAM 2014.

2014-02-26 Dawei presented “Exploiting Contextual Factors for Click Modeling in Sponsored Search” and “Estimating Ad Group Performance in Sponsored Search” in WSDM 2014.

2013-12-18 Dawei was invited to the program committee of SIGIR 2014.

2013-11-25 Two papers entitled “Exploiting Contextual Factors for Click Modeling in Sponsored Search” and “Estimating Ad Group Performance in Sponsored Search” were accepted into WSDM 2014.

2013-10-08 Dawei was invited to the program committee of AAAI 2014.

2013-08-05 Dawei Yin joined Yahoo! Labs as  Research Scientist.

2013-07-24 Dawei Yin successfully defended his dissertation entitled Prediction and Recommendation in Online Media.

2013-07-11 Dawei gave a talk about “Prediction and Recommendation in Online Media” at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, Shenzhen, China.

2013-05-18 Dawei was invited to the program committee of WSDM 2014.

2013-05-08 Dawei gave a talk about “Prediction and Recommendation in Online Media” at Yahoo! Labs, Sunnyvale, CA.

2013-04-22 Dawei gave a talk about “Prediction and Optimization in Online Advertising” at Thomson Reuters, New York, NY.

2013-04-17 Dawei gave a talk about “Prediction and Optimization in Online Advertising” at Samsung Research America, San Jose, CA.

2013-02-11 Our paper entitled “Convex Collective Matrix Factorization” was accepted in  AISTATS 2013.

2012-02-08 Dawei presented our paper  on “Connecting Comments and Tags: Improved Modeling of Social Tagging Systems ” at WSDM 2013.

2012-11-30     Two US patents entitled “Probabilistic Relational Data Analysis” and “Convex Collective Matrix Factorization” were filed.

2012-11-29  Our paper entitled “Connecting Comments and Tags: Improved Modeling of Social Tagging Systems ” was accepted in WSDM 2013.