Spring 2012

   Participants: Liangjie Hong, Dawei Yin, Zaihan Yang, Yan Fu, Xiannong Meng, Na Dai, Jennifer Bayzick
   Advisor: Prof. Brian D. Davison
   Time: Every Monday 1:30PM - 2:30PM

Schedule

   January
      Topic models and their variants
        -- Discussion Leader: Liangjie Hong
      Conference coverage: NIPS 2011 & ICDM 2011
         -- Discussion Leader: Liangjie Hong

   February
      Probabilistic user modeling
         -- Discussion Leader: Zaihan Yang
      Conference coverage: WSDM 2012
         -- Discussion Leader: Liangjie Hong

   March

   April

   May

Topic Pool

  1. Collaborative filtering models
  2. Learning to rank
  3. Computational advertising
  4. Community detection models
  5. Statistical network models
  6. PageRank, HITS and their variants
  7. Semi-supervised learning
  8. Time-series models