Hello!! I am Amit Goyal, a final year PhD student in Department of Computer Science
in University of British Columbia
(UBC). My supervisor is Dr.
Laks V. S. Lakshmanan. I completed my Bachelors in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay (IITB). My PhD thesis focus on understanding
Influence propagation in Social Networks and how it can be
leveraged in various applications like Viral Marketing.
Research Interests:
1. Social Influence and its Applications
2. Recommender Systems
3. Social Networks Analysis
4. Data Mining
4. Algorithms
Publications:
Amit Goyal, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, RecMax: Exploiting Recommender Systems for Fun and Profit. In KDD, 2012. (Paper, Presentation, Poster)
Smriti Bhagat, Amit Goyal, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Maximizing Product Adoption in Social Networks. In WSDM 2012. (Paper, Presentation)
Amit Goyal, Francesco Bonchi, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, A Data-Based approach to Social Influence Maximization. In PVLDB 2012. (Paper, Presentation, Source Code)
Amit Goyal, Wei Lu, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Simpath: An Efficient Algorithm for Influence Maximization under the Linear Threshold Model. In ICDM 2011. (Paper, Presentation, Source Code)
Amit Goyal, Wei Lu, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, CELF++: Optimizing the Greedy Algorithm for Influence Maximization in Social Networks. In WWW 2011 (Companion Volume). (Paper, Source Code)
Amit Goyal, Francesco Bonchi, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Learning Influence Probabilities in Social Networks. In Proc. of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2010, New York City, 2010 (Paper, Presentation)
Amit Goyal, Francesco Bonchi, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Discovering Leaders from Community Actions. In Proc. of the 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2008, Napa Valley, California, 2008 (Paper, Presentation)
Amit Goyal, Francesco Bonchi, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, On Minimizing Budget and Time in Influence Propagation over Social Networks. In Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2012. (Paper)
Amit Goyal, Francesco Bonchi, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Byung-Won On, Gurumine: a Pattern Mining System for Discovering Leaders and Tribes. In Proc. of the 25th Intl. Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2009, Shanghai, China, 2009 (Demo Paper) (PDF)
Other
Interests/Activities:
1. Procrastination and Sleeping :)
2. Religion, Theology and Metaphysics
3. Reading ancient Indian literature like Upanishads and Puranas
4. Palmistry
5. Cricket, TT, carrom, chess, badminton, cards
Email:
goyal4u[AT]gmail[DOT]com, goyal[AT]cs[DOT]ubc[DOT]ca
Phone no:
778-558-0733. US callers can also call me at 408-728-6445. This US
number is mapped to my cell phone (Thanks to grandcentral.com)