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A subset of Keynotes & Invited Talks:

  • Toward an Open Map of the World: Can Knowledge Graphs Help? Keynote, 9th Joint Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences \& Systems (GRADES) and Network Data Analytics (NDA), co-located with ACM SIGMOD, Bengaluru, India, June 2026.
  • On A Quest for Combating Filter Bubbles and Misinformation. Keynote, ACM SIGMOD 2022.
  • What can Networks Do for Campaigns? Keynote, SIAM Int. Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2019), Calgary, May 2019.
  • Some Optimization Problems for Competitive Influence Maximization, MIT Sloan Marketing Semina/, May 2017.
  • A Computational Perspective of Information Propagation in Social Networks, Invited Section on Statistical Computing, Joint Statistical Meeting, American Statistics Association, July-August, Baltimore, MD, 2017.
  • Social Network Analytics: Beyond the Obvious, Keynote, VLDB Workshop on Big-Graphs Online Querying, Kohala Coast, Hawaii, August 2015.
  • Mobility and Social Networks. NSF Workshop on Mobility and Social Networks in the Cloud, Arlington, VA, February 2012.
  • Recommender Systems Revisited: From Items to Transactions, Keynote, Third International Workshop on "Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases" (PersDB 2009), August 2009.
  • To Give or not to Give: Just How Safe is Your Data?, Keynote at SEBD 2005, Italian National Database Conference, Bressanone-Brixen, Italy, June 2005.
  • Is the (Semantic) Web a Database?, 7th Int. Database Engineering and Application Symposium (IDEAS'03), Hong Kong, July 2003.