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Date: Friday, April 4, 2014
Location: Northwest Building Room B-101, 52 Oxford Street
Speaker: Yaron Singer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvard SEAS
Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm. Talk, 1:00pm
Title: Information Diffusion Through Adaptive Seeding
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Abstract: In recent years social networking platforms have developed into extraordinary
channels for spreading and consuming information. Along with the rise of such
infrastructure, there is continuous progress on techniques for spreading information
effectively through influential users. In this talk we will introduce a new paradigm for
optimizing information diffusion processes, called Adaptive Seeding. The framework is
designed to leverage a remarkable phenomenon in social networks, related to the
"friendship paradox" (or "your friends have more friends than you").
We will discuss this structural phenomenon and present key algorithmic ideas and
fundamental challenges of Adaptive Seeding.
Speaker bio: Yaron Singer is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard
University. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Google Research and obtained
his PhD from UC Berkeley, where he was advised by Christos Papadimitriou. He is the
recipient of the 2012 Best Student Paper Award at the ACM conference on Web Search and
Data Mining (WSDM), the 2010 Facebook Fellowship, the 2009 Microsoft Research Fellowship,
and several entrepreneurial awards for work on advertising in social networks.
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