Aditya Pal

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
I am a 4th year Ph.D. student at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities working with Prof. Joseph A. Konstan. My research interests lie in data mining, machine learning and social network analysis. I am also interested in working in Human-computer interaction, collaborative information filtering, online communities.

Research Experience

Publications

  1. Aditya Pal, Vibhor Rastogi, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Philip Bohannon. Information Integration Over Time in Unreliable and Uncertain Environments. In 21st ACM International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2012), Lyon, France. (acceptance rate: 12%)

  2. Aditya Pal, Max Harper, Joseph A. Konstan. Exploring Question Selection Bias to Identify Experts and Potential Experts in CQA. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS 2012).

  3. Aditya Pal, Jaya Kawale, Rob Fatland. Tracking Spatio-Temporal Diffusion in Climate Data. In 12th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2012), Anaheim, USA. (equal contribution by the first two authors). (acceptance rate: 27%)

  4. Aditya Pal, James Margatan, Joseph A. Konstan. Question Temporality: Identification and Uses. In ACM International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2012), Seattle, USA. (acceptance rate: top 10%)

  5. Rosta Farzan, Robert E. Kraut, Aditya Pal, Joseph A. Konstan. Socializing Volunteers in an Online Community: A Field Experiment. In ACM International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2012), Seattle, USA. (acceptance rate: 39%)

  6. Aditya Pal, Rosta Farzan, Joseph A. Konstan, Robert E. Kraut. Early Detection of Potential Experts in Question Answering Communities. In 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain. (acceptance rate: 20%) Best Student Paper

  7. Aditya Pal, Scott Counts. What's in a @name? How Name Value Biases Judgment of Microblog Authors. In 5th AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011), Barcelona, Spain. (acceptance rate: 11% for oral presentation)

  8. Aditya Pal, Jaya Kawale. Connecting Mutually Influencing Bloggers. In 5th AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011), Barcelona, Spain.

  9. Aditya Pal, Scott Counts. Identifying Topical Authorities in Microblogs. In 4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2011), Hong Kong. (acceptance rate: 8.6% for oral presentation) Best Paper Nominee

  10. Aditya Pal, Joseph A. Konstan. Expert Identification in Community Question Answering: Exploring Question Selection Bias. In 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010), Toronto, Canada. (acceptance rate: 17.9%)

  11. Jaya Kawale, Aditya Pal. Churn Prediction in MMORPGs: A Social Influence Based Approach. In 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2009), Vancouver, Canada. (acceptance rate: 20%)

  12. Aditya Pal, Jaya Kawale. Leveraging Query Associations in Federated Search. In Workshop on Aggregated Search, ACM SIGIR 2008, Singapore.

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