#kdd2019

By Kim Capps-Tanaka, Chief of Staff, Yahoo Research

KDD 2019 in Anchorage, Alaska, has been fantastic so far and yesterday was especially exciting as we won AdKDD’s Runner-Up Best Paper Award for “Time-Aware Prospective Modeling of Users for Online Display Advertising”.

Congratulations to Djordje Gligorijevic (Research Scientist), Jelena Gligorijevic (Research Scientist) and Aaron Flores (Sr. Director)! 

Congrats Djordje Gligorijevic, Jelena Gligorijevic, and Aaron Flores for receiving the #AdKDD Runner-Up Best Paper Award for “Time-Aware Prospective Modeling of Users for Online Display Advertising” at #KDD19! #datascience #machinelearning #KDD2019 @kdd_news pic.twitter.com/3cTR2svB6H

— Yahoo Research (@YahooResearch)

August 5, 2019

If you’re at KDD, we’d love to chat with you! Stop by booth #39 or any of the poster sessions below:

“Predicting Different Type of Conversions using Multi-Task Learning”, Junwei Pan, Yizhi Mao, Alfonso Ruiz, Yu Sun, Aaron Flores

Tues, 7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall

“Carousel Ads Optimization in Yahoo Gemini Native”, Oren Somekh, Michal Aharon, Avi Shahar, Assaf Singer, Boris Trayvas, Hadas Vogel, Dobri Dobrev

Tues, 7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall

“Understanding Consumer Journey using Attention-based Recurrent Neural Networks”, Yichao Zhou, Shaunak Mishra, Jelena Gligorijevic, Tarun Bhatia, Narayan Bhamidipati

Tues, 7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall

“Recurrent Neural Networks for Stochastic Control in Real-Time Bidding”, Nicolas Grislain, Nicolas Perrin, Antoine Thabault

Tues, 7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall

* Bold authors denotes Yahoo Researchers

By Kim Capps-Tanaka, Chief of Staff, Yahoo Research

If you’re attending KDD in Anchorage, Alaska, the Yahoo Research team would love to meet you! Send us an email or tweet to discuss research or job opportunities on the team.

In addition to hosting a booth, we’re excited to present papers, posters, and talks. 

Sunday, August 4th

“Modeling and Applications for Temporal Point Processes”, Junchi Yan, Hongteng Xu, Liangda Li

 8am - 12pm, Summit 8-Ground Level, Egan

Monday, August 5th

“Time-Aware Prospective Modeling of Users for Online Display Advertising”, Djordje Gligorijevic, Jelena Gligorijevic, Aaron Flores

8:40am - 9am, Kahtnu 2 - Level 2, Dena’ina

“The Future of Ads”, Brendan Kitts

3pm-3:30pm, Kahtnu 2 - Level 2, Dena’ina

“Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting”, Shaunak Mishra, Jelena Gligorijevic, Narayan Bhamidipati

4:35pm-4:55pm, Kahtnu 2- Level 2, Dena’ina

“Automatic Feature Engineering From Very High Dimensional Event Logs Using Deep Neural Networks”, Kai Hu, Joey Wang, Yong Liu, Datong Chen 

7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall

Tuesday, August 6th

“Predicting Different Type of Conversions using Multi-Task Learning”, Junwei Pan, Yizhi Mao, Alfonso Ruiz, Yu Sun, Aaron Flores

7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall

“Carousel Ads Optimization in Yahoo Gemini Native”, Oren Somekh, Michal Aharon, Avi Shahar, Assaf Singer, Boris Trayvas, Hadas Vogel, Dobri Dobrev

7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall

“Understanding Consumer Journey using Attention-based Recurrent Neural Networks”, Yichao Zhou, Shaunak Mishra, Jelena Gligorijevic, Tarun Bhatia, Narayan Bhamidipati

7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall

“Recurrent Neural Networks for Stochastic Control in Real-Time Bidding”, Nicolas Grislain, Nicolas Perrin, Antoine Thabault

7pm-9:30pm, Section 3 of Idlughet (Eklutna) Exhibit Hall

* Bold authors denotes Yahoo Researchers