Tyler Derr - News Before Joining Vanderbilt University in Fall 2020

8/2020: I joined Vanderbilt University and established the Network and Data Science (NDS) Lab

7/2020: I successfully defended my PhD Dissertation ‘‘Network Analysis with Negative Links’’!

7/2020: Invited to serve as a reviewer for NeurIPS2020.

6/2020: Preprint ‘‘Self-supervised Learning on Graphs: Deep Insights and New Directions’’

6/2020: Nominated Graduate Panelist for MSU's Office of Undergraduate Research and Creativite Activity's ‘‘Grad Chat’’ summer series

6/2020: Awarded free registration and selected as a volunteer for ICML2020

6/2020: Invited to serve as reviewer for Nature Communications Physics

5/2020: Preprint ‘‘Chat as Expected: Manipulating Black-box Neural Dialogue Models’’

5/2020: Invited to serve as PC member for DLG@KDD2020

5/2020: Invited to serve as PC member for IEEE IRI2020

5/2020: Our tutorial ‘‘Graph Neural Networks: Foundations, Models, and Applications’’ has been accepted at KDD2020

5/2020: Preprint ‘‘Attacking Black-box Recommendations via Copying Cross-domain User Profiles’’

5/2020: Invited to serve as PC member for ICWSM2021

5/2020: Our paper ‘‘Online Academic Course Performance Prediction using Relational Graph Convolutional Neural Network’’ is accepted at EDM2020 (Twitter)

4/2020: Our paper ‘‘Towards Improving Sample Representativeness of Teachers on Online Social Media: A Case Study on Pinterest’’ is accepted at AIED2020 (Twitter)

4/2020: Our WIP paper ‘‘Characterizing Teacher Connections in Online Social Media: A Case Study on Pinterest’’ is accepted at L@S2020

4/2020: Invited to serve as PC member for DSHealth@KDD2020

4/2020: Invited to serve as PC member for IEEE BigData2020

3/2020: Invited to serve as reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

2/2020: Invited to serve as reviewer for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI)

2/2020: Our paper ‘‘Link and Interaction Polarity Predictions in Signed Networks’’ is accepted by Springer's Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM)

2/2020: Media coverage in ICER Student Highlights article on my work ‘‘Predicting Friends and Foes Online with Deep Learning Models’’

2/2020: Presented ‘‘Analyzing Negative Relations in Social Media’’ in the Graduate Academic Conference at MSU

1/2020: Our paper ‘‘ROSE: Role-based Signed Network Embedding’’ is accepted by The Web Conference 2020

1/2020: Radio show interview with Sci-Files about my research

1/2020: Presenting ‘‘Network Analysis with Negative Links’’ in the MSU CSE Graduate Student Seminar Series

1/2020: Invited to serve as PC member for CIKM2020

12/2019: Preprint ‘‘Characterizing the Decision Boundary of Deep Neural Networks’’

12/2019: Our paper ‘‘A Deep Model for Predicting Online Course Performance’’ is accepted at the AI4EDU@AAAI2020 workshop

12/2019: Invited to serve as PC member for WebSci2020

12/2019: Invited to serve as PC member for IJCAI2020

12/2019: Awarded WSDM2020 Student Travel Award from SIGIR

11/2019: Our paper ‘‘Network Analysis with Negative Links’’ is accepted by WSDM2020 Doctoral Consortium

11/2019: Invited to serve as PC member for DLGMA@AAAI2020

11/2019: Invited to serve as session chair for the ‘‘Network Embedding I’’ research track at CIKM2019

10/2019: Our paper ‘‘Epidemic Graph Convolutional Network’’ is accepted by WSDM2020

10/2019: Awarded the COGS Professional Development Award with fellowship funding from MSU

10/2019: Awarded the COGS Conference Award with fellowship funding from MSU

10/2019: Invited to represent the entire College of Engineering in MSU's Teacher-Scholar Award selction committee

10/2019: Invited to serve as PC member for NMLA@WorldCIST2020

10/2019: Poster Presenation at the Michigan AI Symposium - ‘‘Network Analysis with Negative Links’’

9/2019: Media coverage in The Register for ‘‘Say What I Want: Towards the Dark Side of Neural Dialogue Models’’ (Twitter)

9/2019: Preprint Say What I Want: Towards the Dark Side of Neural Dialogue Models (Twitter)

9/2019: Awarded CIKM2019 Student Travel Award from SIGIR

8/2019: Our paper “Balance in Signed Bipartite Networks” is accepted by CIKM2019 (Twitter)

8/2019: Invited to serve as session chair for both the ‘‘Network Embedding’’ and ‘‘Network Algorithms’’ research tracks at ASONAM2019

8/2019: Invited to serve as PC member for GTA3@BigData2019

7/2019: Invited to serve as PC member for AAAI2020

7/2019: Awarded the MSU Engineering Graduate Leadership Fellowship

6/2019: Preprint Attacking Graph Convolutional Networks via Rewiring

6/2019: Our paper “Multi-Factor Congressional Vote Prediction” is accepted by ASONAM2019

6/2019: Won a Best Revewier Award at ICWSM2019 (Twitter)

6/2019: Invited to serve as PC member for DSHealth@KDD2019

6/2019: Awarded the MSU Education Opportunity Fellowship

5/2019: Started my internship at HRL Laboratories working with Dr. Jiejun Xu and Dr. Kang-Yu (Connie) Ni

5/2019: Won Best Student Poster Award at SDM2019 (Twitter)

5/2019: Our paper “Deep Adversarial Social Recommendation” is accepted by IJCAI2019 (Twitter)

5/2019: Invited to serve as PC member for ICWSM2020

5/2019: Invited to serve as PC member for CIKM2019

5/2019: Invited to serve as PC member for ICANN2019

4/2019: Workshop co-organizer as Publicity Chair for “Deep Graph Learning: Methodologies and Applications” DGLMA’19 @ IEEE BigData

4/2019: Our workshop is accepted by IEEE BigData 2019

4/2019: Volunteered at MSU Science Festival for K-5 students (Twitter)

3/2019: Awarded SDM2019 Student Travel Award with funds from SIAM

3/2019: SDM2019 Doctoral Forum accepted ‘‘Network Analysis with Negative Links’’

3/2019: My advisor Dr. Jiliang Tang was awarded the NSF CAREER award based on my research for signed networks (Details, Twitter)

3/2019: Invited to serve as PC member for IEEE BigData2019

3/2019: Activity leader for the Girls Math & Science Day at MSU (Twitter)

2/2019: I joined the Teachers in Social Media Project at Michigan State University focused on harnessing online social media data for educational research

2/2019: Preprint Deep Adversarial Network Alignment

2/2019: Won “People's Choice” award in the Graduate Academic Conference 3 Minute Thesis Competition at MSU (Twitter)

1/2019: Introduced artificial intelligence to K-12 students at local elementary/middle school (Twitter)

Fall 2018: Invited to serve as session chair for the ICDM2018 PhD Forum.

Fall 2018: Awarded ICDM2018 Student Travel Award

Fall 2018: Invited to serve as PC member for ICWSM2019

Fall 2018: Invited to serve as PC member for IEEE BigData2018

Fall 2018: ICDM2018 PhD Forum accepted ‘‘Congressional Vote Analysis using Signed Networks’’

Fall 2018: Won 2nd prize for my presentation at the Southeast Michigan Postdoctoral Symposium from the University of Michigan Postdoctoral Association

Fall 2018: Awarded CIKM2018 Student Travel Award from SIGIR

Summer 2018: Our paper ‘‘Signed Graph Convolutional Network’’ is accepted by ICDM2018 (preprint here and code here)

Summer 2018: Our paper ‘‘Signed Network Modeling Based on Structural Balance Theory’’ is accepted by CIKM2018 (preprint here)

Summer 2018: Our paper ‘‘Opinions Power Opinions: Joint Link and Interaction Polarity Predictions in Signed Networks’’ is accepted by ASONAM2018
with an extended version found here

Summer 2018: Our paper ‘‘Relevance Measurements in Online Signed Social Networks’’ is accepted by MLG2018

Summer 2018: Invited to serve as session chair for both the ‘‘Ranking & Centrality’’ and ‘‘Modeling II’’ research tracks at ASONAM2018

Summer 2018: Invited as a reviewer for ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)

Summer 2018: Awarded MSU CSE Summer Fellowship 2018

Fall 2017: Preprint Signed Node Relevance Measurements.

Summer 2017: Our paper ‘‘Understanding and Predicting Weight Loss with Mobile Social Networking Data’’ is accepted by CIKM2017

Summer 2017: Awarded KDD2017 Student Travel Award

Summer 2017: Awarded MSU CSE Summer Fellowship 2017

Spring 2017: Poster Presentation at the 2017 MSU Graduate Research Symposium
Title: Opinions Power Opinions: Joint Link and Interaction Polarity Prediction in Signed Networks

Spring 2017: Awarded SDM2017 Student Travel Award from SIAM

Spring 2017: SDM2017 Doctoral Forum accepted ‘‘Opinions Power Opinions: Joint Link and Interaction Polarity Predictions in Signed Networks’’

Spring 2017: Invited lecture for the Department of Education at MSU on ‘‘Signed Network Analysis: Community Detection & Link Prediction’’

Spring 2017: Invited lecture for the CSE881 Data Mining course at MSU on ‘‘Similarity Search’’

Spring 2017: I joined the Data Science and Engineering (DSE) Lab