Event Schedule
- Date: Apr 30th, 2023
- Time: 9:00 am CDT - 5:00 pm CDT
- Location: AT&T Hotel and Conference Center - Classroom #115 (subject to change; please reconfirm at the venue)
Time | Session | Speaker(s) / Description |
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08:55 AM - 09:00 AM CDT | Intro and Welcome | Organizers |
09:00 AM - 09:45 AM CDT | Keynote Talk # 1 - What can we learn from analyzing streaming music data? | Eva Zangerle |
09:45 AM - 10:00 AM CDT | Accepted Paper # 1. Entity and Event Topic Extraction from Podcast Episode Title and Description Using Entity Linking (Amazon Music) | Christian Siagian and Amina Shabbeer. |
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM CDT | Accepted Paper # 2. MEMER - Multimodal Encoder for Multi-signal Early-stage Recommendations (ShareChat) | Mohit Agarwal, Srijan Saket and Rishabh Mehrotra. |
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM CDT | Accepted Paper # 3. Deep Neural Network with LinUCB: A Contextual Bandit Approach for Personalized Recommendation (Disney Streaming) | Qicai Shi, Feng Xiao, Douglas Pickard, Inga Chen and Liang Chen. |
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CDT | Break | |
11:00 - 11:45 am CDT | Keynote Talk # 2 - Powering Personalized Binge-Watching Recommendations: A Journey of Realtime Multi-Interest Based Retrieval | Jaya Kawale |
11:45 AM - 12:00 noon CDT | Accepted Paper # 4. Improve retrieval of regional titles in streaming services with dense retrieval (Amazon - Prime Video) | Bhargav Upadhyay, Tejas Khairnar and Anup Kotalwar. |
12:00 noon - 12:30 PM CDT | Invited Talk # 1. Deep Downsampling (Netflix) | |
12:30 - 1:30 pm CDT | Lunch Break | |
1:30 - 2:15 pm CDT | Keynote Talk # 3 - Recent Advances in Conversational Recommender Systems | Laurent Charlin |
2:15 - 2:30 pm CDT | Accepted Paper # 5 - A Probabilistic Position Bias Model for Short-Video Feeds (ShareChat) | Olivier Jeunen |
2:30 - 3:00 pm CDT | Invited Talk # 2 | |
3:00 -3:30 pm CDT | Break | |
3:30 - 4:15 pm CDT | Keynote Talk # 4. TBD | Ben Carterette |
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm CDT | Invited Talk - When Hollywood Meets AI: The Use of Machine Learning in Creative Industries | Lan Luo |
4:45 - 5:00 pm CDT | Closing Remarks | Organizers |