Talks & Tutorials

Keynotes & Invited Talks

• From Sight to Insight: Visual Memory for Smarter Assistants Slides Keynote at PAKDD, Hong Kong, China, June 2026
  Keynote at Sigmod DEEM Workshop, Bangalore, India, June 2026
  Keynote at CHIIR, Seattle, WA, March 2026
  Keynote at KDD Workshop on GenAI for Recommender Systems and Personalization (GenAIRecP), Toronto, Canada, August 2025
• Towards Factual Information with Dual Neural Knowledge Slides Distinguished Lecture in HKU School of Computing and Data Science, Hong Kong, China, October 2025
  Keynote at RISE (Responsibility, Inclusion, Safety, and Ethics) AI Conference, Notre Dame, Indiana, October 2025
  Invited talk at Berkeley CS DSF Seminar Series, Berkeley, CA, September 2025
  Keynote at KDD Workshop on Structured Knowledge for LLMs (SKnowLLM), Toronto, Canada, August 2025
  Keynote at KDD Workshop on ML on Graphs in the Era of GenAI (MLoG), Toronto, Canada, August 2025
• Next-Generation Intelligent Assistants for Wearable Devices Slides-1 Slides-2 Invited talk at UPenn Database Group, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2024
  KDD Applied Data Science (ADS) Invited Talk, Barcelona, Spain, August 2024
  Keynote at WSDM Workshop on LLMs for Individuals, Groups, and Society (LLM-IGS), Merida, Mexico, March 2024
  Keynote at KDD Workshop on Multimodal Learning, Long Beach, CA, August 2023
  Invited talk at Stanford Data Science Affiliates Program—Graph Learning Workshop, Palo Alto, CA, September 2022
  Keynote at RecSys Knowledge-Aware Recommender System (KaRS) Workshop, Seattle, WA, September 2022
  Invited talk at ML Lab of Danish Business Authority, Virtual, September 2022
  Invited talk at NAACL Workshop on Structured and Unstructured Knowledge Integrating (SUKI), Seattle, WA, July 2022
  Keynote at SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Online, April 2022
  Invited talk at Trustworthy Data Science and AI Seminar Series, Simon Fraser University, April 2022

Previous Talks

• Where Are We in the Journey to a Knowledgeable Assistant? Slides CODS-COMAD'2024 Keynote
  WISE'2024 Keynote
  Oracle Cloud AI'2024 Invited talk
  ACL KaLLM'2024 Keynote
  Sigmod'2024 Keynote
  WSDM Industry Day'2024 Keynote
  KDD'2023 Workshop on Knowledge Augmented Methods for NLP Keynote
• Generations of Knowledge Graphs: The Crazy Ideas and the Business Impact Slides WSDM ISIR-eComm'2024 Invited talk
  Semantics Conference'2023 Keynote
  VLDB'2023 Women in Database Research Award talk
  North East Database Day'2023 Keynote
  EGC'2023 Keynote
• Zero to One Billion: The Path to a Rich Product Knowledge Graph Slides Northwest DB Society Annual Meeting 2022 Keynote
  AAAI DGL'2022 Keynote
  WSDM MLoG'2022 Keynote
  AKBC Unstructured/Structured KBs Workshop 2021 Keynote
  SigKDD DQAML'2021 Keynote
  SigIR'2021 Industry Keynote
  ESWC'2021 Keynote
  Lecture at Stanford CS520 2021
• Ceres: Harvesting Knowledge from the Semi-Structured Web Slides-1 Slides-2 SigKDD WIT'2021 Invited talk
  TAC-KBP'2021 Keynote
  UCSB NLP Seminar Invited talk 2021
  CIKM'2020 Keynote
  AKBC'2020 Invited talk
  Northwest DB Society Annual Meeting 2020 Invited talk
  SigKDD Workshop on Truth Discovery and Fact Checking 2019 Keynote
  SigIR EARS'2019 Keynote
  Sigmod'2019 Amsterdam Data Science Invited talk
  ICML LLD'2019 Invited talk
  SigKDD MLG'2018 Keynote
• Self-Driving Product Understanding for Thousands of Categories Slides PHKG'2021 Keynote
  DeMaL'2021 Keynote
  NorthEast Univ. DATA Lab Speaker Series 2020
  KG & E-Commerce Workshop 2020 Keynote
  KR2ML'2019 Invited talk
• Knowledge Graph and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy Slides Class Notes Lecture at Stanford CS520, 2020
• Building a Broad Knowledge Graph for Products Slides ICDE'19 Keynote
  SigIR eCOM'19 Keynote
  AI NEXTCon Seattle'2019 Invited talk
  EMNLP FEVER Workshop'2019 Invited talk
  Duke CS Colloquium 2018
  Berkeley RISE Seminar 2018
  SigKDD ADS Invited talk 2018
  VLDB PhD Workshop'2018 Keynote
• Challenges and Innovations in Building a Product Knowledge Graph Slides GRADES'18 Keynote
  BIG'18 Invited talk
  MoDas'18 Invited talk
  KBCOM'18 Invited talk
  Northwest DB Day'18 Invited talk
  AKBC'17 Invited talk
• Leaving No Valuable Data Behind: The Crazy Ideas and the Business Slides AMW'17 Keynote
  Machine Learning Conference Seattle'17 Invited talk
  Distinguished Speaker Series: Oxford Women in CS 2017
  Methods to Manage Heterogeneous Big Data and Polystore Databases Workshop 2016 Keynote
  VLDB Early Career Research Contribution Award talk 2016
• How Far Are We from Collecting the Knowledge in the World Slides WebDB'16 Keynote
  ICWE'16 Keynote
• Knowledge Fusion and Knowledge-Based Trust Slides Quora Invited talk'15
  Stanford Computer Systems Colloquium (EE380)'15 Invited talk
  NorCal DB Day'15
• From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion Slides WISA'14 Keynote
  APWeb'14 Tutorial
  WACCK'14 Keynote
  DEOS'14 Keynote
• Truth Finding on the Deep Web Slides WAIM'13 Distinguished Young Lecturer Series
  DESWEB'13 Keynote
• Linking Records w. Value Diversity Slides
• Develop Your Big Ideas Slides Sigmod New-Researcher Symposium'11
• Large-Scale Copy Detection Slides Tutorial at DASFAA'12
  ICDE'12
  Sigmod'11
• Solomon: Seeking the Truth Via Copying Detection Slides Video BEWEB'11 Invited talk
  QDB'10 Keynote
• Sailing the Information Ocean with Awareness of Currents: Discovery and Application of Source Dependence Slides Invited talk at Person Validation and Entity Resolution Conference'11 (US Census Bureau)
  ISAT "What's Data Worth?" Workshop'10
  NDBC'09
  SKG'09
• Data Fusion — Resolving Data Conflicts for Integration Slides Tutorial at VLDB'09
  NDBC'09
• Data Integration with Uncertainty Slides
• Managing a Space of Heterogeneous Data Slides
• Semex: A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration Slides