New work with Jan Overgoor and George Supaniratisai, "Scaling Choice Models of Relational Social Data", to appear at KDD. In a nutshell, it takes a detailed look at negative sampling for choice models, as applied to large network datasets. arxiv.org/abs/2006.10003 🧵1/n

#FirstTweet ! Currently tuned into the SIAM Workshop for Network Science (ns20.cs.cornell.edu). I'll be presenting tomorrow at 11:30AM PST on my recent work with Johan Ugander, which you can check out here! arxiv.org/abs/2007.03131

New work with Amel Awadelkarim, "Prioritized Restreaming Algorithms for Balanced Graph Partitioning", to appear at KDD! We deconstruct recent synchronous methods and restreaming methods in a joint taxonomy and extract the best of both worlds. arxiv.org/abs/2007.03131 🧵 1/n

really excellent thread for anyone who's scarred from watching The Social Dilemma on Netflix. don't lose sight of the root issue! #smashcapitalism 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

fun fact: this website was started by one of my best friends while he was an undergraduate at Brown University. check it out!! hiii Daniel Kunin 👋🏾😎

Fantastic lively panel happening right now at WHMD on human decisions: neurips.cc/virtual/2021/w…. If you miss it you can watch the recording later

I'm teaching "Networks" at Stanford again this quarter, my 7th run of the course with 100+ students, following the excellent Easley & Kleinberg textbook (and mega-class at Cornell!). Always a thrill. If you teach a related class, here's an awesome lecture trick… 🧵 1/

[Please RT] I’m recruiting PhD students to start Fall’23 at University of Washington! I’m looking for students passionate about using computational methods to study how social platforms can be reimagined to enable better conversations, bridge political divides, and reduce the spread of misinfo. >>

Building this The Pudding piece has made me feel: creative 🎨, challenged 🧗🏽‍♀️, irritated 😖, overwhelmed 😓, connected 🤗, and above all, proud 💖. It's a personal story about discovering and visualizing the rich emotional world that exists in all of us. pudding.cool/2022/12/emotio…

So proud of you, Coup! Can’t wait to tune into this!! 🦟🌡🌎

Excited to be presenting at SIGKDD 2025 next week on my recent work, Rank-heterogeneous Preference Models for School Choice! Check out my promotional video below - if it get's the most views, I'll win the Audience Appreciation Award and a cash prize! 😇🙏🏾 youtube.com/watch?v=UGoefF…!

📢 "Rank-heterogeneous Preference Models for School Choice" by Amel Awadelkarim, Arjun Seshadri, Itai Ashlagi & Irene Lo. KDD'23 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2306.01801 Summary video: youtube.com/watch?v=UGoefF… Gist: choice models of ranking use the same model at all positions. Can do better! 🧵