Tutorials, Talks and Panels, Workshops
Tutorials
- ACM WSDM 2026 Tutorial on “Explaining the “Unexplainable” Large Language Models”, February 22, 2026. Boise, Idaho.
- IEEE ICDM 2025 Tutorial on “Explaining the ‘Unexplainable’ Large Language Models”, November 14, 2025. Washington DC.
- ACM CIKM 2025 Tutorial on “Generative Models for Synthetic Data: Transforming Data Mining in the GenAI Era“, November 10, 2025. Seoul, South Korea
- ACM KDD 2025 Tutorial on “CuasalBench: Causal learning Research Streamlined”, August 4, 2025, Toronto, Canada
- SBP-BRiMS2024 Tutorial on “Defending against Generative AI Threats in NLP“, September 19, 2024, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA
- ACM KDD 2023 Tutorial on “Socially Responsible Machine Learning: A Causal Perspective“, August 2023, Long Beach, CA
- SIAM SDM 2023 Tutorial on “Data-Efficient Graph Learning“, April 28, 2023 Minneaplis, Minnesota
Talks and Panels
- “Ceaseless Inquiries: Research in depth vs. in breath”, Keynote, ACM WSDM 2026 Doctoral Consortium, February 22, 2026. Boise, Idaho.
- “Social Media Mining, GAI, and Next Frontiers”, Keynote, IEEE ICICIS2025, November 25 – 27, 2025. Cairo, Egypt.
- Panel on AI-Driven Data Mining – Reshaping the Intelligent Future, IEEE ICDM Panel B, November 14, 2025, Washington DC
- “Ceaseless Inquiries: Lessons Learned from Social Media Mining, Keynote, IEEE CogMI, November 13, 2025, Pittsburg, PA
- Panel on From LLMs and Agentic AI to AGI: Paths, Prospects, and Pitfalls, IEEE CogMI, November 13, 2025, Pittsburg, PA
- “Preliminary Discussion on LLM-based Feature Selection”, Keynote, KDD2025 AI4DE: The 1st International Workshop on AI for Data Editing, August 3, 2025, Toronto, Canada
- Panel on AI for Data Editing, AI4DE: The 1st International Workshop on AI for Data Editing, August 3, 2025, Toronto, Canada
- “From Social Media Mining to Generative AI: Ceaseless Inquires”, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 5/15/2025
- “Ceaseless Inquires: From AI to AI – What I learned under Dr. Bekey and what came after”, USC CS Bekey Distinguished Lecture, USC, 4/25/2025
- “From Social Media Mining to Generative AI: Ceaseless Inquires”, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 2/24/2025
- “From Social Media Mining to Generative AI: Ceaseless Inquires”, Macqurie’s Distinguished Seminar, University of Macquarie, Sydney, Australia 2/19/2025
- “From Social Media Mining to Generative AI: Ceaseless Inquires”, Singapore Management University, Singapore 2/3/2025
- “From Social Media Mining to Generative AI: Asking and Solving Challenging Problems”, UMBC Distinguished Speaker, Research Talk organized by IS, February 5, 2025
- “From Social Media Mining to Generative AI: Asking and Answering Challenging Questions”, Science of Security Meeting at ASU, January 30, 2025
- Panel on “AI and Its Social Impact in Higher Education”, Lingnan Global Forum, the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU), DC, January 22, 2025
- Panel on “AI and Disinformation”, CMU AI and Disinformation Summit, Pittsburgh, January 23-24, 2025
- IEEE CIC/CogMI/TPS 2024 Student Mentoring Panel, Conference Program, DC. Oct. 29, 2024
- IEEE CIC/CogMI/TPS 2024 Plenary Panel on How will Artificial intelligence Reshape Scientific Research?, DC, Oct. 28, 2024
- “Social Media Mining – Embracing LLMs and Beyond”, Invited Talk, SCAI Fulton Fellows Training Seminar, Sept 6, 2024
- “Social Media Mining – Embracing LLMs and Beyond”, Keynote, KDD Cup, Barcelona, Spain. August 28, 20 24.
- “Novel Challenges in Social Media Mining – Embracing LLMs”, Keynote, PAKDD2024, Taipei, Taiwan. May 8-10, 2024.
Workshops
- RelKD 2026: The Fourth International Workshop on Resource-Efficient Learning for Knowledge Discovery, SIGKDD 2026
- Workshop on Benchmarking Causal Models (CausalBench26) with ACM WSDM 2026, February 26, 2026 Boise, Idaho
- Workshop on Cybersecurity, AI, and Education, February 16, 2026, George Mason Square, with NSFSFS PI Meeting and Symposium
