Tutorials, Talks and Panels, Workshops

Tutorials

IEEE BigData 2026 Tutorial on "Data Evolution: Continuous Feedback for Recursive Self-Improving AI", December 14-17, Phoenix, AZ.
ACM SIGSPATIAL 20266 Tutorial on "Spatio-Causal Modeling and Applications", November 4, 2026. Riverside, CA.
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

"Interdisciplinary Intelligence: AI, Data, and Social Sciences in Dialogue", Keynote, IEEE ICKG 2026, November 12, 2026. Shenyang, China.
"The Role of Domain Expertise in the Era of GenAI - A Discussion", Invited Talk, NSF PIRE Bootcamp, November 3, 2026. Tempe, AZ
"Interdisciplinary Intelligence: AI, Data, and Social Sciences in Dialogue", Keynote, IEEE DSAA 2026, October 8, 2026. New Delhi, India.
AI Agents: How autonomous should they be?, Panelist, IEEE DSAA 2026, October 8, 2026. New Delhi, India.
"Interdisciplinary Intelligence: AI, Data, and Social Sciences in Dialogue", Keynote, ASONAM, August 25, 2026. Rabat, Morocco.
The Impact of AI-driven Social Networks and Media Platforms on Society and Individuals. Panelist, ASONAM, August 26, 2026. Rabat, Morocco.
"Interdisciplinary Intelligence: AI, Data, and Social Sciences in Dialogue", Keynote, International Conference on Large Language Models and Data Science Applications in the Humanities and Social Sciences. July 7, 2026, Hong Kong, China.
“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

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