
Assistant Professor @VanderbiltU; Network and Data Science Lab @VU_NDS_Lab; Social Network Analysis, Graph Neural Networks, Data Science for Social Good ♻️
Nashville, TN, USA
Joined April 2017
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🎉🏆Excited to share that I've been awarded the NSF CAREER Award for my research in #NetworkAnalytics!
Thanks to everyone who supported me!
@Vanderbilt_CS @VUDataScience @VUEngineering
#NSF #CAREERAward #DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #BigData
engineering.vanderbilt.edu/n…
I hope to see you all next month at #SDM2026!
Thank you, @INNSociety!
I’m honored to receive this award.
Congratulations to Tyler Derr for being the recipient of the 2025 Aharon Katzir Young Investigator Award!✨
This award recognizes exceptionally promising young investigators in the field of #neuralnetworks.
inns.org/awards
#INNS #INNSAWARDS
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There’s still time to apply for the #SDM2026 Doctoral Forum!
Deadline: May 15 (AoE)
Application requires:
Dissertation title & abstract + 2-page CV
🔗 More details: siam.org/conferences-events/…
Great opportunity to present your work and receive feedback from the SDM community.
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🎓 #SDM2026 Doctoral Forum Call is now open!
PhD students working in data mining, data science, and related areas are invited to apply.
📅 Application deadline: May 15, 2026
Submit here: forms.gle/JYZToNoQB7yCmh9p6
Doctoral Forum Co-Chairs: @bijayaAdh @lizhangggg
Excited to be serving as Publicity Co-Chair for #SDM2026. Stay tuned!
🚨 #SDM2026 Call for Papers is now open!
📅 Abstract deadline: April 10, 2026
📅 Full paper deadline: April 17, 2026
📍 Salt Lake City, Utah
Learn more & submit: siam.org/conferences-events/…
Program Co-Chairs: @joycehoUT @anujkarpatne
#DataMining #DataScience #MachineLearning #AI
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📢Call for WSDM 2026 Doctoral Consortium!
Join us in Boise, ID, USA 🇺🇸
🧑🏫Keynote: Dr. Huan Liu
If your research is in Web Search / Data Mining, apply by Nov 3 (AoE)!
Details → wsdm-conference.org/2026/ind…
#datamining #websearch #wsdm
📣Join us at the KDD 2025 MLoG-GenAI Workshop! 📣
🔗 Workshop Website: mlgraphworkshop.github.io/
📆 Date: Monday, August 4, 2025
🕣 Time: 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 Location: Room 715, Toronto Convention Centre
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Advancements in Ligand-Based Virtual Screening through the Synergistic Integration of Graph Neural Networks and Expert-Crafted Descriptors
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
@YunchaoLanceLiu @TylersNetwork @VU_NDS_Lab @MeilerLab
#JCIM Vol65 Issue10 #MachineLearning #DeepLearning
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Call for Papers – MLoG-GenAI Workshop@KDD 2025!
Submission deadline: May 30th.
Workshop Website: mlgraphworkshop.github.io
Submissions of papers currently under review or published in proceedings are also welcome. This workshop is non-archival.
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Networking and Early Career Event is back for #SDM25 —an exciting opportunity for senior PhD students and early career faculty to talk to NSF PMs!
Please reserve your spot and fill in your questions here by April 29: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
#SDM2025 #SIAM #SIAMSDM25
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🚨Call for Papers - 𝗠𝗟𝗼𝗚-𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 @ 𝗞𝗗𝗗 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
Join us at the Workshop on 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘀 in the Era of 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜 co-located with #KDD2025!
🌐Website: mlgraphworkshop.github.io
🌐Submission Link: openreview.net/group?id=KDD.…
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Announcing Neo-1: the world’s most advanced atomistic foundation model, unifying structure prediction and all-atom de novo generation for the first time - to decode and design the structure of life 🧵(1/10)
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Just released: Report of the AAAI 2025 Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research
aaai.org/wp-content/uploads/… @RealAAAI
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Join us for the 2025 Political Networks & Computational Social Science Conference (sites.google.com/view/confpo…), Aug 11-14 at Harvard & Northeastern, with Duncan Watts delivering the keynote. Workshops: Aug 11-12; panels: Aug 13-14. Submit by March 28:
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Calling all researchers! In this transformative era of #AI, the need for #tech innovations that address societal challenges has never been more important.
Submit your abstract & join us at the RISE AI Conference at
@NotreDame!
Learn more here: lucyinstitute.nd.edu/news-ev…
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📅 Important Update: To accommodate the overlap with the KDD paper submission deadline, the KDD workshop proposal deadline has been extended to February 17, 2025 (11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth). Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of KDD 2025! kdd2025.kdd.org/call-for-wor… @kdd_news
🚀 KDD 2025 is now accepting workshop proposals!
🗓️ Deadline for Submission: Feb 10th, 2025
(Note: This is 3 weeks earlier than usual—plan ahead!)
📖 Full Call for Workshop Proposals: kdd2025.kdd.org/call-for-wor…
Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the future of data science!
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📣 📣 The #sigir2025 LiveRAG Challenge is open at:
sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/live-…
Prizes:
- First Prize: $5000
- Second Prize: $3000
- Third Prize: $2000
Deadlines:
- Application submission deadline: February 24, 2025
More info? Ask [email protected].
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🚨 #IC2S2’25 Call for Abstract deadline is just around the corner—Feb 24, 2025
Submit your abstract now: ic2s2-2025.org/submit-abstra… and join us in Norrköping, Sweden.
Tutorials announcement coming soon!
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🚀 New Survey Alert! 🚀
Excited to share our latest survey on Trustworthy Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Large Language Models (LLMs)! 🎉
With the increasing adoption of RAG in AI applications—ranging from medical question answering to legal document analysis—ensuring trustworthiness has become a critical challenge. In this survey, we provide:
✅ A comprehensive roadmap for developing trustworthy RAG systems
✅ A structured discussion on six key pillars: Reliability, Privacy, Safety, Fairness, Explainability, and Accountability
✅ A deep dive into existing challenges, methods, and open problems
✅ A review of evaluation metrics and future research directions
This work is a collaboration with Zheyuan (Frank) Liu, Leyao Wang, Yongjia LEI, Yuying Zhao, Xueqi Cheng, Qingkai Zeng, Xin Luna Dong, Yinglong Xia, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Mehrab Tanjim, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Xiaorui Liu, Wenqi Fan, Erik Blasch, Yu Wang, Meng Jiang, and Tyler Derr. Huge thanks to my co-authors and advisors for their insights!
📄 Preprint: lnkd.in/dEaWGFTa
🔍 GitHub Reading List: lnkd.in/dXavPb2i
We hope this survey serves as a valuable resource for the community! Looking forward to feedback and discussions. Let’s push forward towards more trustworthy AI!
The call for Doctoral Forum at SDM 2025 is now open!
We welcome your submissions by March 2nd docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
More details at siam.org/conferences-events/…


























