Publications (Google Scholar)

Thesis

• Structure and Dynamics of Diffusion Networks [bibtex]
  Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, May 2013.

Journal Papers

Networks:

• Uncovering the Structure and Temporal Dynamics of Information Propagation [Website] [Cambridge Site]
  (with J. Leskovec, D. Balduzzi and B. Schoelkopf), Network Science, April 2014.

• Inferring Networks of Diffusion and Influence [arXiv] [Slides] [Website] [bibtex]
  (with J. Leskovec and A. Krause), ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), February 2012.

BMI:

• Closing the Sensorimotor Loop: Haptic Feedback Helps Decoding of Motor Imagery (Full Paper) [bibtex]
  (with J. Peters, J. Hill, B. Schoelkopf, A. Gharabaghi and M. Grosse-Wentrup), Journal of Neural Engineering, April 2011.

Conference Papers

Networks:

• Shaping Social Activity by Incentivizing Users (Full paper) [arXiv] [bibtex]
  (with M. Farajtabar, N. Du, I. Valera, H. Zha and L. Song), Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Montreal (Canada), December 2014.

• Finding Good Cascade Sampling Processes for the Network Inference Problem (Open Problem)
  (with L. Song and B. Schoelkopf) 2014 Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), Barcelona (Spain), June 2014.

• Estimating Diffusion Network Structures: Recovery Conditions, Sample Complexity & Soft-thresholding Algorithm (Full paper) [Appendix] [bibtex]
  (with H. Daneshmand, L. Song and B. Schoelkopf) 31th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Beijing (China), June 2014. Recommended to JMLR fast track (18 out of 1260+)

• Quantifying Information Overload in Social Media and its Impact on Social Contagions (Full paper, plenary session) [arXiv] [bibtex]
  (with K. Gummadi and B. Schoelkopf), Eighth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Ann Arbor (MI), June 2014.

• Scalable Influence Estimation in Continuous-Time Diffusion Networks (Full paper, full oral presentation) [Appendix] [arXiv] [Website] [bibtex]
  (with N. Du, L. Song and H. Zha), Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), South Lake Tahoe (CA), December 2013. Outstanding Paper Award

• Modeling Information Propagation with Survival Theory (Full paper, long oral presentation) [arXiv] [bibtex]
  (with J. Leskovec and B. Schoelkopf), 30th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2013, Atlanta (GA), June 2013.

• Structure and Dynamics of Information Pathways in On-line Media (Full paper, plenary session) [arXiv] [Slides] [Website] [bibtex]
  (with J. Leskovec and B. Schoelkopf), 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Rome (Italy), February 2013.

• Bridging Offline and Online Social Graph Dynamics (Short paper, poster) [Long version] [bibtex]
  (with M. Rogati), 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2012, Maui (HI, USA), October 2012.

• Influence Maximization in Continuous Time Diffusion Networks (Full paper, long oral presentation) [Slides] [Website] [Video] [bibtex]
  (with B. Schoelkopf), 29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Edinburgh (UK), June 2012.

• Submodular Inference of Diffusion Networks from Multiple Trees (Full paper, long oral presentation) [Slides] [Website] [Video] [bibtex]
  (with B. Schoelkopf), 29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Edinburgh (UK), June 2012.

• Uncovering the Temporal Dynamics of Diffusion Networks (Full paper, oral presentation) [Slides] [arXiv] [Website] [Video] [bibtex]
  (with D. Balduzzi and B. Schoelkopf), 28th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Bellevue (WA, USA), June 2011.

• Inferring Networks of Diffusion and Influence (Full paper, oral presentation) [Slides] [Website] [Video] [bibtex]
  (with J. Leskovec and A. Krause), 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Washington (DC, USA), July 2010. Best Research Paper Award Honorable Mention

BMI:

• Towards Brain-Robot Interfaces in Stroke Rehabilitation (Full paper, oral presentation) [bibtex]
  (with M. Grosse-Wentrup, J. Hill, A. Gharabaghi, B. Schoelkopf and J. Peters), 12th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), Zurich (Switzerland), June 2011.

Computational Photography:

• Denoising photographs using dark frames optimized by quadratic programming (Full paper, oral presentation) [bibtex]
  (with J. Kober and B. Schoelkopf), 1st IEEE International Conference in Computational Photography (ICCP), San Francisco (CA, USA), April 2009.

Workshop Papers

Networks:

• Quantifying the Impact of Information Overload on Information Dissemination in Social Media" (Poster, spotlight presentation)
  (with K. Gummadi and B. Schoelkopf), Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN), 2013.

• Modeling Information Propagation with Survival Theory (Abstract, oral presentation)
  (with B. Schoelkopf), Workshop in Algorithmic and Statistical Approaches for Large Social Networks at the 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012.

BMI:

• Closing the Sensorimotor Loop: Haptic Feedback Facilitates Decoding of Arm Movement Imagery (Full paper, oral presentation) [bibtex]
  (with J. Peters, J. Hill, B. Schoelkopf, A. Gharabaghi and M. Grosse-Wentrup), SMC Workshop in Shared-Control for BMI, Istanbul (Turkey), October 2010.

• Epidural ECoG Online Decoding of Arm Movement Intention in Hemiparesis (Full paper, oral presentation) [bibtex]
  (with M. Grosse-Wentrup, J. Peters, G. Naros, J. Hill, B. Schoelkopf and A. Gharabaghi), ICPR Workshop on Brain Decoding at ICPR, Istanbul (Turkey), August 2010.

• BCI and robotics framework for stroke rehabilitation (Abstract, oral presentation)
  (with J. Peters, J. Hill, A. Gharabaghi, B. Schölkopf and M. Grosse-Wentrup), 4th International BCI Meeting, Asilomar (CA, USA), June 2010.