PhD Symposium

PhD Symposium Session 1
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, Thursday, April 20, Capri
Chair: Sudeepa Roy

1. Keynote: Research with Real Users, Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington
2. Multiple-Query Optimization of Regular Path Queries, Zahid Abul-Basher
3. RELNA: Ranking attributes in social networks to detect overlapping communities efficiently, Bella Martinez-Seis

PhD Symposium Session 2
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Thursday, April 20, Capri
Chair: Sudeepa Roy

1. Panel: Doing a good PhD and getting a job too!
   Panelists: Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland, College Park), Arun Kumar (University of California, San Diego), Alexandros Labrinidis (University of Pittsburgh), Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow)
2. Judgment Analysis based on Crowdsourced Opinions, Sujoy Chatterjee
3. Effects of User Interactions on Online Social Recommender Systems, Anahita Davoudi