Distributed Information Systems, Social Information Model
Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics
Kyoto University

• Professor: YOSHIKAWA Masatoshi
• Associate Professor: MA Qiang
• Program-Specific Associate Professor: SUGIYAMA Kazunari
• Program-Specific Assistant Professor: CAO Yang

Please refer to the Research Topics page.
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(Yoshikawa has stopped accepting new students.　Ma does not accept research students.)

• Apr. 2022 Peng (D2)'s paper, “Less is More: Reweighting Important Spectral Graph Features for Recommendation” has been accepted at The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2022).
• Mar, 2022 Sugiyama's joint work with National University of Singapore and Qatar Computing Research Institute, “FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation” has been published at Communications of the ACM (CACM).
• Jan. 2022, YE (D2)'s paper, “A Transformer-Based Siamese Network for Representation Learning of Univariate Time-Series Data” has been accepted at 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2022).
• Oct. 2021, Yamanaka (Master graduate)'s paper, "Generalized Negative Sampling for Implicit Feedback in Recommendation" has been accepted at The 20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2021).
• Aug. 2021 Sugiyama's joint work with University of Tsukuba, "CNN-based Framework for Classifying Temporal Relations with Question Encoder" has been accepted at International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) .
• Aug. 2015, Ma Group published smart mobile app News Salad in Google Play.

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