•  Shixiang Zhu​

Sequential Adversarial Anomaly Detection for Dependent Events​

•  Lujia Wang​

Discriminant Subgraph Learning from Functional Brain Sensory Data​

•  Kai Wang ​

From Classication to Optimization: A Scenario-based Robust Optimization Approach​

•  Sharan Srinivas, Surya Ramachandiran​

Discovering Airline-specific Business Intelligence from Online Passenger Reviews: An Unsupervised Text Analytics Approach

The Best Applied Paper Award Winner:

• Kai Wang, MIT Sloan School of Management​
  
  From Classication to Optimization: A Scenario-based Robust Optimization Approach​

Best Theoretical Paper Finalists

• Jinzhi Bu, David Simchi-Levi, Yunzong Xu (MIT)​

Online Pricing with Offline Data: Phase Transition and Inverse Square Law​

• Nicolò Bertani, Ville Satopaa, Shane Jensen (INSEAD)​

Joint Bottom-Up Method for Hierarchical Time-Series: Application to Australian Tourism​

• Xubo Yue, Raed Al Kontar (U of Michigan)​

The Renyi Gaussian Process: Toward Improved Generalization​

•  Chaosheng Dong, Bo Zeng (U of Pittsburgh)​

Expert Learning through Generalized Inverse Multiobjective Optimization: Models, Insights, and Algorithms

The Best Theoretical Paper Award Winner:

• Jinzhi Bu, David Simchi-Levi, Yunzong Xu - Massachusetts Institute of Technology​

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  Online Pricing with Offline Data: Phase Transition and Inverse Square Law

Data Mining Best Paper Awards: Student / General Tracks

Best Student Paper Finalists

• Thompson Sampling based Partially Observable Online Change Detection via Bayesian Spike-Slab Composite Decomposition​

Jie Guo (Tsinghua University),  Hao Yan (Arizona State University), Steven Hoi (Southern Methodist University), Chen Zhang (Tsinghua University) ​

• Individualized Passenger Travel Pattern Multi-Clustering based on Tensor Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Graph Structure​

Ziyue Li,  Fugee Tsung, Hao Yan,  Chen Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)​

• Exact and Approximation Algorithms for Sparse PCA​

Yongchun Li, Weijun Xie (Virginia Tech)​

• APIK: A Physics-Informed Kriging Model with Partial Differential Equations​

Jialei Chen, Zhehui Chen, Chuck Zhang, Jeff Wu (Georgia Institute of Technology)

The Winner

Exact and Approximation Algorithms for Sparse PCA​

Yongchun Li, Weijun Xie ​

(Virginia Tech)

Best  Paper Finalists

• Optimal Shape Control via L-infinity Loss for Composite Fuselage Assembly​

Juan Du (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Shanshan Cao (Georgia Tech), Jeffrey Hunt (Boeing), Xiaoming Huo (Georgia Tech), Jianjun Shi (Georgia Tech)​

• Large-Scale Graph Analytics for Anomaly Detection in Sensor-Intensive Heterogeneous Networks​

Ramin Moghaddass, Yongtao Guan (University of Miami)​

• Synthetic Average Neighborhood Sampling Algorithm (SANSA): A Neighborhood Informed Synthetic Sample Placement Approach to Improve Learning from Imbalanced Data​

Murtaza Nasir (University of Massachusetts Lowell), Ali Dag (Creighton University), Serhat Simsek (Montclair State University), Asil Oztekin (University of Massachusetts Lowell)​

• Data-driven Clustering and Feature-based Retail Electricity Pricing with Smart Meters​

Bora Keskin (Duke University), Yuexing Li (Duke University),  Nur Sunar (The University of North Carolina) 

 
The Winner

Data-driven Clustering and Feature-based Retail Electricity Pricing with Smart Meters​

Bora Keskin (Duke University), Yuexing Li (Duke University),  Nur Sunar (The University of North Carolina)