Invited Talk by Zhihong (Iris) Shen

Title: Microsoft Academic Service and Applications: Challenges and Opportunities

Iris Shen

Abstract:In this talk, we will introduce the new release of a Web scale entity graph, which serves as the backbone of Microsoft Academic Service. The architecture of the data pipeline which produces Microsoft Academic Graph will be presented. Challenges and opportunities on various research topics as well as engineering efforts are exploited. In addition, Microsoft Research has opened up this graph dataset to the research community with new APIs to support further research, experimentation, and development. This talk will highlight how the research community can take advantage of these data and APIs to fuel new research opportunities.

Speaker: Zhihong (Iris) Shen is a Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA. She obtained her Ph.D. in Operations Research at the University of Southern California. She is involved in the new generation of Microsoft Academic Service since 2014 and has been working on various research and engineering problems in the project, such as heterogeneous graph generation, entity recognition/linking, and entity recommendation etc.