https://mott.in/news/ Recent content in News on Davide Mottin Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/vldb2023/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/vldb2023/ Our paper on speeding up Lloyd’s algorithm for k-means on high-dimensional data have been published at VLDB 2023! See you in Vancouver, looking forward to meet colleagues in VLDB after a long time. https://mott.in/news/graph-align/ Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/graph-align/ A prolific year for my (freshly graduated) PhD student Judith Hermanns. A paper on Evaluating graph alignment algorithms accepted for publication at EDBT 2023 An extension of our GRASP published at the prestigious TKDD journal. Thanks to the great work of the coauthors [Judith Hermanns](https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/judith-franziska-hermanns(99033892-1e04-4a9c-81cf-401ee50fd9da), Anton Tsitsulin, Marina Munkhoeva, Alex Bronstein, and Panagiotis Karras. https://mott.in/news/cidr2022/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/cidr2022/ Our system idea of Knowledge Graph Exploration has been published at CIDR 2022 within the paper “Knowledge Graph Exploration Systems: are we lost”. We hope we can inspire the research on the area of Knowledge Graph Exploration as we believe there is a huge potential for helping people explore large KGs in disciplines such as health, journalism, engineering, and many more. Thanks to the work of the coauthors Matteo Lissandrini, Torben Bach Pedersen, and Katja Hose. https://mott.in/news/2021/ Fri, 31 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/2021/ I typically not praise successes in my life, cause I believe everything I receive is a gift, and not my own accomplishments. However, this year I have so much to be grateful that I cannot avoid looking back and think to how lucky I am. First, I got married. It took me a lot of energy to organize a wedding with so many people in Covid time. However, we managed to do that and to happily get married and do celebrations both in Italy and in Romania! https://mott.in/news/grasp-21/ Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/grasp-21/ First paper from my PhD student Judith Hermanns “GRASP: Graph Alignment through Spectral Signatures” accepted for publication at APWeb-WAIM. Thanks to the work of the coauthors [Judith Hermanns](https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/judith-franziska-hermanns(99033892-1e04-4a9c-81cf-401ee50fd9da), Anton Tsitsulin, Marina Munkhoeva, Alex Bronstein, and Panagiotis Karras. https://mott.in/news/vldb2021/ Mon, 16 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/vldb2021/ After some years, I come back to VLDB with this incredible paper “FREDE: Anytime Graph Embeddings” accepted for publication at VLDB, one of top venues for the Database community. Thanks to the work of the coauthors Anton Tsitsulin, Marina Munkhoeva, Panagiotis Karras, Ivan Oseledets and Emmanuel Müller. https://mott.in/news/www2021/ Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/www2021/ An incredible experience, “COLT: Few-shot Knowledge Validation using Rules” accepted for publication at TheWebConf, main venue for web technologies and graph mining. Thanks to the work of the coauthors Michael Loster, Paolo Papotti, Jan Ehmueller, Benjamin Feldmann and Felix Naumann. https://mott.in/news/neurips-20/ Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/neurips-20/ I am very excited to share our new paper “What if neural networks had SVDs?" has been accepted for spotlight presentation at NeurIPS, one of top machine learning conferences held (sadly) online due Covid. Thanks to the outstanding work of brilliant PhD and MSc students Alexander Mathiasen, Frederik Hvilshøj, Jakob Rødsgaard Jørgensen, and Anshul Nasery. https://mott.in/news/sigweb/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/sigweb/ Our survey paper “Knowledge graph exploration: where are we and where are we going?" has just been published on SIGWEB. Thanks to the work of the coauthors Matteo Lissandrini, Torben Bach Pedersen, and Katja Hose. https://mott.in/news/iclr2020/ Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/iclr2020/ Our paper “The Shape of Data: Intrinsic Distance for Data Distributions” has been accepted for poster presentation at ICLR 2020, a top machine learning conference held this year at Addis Ababa. Thanks to the work of the coauthors Anton Tsitsulin, Marina Munkhoeva, Panagiotis Karras, Alex Bronstein, Ivan Oseledets and Emmanuel Müller. https://mott.in/news/www2020/ Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/www2020/ Our short paper “Graph-Query Suggestions for Knowledge Graph Exploration” has been accepted for oral presentation at The Web Conference 2020, a top web and data mining conference held this year at Taipei. Thanks to the work of the coauthors Matteo Lissandrini, Themis Palpanas, and Yannis Velegrakis. https://mott.in/news/seadata-19/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/seadata-19/ I am proud to announce that this year Matteo Lissandrini (Aaalborg University), Yannis Velegrakis (Utrecht University) and I are organizing the first Search, Exploration, and Analysis in Heterogeneous Datastores Workshop at EDBT/ICDT 2020. Outline The SEA Data workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, results, and visions on challenges in data management, information extraction, exploration, and analysis of heterogeneous data and multiple data models at once, such as data lakes, polystores, knowledge bases and knowledge graphs. https://mott.in/news/turin-visit/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/turin-visit/ I will visit Francesco Bonchi at the ISI research center February 17-28. I’m looking forward to collaborations and discussion in the amazing research lab there. https://mott.in/news/icdm2019/ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/icdm2019/ Our paper “Personalized Knowledge Graph Summarization: From the Cloud to Your Pocket” has been accepted for oral presentation (9% acceptance rate) at ICDM 2019, a top data mining conference. Thanks to the work of the coauthors Tara Safavi, Caleb Belth, Lukas Faber, Emmanuel Müller, and Danai Koutra. https://mott.in/news/itu-talk/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/itu-talk/ I will be given a talk at the IT University of Copenhagen about “The user and the machine: Blending database and machine learning for smarter devices.” Abstract: Can a system discover what a user wants circumventing complex search languages? Can a system answer future enquiries without accessing the data again? In this talk, I will introduce two recent results that build upon machine learning and database techniques to learn user preferences as fast as possible with the fewest number of interactions with the user. https://mott.in/news/kdd2019/ Sun, 04 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/kdd2019/ Our paper “Figuring out the User in a Few Steps: Bayesian Multifidelity Active Search with Cokriging” has been accepted for oral presentation (9% acceptance rate) at KDD 2019, the top data mining conference. Thanks to the work of the coauthors Nikita Klyuchnikov, Georgia Koutrika, Emmanuel Müller, and Panagiotis Karras. https://mott.in/news/tutorial/ Sun, 30 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/tutorial/ Our tutorial “Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples” has been accepted for presentation at SIGMOD 2019. A more practical and IR version of the tutorial “Example-driven Search: a New Frontier for Exploratory Search” will be presented at SIGIR 2019, the top-tier conference in Information Retrieval. I will present the tutorial with Matteo Lissandrini, Yannis Velegrakis, and Themis Palpanas. Looking forward to presenting in Amsterdam and Paris! https://mott.in/news/eigenestelle/ Wed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/eigenestelle/ The Deutsche FoschungsGemainschaft (DFG), the German Federal Funding agency, awarded 330.000€ as a personal grant (eigenestelle) for a project on “Query correction in large knowledge graphs”. Thanks DFG! Sadly, the grant cannot be received as I moved to Denmark, but I hope there will be other future fruitful projects with the German agency. https://mott.in/news/dapd-19/ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/dapd-19/ Our paper “Mining Patterns in Graphs with Multiple Weights” has been accepted for publication in the Distributed and Parallel Databases journal. Thanks to my coauthors Giulia Preti, Matteo Lissandrini, and Yannis Velegrakis! https://mott.in/news/amazon/ Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/amazon/ A work in collaboration with Danai Koutra from the University of Michigan has been selected for the Amazon research award! The award is granted to continue our work on novel knowledge graph summaries. https://mott.in/news/port/ Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/port/ Thanks to Pedro Manuel Pinto I had the honor to be a speaker Graph Exploration in the Porto Winter School on Network Science. Over 80 attendees of which 43 Students (28 PhD, 11 MSc, 4 BSc), 12 University Professors, 8 PostDoc/Researchers (Academic), 12 Data Scientists (Private Company), and 5 Engineers/Developers (Private Company) have been exposed to different topics on the broad (and expanding) area of Network Science. The event featured experts in different disciplines for a full-three day immersion in this beautiful topic at the intersection of physics, math, computer science, and statistics. https://mott.in/news/book/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/book/ Our book on Data Exploration Using Example-based Methods has been published by Morgan & Claypool! This book was an incredible effort that wouldn’t have been possible without the work of my coauthors Matteo Lissandrini, Yannis Velegrakis, and Themis Palpanas. Our book is out! https://mott.in/news/professor/ Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/professor/ I’m very excited to start as a professor in the department of Computer Science of Aarhus University. Looking forward to the start of the new adventure and the new challenges ahead. https://mott.in/news/marathon/ Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://mott.in/news/marathon/ There is little of my academic endeavors in this story, but completing a marathon with its 42.195 km is something that makes me feel proud. This year has been a very successful part of my life and I think that dreams whatever and wherever they are should be pursued. Thanks all who supported me (especially Thijs and Anna)! After months of training and 42km, finally the end That’s happiness