With Abir De, Aasish Pappu, and Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, I have uncovered a connection between complexity of online discussions and the notion of sign-rank of matrices. This allows us to determine the complexity of online discussions just by looking at the pattern of upvotes/downvotes cast by users on others' comments; the key insight is using humans as oracles and by-passing the nuances of sarcasm and humor often present in online comments.

• "On Complexity of Opinions and Online Discussions" ~ WSDM (2019); Paper.
• Networks-Learning/discussion-complexity

With Abir De and Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, I have developed a deep reinforcement learning algorithm for controlling agents whose actions are performed, and who receives feedback from the environment, at discrete localized points in continuous real time. This is in contract to the classical RL setup where the actions and rewards (feedback) are synchronously given to the agent at discrete points in time.

• "Deep Reinforcement Learning of Marked Temporal Point Processes" ~ NeurIPS (2018); Paper.
• Networks-Learning/tpprl
• 3-minute video summary

With Behzad Tabibian, Abir De, Ali Zarezade, Bernhard Schölkopf and Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, I have determined the optimal reviewing schedule to keep knowledge fresh in your memory for optimal recall while minimizing effort spent on learning it.

• "Optimizing Human Learning" ~ Under revision at PNAS (2018); Paper.
• Webpage with summary

With Ali Zarezade, and Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, I discovered a simple algorithm for keeping your posts visible on your follower's feeds.

• "RedQueen: An Online Algorithm for Smart Broadcasting in Social Networks" Oral presentation at WSDM (2017); Paper.
• Webpage with demo
• Networks-Learning/RedQueen

With Isabel Valera and Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, I am developing models to understand how learning happens on Crowdlearning sites, such as Stack Overflow and Wikipedia.

• "On Crowdlearning: How do People Learn in the Wild?", oral presentation at Workshop on Machine Learning for Education at NeurIPS (2016);
• "Uncovering the dynamics of Crowdlearning and the Value of Knowledge", oral presentation at WSDM (2017); Paper.

With Nan Du, Hanjun Dai, Rakshit Trivedis, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, and Le Song, I developed am model which uses recurrent neural networks to model point processes, yielding impressive predictive results.

• "Recurrent marked temporal point processes: Embedding event history to vector", Poster presetned at KDD (2016); Paper.

• Slides for the tutorial
• Project material on Github