Best student paper award at WSDM 2017

At this year's International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2017), the best student paper award went to “Reducing Controversy by Connecting Opposing Views” by Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, and Michael Mathioudakis, from Aalto University and Qatar Computing Research Institute.

For a high level description of the paper, please visit the blog of Aalto's Data Mining Group (link).

The full paper is publicly available on ACM's Digital Library (link).