KDD 2023 is dedicating a special day to highlight and celebrate the research and development efforts happening in the broader Southern California region and broaden participation of underrepresented groups to KDD. During this special day, the conference organizers are going to have a number of exciting activities, including:
- Invited speakers from Southern California academic institutions and industry leaders
- Research panel Contributed and invited poster session with research highlights
- Call for poster contributions
KDD 2023 is soliciting invited and contributed posters which highlight research themes that are prominent and pioneered in the broader Southern California area and/or involve challenging real-world problems that emerge in the area. The research themes they have identified are applications of AI and Data Science to the following key domains:
- Agriculture & Sustainability
- AI4Science
- AI4Health
- Entertainment, movies, and gaming
- Environmental protection: air, water and drought, wildfire tracking and forecasting
- Clean Energy Transportation
- Sports Analytics
The above list is indicative and non-exhaustive. KDD 2023 welcomes additions to the themes from the community, in the form of contributed submissions. The call for contributions is open to the entire community. KDD highly encourages and welcomes submissions describing research primarily conducted by undergraduate or graduate students. Student submissions require a faculty member who is advising the student in their research to endorse the submission.
Poster submissions are limited to 2 pages (excluding references) in the same ACM template as the main KDD 2023 conference submissions. Submissions should contain all author information and should identify one or more of the research themes that most closely align with the submission. Submissions will be reviewed for relevance and quality. Please submit your poster to: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/KDD2023SoCalDataScienceDay
Accepted contributions are considered non-archival and will be hosted in online/PDF form on this website.
- Submission deadline: June 30, 2023
- Notification deadline: July 10, 2023
- Day of poster session: Aug. 7, 2023
Accepted contributions will be presented as posters during the special day, which will tentatively take place on Aug. 7, 2023. Detailed instructions for poster preparation and scheduling will be sent out to presenters ahead of time.
