CIS 4523/5523: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Spring 2024

Mini Lectures Schedule


  • Prepare slides for a 20 minutes mini-lecture
  • The first slide should include your name and email address
  • The last slide should be a homework question (homework are due 4 days after the mini-lecture by email to the presenting person):
  • Plan on 1 additional minute to explain the homework question and to allow discussion
  • After each talk there will be 1-minute transition to the next talk
  • By Tuesday 12pm on the week of your talk e-mail slides to hussain.otudi@temple.edu with cc to zoran.obradovic@temple.edu (subject line: Slides for mini-lecture number number bellow assigned to your talk
  • One weeks after your presentation return the graded homework question to students and e-mail completed excel file named presentation_score.xlsl to hussain.otudi@temple.edu with cc to zoran.obradovic@temple.edu (subject line: grade). The excel file download from the class web site.

March 28th Mini Lectures
1Shengao YiMining Spatial Data
2Saiyun DongTime series mining
3Jefferson LeData Stream Mining
4Hardik SharmaTransformers along with basics of deep learning
5Eigen ColbyData Mining in Transportation
6Manan PatelAutoencoders for Data Science
7Amaka IkemefunaAnomaly detection
April 4th Mini Lectures
8Abhudaya ShrivastavaDeep Reinforcement Learning
9Malvin PriftiGraph Neural Networks
10Faezeh Rajabi KouchiMining Social Networks
11Waheed ZinniaMining Electronic Health Record
12Ethan BaileyData Mining and Machine Learning Models for Predicting Drug Likeness and Their Disease or Organ Category
13Charlie MorganFake News Detection
14Alan UthuppanFairness-aware Machine Learning
April 11th Mini Lectures
15Vasisht PabathiActive learning
16Yihan ZhangTransfer learning
17Thanh NguyenZero-Shot and Few-Shot Learning
18Xinwen ZhangParallel and Distributed Data Science
19James OtwellPrivacy-preserving data mining
20Jack CampbellSports Analytics