Team

About Us

Our team develops innovative techniques for modeling user behavior, empowering our business partners to build world-class user-centric ML systems across Snap. Our research interests span multiple areas including machine learning, data mining, graph modeling, behavioral science, and natural language processing. We also partner closely with engineering to solve challenging modeling problems at scale.

Publications

June 11, 2025 | CVPR 2025
Jing Zhu, Yuhang Zhou, Shengyi Qian, Zhongmou He, Tong Zhao, Neil Shah, Danai Koutra
December 23, 2024 | WWW 2025
Xinyi Wu, Donald Loveland, Runjin Chen, Yozen Liu, Xin Chen, Leonardo Neves, Ali Jadbabaie, Clark Mingxuan Ju, Neil Shah, Tong Zhao
October 15, 2024 | WWW 2025
Donald Loveland, Xinyi Wu, Tong Zhao, Danai Koutra, Neil Shah, Clark Ju
September 23, 2024 | RobustRecSys @ RecSys 2024
Matthew Kolodner, Clark Ju, Zihao Fan, Tong Zhao, Elham Ghazizadeh, Yan Wu, Neil Shah, Yozen Liu
August 8, 2024 | Journal of Big Data
Heinrich Peters, Yozen Liu, Francesco Barbieri, Raiyan Abdul Baten, Sandra Matz, Maarten Bos
August 8, 2024 | ACL 2024
Agostina Calabrese, Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah, Maarten W. Bos, Björn Ross, Mirella Lapata, Francesco Barbieri
August 8, 2024 | SIGIR 2024
Pau Perng-Hwa Kung, Zihao Fan, Tong Zhao, Yozen Liu, Zhixin Lai, Jiahui Shi, Yan Wu, Jun Yu, Neil Shah, Ganesh Venkataraman
May 30, 2024 | ICML 2024
Haitao Mao, Zhikai Chen, Wenzhuo Tang, Jianan Zhao, Yao Ma, Tong Zhao, Neil Shah, Mikhail Galkin, Jiliang Tang
May 07, 2024 | ICLR 2024
Haitao Mao, Juanhui Li, Harry Shomer, Bingheng Li, Wenqi Fan, Yao Ma, Tong Zhao, Neil Shah, Jiliang Tang
May 07, 2024 | ICLR 2024
Yu Wang, Tong Zhao, Yuying Zhao, Yunchao Liu, Xueqi Cheng, Neil Shah, Tyler Derr
April 18, 2024 | SDM 2024
Yu Wang, Yijun Tian, Tong Zhao, Xiaorui Liu, Jian Kang, Tyler Derr
April 18, 2024 | SDM 2024
Rui Xue, Haoyu Han, Tong Zhao, Neil Shah, Jiliang Tang, Xiaorui Liu
April 11, 2024 | ICML 2024
Runjin Chen, Tong Zhao, Ajay Jaiswal, Neil Shah, Zhangyang Wang
March 22, 2024 | W-NUT 2024
Shuguang Chen, Leonardo Neves, Thamar Solorio
March 19, 2024 | ICLR 2024
Tong Zhao, Neil Shah, Elham Ghazizadeh
March 19, 2024 | WSDM 2024
Tyler Derr, Yao Ma, Kaize Ding, Tong Zhao, Nesreen Ahmed
March 7, 2024 | NeurIPS 2024
Mingxuan Ju, William Shiao, Zhichun Guo, Yanfang Ye, Yozen Liu, Neil Shah, Tong Zhao
February 07, 2024 | AAAI 2024
Rui Xue, Haoyu Han, Tong Zhao, Neil Shah, Jiliang Tang, Xiaorui Liu
December 19, 2023 | SIGIR 2024
Qixiang Fang, Zhihan Zhou, Francesco Barbieri, Yozen Liu, Leonardo Neves, Dong Nguyen, Daniel L. Oberski, Maarten W. Bos, Ron Dotsch
December 15, 2023 | GLFrontiers 2023
Gang Liu, Tong Zhao, Eric Inae, Tengfei Luo, Meng Jiang
December 06, 2023 | EMNLP 2023
Dimosthenis Antypas, Asahi Ushio, Francesco Barbieri, Leonardo Neves, Kiamehr Rezaee, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Jiaxin Pei, Jose Camacho-Collados
December 4, 2023 | MLoG @ ICDM 2023
Yao Ma, Tyler Derr, Tong Zhao, David Wipf, Zengfeng Huang
October 1, 2023 | NeurIPS 2023
Mingxuan Ju, Tong Zhao, Wenhao Yu, Neil Shah, Yanfang Ye
August 6, 2023 | MLG @ KDD 2023
Neil Shah, Shobeir Fakhraei, Da Zheng, Bahare Fatemi, Leman Akoglu
August 6, 2023 | KDD 2023
William Shiao, Uday Singh Saini, Yozen Liu, Tong Zhao, Neil Shah, Evangelos Papalexakis
August 6, 2023 | KDD 2023
Siddharth Bhatia, Mohit Wadhwa, Kenji Kawaguchi, Neil Shah, Philip Yu, Bryan Hooi
August 6, 2023 | KDD 2023
Gang Liu, Tong Zhao, Eric Inae, Tengfei Luo, Meng Jiang
August 5, 2023 | KDD 2023
Rui Xie, Haoyu Han, Tong Zhao, Neil Shah, Jiliang Tang, Xiaorui Liu
July 23, 2023 | SIGIR 2023
Jiahui Shi, Vivek Chaurasiya, Yozen Liu, Shubham Vij, Yan Wu, Satya Kanduri, Neil Shah, Peicheng Yu, Nik Srivastava, Lei Shi, Ganesh Venkataraman, Jun Yu
July 23, 2023 | ICML 2023
Zhichun Guo, William Shiao, Shichang Zhang, Yozen Liu, Nitesh V. Chawla, Neil Shah, Tong Zhao
July 9, 2023 | ACL 2023
Juanhui Li, Harry Shomer, Jiayuan Ding, Yiqi Wang, Yao Ma, Neil Shah, Jiliang Tang, Dawei Yin
June 18, 2023 | NeurIPS 2023
Juanhui Li, Harry Shomer, Haitao Mao, Shenglai Zeng, Yao Ma, Neil Shah, Jiliang Tang, Dawei Yin
June 5, 2023 | ICWSM 2023
Raiyan Baten, Yozen Liu, Heinrich Peters, Francesco Barbieri, Neil Shah, Leonardo Neves, Maarten Bos
June 2, 2023 | NeurIPS 2023
Haitao Mao, Zhikai Chen, Wei Jin, Haoyu Han, Yao Ma, Tong Zhao, Neil Shah, Jiliang Tang
June 1, 2023 | IEEE DEB 2023
Tong Zhao, Wei Jin, Yozen Liu, Yingheng Wang, Gang Liu, Stephan Gunnemann, Neil Shah, Meng Jiang
May 17, 2023 | AMS 2023
Wen Xie, Ron Dotsch, Maarten Bos, Yozen Liu
May 5, 2023 | ICLR 2023
Xiaotian Han, Tong Zhao, Yozen Liu, Xia Hu, Neil Shah
May 5, 2023 | ICLR 2023
Mingxuan Ju, Tong Zhao, Qianlong Wen, Wenhao Yu, Neil Shah, Yanfang Ye, Chuxu Zhang
May 5, 2023 | ICLR 2023
William Shiao, Zhichun Guo, Tong Zhao, Evangelos Papalexakis, Yozen Liu, Neil Shah
May 5, 2023 | ICLR 2023
Wei Jin, Tong Zhao, Jiayuan Ding, Yozen Liu, Jiliang Tang, Neil Shah
April 27, 2023 | SDM 2023
Tong Zhao, Kaize Ding, Wei Jin, Gang Liu, Meng Jiang, Neil Shah
April 23, 2023 | CHI 2023
Agrima Seth, Jiyin Cao, Xiaolin Shi, Ron Dotsch, Yozen Liu, Maarten Bos
April 23, 2023 | CHI 2023
Julie Jiang, Ron Dotsch, Mireia Triguero Roura, Yozen Liu, Vitor Silva, Maarten Bos, Francesco Barbieri
March 17, 2023 | NeurIPS 2023
Gang Liu, Eric Inae, Tong Zhao, Jiaxin Xu, Tengfei Luo, Meng Jiang
February 27, 2023 | WSDM 2023
Yiwei Wang, Bryan Hooi, Yozen Liu, Neil Shah
December 9, 2022 | LoG 2022
Yiwei Wang, Bryan Hooi, Yozen Liu, Neil Shah
December 9, 2022 | LoG 2022
Tong Zhao, Xianfeng Tang, Danqing Zhang, Haoming Jiang, Nikhil Rao, Yiwei Song, Pallav Agrawal, Karthik Subbian, Bing Yin, Meng Jiang
December 7, 2022 | EMNLP 2022
Jose Camacho-Collados, Kiamehr Rezaee, Talayeh Riahi, Asahi Ushio, Daniel Loureiro, Dimosthenis Antypas, Joanne Boisson, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Fangyu Liu, Eugenio Martínez-Cámara, Gonzalo Medina, Thomas Buhrmann, Leonardo Neves, Francesco Barbieri
December 7, 2022 | EMNLP 2022
Shuguang Chen, Leonardo Neves, Thamar Solorio
December 7, 2022 | EMNLP 2022
Mingxuan Ju, Wenhao Yu, Tong Zhao, Chuxu Zhang, Yanfang Ye
November 28, 2022 | NeurIPS 2022
Shichang Zhang, Yozen Liu, Neil Shah, Yizhou Sun
November 28, 2022 | NeurIPS 2022
Lingxiao Zhao, Neil Shah, Leman Akoglu
October 17, 2022 | CIKM 2022
Yu Wang, Yuying Zhao, Neil Shah, Tyler Derr
September 28, 2022 | CIKM 2022
Yu Wang, Yuying Zhao, Neil Shah, Tyler Derr
September 9, 2022 | AACL 2022
Asahi Ushio, Francesco Barbieri, Vitor Sousa, Leonardo Neves, Jose Camacho-Collados
July 17, 2022 | ICML 2022 (Workshop on Pre-Training)
Songtao Liu, Shixiong Jing, Tong Zhao, Zengfeng Huang, and Dinghao Wu
June 6, 2022 | ICWSM 2022
Julie Jiang, Nils Murrugara-Llerena, Maarten Bos, Yozen Liu, Neil Shah, Leonardo Neves, Francesco Barbieri
May 22, 2022 | ACL 2022
Daniel Loureiro, Francesco Barbieri, Leonardo Neves, Luis Espinosa Anke, Jose Camacho-Collados
April 25, 2022 | ICLR 2022
Wei Jin, Xiaorui Liu, Xiangyu Zhao, Yao Ma, Neil Shah, Jiliang Tang
April 25, 2022 | ICLR 2022
Yao Ma, Xiaorui Liu, Neil Shah, Jiliang Tang
April 25, 2022 | ICLR 2022
Lingxiao Zhao, Wei Jin, Leman Akoglu, Neil Shah
April 25, 2022 | ICLR 2022
Wei Jin, Lingxiao Zhao, Shichang Zhang, Yozen Liu, Jiliang Tang, Neil Shah
April 25, 2022 | ICLR 2022
Shichang Zhang, Yozen Liu, Yizhou Sun, Neil Shah
February 21, 2022 | WSDM 2022
Hyeonjeong Shin, Taehyung Kwon, Neil Shah, Kijung Shin
February 21, 2022 | WSDM 2022
Satyaki Sikdar, Neil Shah, Tim Weninger
February 21, 2022 | WSDM 2022
Xianfeng Tang, Yozen Liu, Xinran He, Suhang Wang, Neil Shah
November 7, 2021 | EMNLP 2021
Shuguang Chen, Gustavo Aguilar, Leonardo Neves, Thamar Solorio
November 1, 2021 | CIKM 2021
Ekta Gujral, Leonardo Neves, Evangelos Papalexakis, Neil Shah
November 1, 2021 | CIKM 2021
Yao Ma, Xiaorui Liu, Tong Zhao, Yozen Liu, Jiliang Tang, Neil Shah
November 1, 2021 | CIKM 2021
Tong Zhao, Bo Ni, Wenhao Yu, Zhichun Guo, Neil Shah, Meng Jiang
August 30, 2021 | TNNLS 2021
Tong Zhao, Tianwen Jiang, Neil Shah, Meng Jiang
June 7, 2021 | ICWSM 2021
Sara Abdali, Rutuja Gurav, Siddharth Menon, Daniel Fonseca, Negin Entezari, Neil Shah, Evangelos Papalexakis
April 20, 2021 | SocialNLP 2021
Shuguang Chen, Leonardo Neves, Thamar Solorio
March 15, 2021 | ICWSM 2021
Farhan Chowdhury, Yozen Liu, Nick Vincent, Koustuv Saha, Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah, Maarten Bos
March 15, 2021 | ICWSM 2021
Qi Yang, Weinan Wang, Lucas Pierce, Rajan Vaish, Xiaolin Shi, Neil Shah
February 08, 2021 | WWW 2021
Aravind Sankar, Yozen Liu, Jun Yu, Neil Shah
January 04, 2021 | CHI 2021
Koustuv Saha, Yozen Liu, Nicholas Vincent, Farhan Asif Chowdhury, Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah, Maarten Bos
December 05, 2020 | AIES 2021
Shubhranshu Shekhar, Neil Shah, Leman Akoglu
December 02, 2020 | AAAI 2021
Tong Zhao, Yozen Liu, Leonardo Neves, Oliver Woodford, Meng Jiang, Neil Shah
November 16, 2020 | EMNLP 2020
Francesco Barbieri, Jose Camacho-Collados, Leonardo Neves, Luis Espinosa-Anke†
November 11, 2020 | W-NUT 2021
Shuguang Chen, Gustavo Aguilar, Leonardo Neves, Thamar Solorio
November 02, 2020 | COLING 2020
Brihi Joshi, Neil Shah, Francesco Barbieri, Leonardo Neves
October 19, 2020 | CIKM 2020
Parisa Kaghazgaran, Maarten Bos, Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah
September 14, 2020 | ECML-PKDD 2020
Sara Abdali, Neil Shah and Evangelos Papalexakis
August 23, 2020 | KDD 2020
Xianfeng Tang, Yozen Liu, Neil Shah, Xiaolin Shi, Prasenjit Mitra and Suhang Wang
July 05, 2020 | ACL 2020
Dong-Ho Lee, Rahul Khanna, Bill Yuchen Lin, Jamin Chen, Seyeon Lee, Qinyuan Ye, Elizabeth Boschee, Leonardo Neves, Xiang Ren
May 24, 2020 | NAACL 2021
Xisen Jin, Francesco Barbieri, Brendan Kennedy, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Leonardo Neves, Xiang Ren
January 15, 2020 | WWW 2020
Wenxuan Zhou, Hongtao Lin, Bill Yuchen Lin, Ziqi Wang, Junyi Du, Leonardo Neves, Xiang Ren
November 07, 2019 | ICLR 2020
Ziqi Wang, Yujia Qin, Wenxuan Zhou, Jun Yan, Qinyuan Ye, Leonardo Neves, Zhiyuan Liu, Xiang Ren
August 21, 2019 | DSAA 2019
Hamed Nilforoshan, Neil Shah
July 25, 2019 | KDD 2019
Hemank Lamba, Neil Shah
June 16, 2019 | ASONAM 2019
Shreya Jain, Dipankar Niranjan, Hemank Lamba, Neil Shah, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
June 02, 2019 | KDD 2019
Yozen Liu, Xiaolin Shi, Lucas Pierce, Xiang Ren
April 04, 2019 | NAACL 2019
Lahari Poddar, Leonardo Neves, William Brendel, Luis Marujo, Sergey Tulyakov, Pradeep Karuturi
March 17, 2019 | CHI 2019
Hana Habib, Neil Shah, Rajan Vaish
August 01, 2018 | SIGIR eCom 2018
Rohan Kumar, Mohit Kumar, Neil Shah, Christos Faloutsos
June 10, 2018 | ACL 2018
Seungwhan Moon, Leonardo Neves, Vitor Carvalho
June 10, 2018 | ACL 2018
Di Lu, Leonardo Neves, Vitor Carvalho, Ning Zhang, Heng Ji
April 30, 2018 | ECML-PKDD 2018
Nikhil Gupta, Dhivya Eswaran, Neil Shah, Leman Akoglu, Christos Faloutsos
April 24, 2018 | ASONAM 2018
Gisel Bastidas Guacho, Sara Abdali, Neil Shah, Evangelos E. Papalexakis
February 28, 2018 | NAACL 2018
Seunghwan Moon, Leonardo Neves, Vitor Carvalho

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