Publications

• Milad Eftekhar, Nick Koudas, and Yashar Ganjali. "Reaching a desired set of users via different paths: an online advertising technique on a micro-blogging platform". To appear in Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2015).
• Milad Eftekhar, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Gautam Das, and Nick Koudas. "Price Trade-offs in Social Media Advertising". In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN 2014).
• Milad Eftekhar, and Nick Koudas. "Some Research Opportunities on Twitter Advertising". IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Volume 36, No. 3 (2013): 77-82
• Milad Eftekhar, Yashar Ganjali, and Nick Koudas. "Information Cascade at Group Scale". In Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge, Discovery, and Data mining (KDD 2013). Codes, Presentation slides
• Milad Eftekhar, and Nick Koudas. "Partitioning and Ranking Tagged Data Sources". In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 6, No 4 (PVLDB 2013).Presentation slides
• Milad Eftekhar, Nick Koudas, and Yashar Ganjali. "Bursty subgraphs in social networks". In Proceedings of 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2013).Presentation slides
• Soheil Hasas Yeganeh, Milad Eftekhar, Yashar Ganjali, Ram Keralapura, and Antonio Nucci. "CUTE: traffic Classification Using TErms". In Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN 2012).
• Milad Eftekhar, Yashar Ganjali, and Mohammad Ghodsi. "Innovation Diffusion in Groups". Technical Report TR-SN-UT-11-02-00, University of Toronto, Canada, February 2011.
• Milad Eftekhar and Mohammad Ghodsi. "Parallel Mining of Frequent Closed Patterns". Accepted in IADIS European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM 2009).
• Majid Yazdani, Milad Eftekhar, and Hassan Abolhassani. "Tree based Method for Classifying Websites Using Extended Hidden Markov Models". In Proceedings of 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2009). You can find a completer version here.
  

Thesis

• M.Sc. (under supervision of Prof. M. Ghodsi): Game Theoretic approaches on diffusion of innovations in social networks (in Farsi).

  B.Sc. (under supervision of Prof. M. Ghodsi): Nash Equilibrium (in Farsi).