VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Julian Droogan
dblp:222/6767
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0002-8979-6505ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data mining · 50% Web and social media mining · 50% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational social science and digital humanities · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational social science and digital humanities
misinformation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Before It's Too Late: A State Space Model for the Early Prediction of Misinformation and Disinformation Engagement · WWW 2025 |
Web and social media mining › popularity prediction
early stage prediction |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Before It's Too Late: A State Space Model for the Early Prediction of Misinformation and Disinformation Engagement · WWW 2025 |
Data mining
temporal data mining |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Before It's Too Late: A State Space Model for the Early Prediction of Misinformation and Disinformation Engagement · WWW 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
temporal embedding · 1.7state space model · 1.7interval-censored modeling · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Before It's Too Late: A State Space Model for the Early Prediction of Misinformation and Disinformation EngagementabstractIn today's digital age, conspiracies and information campaigns can emerge rapidly and erode social and democratic cohesion.While recent deep learning approaches have made progress in modeling engagement through language and propagation models, they struggle with irregularly sampled data and early trajectory assessment.We present IC-Mamba , a novel state space model that forecasts social media engagement by modeling intervalcensored data with integrated temporal embeddings.Our model excels at predicting engagement patterns within the crucial first 15-30 minutes of posting (RMSE 0.118-0.143),enabling rapid assessment of content reach.By incorporating interval-censored modeling into the state space framework, IC-Mamba captures finegrained temporal dynamics of engagement growth, achieving a 4.72% improvement over state-of-the-art across multiple engagement metrics (likes, shares, comments, and emojis).Our experiments demonstrate IC-Mamba's effectiveness in forecasting both post-level dynamics and broader narrative patterns (F1 0.508-0.751for narrative-level predictions).The model maintains strong predictive performance across extended time horizons, successfully forecasting opinion-level engagement up to 28 days ahead using observation windows of 3-10 days.These capabilities enable earlier identification of potentially problematic content, providing crucial lead time for designing and implementing countermeasures. Emily Booth, Francesco Bailo, Julian Droogan, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu |
WWW | 4 |