Ass.-Prof. Dott.ssa Dott.ssa.mag. Yllka Velaj, PhD
1090 Wien
Room : 4.46
Courses
Summer term 2026
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040309 VU Doing Data Science (MA)
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053021 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 1
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053031 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 2
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053049 SE Master Seminar
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053631 LP Data Analysis Project
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500501 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Data and Knowledge
Winter term 2025
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040172 VU Doing Data Science (MA)
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052311 VU Data Mining
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053021 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 1
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053031 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 2
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053049 SE Master Seminar
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500501 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Data and Knowledge
Summer term 2025
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052813 VU Scientific Data Management
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053021 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 1
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053031 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 2
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053049 SE Master Seminar
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500501 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Data and Knowledge
Publications
Dolezal, D, Velaj, Y, Spreitzer, L & Plant, C 2024, Fostering Agile IT Project Management and Interpersonal Skills Using AI-Enhanced Game-Based Learning. in 2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). pp. 1-9, 2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Washington, DC, Washington, United States, 13/10/24. <http://eprints.cs.univie.ac.at/8218/>
Dolog, P, Sadikaj, Y, Velaj, Y, Stephan, A, Roth, B & Plant, C 2024, The Impact of Cluster Centroid and Text Review Embeddings on Recommendation Methods. in T-S Chua & C-W Ngo (eds), WWW '24: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024. ACM, New York, pp. 589-592. https://doi.org/10.1145/3589335.3651570
Arafat, NA, Mobaraki, EB, Khan, A, Velaj, Y & Bonchi, F 2024, Estimate and Reduce Uncertainty in Uncertain Graphs. in 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, DSAA 2024, San Diego, CA, USA, October 6-10, 2024. IEEE, pp. 1-12. <http://eprints.cs.univie.ac.at/8214/>
Velaj, Y, Dolezal, D, Ambros, R, Plant, C & Motschnig, R 2023, Teaching Data Science to Non-Computer Science Students: A Learner-Centered Approach. in 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). pp. 1-9, 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), College Station, Texas, Texas, United States, 18/10/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE58773.2023.10343463
Foerster, K-T, Marette, T, Neumann, S, Plant, C, Sadikaj, Y, Schmid, S & Velaj, Y 2023, Analyzing the Communication Clusters in Datacenters. in Y Ding, J Tang, JF Sequeda, L Aroyo, C Castillo & G-J Houben (eds), Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, WWW 2023, Austin, TX, USA, 30 April 2023 - 4 May 2023. ACM, New York, pp. 3022-3032. https://doi.org/10.1145/3543507.3583410
Sadikaj, Y, Rass, J, Velaj, Y & Plant, C 2023, Semi-Supervised Embedding of Attributed Multiplex Networks. in Y Ding, J Tang, JF Sequeda, L Aroyo, C Castillo & G-J Houben (eds), Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, WWW 2023, Austin, TX, USA, 30 April 2023 - 4 May 2023. ACM, New York, pp. 578-587. https://doi.org/10.1145/3543507.3583485
Ambros, R, Bernsteiner, A, Bloem, R, Dolezal, D, Garzia, D, Göltl, K, Haagen-Schützenhöfer, C, Hadler, M, Hell, T, Herderich, A, Jercic, P, Kayali, F, Kemény, F, Kirsch, C, Kloesch, B, Kocher, D, Landerl, K, Lasser, J, Lex, E, Motschnig, R, Plant, C, Posch, L, Reiter-Haas, M, Schubatzky, T, Slany, W, Sokolova, A, Spitzer, P, Steinböck, M, Velaj, Y & Yüksel-Arslan, P 2023, 'Two-Year Progress of Pilot Research Activities in Teaching Digital Thinking Project (TDT)', Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, vol. 18, no. Sonderheft Hochschullehre, pp. 117-136. https://doi.org/10.3217/zfhe-SH-HL/07
Velaj, Y, Dolezal, D, Ambros, R, Plant, C & Motschnig, R 2022, Designing a Data Science Course for Non-Computer Science Students: Practical Considerations and Findings. in 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2022. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE56618.2022.9962455
Cellinese, F, D'Angelo, G, Monaco, G & Velaj, Y 2021, 'Generalized budgeted submodular set function maximization', Information and Computation, vol. 281, 104741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2021.104741
Monaco, G, Moscardelli, L & Velaj, Y 2021, 'Additively Separable Hedonic Games with Social Context', games, vol. 12, no. 3, 71. https://doi.org/10.3390/g12030071
Plant, C, Sadikaj, Y, Behzadi Soheil, S & Velaj, Y 2021, Spectral Clustering of Attributed Multi-relational Graphs. in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, pp. 1431-1440, 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD), Singapore, 14/08/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3447548.3467381
Coró, F, D'angelo, G & Velaj, Y 2021, 'Link Recommendation for Social Influence Maximization', ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, vol. 15, no. 6, 94, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449023
Cellinese, F, D'Angelo, G, Monaco, G & Velaj, Y 2021, The Multi-budget Maximum Weighted Coverage Problem. in Algorithms and Complexity. vol. 12701, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 173-186. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75242-212
Saha, A, Brokkelkamp, R, Velaj, Y, Khan, A & Bonchi, F 2021, Shortest paths and centrality in uncertain networks. in 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. 7 edn, vol. 14, pp. 1188-1201. https://doi.org/10.14778/3450980.3450988
Projects
Clustering of Smart-Meter Data
Velaj, Y. (Project Lead) & Plant, C. (Co-Lead)
1/01/24 → 31/12/26
Project: Research cooperation
Talks
Exploiting epidemiological contact data to examine the role of age structure in linguistic diffusion
Baumann, A. (Speaker), Hartmann, F. (Speaker) & Velaj, Y. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science