This being my first oral presentation, I was a little anxious but managed to pull everything off decently. CIKM being more of a Graph Neural Networks conference, I was encouraged that the audience had multiple questions for me regarding my work and how it could impact their field of research.
I was also glad I could catch up with my co-author Yeon-chang Lee! I received a lot of his support through the challenging rebuttal phases from earlier submissions and I’m glad our efforts paid off in the end.