We welcome Teresa Scheidt, who joins our group for a research internship over the summer. Teresa is a Master student at Lund University, where she is currently in the first year of the Master program Read more…
— Applications Closed — Our group — the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen in Germany — recently acquired a €1.25m research grant. Therefore, we have 2 open positions for either postdoctoral researchers or PhD students. Your Read more…
Our reference management software Docear has not been actively developed for a few years, and recently, the add-on to fetch metadata from Google Scholar stopped working. Fortunately, one of our users (Li Yang) adjusted Docear’s Read more…
Sushanta Ratna Adhikari has joined us as a Graduate Assistant. Sushanta did his bachelor’s in Computer Science and Information Technology from the Tribhuvan University, Nepal. After he completed his bachelor’s degree, he worked as a Read more…
Peter joins the Intelligent Systems Group as a permanent member. He is a trained software developer with more than 16 years of experience in software development in the scientific community as well as in the Read more…
The University of Siegen has secured funding for 20 x 2-year ‘STAR’ postdoc fellowships. Funding comes from the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020) for implementing Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc fellowships. The ‘STAR’ Read more…
We welcome Nathan Buskulic as a visiting researcher. Nathan finished his machine learning master at Sorbonne Université (France) with distinction and decided to continue his way towards academia. He spent one year of his master Read more…
Today we received a new computer and tested a few hard drives for their speed, namely: Tested in a new Desktop PC with Ryzen 5, 64 GB RAM, Windows 10 Samsung SSD 980 Pro (4th Read more…
In the past academic year, we supervised eleven Bachelor and Master students at the School of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. We are delighted that all our students did very well. Ten (91%) even Read more…
Today, I got the new Google Pixel 5 in my mailbox. To me, the camera of a mobile phone is of particular importance. Given the excellent feedback in the media on Google´s phone cameras, I Read more…
Today was the official swearing-in ceremony to my new tenured position as a Professor of Intelligent Systems. I accepted the position at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Siegen Read more…
Abstract We introduce Recommender-Systems.com (RS_c) as a central platform for the recommender-systems community. RS_c provides regular news on important events in the community as well as curated lists of recommender-system resources including datasets, algorithms, jobs, Read more…
ABSTRACT Citation parsing, particularly with deep neural networks, suffers from a lack of training data as available datasets typically contain only a few thousand training instances. Manually labelling citation strings is very time-consuming, hence synthetically Read more…
For beginners in recommender systems, it is difficult to get an overview of the state-of-the-art, the most relevant venues, and helpful tools and datasets. Similarly, experts in recommender-systems may find it difficult to keep up Read more…
Closed — for the latest job offerings, please visit our Jobs page We received a €1.25m research grant from the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia that allows us to hire 3 PhD students, postdoctoral researchers Read more…
“What do I need to do, to be a successful Ph.D. student / How do I know if I was successful during my PhD project?” is a question I am often being asked. Hence, I Read more…
Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) is receiving increased attention with more and more tools and software libraries released to ease the process of automating the machine learning pipeline, particularly algorithm selection and configuration. We have created Read more…
We welcome Edward Bergman as a new full-time PhD student here at the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin, funded through the new D-REAL SFI Centre for Research Training (CRT) and Read more…
Two student groups in my E-Business module did a great job in developing an add-on for Gmail to distinguish genuine emails from mass emails (mass email not as in “spam” but as in an email Read more…
Every traveler knows the problem — you want to quickly check your emails in an internet cafe, and have a bad feeling when logging into your email client like Gmail. What if a key logger Read more…
The ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin has received funding to hire two start-up founders to spin-out the business start-up Darwin & Goliath in the field of recommendations-as-a-service. While we successfully hired a future CTO, Read more…
From 19 to 23 October 2020, the CIKM conference will take place in Galway, Ireland, and the call for papers has just been released. The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) is a key Read more…
This is a continuous call until 2022, with student intakes in September every year (and potentially in March). Next deadline is the 29th of February 2020 for a start in September 2020 for the CRT-AI, Read more…
Short version: 1. Opodo insists that a canceled flight had flown as scheduled. 2. Opodo’s Twitter support ignores all requests, the web chat refers me to the hotline, the hotline refers me to sending an Read more…