The Germany Academic Exchange Service (DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) invited its alumni to Berlin to discuss recent advances in generative artificial intelligence. Dr. Holger Finken, Cordula Behrsing and Jana Zettler organized the event. Prof. Read more…
Our Ph.D. students, Tobias Vente, and Lukas Wegmeth, will attend the ACM RecSys 2023 conference in Singapore to present their latest work on Automated Recommender Systems (AutoRecSys) with four papers: two in the Doctoral Symposium, Read more…
As part of my research visit to the University of Gothenburg, I am glad to announce that I will be giving a seminar on “The ‘unreasonable’ effectiveness of Graphical User Interfaces for Recommender Systems”. The Read more…
I am delighted to announce that I am visiting Alan Said and his research group at the University of Gothenburg for a knowledge exchange about sustainable recommender systems and machine learning. Sweden’s innovation agency VINNOVA Read more…
The German VDE Bergisch Land-Südwestfalen offers stipends for students who are writing their Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis. The stipend accumulates up to a total of €1,800 (6 months á €300). The stipend aims at students Read more…
The ACM RecSys 2023 Doctoral Symposium Chairs accepted the extended abstracts that Tobias Vente and Lukas Wegmeth submitted. Abstracts will be presented by their authors and discussed with the chairs and other students at the Read more…
I am honored and glad to be invited again to continue to serve on the scientific advisory board of the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akadademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD), for the IFI program. The IFI Read more…
On April 18 and 19, 2023, the Model-based Engineering Group and the Intelligent Systems Group, both at the University of Siegen, conducted a research retreat. The event featured the following presentations, and many interesting discussions Read more…
We are grateful for the opportunity to present some of our recent work at the ISG with two posters at the COSEAL Workshop 2023 at Sorbonne University in Paris. The COnfiguration and SElection of ALgorithms Read more…
At the end of last year, we had the pleasure of presenting our publication of Lennart Purucker‘s Master thesis at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) in Florida, USA! Lennart worked on Read more…
ChatGPT ist derzeit in aller Munde und vollbringt Erstaunliches. Es löst Klausuren, schreibt Aufsätze und Gedichte, programmiert Software und vieles mehr. Ich wollte einmal probieren, ob ChatGPT Humor hat, und nützlich im Bereich (Stadt) Marketing Read more…
I am delighted to announce that Dr. André Klahold will give a guest lecture in my recommender-systems lecture series. The lecture will take place next week, Tuesday, 31 January 2023, at 14:00. Titel: „Recommender Systems Read more…
We are happy to announce that the ISG Siegen is involved in the organization of the AutoML Conference 2023! Lennart Purucker, one of our Ph.D. students, is the Reproducibility Chair for the AutoML Conference 2023. Read more…
Update 2023-05: The report is now available on arXiv.org. Prof. Beel was invited to attend the Dagstuhl seminar about ‘Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education‘. The seminar took place from January 15 Read more…
Just like last year, our Ph.D. students were part of this year’s AutoML Fall School Hackathon winning team. This year the team consisted of Lennart Purucker, Lukas Wegmeth, Gabriela Kadlecová, Nick Erickson, and Sarah Krebs, Read more…
The AutoML Fall School 2022 ends today, and I believe it was a great success. At least I enjoyed giving a guest lecture on AutoML and Recommender Systems and having a very active discussion with Read more…
With great delight, we had the opportunity to discuss our paper on our vision of a novel way to utilize the advantages of meta-learning in recommender systems at the 2nd Workshop: Perspectives on the Evaluation Read more…
We had the pleasure to present our work on benchmarking ensembles in Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) at the first international Conference on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML-Conf 2022). We showed how we can use OpenML to Read more…
We welcome Lukas Wegmeth as a new full-time Ph.D. student at the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen. Lukas graduated with a Bachelor’s degree and subsequently with a Master’s degree in Medical Computer Read more…
We are glad to welcome Prof. Burggräf as a guest lecturer in our machine learning lecture series. He will give the lecture on Tuesday, the 11th of January 2022, between 10:15 and 11:45 o’clock (German Read more…
Lennart Purucker and Tobias Vente just started their Ph.D. a few months ago, and already won the Hackathon of this year’s AutoML Fall School together with their teammates of “Team 42” (Edward Bergman, Michael Fiegert, Read more…
The University of Siegen successfully received funding from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 945422. The funding will be used to offer a number of postdoc fellowships, Read more…
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has approved the proposal for a new journal, the “ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems“, in short, ACM TORS. I am delighted to be appointed as associate editor of the Read more…
We welcome Lennart Purucker as a new full-time Ph.D. student at the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen. Before joining our group, Lennart finished his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. He completed his bachelor’s Read more…