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 seminar will take place at the University of Gothenburg, on Friday, 8th of September, at 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 has approved funding for three research visits over the next twelve months. During this time 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 in the field of electrical engineering, electronics, information technology, and related technologies (e.g. medical technology), 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 program aims at young researchers from Master’s level to postdocs, who work in the field 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 relating to machine learning, recommender systems, databases, and software engineering.
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 ist. Das Ergebnis ist, wie in so vielen anderen Bereichen, erstaunlich gut. Für die Aufgabe 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 for Text“ Abstract: The lecture will provide an overview of the various techniques used for 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, and was again titled “Team 42”. This marks the second year in succession that our 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 the around 70 Master and PhD students who attended. I also took a few photos 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 Science at the University of Siegen. During his time as a student he worked with 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 time). Prof. Burggräf will talk about AI in production. More specifically: In the guest lecture 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, Elias Schede, and Gabriela Suchopárová). The Hackathon was based on a Kaggle competition and held 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, We — the Intelligent Systems Group — is a potential host for 1 or even 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 journal. ACM TORS is the first journal from a major publisher that solely focuses on 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 degree in a dual study program at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) Stuttgart. Lennart Read more…
Our visiting student Teresa Scheidt received the best-paper award at the Perspectives Workshop at the ACM Recommender Systems Conference 2021 in Amsterdam. Teresa is doing her Master’s at Lund University in Sweden but visited us here at the University of Siegen over the summer for a 3-months research internship. In Read more…
We are glad that after one and a half years of virtual conferences, we can finally attend a conference physically. The research members of the Intelligent Systems Group Siegen traveled to Amsterdam to attend the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, where we presented a paper at the Perspectives workshop. Read more…
On 8 October 2021, the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD) organises the ‘IFI Netzwerktreffen’. I am invited to moderate a group discussion about the topic “Best practices in Scientific Publishing”. I am looking forward to many participants and productive discussions. Agenda Eröffnung und GrußwortDr. Birgit Klüsener Read more…
The ‘future’ magazine of the University of Siegen reported about our research, particularly about our automated algorithm selection for recommender systems. We‘re used to streaming services suggesting new series we might like. News sites recommend articles that could interest us. Facebook shows us contacts we might know. Almost every larger Read more…
We welcome Tobias Vente as a new full-time Ph.D. student at the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen. Tobias completed his bachelor’s and master’s degree at the University of Siegen. He took part in the University of Siegen’s exchange program and spent one year of his master’s degree Read more…
Our group — the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen in Germany — seeks to fill 1 open position for either a postdoctoral researcher or a Ph.D. student. The starting date is flexible but we would prefer it as soon as possible. Your field of research would be flexible (there is no Read more…
Auf Einladung des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes (DAAD) nehme ich am 25. August bei einer Panel-Diskussion auf der GAIN Jahrestagung teil. Ich freue mich dort u.a. neben Prof. Dr. Wolfram Ressel (Rektor der Universität Stuttgart) und Prof. Dr. Andreas Zaby (Präsident der HWR Berlin) einen kurzen Vortrag zu halten, und dann Read more…
— Applications Closed — Visit https://isg.beel.org/jobs/ for latest openings — 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 field of research generally would be very flexible (there 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 Google Scholar Parser, and now everything works as usual. However, we have not yet integrated Read more…
Hinter mir liegt eine 1,5 Jahre lange Odyssee mit der Lufthansa AG. Es ging um die Erstattung eines kurzfristig stornierten Fluges. Nachdem die Lufthansa AG 1,5 Jahre lang mit allen möglichen und unmöglichen Mitteln versucht hat sich vor Ihrer Verantwortung zu drücken, hat nun endlich das Amtsgericht Köln zu meinen Read more…