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’ fellowships allow you to independently conduct your own research project, embedded in an existing research Read more…
We welcome Nathan Buskulic as a new PhD Student. 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 in Tu-Delft to experience an international research environment. His master thesis supervised by Dr Read more…
Our group — the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen in Germany — seeks to hire 1 Ph.D. student or 1 postdoctoral researcher, senior research fellow respectively. You will work on the topic of automated algorithm-selection for recommender systems. As such you should have a strong interest in both, 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 received a ‘distinction’ for their thesis with marks of 73 and higher. For those not 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 was excited to try it out myself. I compared the Google Pixel 5 with my 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 in Germany. This is sad and good news at the same time. Sad News This 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 to date with the latest developments as relevant publications and news are often scattered across 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 or research fellows in the fields of Automated Machine Learning (AutoML), Automated Algorithm Selection and 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 decided to write some advice for (prospective) PhD students what they should achieve during their 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 supported by the ADAPT Centre. Edward has completed a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in 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 sent e.g. by a student to dozens or hundreds of professors asking for open Ph.D. 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 is recording your password, and the attacker can access your email account? Or, if you 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, we are still seeking to hire a Commercial lead and potential future CEO for Darwin 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 event for the international academic, business and government communities to discuss research on information retrieval, 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, and 18th of March for the D-Real CRT. Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) agreed to fund 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 email, and the email system refers me to a contact form that does not exist. Read more…
Mukesh Arambakam is a master’s student at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. He joins us for the academic year 2019-20 to conduct his Master Thesis. He graduated with his bachelor’s degree with a first-class distinction (equivalent to 1:1) from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Read more…
Mohammed Al-Rawi is a researcher in the field of computer vision and machine learning. He is interested in analysing images and other data. Throughout his career, he has worked in a few academic institutions including the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics at the University of Aveiro (Portugal). His latest Read more…
http://aics2019.datascienceinstitute.ie/papers/aics_27.pdf Abstract. Fantasy Premier League (FPL) performance predictors tend to base their algorithms purely on historical statistical data. The main problems with this approach is that external factors such as injuries, managerial decisions and other tournament match statistics can never be factored into the final predictions. In this paper, we Read more…
After recently advertising an Assistant Professorship in Computer science (Artificial Intelligence), Trinity College Dublin now has an additional position to fill with a Full Professor in Computer Science focusing on Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines (machine learning, natural language processing, data analytics, data and knowledge engineering, personalisation, content analytics, …). Read more…
This is the pre-print of: Mark Grennan, Martin Schibel, Andrew Collins, and Joeran Beel. “GIANT: The 1-Billion Annotated Synthetic Bibliographic-Reference-String Dataset for Deep Citation Parsing.” In 27th AIAI Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 101–112, 2019. final Publication: http://aics2019.datascienceinstitute.ie/papers/aics_25.pdf Abstract. Extracting and parsing reference strings from research articles Read more…
Rohan Anand is a Masters’s student at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and joins our group for the next eight months to conduct his Master Thesis. During his undergraduate program, Rohan published a paper titled BarGain: Crowd-Sourced Machine Learning Integrated E-Commerce. After Read more…
We are seeking to hire one business manager, administrator, or marketing expert as the future CEO and one machine learning engineer, software engineer or software architect as the future CTO for our business start-up Darwin & Goliath. The positions are placed for around 12 months at Trinity College Dublin, fully Read more…
Rohit Rawat joins our group for his Master Thesis. Rohit is currently pursuing an MSC in Computer Science majoring in Data Science from Trinity College Dublin. Before joining Trinity College Dublin, he was working with Accenture in Pune, India as an Automation Developer where he worked on Blue Prism and Read more…
The School of Computer Science and Statistics (SCSS) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, seeks to hire an Assistant Professor in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) for a 5-year tenure track. Here is the official description: The School of Computer Science and Statistics is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Computer Read more…