Prof. Beel visits Prof. Said in Gothenburg for a knowledge exchange about sustainable recommender systems.

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…

Prof. Beel continues to be on the scientific advisory board of the German Academic Exchange Service’ (DAAD) IFI program

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…

Lennart Purucker joins our group as a PhD student for research on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)

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…

Teresa Scheidt receives the best-paper award for her work on time-dependent recommender-systems evaluation

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…

Prof. Beel moderates the discussion group “Best practices in Scientific Publishing” at the DAAD IFI Meeting

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…

“Recommended by Algorithms”: Our research is featured in the ‘future’ magazine

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…

Prof. Beel diskutiert auf der GAIN Jahrestagung: Karrieremöglichkeiten für Doktoranden und PostDocs

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…

2 x Postdoctoral Researcher or Ph.D. Position in AutoML and/or Recommender Systems

— 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…