Joeran Beel

3 Well-Funded PhD & Postdoc Positions, up to 5 Years at the University of Siegen (Germany): AutoML, Algorithm Selection, Recommender-Systems …

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 Configuration, Optimization, Meta-Learning, Neural Architecture Search, Federated Learning, Learning to Learn, Natural Read more…

By Joeran Beel, ago

Recommender-Systems.com: The Central Platform for the Recommender Systems Community? A Beta-Preview and Survey.

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…

By Joeran Beel, ago

Edward Bergman joins our group as a D-REAL PhD student for research on automated algorithm selection in Information Retrieval (AutoIR), Recommender Systems (AutoRecSys) and Machine Learning (AutoML)

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…

By Joeran Beel, ago

The growth of Coronavirus cases in Germany is basically identical to the development in Italy, just ~1 week delayed (no machine learning needed to see this)

Usually, I do research in the field of recommender systems, algorithm selection, and machine learning. But, to see how Coronavirus cases develop in Germany, and to predict how it will continue to develop, no machine learning is needed. The chart below shows how Covid-19 cases recently developed in Italy and Read more…

By Joeran Beel, ago

Open Ph.D. Positions in Automated Machine Learning (AutoML), Recommender Systems, Meta-Learning, Algorithm Selection, and Federated Learning — Trinity College Dublin, Irland (Sept. ’20)

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…

By Joeran Beel, ago

Multi-stream Data Analytics for Enhanced Performance Prediction in Fantasy Football [Pre-Print]

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…

By Joeran Beel, ago

Open Position at Trinity College Dublin: Full Professorship in Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, NLP, DKE … (€117k — €151k/pa)

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…

By Joeran Beel, ago
GIANT 2019, Reference Parsing, Deep Citation Parsing, Dataset, Cover

GIANT: The 1-Billion Annotated Synthetic Bibliographic-Reference-String Dataset for Deep Citation Parsing [pre-print]

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…

By Joeran Beel, ago

2 Open Positions for Spinning out a Business Start-Up (Recommendations-as-a-Service): 1 x Business Manager (Admin; Marketing; …) + 1 x Machine Learning / Software Engineer

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…

By Joeran Beel, ago

Open Position at Trinity College Dublin: Assistant Professor in Computer Science – Artificial Intelligence (Tenure Track)

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…

By Joeran Beel, ago