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…
Sushanta Ratna Adhikari has joined us as a Graduate Assistant. Sushanta did his bachelor’s in Computer Science and Information Technology from the Tribhuvan University, Nepal. After he completed his bachelor’s degree, he worked as a web developer for a couple of years in Java Software, Nepal. His work was mostly Read more…
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 visiting researcher. 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 Guillaume Read more…
Today we received a new computer and tested a few hard drives for their speed, namely: Tested in a new Desktop PC with Ryzen 5, 64 GB RAM, Windows 10 Samsung SSD 980 Pro (4th Gen M.2 SSD), 500 GB Samsung 970EVO Plus (M2. SSD), 2 TB Samsung 860 EVO 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…
Abstract We introduce Recommender-Systems.com (RS_c) as a central platform for the recommender-systems community. RS_c provides regular news on important events in the community as well as curated lists of recommender-system resources including datasets, algorithms, jobs, software, and learning materials. Based on a survey with 28 participants – mostly authors at Read more…
ABSTRACT Citation parsing, particularly with deep neural networks, suffers from a lack of training data as available datasets typically contain only a few thousand training instances. Manually labelling citation strings is very time-consuming, hence synthetically created training data could be a solution. However, as of now, it is unknown if 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…