— 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…
I am pleased to share that our bachelor student, Leonie Winter, has successfully completed her thesis (arXiv) at my chair — and she did an excellent job. Her work follows up on our earlier study on pruning in recommender-system evaluations and pushes the discussion further in scope and clarity. The 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…
“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…