From the 19th of June until the 2nd of July 2018, I am in Japan at the National Institute of Informatics (NII). It is my first visit as Visiting Professor at the NII, and I am working with Professor Akiko Aizawa on a recommender-system and machine-learning project. Besides that work, there are Read more…
After being appointed as a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) a few weeks ago, there is more good news. The NII has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the School of Computer Science and Statistics (SCSS) of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the ADAPT Research Centre. The MoU originates Read more…
I am on the advisory board of Iris.ai, a business start-up in the field of open science, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. Iris.ai was founded in 2015 and since then has released several exciting products that have the potential to revolutionize how scientists work. With their latest project, Project Aiur, the Read more…
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) organizes the “Postdoctoral Researchers’ Networking AI Tour” 2018 to offer on-site visits to universities, research institutes and companies in the field of artificial intelligence, discussions with experts and numerous networking opportunities. Programme-related costs and a travel allowance are covered by DAAD. We have cooperated Read more…
Trinity College Dublin announced plans for a €60 million new E3 Institute in Engineering, Energy and Environment that has been made possible with a major private philanthropic donation by the Naughton family through the Naughton Foundation, established by the founder of the Glen Dimplex Group, Dr Martin Naughton, and his Read more…
The European Union has published the call for Individual Marie Curie Fellowships (MSCA) with the application deadline being 12 September 2018. The goal of the Individual Fellowships is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers. Our group has already one Marie Curie fellow, i.e. a postdoctoral researcher, as part of Read more…
We started working at Trinity College Dublin 1.5 years ago and launched our new website only 2 months ago. Yet, Google ranks our website #1 for the search queries ‘recommender systems ireland‘ and ‘recommender systems dublin‘ and, not surprisingly, for the variations ‘ireland recommender systems‘ and ‘dublin recommender systems‘. Of course, this is not to mean that Read more…
We have received funding to hire two employees to spin-out a business start-up in the field of recommendations-as-a-service. The two positions are to be filled with two machine-learning engineers, software engineers, software architects or product managers and both employees are expected to work together very closely here at Trinity College Read more…
The next Machine Learning Dublin Meetup will take place on 30th April 2018 at Zalando Dublin, 3 Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. I am one of the three presenters: Joeran Beel, Assistant Professor at ADAPT Centre The Potential of Meta Recommender-Systems at Macro- and Read more…
We successfully registered the domain machine-learning.ie (in addition to our domain names relating to recommender-systems). For now, all domains point to our main website https://ISG.beel.org/. In the long run, we may use the domain machine-learning.ie for more specific purposes relating to machine learning. For instance, we may build a platform that Read more…
Trinty College Dublin has the perfect solution for young people aged 16-18 who want to stay busy for the summer. Trinity Sport has opened applications for the Junior Sports Leadership Programme 2018. The programme is open to anyone aged 16-18 who wish to broaden their knowledge of sport and coaching. Read more…
Today I was appointed as Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), effective 1. April 2018 for the forthcoming four years. I am very grateful for the generous support of the NII, and I am looking forward to visiting the NII approximately once or twice a year for a Read more…
We are delighted to announce the 26th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS’2018), which we will co-organize together with Rob Brennan, Ruth Byrne, Jeremy Debattista, and a renowned program committee. AICS 2018 takes place from December 6 to 7, 2018 at Trinity College Dublin, more precisely in the Long Room Read more…
The Machine Learning Meetup in Dublin, takes place on the last Monday every month. This month, the machine learning meetup is hosted by Dogpatch and there will be plenty of exciting presentations about machine learning: Marco Forte (PhD researcher, Sigmedia Group) speaks about foreground estimation in machine learning and motion estimation Read more…
As part of our e-Business II lecture, we invited Thorsten Schaeff to give a guest lecture, more precisely, a workshop. Thorsten is a partner engineer at Stripe, which is a payment platform, competing with PayPal. During the 90 minute lecture, Thorsten will give a short introduction to Stripe, the history, their Read more…
Today, I just discovered that our website is ranked #4 by Google for the search query ‘machine learning dublin’ and #6 for ‘dublin machine learning’. Of course, this is not to mean that we, the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin or the ADAPT Centre are one of the primary authorities in the field of machine-learning in Dublin or Read more…
Today, we launched our new website https://ISG.beel.org/. It provides lots of information about our research, publications, projects, and teaching relating to recommender systems, machine learning and more. The new website also combines the blog posts of our project websites Mr. DLib and Docear.
UPDATE: We will soon advertise another position for this start-up. Please come back in a few days. The School of Computer Science and Statistics of Trinity College Dublin and the ADAPT Centre received funding to hire 2 employees for 2 years* to spin-out a business start-up in the field of Read more…
We are delighted to announce a seminar by Prof Dr Dietmar Jannach on Recommender Systems at Trinity College Dublin. Dietmar Jannach is a well-known researcher in the field of recommender systems and author of the book “Recommender Systems: An Introduction“. The seminar is open to all staff, students, and visitors Read more…
As part of the DAAD RISE Worldwide program, we were awarded two funded internship positions for two undergraduate students both being from Germany. The two interns will be conducting a research project as part of Mr. DLib in the fields of recommender systems, machine learning and natural language processing. Gordian (University Read more…
This is another post in our series What Machine-Learning Students Think/Like/Know/Are …, which we began during teaching our Machine-Learning module at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Today, we present the machine-learning students’ experience and preferences of machine-learning libraries such as scikit-learn, Tensorflow, and Weka. This survey was conducted in one of the Read more…
The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) is the premier conference to present new research results, systems, and techniques including machine learning and natural language processing relating to recommender systems. This year, the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems takes place in Vancouver, and the call for papers has just been Read more…
From time to time, I get asked by students “how can I find a good PhD supervisor?” And sometimes I sit on PhD evaluation panels and I am surprised how little thought the PhD students put into choosing their supervisor. Therefore, I decided to write this blog post for potential Read more…
Students apparently had a strong focus on the application of machine learning. Students could each distribute 100 points to the different categories, and most students (24% of the points) wanted to learn about machine learning frameworks like scikit-learn, or Tensorflow. However, also a deep understanding of algorithms was demanded (19%). Read more…
