The Irish Research Council (IRC) has published a new call for its “Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship” programme. We are eligible to supervise applicants during their application process and act as PhD supervisor for the 4-year period of the scholarship. Hence, if you are interested in doing a PhD at Read more…
The 3rd call for EU Marie Curie EDGE fellowships has been published. We successfully supported the application of one EDGE fellow a year ago, and we would be happy to support talented candidates this year, too. So, if you are interested in an EDGE fellowship in the field of machine learning, recommender systems or Read more…
“Research-Paper Recommender Systems: A Literature Survey”, our survey on recommender systems for research articles and citations is now available open access on Springer via ReadCube https://rdcu.be/5qT7. This survey is our most cited paper (241 citations according to Google Scholar), and we are glad that it is now available for free for Read more…
The University of Dublin, Trinity College, invites applications for the position of Professor of Intelligent Systems. The successful candidate will provide strong academic leadership in research, teaching and supervision. The Professor will strengthen the strategic research areas of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Content in the School of Computer Science and Read more…
We are delighted to announce that our poster “ParsRec: Meta-Learning Recommendations for Bibliographic Reference Parsing” has been accepted at the 12th ACM Recommender Systems Conference (RecSys) for presentation in Vancouver, Canada. The pre-print is available on arXiv, and here in our blog: Abstract Bibliographic reference parsers extract metadata (e.g. author names, Read more…
We published a manuscript on arXiv about the first living lab for scholarly recommender systems. This lab allows recommender-system researchers to conduct online evaluations of their novel algorithms for scholarly recommendations, i.e., research papers, citations, conferences, research grants etc. Recommendations are delivered through the living lab´s API in platforms such Read more…
We released a new version of RARD, i.e. RARD II and describe the new release in a preprint published on arXiv. The dataset is available at http://data.mr-dlib.org and the new manuscript is available on arXiv and here in our Blog. The main contribution of this paper is to introduce and describe Read more…
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…