My keynote at the Doctoral Consortium of ACM RecSys 2026 in Minneapolis On 27 September 2026, I gave a keynote at the Doctoral Consortium of ACM RecSys 2026 in Minneapolis. The title was deliberately provocative: “When AI Does RecSys Experiments for $1: Why Spend Four Years on a PhD?” The Read more…
PhD students Lukas Wegmeth and Tobias Vente had the opportunity to visit Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, for a month-long research visit with Professor Min Zhang, a leading expert in recommender systems and information retrieval. Professor Min Zhang is a distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua Read more…
I am honoured to announce that I have been invited to join the ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys) Steering Committee. This invitation is a significant milestone in my career and represents an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development and growth of the field of recommender systems. The ACM RecSys Steering Read more…
Rosalind Picard‘s keynote at NeurIPS 2024 sparked quite a controversy, leading to an apology from NeurIPS and Picard herself. I was wondering what ChatGPT thought of her slides. Here is the result: You said: What do you See? ChatGPT said: This image shows a presentation slide. The key elements are: Read more…
This article (PDF Version) was part of the recent Dagstuhl Seminar “Evaluation Perspectives of Recommender Systems: Driving Research and Education”. The full report should be published soon. Cite as follows: I recall vividly when more than a decade ago – I was a PhD student – Konstan & Adomavicius warned Read more…
I am honored and glad to be invited again to continue to serve on the scientific advisory board of the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akadademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD), for the IFI program. The IFI program aims at young researchers from Master’s level to postdocs, who work in the field Read more…