I am honoured to be appointed Chair of the Examination Board (German: “Prüfungsausschussvorsitzender”) for the Mechatronics study program at the University of Siegen. Initiated in the fall of 2001, this Master’s Program is an interdisciplinary initiative presented by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in collaboration with the Read more…
On April 18 and 19, 2023, the Model-based Engineering Group and the Intelligent Systems Group, both at the University of Siegen, conducted a research retreat. The event featured the following presentations, and many interesting discussions relating to machine learning, recommender systems, databases, and software engineering.
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…
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…
Rohit Rawat joins our group for his Master Thesis. Rohit is currently pursuing an MSC in Computer Science majoring in Data Science from Trinity College Dublin. Before joining Trinity College Dublin, he was working with Accenture in Pune, India as an Automation Developer where he worked on Blue Prism and Read more…
Prapti Setty joins our group for the 2019/2020 Academic Year. Prapti is a 4th-year undergraduate student of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. She has experience working as a Software Engineering intern at Microsoft. Prapti has a keen interest in machine learning and natural language processing. Prapti will be working Read more…
Bryan Tyrrell will be joining our group to complete a dissertation during the current academic year. Bryan is currently studying a Masters in the field of computer science and has chosen the future networked systems strand. He completed a bachelor’s degree in computer and electronic engineering from NUI Galway during Read more…
Divyanshu Marwah is an MSc student at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. He is doing his post-graduate studies in computer science with a specialization in Data Science. Before joining the Master’s, he worked on data modeling, data integration, java development, and automation at Envestnet Read more…
Time Higher Education has published the World University Rankings 2020 and I am very proud that Trinity College Dublin ranks among the top universities. Overall, Trinity College Dublin ranks #164 in the world and #1 in Ireland, before Dublin City University (DCU) and University College Dublin (UCD). Rankings for computer Read more…
We welcome Haley, who will be joining us for the 2019/2020 Academic Year. Haley is an Undergraduate Computer Science & Business student here at Trinity College Dublin. She has just completed an international exchange in The University of Sydney Australia and is now enrolled in the final year of her Read more…
Laura Tierney joins our group for the next couple of months. Laura is a 4th-year undergraduate student of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin. She has experience working as a Data Analyst intern and as a Data Quality intern with the Adapt Centre in DCU. After college, she hopes to get Read more…
Our lab is glad to welcome Dr. Avleen Malhi as a visiting postdoc researcher for September 2019 at Trinity College Dublin Ireland. During Avleen’s stay at Trinity College Dublin, her research will be focused on automated machine learning (AutoML) and exploring Siamese neural networks (SNN) for algorithm selection in our recommender-system as-a-service for digital libraries Mr. DLib.
We are pleased to announce that Colin Daly is joining our core group of researchers. Colin is a part-time researcher and will work towards a Ph.D. over a six-year period. Colin has a BSc from University College Cork, an MBA, and MSc from the Open University, a Higher Diploma from Read more…
I spent the past two weeks at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, where I am a visiting professor. As always, being in Tokyo was a great experience both on a personal and a professional level. NII is an amazing meeting place for national and international researchers. I Read more…
I am delighted to announce that I was invited to join the editorial board of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL). I will focus on submissions relating to information retrieval, recommender systems and machine learning in the field of digital libraries. The International Journal on Digital Libraries is a Read more…
Victor will be with us from the 1st of May to the end of July 2019. He’s a French Master’s student from the engineering school Polytech Clermont-Ferrand, which is attached to the university Clermont Auvergne. Victor studies Mathematics and Computer Science in the department of mathematics and modelling. Victor chooses Read more…
Aicha is a PhD student of Computer Science at the University of Laghouat in Algeria. She arrives today and will work with us for 1.5 years. Aicha’s research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, and recommender systems. Aicha’s PhD topic is analyzing user engagement behaviour in online social networks Read more…
Ian will be joining us for 6 months starting today. Ian is currently enrolled as a master’s student of Computer and Information Science at the University of Konstanz in the south of Germany. Ian’s research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval and recommender systems. Ian is currently Read more…
Our lab is glad to welcome Hebatallah Mohamed as a visiting PhD student for three months. Hebatallah is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Roma Tre in Italy. In Rome, she is doing her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Micarelli in 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.
Last year in July we met the core developers of the mind mapping software Freeplane in Munich (Docear’s mind mapping component is based on Freeplane). At that meeting we decided that Freeplane and Docear would closely cooperate. Now, more than a year later it was time to meet again and discuss the next big steps in the development of Freeplane and Docear. So we met this weekend in Magdeburg, Docear’s “headquarter”. And while last year six people attended the meeting, this year we were nine participants (three from Docear, three from Freeplane and three students from HTW Berlin) plus one Freeplane developer attending via video. In the following I would like to provide a brief overview of the discussed topics and results.
The Freeplane and Docear team in Docear’s office in Magdeburg (Germany)
It’ already a few weeks ago that we moved to a new office. The computer science department of our university (OvGU) sponsors it and it’s really great, and huge. It has space for six or even seven work spaces and there is a second room for another two or three people (again a big ‘thank you’ to our university and our mentor Prof. Andreas Nürnberger). As you maybe know, the core team of Docear are three people (Stefan, Marcel and me) and then there are a few students, volunteers and of course Bela, who co-founded SciPlore MindMapping, but who is in Berkeley now. That means, we have still some workspace to fill and we already began to fill it with a new intern :-). Two days ago, Cheng arrived from the university of Cambridge where he studies physics. He will stay for two month with us and will support the software development of Docear. This is particular good news for MacOS users because Cheng has a Mac and hence we can test Docear on a real Mac for the first time.
(Part of) the Docear team (Marcel, Stefan, Joeran, Cheng) in the new office
Btw. if you are interested in an internship, or writing your thesis about Docear, please read here and contact us. We have lots of great projects to work on, there are many research fields you can do research in, and, as you know, there is enough space in our office :-).