Lukas Wegmeth & Tobias Vente, both fourth-year Ph.D. students at the Intelligent Systems Group, were invited to SFI MediaFutures in Bergen, Norway, to give a talk on the sustainability of Recommender Systems on April 4th, 2025. Prof. Sole Pera also gave an invited talk on responsible Recommender Systems on 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…
As part of his research semester, Prof. Beel visited Prof. Min Zhang at Tsinghua University. Professor Min Zhang is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University and an influential researcher in information retrieval and recommender systems. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Information Read more…
Prof. Joeran Beel visited Prof. Li Chen at Baptist University Hong Kong (HKBU) as part of his research semester. During his visit, Prof. Beel delivered a seminar on sustainable recommender systems, attended the HKBU-NVIDIA Joint Symposium 2025, and collaborated with Prof. Chen on the future development of the ACM Transactions Read more…
As my research semester in Singapore draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on an incredibly rewarding three months at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where I had the privilege of visiting Prof. Min-Yen Kan and his outstanding Web, Information Retrieval / Natural Language Processing Group (WING). My Read more…
We proudly announce that the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Siegen and the Department of Applied Information Technology at the University of Gothenburg have signed an Erasmus agreement. The agreement will support exchanges and research visits of Master’s students, researchers (e.g. PhD students), and Read more…
Tobias spent two weeks with Bart Goethels and his team at the ADReM Data Lab at the University of Antwerp. He worked on novel recommender system algorithms incorporating ensembling techniques during this time. Located within the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, the Adrem Data Lab comprises four faculty members, Read more…
I am delighted to announce that I am visiting Alan Said and his research group at the University of Gothenburg for a knowledge exchange about sustainable recommender systems and machine learning. Sweden’s innovation agency VINNOVA has approved funding for three research visits over the next twelve months. During this time 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…
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…