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 Read more…
Recently, we were delighted to learn that our paper “Revealing the Hidden Impact of Top-N Metrics on Optimization in Recommender Systems” was accepted for the “Full Paper” track at the ECIR 2024. The paper, co-authored by members of our chair, Read more…
The Germany Academic Exchange Service (DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) invited its alumni to Berlin to discuss recent advances in generative artificial intelligence. Dr. Holger Finken, Cordula Behrsing and Jana Zettler organized the event. Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid held the Read more…
Our Ph.D. students, Tobias Vente, and Lukas Wegmeth, will attend the ACM RecSys 2023 conference in Singapore to present their latest work on Automated Recommender Systems (AutoRecSys) with four papers: two in the Doctoral Symposium, one in the PERSPECTIVES 2023 Read more…
As part of my research visit to the University of Gothenburg, I am glad to announce that I will be giving a seminar on “The ‘unreasonable’ effectiveness of Graphical User Interfaces for Recommender Systems”. The seminar will take place at 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 Read more…
The German VDE Bergisch Land-Südwestfalen offers stipends for students who are writing their Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis. The stipend accumulates up to a total of €1,800 (6 months á €300). The stipend aims at students in the field of electrical Read more…
The University of Siegen recently introduced a highly interesting study strand of the Bachelor’s in Computer Science, i.e. the strand of complex and intelligent software systems. I am glad to announce that I will be one of two advisors for Read more…
The ACM RecSys 2023 Doctoral Symposium Chairs accepted the extended abstracts that Tobias Vente and Lukas Wegmeth submitted. Abstracts will be presented by their authors and discussed with the chairs and other students at the conference. The extended abstract was 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 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 Read more…
We are grateful for the opportunity to present some of our recent work at the ISG with two posters at the COSEAL Workshop 2023 at Sorbonne University in Paris. The COnfiguration and SElection of ALgorithms (COSEAL) network of researchers regularly Read more…
At the end of last year, we had the pleasure of presenting our publication of Lennart Purucker‘s Master thesis at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) in Florida, USA! Lennart worked on Meta-Learning for Subgroup Discovery during Read more…
ChatGPT ist derzeit in aller Munde und vollbringt Erstaunliches. Es löst Klausuren, schreibt Aufsätze und Gedichte, programmiert Software und vieles mehr. Ich wollte einmal probieren, ob ChatGPT Humor hat, und nützlich im Bereich (Stadt) Marketing ist. Das Ergebnis ist, wie Read more…
I am delighted to announce that Dr. André Klahold will give a guest lecture in my recommender-systems lecture series. The lecture will take place next week, Tuesday, 31 January 2023, at 14:00. Titel: „Recommender Systems for Text“ Abstract: The lecture Read more…
We are happy to announce that the ISG Siegen is involved in the organization of the AutoML Conference 2023! Lennart Purucker, one of our Ph.D. students, is the Reproducibility Chair for the AutoML Conference 2023. The Reproducibility Chair is a Read more…
Update 2023-05: The report is now available on arXiv.org. Prof. Beel was invited to attend the Dagstuhl seminar about ‘Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education‘. The seminar took place from January 15 to January 20, 2023 in Read more…
Just like last year, our Ph.D. students were part of this year’s AutoML Fall School Hackathon winning team. This year the team consisted of Lennart Purucker, Lukas Wegmeth, Gabriela Kadlecová, Nick Erickson, and Sarah Krebs, and was again titled “Team Read more…
The AutoML Fall School 2022 ends today, and I believe it was a great success. At least I enjoyed giving a guest lecture on AutoML and Recommender Systems and having a very active discussion with the around 70 Master and Read more…
With great delight, we had the opportunity to discuss our paper on our vision of a novel way to utilize the advantages of meta-learning in recommender systems at the 2nd Workshop: Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems @ ACM Read more…
We had the pleasure to present our work on benchmarking ensembles in Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) at the first international Conference on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML-Conf 2022). We showed how we can use OpenML to create efficient benchmarks for ensembles Read more…
We welcome Lukas Wegmeth as a new full-time Ph.D. student at the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen. Lukas graduated with a Bachelor’s degree and subsequently with a Master’s degree in Medical Computer Science at the University of Read more…
We are glad to welcome Prof. Burggräf as a guest lecturer in our machine learning lecture series. He will give the lecture on Tuesday, the 11th of January 2022, between 10:15 and 11:45 o’clock (German time). Prof. Burggräf will talk Read more…
Lennart Purucker and Tobias Vente just started their Ph.D. a few months ago, and already won the Hackathon of this year’s AutoML Fall School together with their teammates of “Team 42” (Edward Bergman, Michael Fiegert, Elias Schede, and Gabriela Suchopárová). Read more…
The University of Siegen successfully received funding from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 945422. The funding will be used to offer a number of postdoc fellowships, We — the Intelligent Systems Read more…