Today we received a new computer and tested a few hard drives for their speed, namely: Tested in a new Desktop PC with Ryzen 5, 64 GB RAM, Windows 10 Samsung SSD 980 Pro (4th Gen M.2 SSD), 500 GB Read more…
In the past academic year, we supervised eleven Bachelor and Master students at the School of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. We are delighted that all our students did very well. Ten (91%) even received a ‘distinction’ for their Read more…
I am pleased to share that our bachelor student, Leonie Winter, has successfully completed her thesis (arXiv) at my chair — and she did an excellent job. Her work follows up on our earlier study on pruning in recommender-system evaluations Read more…
Today, I got the new Google Pixel 5 in my mailbox. To me, the camera of a mobile phone is of particular importance. Given the excellent feedback in the media on Google´s phone cameras, I was excited to try it Read more…
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 Read more…
Abstract We introduce Recommender-Systems.com (RS_c) as a central platform for the recommender-systems community. RS_c provides regular news on important events in the community as well as curated lists of recommender-system resources including datasets, algorithms, jobs, software, and learning materials. Based Read more…
ABSTRACT Citation parsing, particularly with deep neural networks, suffers from a lack of training data as available datasets typically contain only a few thousand training instances. Manually labelling citation strings is very time-consuming, hence synthetically created training data could be Read more…
For beginners in recommender systems, it is difficult to get an overview of the state-of-the-art, the most relevant venues, and helpful tools and datasets. Similarly, experts in recommender-systems may find it difficult to keep up to date with the latest Read more…
Closed — for the latest job offerings, please visit our Jobs page We received a €1.25m research grant from the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia that allows us to hire 3 PhD students, postdoctoral researchers or research fellows in the Read more…
“What do I need to do, to be a successful Ph.D. student / How do I know if I was successful during my PhD project?” is a question I am often being asked. Hence, I decided to write some advice Read more…
Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) is receiving increased attention with more and more tools and software libraries released to ease the process of automating the machine learning pipeline, particularly algorithm selection and configuration. We have created a table of some of Read more…
We welcome Edward Bergman as a new full-time PhD student here at the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin, funded through the new D-REAL SFI Centre for Research Training (CRT) and supported by the ADAPT Centre. Read more…
Two student groups in my E-Business module did a great job in developing an add-on for Gmail to distinguish genuine emails from mass emails (mass email not as in “spam” but as in an email sent e.g. by a student Read more…
Every traveler knows the problem — you want to quickly check your emails in an internet cafe, and have a bad feeling when logging into your email client like Gmail. What if a key logger is recording your password, and Read more…
The ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin has received funding to hire two start-up founders to spin-out the business start-up Darwin & Goliath in the field of recommendations-as-a-service. While we successfully hired a future CTO, we are still seeking to Read more…
From 19 to 23 October 2020, the CIKM conference will take place in Galway, Ireland, and the call for papers has just been released. The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) is a key event for the international academic, Read more…
This is a continuous call until 2022, with student intakes in September every year (and potentially in March). Next deadline is the 29th of February 2020 for a start in September 2020 for the CRT-AI, and 18th of March for Read more…
Short version: 1. Opodo insists that a canceled flight had flown as scheduled. 2. Opodo’s Twitter support ignores all requests, the web chat refers me to the hotline, the hotline refers me to sending an email, and the email system 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 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 Read more…
http://aics2019.datascienceinstitute.ie/papers/aics_27.pdf Abstract. Fantasy Premier League (FPL) performance predictors tend to base their algorithms purely on historical statistical data. The main problems with this approach is that external factors such as injuries, managerial decisions and other tournament match statistics can never Read more…
After recently advertising an Assistant Professorship in Computer science (Artificial Intelligence), Trinity College Dublin now has an additional position to fill with a Full Professor in Computer Science focusing on Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines (machine learning, natural language processing, Read more…
This is the pre-print of: Mark Grennan, Martin Schibel, Andrew Collins, and Joeran Beel. “GIANT: The 1-Billion Annotated Synthetic Bibliographic-Reference-String Dataset for Deep Citation Parsing.” In 27th AIAI Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 101–112, 2019. final Publication: Read more…
Rohan Anand is a Masters’s student at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and joins our group for the next eight months to conduct his Master Thesis. During his undergraduate program, Rohan published Read more…
We are seeking to hire one business manager, administrator, or marketing expert as the future CEO and one machine learning engineer, software engineer or software architect as the future CTO for our business start-up Darwin & Goliath. The positions are Read more…