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…
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has approved the proposal for a new journal, the “ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems“, in short, ACM TORS. I am delighted to be appointed as associate editor of the journal. ACM TORS is the Read more…
We welcome Lennart Purucker as a new full-time Ph.D. student at the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen. Before joining our group, Lennart finished his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. He completed his bachelor’s degree in a dual study Read more…
Our visiting student Teresa Scheidt received the best-paper award at the Perspectives Workshop at the ACM Recommender Systems Conference 2021 in Amsterdam. Teresa is doing her Master’s at Lund University in Sweden but visited us here at the University of Read more…
We are glad that after one and a half years of virtual conferences, we can finally attend a conference physically. The research members of the Intelligent Systems Group Siegen traveled to Amsterdam to attend the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Read more…
On 8 October 2021, the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD) organises the ‘IFI Netzwerktreffen’. I am invited to moderate a group discussion about the topic “Best practices in Scientific Publishing”. I am looking forward to many Read more…
The ‘future’ magazine of the University of Siegen reported about our research, particularly about our automated algorithm selection for recommender systems. We‘re used to streaming services suggesting new series we might like. News sites recommend articles that could interest us. Read more…
We welcome Tobias Vente as a new full-time Ph.D. student at the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen. Tobias completed his bachelor’s and master’s degree at the University of Siegen. He took part in the University of Siegen’s Read more…
Our group — the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen in Germany — seeks to fill 1 open position for either a postdoctoral researcher or a Ph.D. student. The starting date is flexible but we would prefer it as soon as possible. Read more…
Auf Einladung des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes (DAAD) nehme ich am 25. August bei einer Panel-Diskussion auf der GAIN Jahrestagung teil. Ich freue mich dort u.a. neben Prof. Dr. Wolfram Ressel (Rektor der Universität Stuttgart) und Prof. Dr. Andreas Zaby (Präsident Read more…
We welcome Teresa Scheidt, who joins our group for a research internship over the summer. Teresa is a Master student at Lund University, where she is currently in the first year of the Master program ‘Machine Learning, Systems and Control’. Read more…
— Applications Closed — Visit https://isg.beel.org/jobs/ for latest openings — Our group — the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen in Germany — recently acquired a €1.25m research grant. Therefore, we have 2 open positions for either postdoctoral researchers or PhD students. Read more…
Our reference management software Docear has not been actively developed for a few years, and recently, the add-on to fetch metadata from Google Scholar stopped working. Fortunately, one of our users (Li Yang) adjusted Docear’s Google Scholar Parser, and now Read more…
Hinter mir liegt eine 1,5 Jahre lange Odyssee mit der Lufthansa AG. Es ging um die Erstattung eines kurzfristig stornierten Fluges. Nachdem die Lufthansa AG 1,5 Jahre lang mit allen möglichen und unmöglichen Mitteln versucht hat sich vor Ihrer Verantwortung Read more…
Sushanta Ratna Adhikari has joined us as a Graduate Assistant. Sushanta did his bachelor’s in Computer Science and Information Technology from the Tribhuvan University, Nepal. After he completed his bachelor’s degree, he worked as a web developer for a couple Read more…
The University of Siegen has secured funding for 20 x 2-year ‘STAR’ postdoc fellowships. Funding comes from the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020) for implementing Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc fellowships. The ‘STAR’ fellowships allow you to independently Read more…
We welcome Nathan Buskulic as a visiting researcher. Nathan finished his machine learning master at Sorbonne Université (France) with distinction and decided to continue his way towards academia. He spent one year of his master in Tu-Delft to experience an Read more…
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…