Our working group at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has initiated a memorandum of understanding between TCD and the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan. On this page, you will find a list of our blog posts relating to the NII including details on the memorandum of understanding, our visiting professorship at the NII and guidelines on living and working in Tokyo, the NII respectively. If you are a PhD student at Trinity College Dublin and if you are interested in spending up to six months at the NII in Tokyo for a research internship, look at the Earrach Sakura Award.
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…
Update 2019-08-14 DAAD published a new website for the IFI programme: www.daad.de/ifi I was invited to join the scientific advisory board for the new IFI programme of the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD). The IFI programme (German: “Internationale Forschungsaufenthalte für Informatiker_Innen”) is the successor of the 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…
As part of the DAAD RISE Worldwide program, we were awarded two funded internship positions for two undergraduate students both being from Germany. The two interns will be conducting a research project as part of Mr. DLib in the fields of recommender systems, machine learning and natural language processing. Gordian (University Read more…
In the past few weeks, we published (or received acceptance notices for) a number of papers related to Mr. DLib, research-paper recommender systems, and recommendations-as-a-service. Many of them were written during our time at the NII or in collaboration with the NII. Here is the list of publications: Beel, Joeran, Bela Gipp, Read more…
Stefan Feyer from the University of Konstanz had joined the Mr. DLib team for a six months internship. Yesterday, it was time to say goodbye to Stefan and we had a small farewell party at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo. We wish Stefan all the best for his Read more…
Update on 2018-03-15: We Are Hiring 1 Software Engineer & 1 Software Architect / Product Owner for a Recommender-System Business Start-up Updated on 2017-08-14: Here at Docear and Mr. DLib we have many exciting projects in the field of recommender systems, user modelling, personalisation, and adaptive systems (primarily with Read more…
Update 2016-01-12: The salary in Tokyo would be around 1.600 US$ per month, not 1.400. 2015 has been a rather quiet year for Docear, but 2016 will be different. We have lots of ideas for new projects, and even better – we have funding to pay at least 1 Master or Read more…