When
4. April.Time: 08:00 - 17:00
What
April 4, MediaFutures sets the stage for a joined event featuring a series of talks, including contributions from Sole Pera (TU Delft), PhD candidates Lukas Wegmeth and Tobias Vente (University of Siegen) and Alain Starke (University of Amsterdam).
Dr. Maria Soledad Pera is an Associate Professor at the Web Information Systems group of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EWI), Delft University of Technology. Sole’s main area of expertise is in Information Retrieval with emphasis on non-traditional population.
Lukas Wegmeth is a Ph.D. Student of the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen. Before joining the ISG he completed his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Medical Computer Science at the University of Siegen. During his time as a graduate student, Lukas set his focus on the topic of Machine Learning and collaborated with different chairs of the University of Siegen to work on and release scientific research papers in the field. Lukas is currently analysing recommender systems from an energy efficiency context, measuring amongst other power consumptions.
Tobias Vente is a joint Ph.D. candidate at the ISG – Intelligent Systems Group (University of Siegen) in Siegen, Germany and the ADReM – Adrem Data Lab (University of Antwerp) in Antwerp, Belgium, working on model selection and automation in recommender systems. Generally, his research interests revolve around Recommender Systems, specifically applying ideas from AutoML (Automated Machine Learning) to information retrieval and recommender systems.
Alain Starke is researcher in MediaFutures work package 2, and Assistant Professor in Persuasive Communication at the University of Amsterdam. He works on problems in Human-Computer Interaction, applying psychological and communication theories to change how people use AI and technology. In MediaFutures he is highly involved in research on responsible recommender systems.