Program Co-chairs

Contact: program2012@recsys.acm.org

Ido Guy, IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Israel
Sarabjot Singh Anand, University of Warwick, England

General Co-chairs

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Pádraig Cunningham, University College Dublin, Ireland
Neil Hurley, University College Dublin, Ireland

Workshop Chairs

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Jill Freyne, CSIRO, Australia
Pearl Pu, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Doctoral Symposium

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Alexander Felfernig, TU Graz, Austria
Michael O'Mahony, University College Dublin, Ireland

Industry

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Yehuda Koren, Google, Israel
Daniel Tunkelang, LinkedIn, USA

Tutorial Chairs

Contact: tutorial2012@recsys.acm.org

Alexander Tuzhilin, Stern School of Business, New York University, USA
Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA

Demo Chairs

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Elizabeth Daly, IBM Research, Ireland
Michael Ekstrand, University of Minnesota, USA

Publicity Chairs

Contact: publicity2012@recsys.acm.org

Karen Church, Telefonica Research, Spain
Alan Said, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Asia Liaison

Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Senior program committee

Gediminas Adomavicius (University of Minnesota, USA)
Xavier Amatriain (Netflix, USA)
Liliana Ardissono (Università di Torino, Italy)
Lawrence Bergman (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Shlomo Berkovsky (CSIRO, Australia)
Derek Bridge (University College Cork, Ireland)
Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Robin Burke (DePaul University, USA)
Martin Ester (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Alexander Felfernig (TU Graz, Austria)
Jill Freyne (CSIRO, Australia)
Gerhard Friedrich (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)
Matthias Fuchs (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Werner Geyer (IBM Research, USA)
Jennifer Golbeck (University of Maryland, USA)
Andreas Hotho (University of Würzburg, Germany)
Alejandro Jaimes (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Dietmar Jannach (TU Dortmund, Germany)
Alfred Kobsa (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Yehuda Koren (Yahoo Research, USA)
Benjamin Marlin (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University, USA)
Michael Paul O'Mahony (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Paul Resnick (University of Michigan, USA)
Francesco Ricci (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
John Riedl (University of Minnesota, USA)
Lars Schmidt-Thieme (University of Hildesheim, Germany)
Giovanni Semeraro (Università di Bari, Italy)
Barry Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Domonkos Tikk (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Marc Torrens (Strands, Spain)
Alexander Tuzhilin (New York University, USA)
Hannes Werthner (TU Vienna, Austria)
Markus Zanker (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)

Regular program committee

Linas Baltrunas (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Xinlong Bao (Google Inc., USA)
Mathias Bauer (Mineway, Germany)
Smriti Bhagat (Technicolor, USA)
Iván Cantador (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Pablo Castells (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Oscar Celma (Gracenote, Emeryville, US)
Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University, China)
Wen-Huang Cheng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Zunping Cheng (Oracle EMEA, Ireland)
Paolo Cremonesi (Politecnico die Milano, Italy)
Padraig Cunningham (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Elizabeth Daly (IBM Cambridge Research Center, USA)
Marco De Gemmis (University of Bari, Italy)
Ernesto De Luca (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Christian Desrosiers
Hendrik Drachsler (Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands)
Zeno Gantner (Nokia)
Derek Greene (UCD, Ireland)
Asela Gunawardana (Microsoft Research, USA)
Conor Hayes (Digital Enterprise Research Institute - NUI Galway, Ireland)
Tim Hussein (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Mohsen Jamali (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Robert Jäschke (University of Kassel, Germany)
Alexandros Karatzoglou (Telefonica Research, Spain)
George Karypis
Benjamin Keller (Eastern Michigan University, USA)
Georgia Koutrika (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Antonio Krüger (Saarland University, Germany)
Tsvi Kuflik (University of Haifa, Israel)
Paul Lamere (The Echo Nest)
Daniel Lemire (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Pasquale Lops (Università di Bari, Italy)
Nikos Manouselis (Agricultural University of Athens, Greece)
Kevin McCarthy (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Sean McNee (Attenex Corp., USA)
Bashkar Meta (Google Research Zurich, Switzerland)
Stuart Middleton (University of Southampton, UK)
Alexandros Nanopoulos (University of Hildesheim, Germany)
Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA)
Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S and University of Hannover, Germany)
Barry O'Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)
Seung-Taek Park (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, South Korea)
Istvan Pilaszy (Gravity R&D Ltd, Hungary)
Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Tech, USA)
James Reilly (Google Inc., USA)
Steffen Rendle (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Hagee Roitman (IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Israel)
Lior Rokach (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Inbal Ronen (IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel)
Olga C. Santos (aDeNu Research Group – UNED, Spain)
Shilad Sen (Macalester College, USA)
Guy Shani (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Bracha Shapira (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)
Markus Stolze (Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, Switzerland)
Panagiotis Symeonidis (Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece)
Nava Tintarev (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Jun Wang (University College London, UK)
Mi Zhang (Fudan University, China)
Jiyong Zhang (EPFL, Switzerland) Daniel Zhou (University of Michigan, USA)
Daniel Xiaodan Zhou
Tingshao Zhu (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China)
Christian Desrosiers (University in Montreal, Canada)
George Karypis (University of Minnesota, USA)
Daniel Xiaodan Zhou (University of Michigan, USA)
Alan Said (TU Berlin, Germany)

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