RecSys 2026 Conference Awards

Best Paper Award Committees

Main Track:

• Xavier Amatriain
• Eva Zangerle
• Markus Schedl
• Christine Bauer
• Minmin Chen
• Martijn Willemsen
• Bart Goethals

Industry Track:

• Arnie Bhadury
• Zhenhua Dong
• Felice Antonio Merra

Best Paper Award

Daniel Nemirovsky, Priya Khokher, Adarsh Jois, Marco Zagha, Joaquin Delgado. “There’s Something About You: Epistemic Recommendation for Latent Interest Discovery”. (Disney, USA.)

Best Student Paper Award

Shiteng Cao, Junda She, Ji Liu, Bin Zeng, Chengcheng Guo, Kuo Cai, Qiang Luo, Ruiming Tang, Han Li, Kun Gai, Zhiheng Li, Cheng Yang. “Coarse-to-Fine Long-term Interest Modeling for Generative Recommendation”. (Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Kuaishou Inc., China.)

Honorable mention:

• Jun Woo Chung, Weijie Zhao. “On Reranking Space for Multi-Tenant Retrieval with Adapted Queries”. (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.)

Best Industry Paper Award

Krishna Harsha Reddy Kothapalli, Angela Liu, Kamal Nayan Reddy Challa, Pavithra Seshadrivijayakrishnan, Yongpeng Yang, Mustafa Ispir. “A Framework for Value-Aligned Modeling and Robust Experimentation.” (Google, USA.)

Honorable mentions:

• Lequn Wang, Jiangwei Pan, Linas Baltrunas. “GenPage: Towards End-to-End Generative Homepage Construction at Netflix”. (Netflix, USA.)
• Baolei Li, Yiping Yuan, Yilin Zheng, Likang Yin, Ling Liu, Fabio Soldo, Romer Rosales, Xinyang Yi, Lichan Hong. “Tokens are All You Need: Dual-purpose Semantic IDs for Achieving LLM-Level I/O Efficiency in Recommendation Systems.” (Google, USA.)
• Chen Luo, Yulin Liu, Yi Liu, Xuejing Lei, Yuchen Yan, Xin Zhang, Huimin Zeng, Hongda Mao, Monica Cheng. “Which LLM to Fine-Tune? Agent-Driven Model Selection at Scale”. (Amazon, USA.)

Outstanding Senior Program Committee Members

• Antonela Tommasel
• Bart Knijnenburg
• Dominik Kowald
• Joeran Beel
• Ludovico Boratto
• Marco de Gemmis
• Maria Maistro
• Maria Soledad Pera
• Marko Tkalčič
• Yashar Deldjoo

Outstanding Reviewers

PC Members

• Alessandro Francesco Maria Martina
• Amra Delic
• Joey De Pauw
• Andreas Holzinger
• Ben London
• Bereket A. Yilma
• Bruce Ferwerda
• Chalapathi Koneni
• Edgar Ceh-Varela
• Federica Cena
• Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner
• Giuseppe Spillo
• Huber Flores
• Kaushal Paneri
• Lien Michiels
• Linus W. Dietz
• Lorenzo Porcaro
• Markus Reiter-Haas
• Marta Moscati
• Mateo Gutierrez Granada
• Mesut Kaya
• Mirko Marras
• Naieme Hazrati
• Noemi Mauro
• Norman Knyazev
• Pigi Kouki
• Robert Moro
• Robin Ungruh
• Shubham Jain
• Theresia Veronika Rampisela

Emergency Reviewers

• Lam-Anh Vu
• Alessandro Soccol
• Anton Korikov
• Mátyás Jani