Doctoral Symposium

The Doctoral Symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students working in recommender systems research to receive critical feedback about their work and to further develop their research agenda under the guidance of distinguished and established researchers in recommender systems. Each doctoral student will be paired with two mentors who will provide feedback and guide the discussion of the student’s work during the Symposium. The small group setting of the symposium will also allow for an open discussion of issues and challenges related to the work presented by students.

This year, the symposium will be held on-site with support for remote attendance.

Participants

• An Ontology-based Knowledgebase for User Profile and Garment Features in Apparel Recommender Systems
  Bolanle Olufisayo Dahunsi
• Argument-based generation and explanation of recommendations
  Andrés Segura-Tinoco
• Biases in Recommendation System
  Saumya Bhadani
• Learning Dynamic Insurance Recommendations from Users’ Click Sessions
  Simone Borg Bruun
• Leveraging Multi-Faceted User Preferences for Improving Click-Through Rate Predictions
  Pan Li
• Measuring and Mitigating Bias and Harm in Personalized Advertising
  Muhammad Ali
• Modeling Users and Items for Recommenders: There Is More than Semantics
  Mete Sertkan
• Neural Basket Embedding for Sequential Recommendation
  Vojtěch Vančura

Mentors

• Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
• Emilia Gómez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Spain
• Jen Golbeck, University of Maryland, USA
• Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
• Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Michael Ekstrand, Boise State University, USA
• Neil Hurley, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Rodrygo Santos, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Schedule

We have divided the day as follows (Amsterdam local time, CEST):

• 15:00-15.30: Welcome and introductions
• 15.30-17:00: Session I (2 parallel sessions x 2 student presentations each)
• 17:00-18:00: Break
• 18:00-19.30: Session II (2 parallel sessions x 2 student presentations each)
• 19.30-20:00: Wrap-up and general feedback

The presentation sessions are in two parallel groups.

Doctoral Symposium Chairs

• Christine Bauer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónonoma de Madrid, Spain