Keynotes
Xavier “Xavi” Amatriain, VP Product, AI and Compute Enablement at Google
Title
Recommending in the Age of AI: How we got here and what comes next
Abstract
TBA
Emilia Gómez, Senior Scientist at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center
Title
Recommender Systems: a European, Science for Policy Perspective
Abstract
The field of recommender systems and its annual conference, RecSys, has traditionally brought together academic researchers and industry experts to discuss advancements in recommendation technologies. However, the increasing use of recommender systems in applications with significant societal impact—such as social media, marketplaces, education, and healthcare—introduces a new perspective that must be considered in the research, development, and deployment of recommender systems: the policy perspective.
In this talk, I will share my personal insights on the challenges that recommender systems pose to society and the related policy issues. I will explore the complexities of working at the intersection of science and policy, highlight some research gaps in the field, and present opportunities for RecSys researchers to contribute to policy-making at different stages of the policy life cycle.
I will provide a European Union-centric view, drawing from my current work at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and my research expertise in developing music recommender systems. My keynote will provide a quick overview of the EU Digital Services Act and the AI Act through the lens of recommender system research as connected to algorithmic transparency. Through a series of research projects, I will present some mechanisms to integrate scientific, technical, and policy perspectives in our research field.
Biography
Dr. Emilia Gómez (MSc. Telecommunication Engineering, PhD in Computer Science) joined the JRC in 2018. She leads the Human Behaviour and Machine Intelligence (HUMAINT) team, providing technical and scientific support to EU AI policies, notably the AI Act and the Digital Services Act, as part of the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency. She is also a guest professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and has a long academic experience in the fields of Music Information Retrieval and Human-Centric Machine Learning.
She was the 1st female president of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, is a member of the OECD One AI expert group, an ELLIS fellow, and her work has been recognized by means of citations and honors, e.g. EUWomen4Future, Red Cross Award to Humanitarian Technologies or ICREA Academia.