• Our paper “Exploring the Landscape of Recommender Systems Evaluation: Practices and Perspectives” just was published in ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems [11/2023].
• Christine Bauer and me received the Women in RecSys Journal Paper of the Year award for our paper “Evaluating Recommender Systems: Survey and Framework” - yay :) [2023/09].
• I will be Workshop Co-Chair for RecSys 2024 [2023/09].
• This week, Andreas and Amir are in Singapore at the RecSys conference. They will both present their PhD work during the doctoral consortium. Andreas will present our full paper “SPARE: Shortest Path Global Item Relations for Efficient Session-based Recommendation” and Christine Bauer and me will present our FEVR framework [09/2023].
• I have just presented the overview of the Multi-Author Style Analysis Task at PAN@CLEF [09/2023].
• I have joined the ECIR 2024 program committee for the workshop track [09/2023].
• Amir Reza Mohammadi and Andreas Peintner’s submissions to the Doctoral Consortium at this year’s ACM Conference on Recommender Systems were accepted. Amir works on “Explainable Graph Neural Network Recommenders; Challenges and Opportunities” and Andreas on “Sequential Recommendation Models: A Graph-based Perspective”, both are supervised by me :) [07/2023].
• Was awarded my habilitation degree from the University of Innsbruck [07/2023].
• Our paper “SPARE: Shortest Path Global Item Relations for Efficient Session-based Recommendation” was accepted as full paper at this year’s ACM Conference on Recommender Systems - work together with Andreas Peintner and Amir Reza Mohammadi (acceptance rate 18.7%) [06/2023].
• Was nominated for best reviewer award at 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization [06/2023].
• I will hold a keynote at the Workshop on Machine Learning for Streaming Media at the Web Conference 2023 in Austin. I will be talking about “What Can We Learn From Analyzing Streaming Music Data?” [04/2023].

• Humans and Recommender Systems: Towards a Mutual Understanding (principal investigator)
  funded by Austrian Research Fund (FWF)
  2021-2024, 600,000 EUR
• GoStudent - Q&A Matching (principal investigator)
  funded by Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
  2019-2020, 89,000 EUR
  
• Digitization and Visualization of Archives and Collections (co-principal investigator)
  funded by Region of Tyrol
  2018-2020, 200,000 EUR

Conference Organization

• ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) 2024 (Workshop Chair)
• Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2024 (Track Chair Personalized Recommender Systems)
• ACM Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2024 (Workshop and Tutorials Chair)
• Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2022 (Track Chair Personalized Recommender Systems)
• ACM Hypertext 2022 (Track Chair Adaptive Web and Recommender Systems)
• Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2021 (Late Breaking Results and Demo Chair)
• International Society on Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 2020 (Publication Chair)
• International Society on Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 2019 (Tutorials Chair)
• Women in MIR at International Society on Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 2018 (WiMIR Chair)

Workshop Organization

• Dagstuhl Seminar: Evaluation Perspectives of Recommender Systems: Driving Research and Education 2024.
• PERSPECTIVES 2023 Workshop: 3rd Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems Workshop at ACM Recommender Systems 2023.
• PERSPECTIVES 2022 Workshop: 2nd Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems Workshop at ACM Recommender Systems 2022.
• PERSPECTIVES 2021 Workshop: Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems Workshop at ACM Recommender Systems 2021.
• 2nd WiMIR Workshop at International Society on Music Information Retrieval Conference (Project Guide for Multi-Dimensional User Models for MIR).
• 1st International Workshop on Multi-Method Evaluation of Personalized Systems @UMAP 2018 – User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2018.
• 23rd Workshop Grundlagen von Datenbanken 2011.

Challenge Organization

• Multi-Author Analysis Task, PAN@CLEF 2024 (Task Chair)
• Multi-Author Analysis Task, PAN@CLEF 2023 (Task Chair)
• Multi-Author Analysis Task, PAN@CLEF 2022 (Task Chair)
• Style Change Detection Task, PAN@CLEF 2021 (Task Chair)
• Style Change Detection Task, PAN@CLEF 2020 (Task Chair)
• Style Change Detection Task, PAN@CLEF 2019 (Task Chair)

Editorial Service

• Guest editor: Special Issue “Perspectives on Recommender Systems Evaluation” in ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (together with Christine Bauer and Alan Said) [2022-2023]

Reviewing for Conferences

• ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) [2022, senior PC member 2023]
• ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) [2023]
• The Web Conference [2022, senior PC member 2023]
• European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) [2019, 2021-2023, 2024 (workshops)]
• International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation [2020-2023]
• ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) [2018-2022; best reviewer award nominee 2018]
• International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) [2016, meta-reviewer 2017-2022]
• Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Explainable User Interfaces [2022]
• Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) [2019-2021; best reviewer award nominee 2023]
• International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym) [2021]
• Workshop on Computational Humanities Research [2020-2021]
• ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM) [2019-2020]
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) [2015-2020]
• Explainable User Models and Personalized Systems Workshop (ExUM) [2020]
• ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci) [2019]
• Sound & Music Computing Conference (SMC) [2019]
• Workshop on Explainable and Holistic User Modeling [2019]
• Workshop Engineering Accountable Information Systems [2019]
• International Workshop on Transparent Personalization Methods based on Heterogeneous Personal Data [2019]
• International Conference on New Music Concepts (ICNMC) [2014-2019]
• Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) [2016-2019]
• Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) [2017, 2019]
• CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) [2018]
• Workshop on Social Aspects in Personalization and Search (SoAPS) [2018]
• International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS) [2014-2018]
• Digital Humanities Austria (DHA) [2017-2018]
• Workshop on Social Media for Personalization and Search (SoMePeaS) [2017]
• International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SemaPro) [2017]
• Workshop on Linked Enterprise Data Services, Provenance, Linking and QualitY (LEDSPLaY) [2017]
• Workshop on Engineering Computer-Human Interaction in Recommender Systems (EnCHIReS) [2016]
• European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS, Social Media in Business and Society) [2016]
• International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS), Poster Track [2014-2016]
• Affect and Sentiment in Multimedia Workshop (ASM) [2015]
• International Workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis (Somera) [2014-2015]
• European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS, Social Media Research and Analytics Track) [2015]
• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) [2014]
• International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-Semantics) [2012-2013]

Reviewing for Journals

• ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
• Data Mining and Discovery
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence: The International Journal of Intelligent Real-Time Automation
• EPJ Data Science
• EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
• Expert Systems with Applications Journal
• Frontiers in AI - Natural Language Processing (member of editorial team)
• Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics - Research methods (member of editorial team)
• Information Sciences (Informatics and Computer Science Intelligent Systems Applications)
• International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (IJMIR)
• International Journal on Human-Computer Studies
• Journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
• Journal of Grid Computing
• Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM)
• Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)
• PLOS One
• Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR)
• User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI)