Recsperts - Recommender Systems Experts

Recsperts - Recommender Systems Experts

Marcel Kurovski

Episodes 33
Avg. Duration 1h 26m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (4)
Since Sep 2021
Latest Episode May 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Months
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Episodic
Consistency
44%
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feeds.transistor.fm

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About This Podcast

Recommender Systems are the most challenging, powerful and ubiquitous area of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This podcast hosts the experts in recommender systems research and application. From understanding what users really want to driving large-scale content discovery - from delivering personalized online experiences to catering to multi-stakeholder goals. Guests from industry and academia share how they tackle these and many more challenges. With Recsperts coming from universities all around the globe or from various industries like streaming, ecommerce, news, or social media, this podcast provides depth and insights. We go far beyond your 101 on RecSys and the shallowness of another matrix factorization based rating prediction blogpost! The motto is: be relevant or become irrelevant! Expect a brand-new interview each month and follow Recsperts on your favorite podcast player.

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#32: RecSys in the Delivery Industry at Wolt with Sasha Fedintsev

May 12, 2026 1h 48m Transcript

In episode 32 of Recsperts, I’m joined by my colleague Sasha Fedintsev, Staff Applied Scientist at Wolt (DoorDash), working across personalization and ads, to unpack the realities of building…

#31: Psychology-Aware Recommender Systems with Elisabeth Lex

Feb 19, 2026 1h 37m Transcript

In episode 31 of Recsperts, I sit down with Elisabeth Lex, Full Professor of Human-Computer Interfaces and Inclusive Technologies at Graz University of Technology and a leading researcher at the…

#30: Serendipity for Recommender Systems with Annelien Smets

Jan 28, 2026 1h 32m Transcript

In episode 30 of Recsperts, I speak with Annelien Smets, Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Senior Researcher at imec-SMIT, about the value, perception, and practical design of serendipity…

#29: Transformers for Recommender Systems with Craig Macdonald and Sasha Petrov

Aug 27, 2025 1h 37m Transcript

In episode 29 of Recsperts, I welcome Craig Macdonald, Professor of Information Retrieval at the University of Glasgow, and Aleksandr “Sasha” Petrov, PhD researcher and former applied scientist at…

#28: Multistakeholder Recommender Systems with Robin Burke

Apr 15, 2025 1h 35m Transcript

In episode 28 of Recsperts, I sit down with Robin Burke, professor of information science at the University of Colorado Boulder and a leading expert with over 30 years of experience in recommender…

#27: Recommender Systems at the BBC with Alessandro Piscopo and Duncan Walker

Mar 19, 2025 1h 27m Transcript

In episode 27 of Recsperts, we meet Alessandro Piscopo, Lead Data Scientist in Personalization and Search, and Duncan Walker, Principal Data Scientist in the iPlayer Recommendations Team, both from…

#26: Diversity in Recommender Systems with Sanne Vrijenhoek

Feb 19, 2025 1h 35m Transcript

In episode 26 of Recsperts, I speak with Sanne Vrijenhoek, a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law and the AI, Media & Democracy Lab. Sanne’s research…

#25: RecSys 2024 Special

Oct 12, 2024 39m

In episode 25, we talk about the upcoming ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2024 (RecSys) and welcome a former guest to geek about the conference. Enjoy this enriching episode of RECSPERTS -…

#24: Video Recommendations at Facebook with Amey Dharwadker

Oct 01, 2024 1h 21m Transcript

In episode 24 of Recsperts, I sit down with Amey Dharwadker, Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Facebook, to dive into the complexities of large-scale video recommendations. Amey, who leads the…

#23: Generative Models for Recommender Systems with Yashar Deldjoo

Aug 16, 2024 1h 54m Transcript

In episode 23 of Recsperts, we welcome Yashar Deldjoo, Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy. Yashar's research on recommender systems includes multimodal approaches,…

#22: Pinterest Homefeed and Ads Ranking with Prabhat Agarwal and Aayush Mudgal

Jun 06, 2024 1h 24m Transcript

In episode 22 of Recsperts, we welcome Prabhat Agarwal, Senior ML Engineer, and Aayush Mudgal, Staff ML Engineer, both from Pinterest, to the show. Prabhat works on recommendations and search systems…

#21: User-Centric Evaluation and Interactive Recommender Systems with Martijn Willemsen

Apr 08, 2024 1h 35m Transcript

In episode 21 of Recsperts, we welcome Martijn Willemsen, Associate Professor at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science and Eindhoven University of Technology. Martijn's researches on interactive…

#20: Practical Bandits and Travel Recommendations with Bram van den Akker

Nov 16, 2023 1h 45m Transcript

In episode 20 of Recsperts, we welcome Bram van den Akker, Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Booking.com. Bram's work focuses on bandit algorithms and counterfactual learning. He was one of the…

#19: Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems with Himan Abdollahpouri

Oct 12, 2023 1h 41m Transcript

In episode 19 of Recsperts, we welcome Himan Abdollahpouri who is an Applied Research Scientist for Personalization & Machine Learning at Spotify. We discuss the role of popularity bias in…

#18: Recommender Systems for Children and non-traditional Populations

Aug 17, 2023 1h 39m Transcript

In episode 18 of Recsperts, we hear from Professor Sole Pera from Delft University of Technology. We discuss the use of recommender systems for non-traditional populations, with children in…

#17: Microsoft Recommenders and LLM-based RecSys with Miguel Fierro

Jun 15, 2023 1h 2m Transcript

In episode 17 of Recsperts, we meet Miguel Fierro who is a Principal Data Science Manager at Microsoft and holds a PhD in robotics. We talk about the Microsoft recommenders repository with over 15k…

#16: Fairness in Recommender Systems with Michael D. Ekstrand

May 17, 2023 1h 42m Transcript

In episode 16 of Recsperts, we hear from Michael D. Ekstrand, Associate Professor at Boise State University, about fairness in recommender systems. We discuss why fairness matters and provide an…

#15: Podcast Recommendations in the ARD Audiothek with Mirza Klimenta

Apr 27, 2023 1h 19m Transcript

In episode 15 of Recsperts, we delve into podcast recommendations with senior data scientist, Mirza Klimenta. Mirza discusses his work on the ARD Audiothek, a public broadcaster of audio-on-demand…

#14: User Modeling and Superlinked with Daniel Svonava

Mar 15, 2023 1h 43m Transcript

In episode number 14 of Recsperts we talk to Daniel Svonava, CEO and Co-Founder of Superlinked, delivering user modeling infrastructure. In his former role he was a senior software engineer and tech…

#13: The Netflix Recommender System and Beyond with Justin Basilico

Feb 15, 2023 1h 20m Transcript

This episode of Recsperts features Justin Basilico who is director of research and engineering at Netflix. Justin leads the team that is in charge of creating a personalized homepage. We learn more…

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