Recsperts - Recommender Systems Experts
Marcel Kurovski
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#32: RecSys in the Delivery Industry at Wolt with Sasha Fedintsev
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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