Department of Informatics – DDIS

Research 2018 has been a turbulent and exciting year, and has provided many opportunities to do exciting research. More and more data is being produced, which calls for data mining & machine learning to make sense of this data. Technology is becoming more ubiquitous, and research on human computer interaction & computer supported cooperative work […]

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On Tuesday the 11th of December 2018, Bibek Paudel successfully defended his thesis ‘Improving recommendation diversity and identifying cultural biases for personalized ranking in large networks‘. As is customary, the team created a graduation hat symbolizing his time at DDIS. We wish him good luck and good research at his next position as postdoctoral researcher […]

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Yesterday some of our (former) group members had their official graduation ceremony. Congratulations to them on the official graduation! Our PhD graduates are doing well: Michael Feldman had joined another former graduate from DDIS, Patrick de Boer, to start their company PeakData. Tobias Grubenmann is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hong Kong. […]

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Two papers have been accepted at the conference of Web Search and Data Mining 2019 (WSDM2019).  Our colleague Cristina Sarasua coauthored a paper together with Lei Han (first author), Kevin Roitero, Ujwal Gadiraju, Alessandro Checco, Eddy Maddalena and Gianluca Demartini called ‘All Those Wasted Hours: On Task Abandonment in Crowdsourcing’ (full paper can be found […]

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