Recsperts - Recommender Systems Experts

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-10-12

  #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 - Recommender Systems Experts.Don't forget to follow the po...
  Marcel Kurovski author
2024-10-01

  #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 Video Recommendations Quality Ranking team at Faceboo...
  Marcel Kurovski author
2024-08-16

  #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, multimedia recommender systems as well as trustworthiness ...
  Marcel Kurovski author
2024-06-06

  #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 at Pinterest, leading representation learning effort...
  Marcel Kurovski author
2024-04-08

  #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 recommender systems which includes aspects of decision p...
  Marcel Kurovski author
2023-11-16

  #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 creators of the Practical Bandits tutorial at the World...
  Marcel Kurovski author
2023-10-12

  #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 recommender systems which was the dissertation topic of Him...
  Marcel Kurovski author
2023-08-17

  #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 particular. Sole shares the specifics, surprises, and subtleti...
  Marcel Kurovski author
2023-06-15

  #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 stars on GitHub and discuss the impact of LLMs on RecS...
  Marcel Kurovski author
2023-05-17

  #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 overview of the multidimensional fairness-aware RecSys la...
  Marcel Kurovski author