
Sustainable Recommender Systems for Tourism
In this episode, we speak with Ashmi Banerjee, a doctoral candidate at the Technical University of Munich, about her pioneering research on AI-powered recommender systems in tourism. Ashmi illuminates...
9 Okt 202538min

Interpretable Real Estate Recommendations
In this episode of Data Skeptic's Recommender Systems series, host Kyle Polich interviews Dr. Kunal Mukherjee, a postdoctoral research associate at Virginia Tech, about the paper "Z-REx: Human-Interpr...
22 Sep 202532min

Why Am I Seeing This?
In this episode of Data Skeptic, we explore the challenges of studying social media recommender systems when exposure data isn't accessible. Our guests Sabrina Guidotti, Gregor Donabauer, and Dimitri ...
8 Sep 202549min

Eco-aware GNN Recommenders
In this episode of Data Skeptic, we dive into eco-friendly AI with Antonio Purificato, a PhD student from Sapienza University of Rome. Antonio discusses his research on "EcoAware Graph Neural Networks...
30 Aug 202544min

Networks and Recommender Systems
Kyle reveals the next season's topic will be "Recommender Systems". Asaf shares insights on how network science contributes to the recommender system field.
17 Aug 202517min

Network of Past Guests Collaborations
Kyle and Asaf discuss a project in which we link former guests of the podcast based on their co-authorship of academic papers.
21 Jul 202534min

The Network Diversion Problem
In this episode, Professor Pål Grønås Drange from the University of Bergen, introduces the field of Parameterized Complexity - a powerful framework for tackling hard computational problems by focusing...
6 Jul 202546min

Complex Dynamic in Networks
In this episode, we learn why simply analyzing the structure of a network is not enough, and how the dynamics - the actual mechanisms of interaction between components - can drastically change how inf...
28 Jun 202556min



















