• DDMA Digital Talk: “De AI act: Zo bereid jij je optimaal voor”

    DDMA Digital Talk: “De AI act: Zo bereid jij je optimaal voor”

    I’ll be part of a panel during a Digital Talk by the DDMA, to talk about the AI Act, and its potential implications for data-driven marketeers, alongside Peter van der Putten (PEGA / Leiden Universiteit) and Romar van der Leij (DDMA). See all the details (in Dutch) at the DDMA event page.

  • CPDP2023 panel “Beyond Ethics Washing: Impact Assessments, Audits,  and Oversight for AI”

    CPDP2023 panel “Beyond Ethics Washing: Impact Assessments, Audits, and Oversight for AI”

    Excited to be participating in a panel at the “Computers, Privacy & Data Protection” (CPDP) conference in Brussels. The panel is organized by Mirko Schäfer (Utrecht University), and I’ll be engaging in a conversation with Iris Muis (Utrecht Data School), Paul Nemitz (European Commission) and Maria Koomen (Open Governance Network for Europe). I’ll be wearing […]

  • RecSys in HR 2023 Workshop at ACM RecSys 2023

    RecSys in HR 2023 Workshop at ACM RecSys 2023

    Very excited that this year too I will engage in one of my favorite “extra-curricular activities” 😅: our proposal to organize the (third!) “Recommender Systems in Human Resources” workshop has been accepted in the the program of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems! After our first edition in Amsterdam in 2021, and the second […]

  • Guest lecture on “Job Recommendation” at RecSys Summer School 2023

    Guest lecture on “Job Recommendation” at RecSys Summer School 2023

    I look forward to giving a guest lecture on “Job Recommendation” alongside Mesut Kaya at the RecSys Summer School 2023 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰! It was only 4 years ago when I stood side-by-side with Daan Odijk for a lecture and hands-on workshop on “Recommender Systems in the Media Industry,” at the last RecSys Summer School in 2019, which was […]

  • Featured in Recsperts on ‘Recommender Systems in Human Resources’

    Featured in Recsperts on ‘Recommender Systems in Human Resources’

    It is now official, right? I am now a recommender system expert (by virtue of appearing on Marcel Kurovski‘s Recsperts podcast series). It was great fun to geek out with a knowledgeable host on anything recsys in HR, we touch on fairness, difficulties with delayed feedback signals, our RecSys in HR Workshop, and how I […]

  • AI for Good at Felix Meritis

    AI for Good at Felix Meritis

    Yesterday evening I was a guest next to Dasha Simons (IBM) and Oumaima Hajri (Hogeschool Rotterdam) in Felix Meritis at the invitation of Laurens Vreekamp to talk about — among other things — fair AI, ethics, and algorithmic bias. It was nice and important to be able to discuss these topics from an optimistic and […]

  • “Transfer learning for multilingual vacancy text generation” preprint available

    “Transfer learning for multilingual vacancy text generation” preprint available

    Anna Lőrincz‘ UvA MSc. data science thesis “Transfer learning for multilingual vacancy text generation” — which was graded a 9/10 💫 — was recently accepted at the The Second Version of Generation, Evaluation & Metrics (GEM) Workshop 2022 which will be held as part of EMNLP, December 7-11, 2022! Get the pre-print here: In her work, Anna explores […]

  • RecSys in HR 2022 Workshop Recording available

    RecSys in HR 2022 Workshop Recording available

    We have published the full recording of our RecSys in HR 2022 workshop, which we held September 22 in Seattle, WA, USA. The video is 5h42m43s long, so to guide you, I provide you the following list of highlights (see the video description for timestamps that will allow you to instantly skip to the sections described below): 1️⃣ Our first […]

  • The 2nd RecSys in HR Workshop

    The 2nd RecSys in HR Workshop

    And that’s a wrap! Yesterday we had our RecSys in HR Workshop at the ACM RecSys 2022 conference. 👉 I was happy to (virtually) chair the workshop’s panel (with Helen Hulsker, Carlos Castillo (ChaTo), Liangjie Hong, and Robyn Rap). And hope the rest of the panel will take Helen’s suggestion to heart and book a ☕️ meeting with their lawyer colleagues soon […]

  • Panelist on ‘AI and Ethics’ at Reshaping Work 2022

    Panelist on ‘AI and Ethics’ at Reshaping Work 2022

    I’m excited to be joining a panel on “AI and Ethics” at the Reshaping Work 2022 Conference on October 14 at de Rode Hoed in Amsterdam, alongside Robert Seamans (New York University) and Anastasia Sergeeva (Vrije University Amsterdam). The panel will be chaired by Ting Li (Erasmus University Rotterdam).