Category: Blog
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Algorithmic bias and bias mitigation talk at the anti-discrimination hackathon
That was fun! The Online Anti-Discrimination Hackathon ran last weekend, a hakacthon co-organized by Ministerie van OCW, Inspectie SZW, Ministerie van BZK, and Hackathon Factory which revolved around “gender discrimination in data collection and labeling for automated assessment and selection of candidates.” Having ample experience in designing and developing AI-powered candidate selection systems, and the…
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Joined the DDMA AI Committee
I recently joined the Artificial Intelligence committee of the Data Driven Marketing Association (DDMA), which aims to promote the use of responsible AI for marketing and other forms of interaction with customers. Read the small introductory post published by the DDMA below (in Dutch) David Graus, Randstad Groep Nederland, Commissie AI: “AI biedt enorme kansen…
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De online fabeltjesfuik bestaat (ook) niet
Update: I shared this post on LinkedIn where it received 25k+ views and a bunch of comments! Leuk stuk van Lubach, maar als filterbubbelontkenner en iemand die een flink deel van z’n boterham verdient aan het bouwen aan soortgelijke “algoritmen” voel ik me wel geroepen wat nuance in te brengen 😉.
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Joined the #RecSys2021 organizing committee
After attending the beautiful virtual 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys2020), I am happy to start looking forward to RecSys2021, which will be held in Amsterdam! I am super excited to share that I’ve joined the organizing committee of RecSys2021 as local outreach chair, which means I’ll help out assisting the other chairs and…
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Internships and MSc. projects at Randstad Groep Nederland
About Randstad Work with impact. At Randstad Groep Nederland IT you keep the country moving, enabling people across sectors to do their work, getting pizza on your table and your suitcase on the plane. Your AI solutions mean tomorrow’s recruiter is smarter and faster but still embodies our human forward approach, combining tech with a…
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Joined the board of SETUP
I have joined the board of SETUP, a Utrecht-based medialab established in 2010. SETUP’s mission is: to educate a wide audience, providing them with the tools necessary to design this brave new world, and infuse it with human values and new-found creativity. ~ SETUP This mission perfectly fits my personal conviction that knowledge and understanding…
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I have emerged…
… as an entity in the Google Knowledge Graph! Which is funny, because “emerging entities” were the main topic of my PhD Thesis [1]. With my co-authors I’ve published research on: Learning how to recognize “out-of-knowledge base” entities emerging on social media [2] How our collective memory is formed through “emerging entities” on Wikipedia [3],…
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Panel @ CPDP2020: "Algorithms and AI-driven technologies in the information society"
I was invited by UvA’s Information, Communication and the Data Society (ICDS) to participate in a panel at the Conference on Privacy and Data Protection, which was focused on AI. The recording of the panel is now online, watch me telling a room full of (highly) privacy-aware (and cookie-averse) people that Cambridge Analytica nudging people…
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Algoritmewijsheid – Media Perspectives column
For the Media Perspectives (“platform for media & innovation”) newsletter I wrote a column on the future of media & AI: Algoritmewijsheid. Read it below (in Dutch):
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“Bias in Recommendations” lecture @ SIKS Course on advances in IR
Enjoyed giving a lecture at the SIKS Course “Advances in Information Retrieval” at the Mitland Hotel in Utrecht. I also pitched DIR 2019 😅 (as evidenced by the picture above from Arjen). See my slidedeck below! This talk is loosely based on (part of) the talk I gave at the ACM RecSys Summerschool, but I…
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“RecSys in the Media Industry” Lecture at RecSys Summer School
With Daan Odijk I gave a lecture + hands-on workshop at the ACM Summer School on Recommender Systems in Gothenburg, Sweden on RecSys in the Media Industry: Relevance, Recency, Popularity, and Diversity. For it, we had a long (90+ min) lecture combining insights, experiences, and projects from our work at RTL and Blendle (Daan), and…
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“Improving automated segmentation of radio shows with audio embeddings”
Update (28/1/2020): Oberon’s thesis was accepted and will be published at the IEEE 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2020), to be held May 4-8 in Barcelona, Spain! The submission is co-authored with Klaus Lux and myself. Oberon Berlage recently successfully defended his MSc. thesis (title above!) for the Data Science…
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Dutch Interactive Awards (2x) for BNR SMART Radio!
Yesterday BNR SMART Radio won two Dutch Interactive Awards (DIA 2019) Awards! We were nominated together with Elastique, the folks who designed the UX/interface of our BNR SMART Radio app which you can download here (or in your app stores, both Android/iOS)! 🥇 Content We won Gold in the category “Content”. Why, you may ask?…
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We won the AMMA Media-innovation award for our News Personalization projects at FD Mediagroep!
After winning the Marconi award for radio innovation, yesterday we picked up the AMMA Award for Media Innovation for our news personalization efforts at FD Mediagroep (both SMART Journalism for Het FD and SMART Radio for BNR Nieuwsradio)! It’s really great to see that our current investment into AI and innovation seems to resonate with…
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Een lijstje zoekresultaten is geen etalage
I wrote a response on recent coverage around the alleged ‘promotion’ of anti-vax books by bol.com, suggesting it is due to “influential, steering, algorithms.” In this piece I state it’s not an issue of algorithms, but of long-tail, obscure, content. My response was published in Het Parool, as an edited letter. Read the original, unedited…