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…
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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…
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…
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):
“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…
“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,…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
Co-organizing DIR 2019!
Together with Anne Schuth and Daan Odijk I’ll be co-organizing The Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop (DIR 2019). At DIR 2018, we sat down during lunch and came up…
BNR SMART Radio wins the Marconi Online Award!
Really happy and proud of our amazing AI team for winning the (first) Marconi Online Award at the Gouden RadioRing Gala, for BNR SMART Radio! SMART Radio is…
The Filter Bubble doesn’t exist!
Yesterday I gave a (tongue-in-cheek) talk on algorithmic personalization at the VOGIN-IP Lezing 2018, and brought five pieces of evidence to prove the “filter bubble” doesn’t exist. Check…
Predictive insights from company information (blog post for company.info)
For Company.info I wrote a short blog post explaining the current state-of-the-art, our current, and future projects that involve machine learning and company information. Read the post below!…
Financial News Mining Talk @ PyData Hilversum edition
Here are the slides of a talk I gave at the Data Science Northeast Netherlands Meetup and PyData, where I detail the custom in-house entity linking framework, sentiment…