Recent & Upcoming Talks

A guest lecture on self-supervised contrastive-learning for product recommendations.

What can you expect from this edition’s ICAI Day? The climate crisis has a major impact on everyone and every living being on earth. As an AI community, ICAI would like to dedicate the ICAI Day Autumn Edition 2022 to address this important topic. In this edition, we focus on the technical aspect of how AI can be used for this challenge. We will show multiple insights from AI experts, and give examples of the social aspects of the climate change challenge. After the deep-dive into the current challenges we are facing, we will discuss how we can work together to find possible solutions with the support of AI technology. During the afternoon we will address the following aspects Small group lunch discussions on specific topics with regard to Climate change and what can we do in this field; Talks of AI experts; Discussion on how can we work together to make the world a better place; ICAI Lab posters during the breaks with insights into the innovation of the labs.

In this guest lecture we will discuss session based recommendations. How they are used in industry and our work on this topic.

A recsys workshop for data scientists at AH. We will discuss Session based recommendations at bol.com and give a live demo of how to get started with Serenade

In this guest lecture we will share insights in category prediction recommendations.

We will present our work on scalable session based recommendation at bol.com as part of the industry day of the ECIR 2022.

We published the source-code of Serenade. “Serenade” is a kNN-based recommender system written in Rust, powering millions of product recommendations at bol.com.

Our work at bol.com on ‘verder kijken’ recommendations for the Bachelor students in the Data Mining class.

At this workshop we will present our work done together with Olivier Sprangers and Sebastian Schelter on low latency recommendations.

In this guest lecture we will share insights on retail recommendations for the master students of Customer Analytics.

At the meetup group “Cologne A.I. & Machine Learning” we presented two of our studies on enhancing the predictive performance of our recommender system at bol.com.

Sebastian and I where guests at the techlab podcast of bol.com where we discussed the AI for Retail Lab and shared some of our work on recommender systems.