Contact Michael
If you want to contact me, the best way is by e-mail. I also respond on Twitter, but technical or professional conversations there tend to quickly outgrow 140 characters (and I prefer e-mail to Twitter
University Contact
For professional and academic correspondence, please contact me at Boise State University:
Department of Computer Science
USA
If you are a student in Introduction to Recommender Systems on Coursera looking for course support, please ask questions in the Coursera discussion boards.
If you are a prospective student looking to work in my group, please see my students page and tips for writing a good e-mail.
If you want to write to me about personal things (non-academic, related to my personal programming projects, etc.), use my personal address md@ekstrandom.net. Please do not write to my personal address about classes, my research papers, or LensKit.
On most services, I am mdekstrand or occasionally elehack.
If you are a student looking for work, please see my student openings.
Office Hours
My office hours for Fall 2018 are the following:
- Tuesdays 1:30–2:30 p.m.
- Thursdays 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
All office hours are in CCP 255 (at 777 Main St.).
Social Media Connections
I invite everyone to follow me on Twitter or Mastodon. Please don’t expect me to automatically follow back, or if I follow you to keep following forever; I optimize my twitter feed to provide a personally useful blend of information, and there are many interesting people I do not follow. If you are a student in one of my classes, I will not follow you until the class is over.
I also welcome LinkedIn connections. If you want to connect with me on LinkedIn, please say something personalized (even if it is just a brief sentence); if we have met in person or communicated on other forums, mentioning those is good.