Talks
Academics talk a lot. Sometimes we have slides, or even videos. Here are some of mine.
I am available to give my current research talk at academic seminars and similar events.
2026
- Why Recommend? at the Workshop on Recommender Systems for Social Good
2025
- Operationalizing Optimism [🛝] at University of Maryland
- Fairness in Recommender Systems [🛝] at the RecSys Summer School 2025
- Where are the People? [🛝 📼] at TU Wien
- Operationalizing Optimism [🛝] at MSR Montreal
- Searching for Fairness [🛝] at the AI & Society conference
- Search, Recommendation, and Sea Monsters [🛝] at the CIIR Talk Series at UMass Amherst on May 9, 2025.
- Fairness in Information Access [🛝] tutorial at ECIR 2025.
- Search, Recommendation, and Sea Monsters [🛝] at Pinterest AI Labs on March 18, 2025.
2024
- Responsible Recommendation in the Age of Generative AI [🛝 📝] at the ROEGEN workshop on Oct. 18, 2024.
- Search, Recommendation, and Sea Monsters [🛝 📼] at TU Delft on May 17, 2024.
- Keynote talk To Serve Whom and How? [🛝 📼 📝] at IR4U2 workshop on Mar. 24, 2024.
- Search, Recommendation, and Sea Monsters (revised) [🛝] at University of Colorado on Feb. 28, 2024.
2023
- Search, Recommendation, and Sea Monsters virtually at University of Glasgow on Oct. 2, 2023.
- Towards Measuring Fairness in Grid Layout in Recommender Systems at FAccTRec 2023
- Beyond Diversity and Transparency: Normative Recommendation Goals in Human Context at the ICA 2023 post-conference “Beyond Nudging, Towards Diversity: Understanding Transparent Algorithmic Recommendation Practices for Media and Communications”
- Search, Recommendation, and Sea Monsters at the HCI group at UT Austin iSchool on Mar. 24, 2023.
- Maps and Lenses on Fairness in Information Access Systems at Drexel University on Feb. 21, 2023.
- Equity and Discrimination in Information Access at the University of Washington on Jan. 27, 2023.
2022
- The Complexity of Fairness in Information Access at the IBIS Workshop in Tsukuba, Japan on Nov. 20, 2022.
- Equity and Discrimination in Information Access at Waseda University on Nov. 19, 2022.
- Do You Want to Hunt a Kraken?, keynote talk at the EvalRS workshop at CIKM 2022.
- Matching Consumer Fairness Objectives & Strategies for RecSys at the FAccTRec 2022 workshop.
- You Might Also Think This Is Unfair at the University of Michigan.
2021
- Information Systems for Human Flourishing at Vector Institute.
2020
- LensKit for Python at CIKM 2020.
- Online Recommendation: What? Where? Why? How? for the Idaho Council for Libraries Info2Go.
- User, Agent, Subject, Spy Mar. 5 at the Boise State Computing Seminar.
2019
- User, Agent, Subject, Spy Nov. 26 at the University of Texas School of Information.
- Online Recommendation: What? Where? Why? How? Oct. 4 at the Idaho Library Association 2019 Conference.
- Fairness and Discrimination in Recommendation and Retrieval, tutorial given Sep. 19 at RecSys 2019.
- Fairness and Discrimination in Recommendation and Retrieval, Aug. 22 IVADO Summer School on Recommender Systems.
- User, Agent, Subject, Spy Aug. 20 at MSR Montreal
- User, Agent, Subject, Spy Jul. 26 at Criteo AI Labs
- Fairness and Discrimination in Retrieval and Recommendation, tutorial at SIGIR 2019.
- Recommendations, Decisions, Feedback Loops, and Maybe Saving the Planet, at the CCC Visioning Workshop on Economics and Fairness.
2018
- User, Agent, Subject, Spy Dec. 7 at the Clemson School of Computing Seminar Series
- User, Agent, Subject, Spy Nov. 9 at the CMU HCII seminar series.
- User, Agent, Subject Spy Nov. 1 for Boise State AI Club.
- Exploring Author Gender in Book Rating and Recommendation at RecSys 2018.
- Making Information Systems Good for People at Boise State University Computer Science Senior Seminar
- All The Cool Kids, How Do They Fit In? at FAT* 2018
- Privacy for All at FAT* 2018
2017
- Making Information Systems Good for People on Nov. 16, 2017 at Whitman College.
- Bad for IR, Worse for Recommenders: Missing Data and the External Validity of Offline Evaluations on Oct. 30, 2017 at Dagstuhl
- Recommending for People at UCL Mons (June 19), JADS (June 20), and RecSys NL at TU Delft (June 26)
- Responsible Recommendation at the Brussels Big Data and Ethics Meetup on 15 June at DigitYser
- Sturgeon and the Cool Kids at FLAIRS 2017
- Tools for Studying People and Info Systems at Boise State University’s 2017 Research Computing Days
2016
- Recommending for People (Nov. 20, 2016 at University at Albany)
- Introduction to Recommender Systems (Oct. 27, 2016)
- Behaviorism is Not Enough at ACM RecSys 2016
2015
- Recommending for People (Boise State University, 16 Nov. 2015)
- Scaling Recommender Systems Research (RecSys ’15 Workshop on Large Scale Recommender Systems)
- Levelling Up your Academic Career (RecSys 2015 Doctoral Symposium)
- Letting Users Choose Recommender Algorithms (RecSys 2015 technical program)
2014
- Research presentation to Texas State CS graduate students, September 12, 2014
- RecSys 2014 presentation
- Thesis defense (July, 2014)
- Job talk — an overview of my research I presented at faculty job interviews in Spring 2014. The exact talk varied a bit from venue to venue, but the bulk of it stayed the same.
2012
- The MovieLens Data Set (RecSys Challenge 2012)