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.

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)

2010

RecSys 2010 presentation

2009

WikiSym ’09 presentation