03 July 2025
Short paper accepted on RecSys 2025!
We work on the intersection of information retrieval, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. In particular, we focus on all aspects of recommendation, user modelling and personalisation. We are part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki.
Representative publications:
Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of False Positives in Algorithmic Travel Surveillance FAccT 2025
Behind the Scenes: Adapting Cinematography and Editing Concepts to Navigation in Virtual Reality CHI 2024
The Dark Matter of Serendipity in Recommender Systems CHIIR 2024
What we Evaluate When we Evaluate Recommender Systems: Understanding Recommender Systems' Performance using Item Response Theory RecSys 2023
Is Exploratory Search Different? A Comparison of Information Search Behavior for Exploratory and Lookup Tasks JASIST 2016
News
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25 June 2025
Alina presented our paper Evaluating the contextual integrity of false positives in algorithmic travel surveillance at FAccT 2025.
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11 April 2025
Long paper accepted to FAccT 2025!
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26 March 2025
Denis presented our paper Paths and recreation: Inclusive recommendation of physical activities in your neighbourhood at CHIIR 2025.
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10 February 2025
Dorota attended the (invitation only) 4th Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval at Lorne (SWIRL).
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People
Dorota Glowacka
Group Leader
Associate Professor
Alan Medlar
Co-group Leader Emeritus
alan.j.medlar@helsinki.fi
Yang Liu
PhD student
yang.liu@helsinki.fiPast PhD Students
- Denis Kotkov Post-doctoral researcher
- Arlene Casey PhD, 2020
- Joel Pyykkö PhD, 2018
- Kumaripaba Athukorala PhD, 2016 (moved to Rovio)
Past Research Assistants and MSc Students
- Daniel Koch Research assistant
- Juan Esteban Capeda Baena MSc
- Kaiyue Liu MSc
- Huy Hoang Le Research assistant
- Mari Lehtikari Research assistant
- Matti Vainionpaa MSc
- Heli Huhtilainen MSc
- Lasse Virtanen MSc
- Ivan Kropotov MSc
- Jiayue Xue MSc
- Jaana Louhio MSc
- Yu An MSc (moved to F-Secure)
- Jing Li MSc (moved to Huawei)
- Ioannis Gkiliris MSc (moved to Quantexa)
- Chien-yu Huang MSc
- Dhruv Tripathi MSc (moved to Rabobank)
- Peiyu Zhang MSc
- Evgenia Lyjina Research assistant
- Kalle Ilves Research assistant
- Ksenia Konyushkova MSc (started PhD at EPFL)
- Sayantan Hore MSc (moved to Verto Analytics)
- Lasse Tyrvainen MSc (moved to Cloud'n'Sci)
- Alex Yuan Gao MSc (started PhD at Uppsala University)
- Haibo Jin MSc (moved to the Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Amin Sorkhei MSc (moved to Rovio)
- Ping Wang MSc
- Kaj Sotala Research assistant
- Arttu Modig Research assistant
- Chunxiang Li Research assistant
- Han Xiao Research assistant