Recsperts - Recommender Systems Experts
Episodes
#31: Psychology-Aware Recommender Systems with Elisabeth Lex
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 31 of Recsperts, I sit down with Elisabeth Lex, Full Professor of Human-Computer Interfaces and Inclusive Technologies at Graz University o...
#30: Serendipity for Recommender Systems with Annelien Smets
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 30 of Recsperts, I speak with Annelien Smets, Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Senior Researcher at imec-SMIT, about the value, ...
#29: Transformers for Recommender Systems with Craig Macdonald and Sasha Petrov
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 29 of Recsperts, I welcome Craig Macdonald, Professor of Information Retrieval at the University of Glasgow, and Aleksandr “Sasha” Petr...
#28: Multistakeholder Recommender Systems with Robin Burke
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 28 of Recsperts, I sit down with Robin Burke, professor of information science at the University of Colorado Boulder and a leading expert w...
#27: Recommender Systems at the BBC with Alessandro Piscopo and Duncan Walker
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 27 of Recsperts, we meet Alessandro Piscopo, Lead Data Scientist in Personalization and Search, and Duncan Walker, Principal Data Scientist...
#26: Diversity in Recommender Systems with Sanne Vrijenhoek
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 26 of Recsperts, I speak with Sanne Vrijenhoek, a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law and the AI...
#25: RecSys 2024 Special
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 25, we talk about the upcoming ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2024 (RecSys) and welcome a former guest to geek about the conference....
#24: Video Recommendations at Facebook with Amey Dharwadker
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 24 of Recsperts, I sit down with Amey Dharwadker, Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Facebook, to dive into the complexities of large-...
#23: Generative Models for Recommender Systems with Yashar Deldjoo
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 23 of Recsperts, we welcome Yashar Deldjoo, Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy. Yashar's research on recommen...
#22: Pinterest Homefeed and Ads Ranking with Prabhat Agarwal and Aayush Mudgal
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 22 of Recsperts, we welcome Prabhat Agarwal, Senior ML Engineer, and Aayush Mudgal, Staff ML Engineer, both from Pinterest, to the show. Pr...
#21: User-Centric Evaluation and Interactive Recommender Systems with Martijn Willemsen
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 21 of Recsperts, we welcome Martijn Willemsen, Associate Professor at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science and Eindhoven University of Te...
#20: Practical Bandits and Travel Recommendations with Bram van den Akker
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 20 of Recsperts, we welcome Bram van den Akker, Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Booking.com. Bram's work focuses on bandit algorithms ...
#19: Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems with Himan Abdollahpouri
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 19 of Recsperts, we welcome Himan Abdollahpouri who is an Applied Research Scientist for Personalization & Machine Learning at Spotify....
#18: Recommender Systems for Children and non-traditional Populations
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 18 of Recsperts, we hear from Professor Sole Pera from Delft University of Technology. We discuss the use of recommender systems for non-tr...
#17: Microsoft Recommenders and LLM-based RecSys with Miguel Fierro
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 17 of Recsperts, we meet Miguel Fierro who is a Principal Data Science Manager at Microsoft and holds a PhD in robotics. We talk about the ...
#16: Fairness in Recommender Systems with Michael D. Ekstrand
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 16 of Recsperts, we hear from Michael D. Ekstrand, Associate Professor at Boise State University, about fairness in recommender systems. We...
#15: Podcast Recommendations in the ARD Audiothek with Mirza Klimenta
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 15 of Recsperts, we delve into podcast recommendations with senior data scientist, Mirza Klimenta. Mirza discusses his work on the ARD Audi...
#14: User Modeling and Superlinked with Daniel Svonava
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode number 14 of Recsperts we talk to Daniel Svonava, CEO and Co-Founder of Superlinked, delivering user modeling infrastructure. In his former...
#13: The Netflix Recommender System and Beyond with Justin Basilico
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Recsperts features Justin Basilico who is director of research and engineering at Netflix. Justin leads the team that is in charge of ...
#12: From User Intent to Multi-Stakeholder Recommenders and Creator Economy with Rishabh Mehrotra
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Recsperts we talk to Rishabh Mehrotra, the Director of Machine Learning at ShareChat, about users and creators in multi-stakeholder...
#11: Personalized Advertising, Economic and Generative Recommenders with Flavian Vasile
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Recsperts we talk to Flavian Vasile about the work of his team at Criteo AI Lab on personalized advertising. We learn about the dif...
#10: Recommender Systems in Human Resources with David Graus
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode number ten of Recsperts I welcome David Graus who is the Data Science Chapter Lead at Randstad Groep Nederland, a global leader in providin...
#9: RecPack and Modularized Personalization by Froomle with Lien Michiels and Robin Verachtert
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode number nine of Recsperts we talk with the creators of RecPack which is a new Python package for recommender systems. We discuss how Froomle...
#8: Music Recommender Systems, Fairness and Evaluation with Christine Bauer
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode number eight of Recsperts we discuss music recommender systems, the meaning of artist fairness and perspectives on recommender evaluation. ...
#7: Behavioral Testing with RecList for Recommenders with Jacopo Tagliabue
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode number seven, we meet Jacopo Tagliabue and discuss behavioral testing for recommender systems and experiences from ecommerce. Before Jacopo...
#6: Purpose-Aware Privacy-Preserving Recommendations with Manel Slokom
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode number six, we welcome Manel Slokom to the show and talk about purpose-aware privacy-preserving data for recommender systems. Manel is a 4t...
#5: Fashion Recommendations with Zeno Gantner
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode five my guest is Zeno Gantner, who is a principal applied scientist at Zalando. Zeno obtained his PhD from the University of Hildesheim whe...
#4: Adversarial Machine Learning for Recommenders with Felice Merra
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode four my guest is Felice Merra, who is an applied scientist at Amazon. Felice obtained his PhD from Politecnico di Bari where he was a resea...
#3: Bandits and Simulators for Recommenders with Olivier Jeunen
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode three I am joined by Olivier Jeunen, who is a postdoctoral scientist at Amazon. Olivier obtained his PhD from University of Antwerp with hi...
#2: Deep Learning based Recommender Systems with Even Oldridge
31 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode two I am joined by Even Oldridge, Senior Manager at NVIDIA, who is leading the Merlin Team. These people are working on an open-source fram...
#1: Practical Recommender Systems with Kim Falk
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this first interview we talk to Kim Falk, Senior Data Scientist, multiple RecSys Industry Chair and author of the book "Practical Recommender Syste...
#0: Launching Recsperts - the Recommender Systems Experts Podcast
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever though about how Spotify is able to generate its fantastic Discover Weekly Playlist, how Amazon is generating a fortune by showing what ...