This is an exhaustive (I think) list of talks I gave and posters I presented since obtaining my master’s degree. Please let me know if something (a slide deck or poster, for instance) is missing. Please feel free to use my slides (with a reference).

2024

  • upcoming Citizen Portals in the Netherlands: Enabling citizens to understand how they are scored, ACM FAccT Conference 2024, June 2024, (event).
  • AI Validation Team at the Digilab Meetup, March 26, 2024, (event).
  • Meten is Weten: Benchmarks voor Generatieve AI. Launch event vision on Generative AI, January 18, 2024, (slides).

2023

  • AI in an Ivory Tower. ICAI Townhall, October 12, 2023.

2020

  • Personalizing News. Cross Media Cafe. Hilversum, February 11, 2020 (event).

2019

  • Personalized Push Notifications, invited lecture Hogeschool Rotterdam / Applied ML, February 12, 2019.

2018

  • Personalized Regional Push Notifications, Data- and AI-Driven Product Development at Media Companies, December 6, 2018 (event).
  • Personalized Regional Push Notifications, Tweakers B2B Event, October 30, 2018.
  • Filter bubbles, Jonge Democraten. Amsterdam, October 23, 2018.
  • Personalized Regional Push Notifications, SEA XL – Algorithms and the News. Amsterdam, October 19, 2018 (slides, event).

2017

  • Impact of personalized recommendations on diversity, 45th EPRA Meeting. Edinburgh, Scotland. May 19, 2017 (slides).
  • Digital Consciousness, Sign of Time #14. Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 27, 2017 (slides, event).
  • Streaming Recommendations, Sanoma Tech Talks. Hoofddorp, The Netherlands. April 10, 2017 (slides, video).
  • Streaming Recommendations, Poki. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. February 7, 2017 (slides).

2016

  • Personalising the Blendle Newsletter, Xite. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. November 10, 2016. ( slides, Blendle).
  • Search and Recommendations at Blendle, Invited Lecture Radboud University. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. November 7, 2016 (slides, Blendle).
  • Het juiste nieuws vinden bij Blendle en de Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Den Haag, The Netherlands. November 1, 2016 (slides, Blendle).
  • Streaming Recommendation, Amsterdam Applied Machine Learning Meetup. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. October 21, 2016 (slides, meetup, Blendle).
  • Streaming Recommendation, Data Science Northeast Netherlands. Meppel, The Netherlands. October 13, 2016 (slides, meetup, Blendle).
  • Personalisatie van de Blendle Nieuwsbrief, Persgroep Digital Day. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. October 6, 2016.
  • Realtime Recommendation at Blendle, Search Engines Amsterdam Meetup. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. August 26, 2016 (slides, meetup, Blendle).
  • Personalised Blendle, ADS Coffee & Data: Personalisation and Recommendations. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. June 10, 2016 (slides, meetup, Blendle).
  • Search Engines that Learn from Their Users, Layman’s talk, PhD defense. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. May 27, 2016 (video, slides, thesis).
  • Living Labs for Online Evaluation: From Theory to Practice, Tutorial at ECIR 2016. Padova, Italy. March 20-23, 2016 (website, abstract).
  • Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank, WSDM’16, San Francisco, USA. February 24, 2016 (slides, paper, poster).

2015

  • OpenSearch, Lightning Talk, DIR’15, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. November 27, 2015 (slides, abstract, website).
  • Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank (Abstract), Poster, DIR’15, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. November 27, 2015 (poster, abstract, paper).
  • TREC OpenSearch Planning Session, TREC Conference, Gaithersburg, USA. November 18-19, 2015 (poster, slides, website).
  • TREC OpenSearch, ILPS Soos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. November 3, 2015 (slides).
  • Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank, ILPS Soos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. November 3, 2015 (slides, paper).
  • Predicting Search Satisfaction Metrics with Interleaved Comparisons, Criteo Beer&Tech,* Paris, France. October 28, 2015 (paper, slides).
  • Online Evaluation and Living Labs, Ahold HR Analytics, Zaandam, The Netherlands. October 26, 2015.
  • Probabilistic Multileave for Online Retrieval Evaluation, Google NLP PhD Summit**, Zurich, Switzerland. September 24, 2015 (paper, poster).
  • LL4IR Introduction, CLEF LL4IR’15, Toulouse, France. September 10, 2015 (paper, slides).
  • Living Labs for IR Evaluation (LL4IR) Overview, CLEF’15, Toulouse, France. September 8, 2015 (paper, slides).
  • Probabilistic Multileave for Online Retrieval Evaluation, SIGIR’15, Santiago, Chili. August 11, 2015 (paper, poster).
  • Predicting Search Satisfaction Metrics with Interleaved Comparisons, SIGIR’15, Santiago, Chili. August 11, 2015 (paper, slides).
  • Probabilistic Multileave for Online Retrieval Evaluation, ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. July 28, 2015 (paper).
  • Predicting Search Satisfaction Metrics with Interleaved Comparisons, ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. May 19, 2015 (paper).
  • Living Labs for Search, Keynote at “Workshop: Towards networked Research Infrastructures for behavioral studies”. Brussels, Belgium. May 7, 2015 (slides).
  • Multileaved Comparisons for Fast Online Evaluation, IAS Colloquium. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 17, 2015 (slides, paper).

2014

  • Using users for online evaluation and learning, RecSys:NL Meetup, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. December 8, 2014 (slides).
  • Multileaved Comparisons for Fast Online Evaluation, VU WAI meeting. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. November 24, 2014 (paper).
  • Head First: Living Labs for Ad-hoc Search Evaluation, CIKM’14. Shanghai, China. November 3-7, 2014 (poster, paper).
  • Multileaved Comparisons for Fast Online Evaluation, CIKM’14. Shanghai, China. November 3-7, 2014 (slides, paper).
  • Multileaved Comparisons for Fast Online Evaluation, ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. October 21, 2014 (paper).
  • Online Learning to Rank, Textkernel Tech Talks. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. June 26, 2014 (slides).
  • Unpublished Work, ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. June 17, 2014.
  • Living Labs Challenge API, Living Labs Challenge Workshop. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. June 6, 2014.
  • Optimizing Base Rankers Using Clicks: A Case Study using BM25, ECIR’14, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. April 14, 2014 (slides, paper).
  • Effects of Position Bias on Click-Based Recommender Evaluation, ECIR’14, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. April 14, 2014 (paper).

2013

  • Query Reformulation as a Predictor of Search Satisfaction, paper by Ahmed Hassan, Xiaolin Shi, Nick Craswell, Bill Ramsey ILPS Reading Group. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. November 22, 2013.
  • Lerot: an Online Learning to Rank Framework, Living Labs workshop at CIKM’13. San Francisco, USA. November 1, 2013 (slides, paper).
  • Evaluating Aggregated Search Using Interleaving, CIKM’13. San Francisco, USA. October 27, 2013 (slides, paper).
  • Evaluating Aggregated Search Using Interleaving, ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. October 1, 2013.
  • Using Intent Information to Model User Behavior in Diversified Search, paper by Aleksandr Chuklin, Pavel Serdyukov and Maarten de Rijke DIR’13. Delft, The Netherlands. April 26, 2013 (slides, paper).
  • Doing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence: Search Engines that Learn, Information day BSc. Artificial Intelligence. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 23, 2013.
  • Reusing Historical Interaction Data for Faster Online Learning to Rank for IR, Invited talk at the IR group of the University of Glasgow. Glasgow, Scotland, UK. March 10, 2013 (slides, paper).
  • Learning from Simulations, Users and Annotators: a research agenda, ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 1, 2013.

2012

  • Sustainable Questions, Time Aware Information Access Workshop at SIGIR 2012. Portland, Oregon, USA. August 17, 2012 (slides, paper).
  • From Sentiment to Reputation, ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. June 12, 2012 (slides).

2011

  • Tuning Methods in Statistical Machine Translation, KION Thesis Award Presentation at BNAIC’11. Gent, Belgium. November 4, 2011 (slides, thesis).
  • Fast Faceted Search in XML, XMLAmsterdam Conference. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. October 26, 2011 (slides).
  • Fast Faceted Search in XML, XML Prague’11 pre-conference day. Prague, Czech Republic. October 17, 2011 (slides).
  • Evaluation methods for rankings of facetvalues for faceted search, CLEF’11. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. September 21, 2011 (slides, paper).