Özlem Özgöbek
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Özlem works as postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science at NTNU. Her research focuses on recommender systems, privacy issues in recommender systems and disinformation detection for online news. She is a co-founder of Norwegian Big Data Symposium (NOBIDS) and actively involved in organizing INRA workshop series since 2014.
Benjamin Kille
Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
Benjamin works as a researcher at the Institute of Commercial Information Technology and Quantitative Methods of the TU Berlin. In recent years, he organized multiple data-driven competitions including NewsREEL. His PhD thesis focuses on context-aware news recommender systems.
Jon Atle Gulla
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Jon Atle is professor of Information Systems at the Department of Computer Science in Trondheim. He received his MSc in 1988 and his PhD in 1993, both in Information Systems at NTNU. Gulla also has a MSc in Linguistics from the University of Trondheim and a Msc of Management (Sloan fellow) from London Business School. His research centers around semantic web, information retrieval, recommender systems, text analytics, and big data. He has established several research projects about news recommender systems and analytics in close collaboration with Scandinavian media industry. He is the co-founder of Norwegian Big Data Symposium (NOBIDS) and INRA Workshop series.
Martha Larson
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Martha holds professorships at Radboud University Nijmegen as well as TU Delft. Her research focuses on multimedia computing, language technology, information retrieval, and recommender systems. Martha has organized a variety of workshops and competitions including MediaEval and NewsREEL.
Andreas Lommatzsch
Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
Andreas Lommatzsch works as a senior researcher and director of the Application Center "Data Analytics" at the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Lab (DAI-Labor) at the TU Berlin. His research focuses on distributed knowledge management and machine learning algorithms. His primary interests lie in the areas of recommendations based on data-streams and context-aware meta-recommender algorithms. He co-organizes the NewsREEL challenge focusing on recommender algorithms for online news portals.
