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).
2025
Bèta in Bestuur en Beleid (BiBB). BiBB Zomerschool 2025. Kasteel Spelderholt, Beekbergen, The Netherlands. Aug 25.
Prediction is Power, Also in the Public Sector. AI in Authority Symposium. CognAC. May 16.
Automated Extraction of Machine-Executable Legislation. Search Engines Amsterdam Meetup. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Apr 25.
2024
The Watchdog and the Government Exploring Transparency Models for Public Sector Algorithms. ACM FAccT. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jun 4.
AI Validation Team. Digilab Meetup. Dev.loer, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Mar 26.
Meten is Weten: Benchmarks voor Generatieve AI. Launch event vision on Generative AI. Den Haag, The Netherlands. Jan 18.
2023
AI in an Ivory Tower. ICAI Townhall. remote. Oct 12.
2020
Personalizing News. Cross Media Cafe. Hilversum, The Netherlands. Feb 11.
2019
Personalized Push Notifications. Hogeschool Rotterdam / Applied ML. Feb 12.
2018
Filter bubbles. Jonge Democraten. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Oct 23.
Personalized Regional Push Notifications. SEA XL – Algorithms and the News. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Oct 19.
2017
Impact of personalized recommendations on diversity. 45th EPRA Meeting. Edinburgh, Scotland. May 19.
Digital Consciousness. Sign of Time #14. Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Mar 27.
Streaming Recommendations. Poki. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Feb 7.
2016
Personalising the Blendle Newsletter. Xite Meetup. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Nov 10.
Search and Recommendations at Blendle. Radboud University. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Nov 7.
Het juiste nieuws vinden bij Blendle en de Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Den Haag, The Netherlands. Nov 1.
Streaming Recommendation. Data Science Northeast Netherlands. Meppel, The Netherlands. Oct 13.
Personalisatie van de Blendle Nieuwsbrief. Persgroep Digital Day. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Oct 6.
Realtime Recommendation at Blendle. Search Engines Amsterdam Meetup. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Aug 26.
Personalised Blendle. ADS Coffee & Data: Personalisation and Recommendations. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Jun 10.
Search Engines that Learn from Their Users. Aula UvA. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Apr 27.
Living Labs for Online Evaluation: From Theory to Practice. Tutorial at ECIR’16. Padova, Italy. Mar 20.
Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank. WSDM’16. San Francisco, USA. Feb 24.
2015
OpenSearch. Lightning Talk, DIR’15. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Nov 27.
TREC OpenSearch Planning Session. TREC Conference. Gaithersburg, USA. Nov 18.
Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank. ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Nov 3.
TREC OpenSearch. ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Nov 3.
Predicting Search Satisfaction Metrics with Interleaved Comparisons. Beer&Tech, Criteo. Paris, France. Oct 28.
Online Evaluation and Living Labs. Ahold HR Analytics. Zaandam, The Netherlands. Oct 26.
LL4IR Introduction. CLEF LL4IR’15. Toulouse, France. Sep 10.
Living Labs for IR Evaluation (LL4IR) Overview. CLEF’15. Toulouse, France. Sep 8.
Probabilistic Multileave for Online Retrieval Evaluation. ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Jul 28.
Predicting Search Satisfaction Metrics with Interleaved Comparisons. ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. May 19.
Living Labs for Search. Workshop: Towards networked Research Infrastructures for behavioral studies. Brussels, Belgium. May 7.
Multileaved Comparisons for Fast Online Evaluation. IAS Colloquium. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Mar 17.
2014
Using users for online evaluation and learning. RecSys:NL Meetup. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Dec 8.
Head First: Living Labs for Ad-hoc Search Evaluation. CIKM’14. Shanghai, China. Nov 3.
Multileaved Comparisons for Fast Online Evaluation. ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Oct 21.
Online Learning to Rank. Textkernel Tech Talks. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Jun 26.
Unpublished Work. ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Jun 17.
Living Labs Challenge API. Living Labs Challenge Workshop. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Jun 6.
Effects of Position Bias on Click-Based Recommender Evaluation. ECIR’14. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Apr 14.
Optimizing Base Rankers Using Clicks: A Case Study using BM25. ECIR’14. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Apr 14.
2013
Lerot: an Online Learning to Rank Framework. Living Labs workshop at CIKM’13. San Francisco, USA. Nov 1.
Evaluating Aggregated Search Using Interleaving. ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Oct 1.
Doing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence: Search Engines that Learn. Information day BSc Artificial Intelligence. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Mar 23.
Reusing Historical Interaction Data for Faster Online Learning to Rank for IR. IR group of the University of Glasgow. Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Mar 10.
Learning from Simulations, Users and Annotators: a research agenda. ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Mar 1.
2012
Sustainable Questions. Time Aware Information Access Workshop at SIGIR’12. Portland, Oregon, USA. Aug 17.
From Sentiment to Reputation. ILPS Soos. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Jun 12.
2011
Tuning Methods in Statistical Machine Translation. KION Thesis Award Presentation at BNAIC’11. Gent, Belgium. Nov 4.
Fast Faceted Search in XML. XMLAmsterdam Conference. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Oct 26.
Fast Faceted Search in XML. XML Prague’11 pre-conference day. Prague, Czech Republic. Oct 17.
Evaluation methods for rankings of facetvalues for faceted search. CLEF’11. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Sep 21.