HabilTalk: "Transparency, Privacy, and Fairness in Recommender Systems"

Dominik Kowald
14.01.2025 | 6 pm
Sandgasse 36, 8010 Graz
Showroom Data House, 136E

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Dominik Kowald is research area manager of the FAIR AI team at the Know-Center, one of Europe's leading research centers for trustworthy AI. Additionally, he gives lectures on databases and data management at Graz University of Technology and University of Graz. He has a Habilitation (Priv.-Doz.) in Applied Computer Science, as well as a PhD. (with hons), MSc. (with hons) and BSc. in Computer Science from Graz University of Technology. He has finished his PhD in October 2017 on cognitive-inspired recommender systems based on the cognitive architecture ACT-R. Additionally, in June 2024, he has finished his Habilitation (post-doctoral thesis) on the topic of transparency, privacy, and fairness aspects of recommender systems. His research interests are in the fields of trustworthy AI, recommender systems, data management, privacy, fairness and biases in algorithms, Web science, and computational social systems. His research on fairness in AI and bias in recommender systems was awarded with the Mind-the-gap gender and diversity award of Graz University of Technology in 2022, and was presented in several news outlets, e.g., by APA science.