At Utrecht University, I teach the bachelor-level courses "Mens, Maatschappij & ICT" (Human, Society & ICT) and "Informatie-Uitwisseling" (Information Exchange).
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Between 2017 and 2022, I taught the bachelor-level course Requirements Engineering, and the master courses "Knowledge Representation for Information Sciences" and "System Approaches to Information and Organizations¨. I also coordinated the Master Information Sciences.
Between 2011 and 2017, I was responsible for the Master-level lecture series "User Modelling and Personalisation" at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. As can be observed from the slides (available online), I put a strong emphasis on the intuition behind statistical methods, predictive techniques, evaluation setups and design approaches. I believe that examples and discussions of advantages and drawbacks of several alternatives for different situations are more important than detailed, lengthy explanations of algorithms or statistical tests (for this, we use a wide range of hands-on exercises).
I use the same approach when supervising students or doctoral candidates. Within the context of their assigned or chosen research project, they have a lot of freedom in further specifying their research focus, as long as they can explain the rationale.
Current Ph.D. students
Shah Noor Khan (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Ivan Veul (Radboud University, the Netherlands)
Valentin Grimm (Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany)
Promoted Ph.D. students
At the L3S (daily supervisor)
Ricardo Kawase, Leibniz University Hannover: Building and exploiting context on the web (2014)
Sergey Chernov, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany: Using Contextual and Social Links in Information Retrieval (2012)
External (member of the examination board)
Charlie Abela, University of Malta: Behavior Mining for Personalised Desktop Tool-
Support (2016)
Francesco Osborne, University of Turin: Propagating User Interests In Ontology-
Based User Models (2014)
Amjad W. Hawash, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy: Introducing Groups to an Annotation
System (2014)
