Christoph Trattner
Dr. Christoph Trattner is working as an Associate Professor (permanent position) at the University of Bergen in the Information Science & Media Studies Department. Previously to that he was an Asst. Prof. at MODUL University Vienna in the New Media Technology Department and a manager at the Know-Center, Austria's research competence for data driven business and Big Data analytics where he founded and led the Social Computing department. He holds a PhD (with distinction), an MSc (with distinction) and a BSc in Computer Science and Telematics from Graz University of Technology (Austria). He is a former FFG, Marshall Plan and ERCIM fellow and has been working at Graz University of Technology from 2009-2012 (supervised by Prof. Dr. Denis Helic & Prof. Dr. Hermann Maurer), the University of Pittsburgh from 2011-2012 (hosted by Prof. Dr. Peter Brusilovsky), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 2014-2015 (hosted by Prof. Dr. Kjetil Norvag), and has been visiting Yahoo! Labs Barcelona in 2014 and CWI Amsterdam in 2015 (hosted by Prof. Dr. Arjen De Vries). Christoph's research interests include Information Science, Data Science, User Modeling and Recommender Systems. He was involved, either as a project or WP leader, in various national and international EU-funded research projects that dealt with social technologies and recommender systems. Currently, he is leading an international research effort that tries to understand, predict and change online food preferences to tackle health-related food issues such as diabetes or obesity. Since 2010, he published two books and over 80 scientific articles in top venues and journals, e.g., JASIST, UMUAI, TiiS, ComCom, EPJ Data Science, WWW, ICWSM, ACM SIGIR, ACM CIKM, ACM CSCW, ACM RecSys, ACM IUI, ACM HT and ACM UMAP. He is also the winner of several Best Paper/Poster Awards and Nominations, including e.g. the Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at WWW'17. He regularly acts as a PC member on several top-tier - CORE A* ranked - conferences and co-organizes or co-chaires a number of workshops and conferences. Recent examples include ACM IUI’19, ACM UMAP’19 and ACM RecSys’19. He has also taught a series of courses at all levels (BSc, MSc, MBA, PhD), e.g., Information Systems, Recommender Systems or Web Science at the University of Bergen, Graz University of Technology and MODUL University Vienna and has managed and supervised a number of Post-Docs, PhD fellows, Master and Bachelor students.
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