Christine Bauer

Christine Bauer

Professor of
Interactive Intelligent Systems

Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS), Austria

Profile

Christine Bauer is a Professor of Interactive Intelligent Systems at the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces (AIHI) at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS), Austria, and a Co-Lead of the focus area InterMediation. Music—Effect—Analysis at the inter-university institution Wissenschaft & Kunst.

Her research activities center on interactive intelligent systems, whereby she integrates research on intelligent technologies, the interaction of humans with intelligent systems, and their interplay. She takes a human-centered computing approach, where technology follows humans’ and society’s needs. Recently, she has focused on context-aware recommender systems and concentrates on recommender systems in the music and media sectors in particular. Core interests in her research activities are fairness in algorithmic decision-making and multi-method evaluation.

She advocates equal opportunities, is a member of the working group on equal opportunities (AKG), and engages in initiatives such as Women in Music Information Retrieval (WiMIR), the Allyship program at CHI, and LEA (Let’s empower Austria).

Interests
  • Interactive intelligent systems
  • Recommender systems
  • Fairness
  • Applied AI
  • Human-centered computing
  • Multi-method evaluation
  • Music recommender systems
  • Context-adaptive systems
Education
  • Doctoral degree in Social and Economic Sciences (Business Informatics), 2009

    University of Vienna, Austria

  • MSc in Business Informatics, 2011

    TU Wien, Austria

  • Diploma (equivalent to a Master's degree) in International Business Administration, 2002

    University of Vienna, Austria

  • Study of Jazz Saxophone

    Konservatorium der Stadt Wien, Austria

Portfolio

Central theme

Interactive intelligent systems
at the intersection of human-centered computing, data science, and artificial intelligence

Awards & Honors

Elise Richter laureate (FWF)
6 best paper awards, 5 additional nominations
5 awards for reviewing activities, 6 special recognitions for outstanding reviews

Teaching

30 different courses at 16 institutions
ESSIR, RecSys Summer School, PhD-AI.it
Tutorials at UMAP and ISMIR
Supervision of >70 theses

Community service

AE at TORS, TOIS, and JITT
Conf. Org. (e.g., RecSys, CHI, CIKM, ECIR)
Meta-Reviewer (e.g., SIGIR, RecSys, CHI, ISMIR)
Reviewer for >30 journals and >140 conferences
Workshop Organizer (e.g., PERSPECTIVES, Dagstuhl)

Outreach

Repeatedly speaker and panelist at non-scientific events (e.g., Ars Electronica Festival, Dutch Media Week, VUT Indie Days)
Substantial media coverage (e.g., Financial Times, El País)
Radio interviews (e.g., Ö1, FM4, SWR 2, NPO Radio 1)

International experience

Research experience in 4 countries (AT, DE, NL, US)
Teaching experience in 4 countries (AT, DE, NL, SE)

Mentoring

WiMIR Mentoring since 2018
Mentoring at Queen Mary University of London 2021–2024
Allyship Chair at CHI 2023+2022
Doctoral/PhD Symposium Chair at RecSys 2023+2021 and CIKM 2023

Selected Projects

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