Music

Next week, Lorenzo Porcaro will defend his PhD thesis with the title “Assessing the Impact of Music Recommendation Diversity on Listeners”.

I have to honor to chair the jury consisting of two legends in the field, Perfecto Herrera (UPF) and Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke (Spotify),—and myself. At UPF, the chair is indeed called president. When else will I have the opportunity to be called “the president” ;-)

Last week, I had the pleasure giving a guest lecture in the scope of the minor program “MU$IC—The Economy, Sociology and Practice of Popular Music” at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. It was very inspiring to work with students from another discipline.

As a proud supervisor, I am happy to let you know that Karlijn Dinnissen will present and discuss our joint paper Fairness in music recommender systems: a stakeholder-centered mini review at the 5th FAccTRec Workshop: Responsible Recommendation at RecSys 2022.

I am happy to share that episode #8 of the Recsperts podcast was released. Marcel Kurovski, who hosts this podcast, has invited me to talk about my research on recommender systems.

And so we did. We discuss the specifics of recommenders in the music (streaming) domain, my research on fairness from the artists’ perspective, and the importance of multi-method evaluation. I also share my view on the opportunities of leveraging context awareness for recommender systems.

The first joint paper with Karlijn Dinnissen has just appeared in the journal Frontiers in Big Data. In this mini review, we take a stakeholder-centered view and discuss literature on fairness in music recommender systems from the perspective of the various stakeholders.