Benedikt Loepp

Benedikt LoeppI have a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Computer Science and am currently working as a program manager (AI for Agri-Food) at Fraunhofer IMS. Besides, I am a guest lecturer the University of Duisburg-Essen. I have a passion for research at the intersection of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. In the last years, this work has mainly been focused on recommender systems and intelligent decision support, building on a research approach that fully integrates the user perspective, especially by improving interactivity, explainability, and transparency. This includes preference elicitation, user modeling, and interaction design, as well as studying the user experience and thus the acceptance of the systems by means of empirical research methods.

I received a bachelor’s degree (2011) and a master’s degree (2013) in Applied Computer Science as well as a PhD in Computer Science (Dr.-Ing.) from the University of Duisburg-Essen. From 2012 to 2023, I worked there as a doctoral researcher and as a postdoc in the Interactive Systems group. From 2012 to 2020, I was also the coordinator for computer science in the MINTroduce project at the University of Duisburg-Essen, in which I supported first-year students and was responsible for the department's preliminary courses. Moreover, I was involved in the colognE-mobil project part II and contributed to several research developments, e.g., the concept of blended recommending, the TagMF framework, the archaeological sandbox, and several GWAPs. In addition to research, I enjoyed my teaching activities, including a course on recommender systems. After my time at the University of Duisburg-Essen, I joined the University of Koblenz as an assistant professor (Juniorprofessor) for computational social science and data science.

For many years, I was the webmaster of the official ACM RecSys website, serving as web chair for the conference until 2020. For RecSys, I was also active as student volunteer chair and proceedings chair, and as publicity chair for ACM UMAP in 2021. I regularly serve as a committee member and reviewer for a variety of journals and conferences, including CHI, Frontiers AI, IJHCS, INTERACT, IUI, RecSys, and UMAP. I was a member of the Global Young Faculty VII and co-founded the GI group on User-centered AI.  

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A list of publications is also available in the digital library of the University of Duisburg-Essen, via ORCID iD iconORCID (iD: 0000-0001-9059-5324), or in my Google Scholar profile.