My colleague Sebastian Schelter (formerly U. of Amsterdam, now TU Berlin) has an opening for a PhD Position on Enforcing the Right-to-be-Forgotten in Recommender Systems. The position is with the TU Berlin. I will be a (remote) co-supervisor. Please see https://deem.berlin/#jobs-30424 for details, and these two papers for samples of the kind of research that we’re thinking of for this position:
- Sebastian Schelter, Stefan Grafberger, and Maarten de Rijke. Snapcase – Regain Control over Your Predictions with Low-Latency Machine Unlearning. In Proceedings of the VLDB, volume 17, August 2024, PDF not available yet
- Sebastian Schelter, Mozhdeh Ariannezhad, and Maarten de Rijke. Forget Me Now: Fast and Exact Unlearning in Neighborhood-based Recommendation. In SIGIR 2023: 46th international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, page 2011–2015. ACM, July 2023, PDF
