Keynote Speakers
Dr. Rishabh Mehrotra
Rishabh works as Head of AI at Sourcegraph in London. Before this, he was the Director of ML at Sharechat, and even earlier, he was a Staff Research Scientist & Area Tech Lead at Spotify in London. Rishabh has a PhD in Machine Learning from University College London (UCL). He studied Computer Science and Mathematics at BITS Pilani.
Rishabh's research interests revolve around developing scalable learning systems that power multistakeholder marketplace platforms. He works on multi-objective ranking, reinforcement learning, user modeling, and large-scale evaluation. Rishabh is interested in teaching machines to better understand (and thereby model) users and optimize for different stakeholder objectives.
Prof. Markus Zanker
Markus Zanker is a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, where he also served as vice dean for studies and director for study programmes. Before moving to Bolzano he was an associate professor at the Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria. His research focuses on knowledge-based information systems supporting decision-making processes such as personalized information filtering and retrieval, product recommendation, conversational sales advisor systems, and product configurators. Until 2013 Markus Zanker was also a co-founder and director of a recommendation service company for over 10 years.