Thorsten Joachims
Scholar

Thorsten Joachims

Google Scholar ID: 5tk1PV8AAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
Machine LearningInformation Retrieval
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
21,220
 
H-index
64
 
i10-index
146
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
62
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Co-authored papers that won 11 Best Paper Awards and 4 Test-of-Time Awards
  • ACM Fellow, AAAI Fellow, and member of the SIGIR Academy
  • Served as Program Chair for ICML, KDD, and RecSys
  • Member of the IMLS Board and SIGKDD Executive Committee
  • Principal investigator on multiple NSF projects, including: ArXiv as an Accessible Large-scale Open Research Platform; Designing AI Systems with Steerable Long-Term Dynamics; Fairness and Control of Exposure in Ranking; Counterfactual Learning and Evaluation for Interactive Information Systems
  • Developed widely-used open-source software: SVM-light, SVM-struct, Propensity SVM-Rank, POEM, Dynamic Ranking, Spectral Graph Transducer (SGT), WebWatcher, LASER
Background
  • Jacob Gould Schurman Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Information Science at Cornell University
  • Interim Dean of the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science (Bowers CIS)
  • Former Associate Dean for Research and Chair of the Department of Information Science
  • Director of the Cornell AI Initiative and Radical Collaboration
  • Research interests include: Machine Learning Methods and Theory, Learning from Human Behavioral Data and Implicit Feedback, Machine Learning for Search, Recommendation, Education, and other Human-Centered Tasks