Christine Bauer

About

Christine Bauer is a Professor of Interactive Intelligent Systems at the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces (AIHI) at the University of Salzburg, Austria. In this role, she is part of the Excellence in Digital Sciences and Interdisciplinary Technologies (EXDIGIT) initiative. Since 2024, she is Co-Lead of the focus area “InterMediation. Music—Effect—Analysis” at the inter-university institution Wissenschaft & Kunst. Her research activities center on interactive intelligent systems, where she integrates research on intelligent technologies, the interaction of humans with intelligent systems, and heir interplay. Thereby, she takes a human-centered computing approach, where technology follows humans’ and society’s needs. Recently, she worked on context-aware recommender systems in the music and media domains. Core interests in her research activities are fairness and multi-method evaluations. Further interests span various fields such as online self-disclosure and privacy, methods for designing context-adaptive systems, and the creative industries, particularly the music sector. Her interdisciplinary background drives her research and teaching activities. She holds a Doctoral degree in Social and Economic Sciences (Business Informatics) (2009, with honors) and a Diploma (equivalent to a Master) degree in International Business Administration (2002), both from the University of Vienna, Austria. Furthermore, she holds a Master degree (MSc) in Business Informatics (2011) from TU Wien, Austria. Further studies at the University of Wales Swansea (now: Swansea University), United Kingdom, the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien (now: Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna), Austria, and WU Vienna, Austria. Assistant Professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands (2020–2023). Senior Postdoc Researcher (Elise Richter laureate) at the Institute of Computational Perception at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (2017–2020). Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Information Systems and Information Management at University of Cologne (2015–2016). 2013 and 2015 Visiting Fellow at the School of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Ubicomp Lab, at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Operations at WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austria (2009–2015). Furthermore, she engaged in applied research as a Researcher at E-Commerce Competence Center (EC3), Austria (2007–2009), and Junior Key Researcher at Fachhochschulstudiengänge Burgenland, Austria (2006–2007). Furthermore, she did freelance research, for instance, for Research Studios Austria and the University of Vienna, Austria. Before starting her academic career, she worked as Manager Licensing New Media at Austria’s biggest collecting society AKM, Austria (2002–2006). She is an experienced teacher in a wide spectrum of topics in computing and information systems, taught at 17 institutions across four countries. She is on the Editorial Boards of ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS), ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), and Information Technology & Tourism (JITT). She co-organized the workshop series Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems (PERSPECTIVES) at RecSys 2021–2023, and the Workshop on Intelligent User-Adapted Interfaces: Design and Multi-Modal Evaluation (IUadaptMe 2019) at UMAP 2019. She has co-organized Dagstuhl seminars related to evaluation in the fields of of recommender systems and information retrieval. Besides her teaching activities at the ACM Summer School on Recommender Systems 2024, 2023, and 2019, as well as ESSIR 2024, she gave tutorials at UMAP 2021 and ISMIR 2022. Furthermore, she was a co-chair of the Doctoral Symposium at RecSys 2021 and 2023, and served in the same role at the PhD Symposium at CIKM 2023. Additionally, she engages in initiatives such as Women in Music Information Retrieval (WiMIR), the Allyship program at CHI (2022+2023), and LEA (Let’s empower Austria). Moreover, she is repeatedly invited as a speaker or panelist at scientific and non-scientific events. She co-authored more than 140 publications. Six were awarded as best papers, and five had additional nominations for best paper awards. She is a laureate of the prestigious Elise Richter grant for the project “Fine-grained Culture-aware Music Recommender Systems” (2017–2020), an excellence program sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). She holds five awards as a best or outstanding reviewer (UMAP 2022 and 2019, RecSys 2022, 2019, and 2018). Further, Special Recognition for Outstanding Review at RecSys 2022 (for three reviews), IUI 2022, CHI 2020, and RecSys 2020. She received the Dr. Maria Schaumayer prize for her dissertation and Master’s thesis.