A few words about me

My name is Michael Jahrer and I come from Lieboch, it is located in Austria near Graz.

Education

Graz University of Technology, 2003-2006, Bachelor study Telematics
Graz University of Technology, 2006-2009, Master study Telematics
MSc in Computer Science, Graz University of Technology, "Techniques for the Combination of Multiple Predictors Applied to Recommender Systems", January 2010

Publications

A. Töscher, M. Jahrer and R. Legenstein. "Improved Neighborhood-Based Algorithms for Large-Scale Recommender Systems". In 14th ACM Int. Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2008), Las Vegas, Workshop on Large Scale Recommender Systems and the Netflix Prize. [pdf]

M. Jahrer, A. Töscher and R. Legenstein. "Combining Predictions for Accurate Recommender Systems". In 16th ACM Int. Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2010), Washington DC, Research Full Paper. [pdf]

Awards

Netflix Progress Prize 2008 Winner
Netflix Grand Prize Winner

Company

I'm a developer at commendo research & consulting, we are focused on recommendation systems for productive usage.

Contact

michael [dot] jahrer [at] commendo [dot] at

Bibtex for the ELF project
@misc{jahrer2010ELF,
    author = "Michael Jahrer",
    title = "ELF - {E}nsemble {L}earning {F}ramework. An open source {C}++ framework for supervised learning",
    howpublished = "http://elf-project.sourceforge.net",
    year = 2010
}


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