Dominik Kowald is research area manager of the Social Computing research area of Know-Center Graz. He received a PhD in computer science from Graz University of Technology in 2017 with a dissertation in the field of cognitive-inspired recommender systems. Dominik is review editor of the Frontiers in Big Data journal and his current research focuses on transparency, privacy and fairness aspects of recommender systems.
Elisabeth Lex is a tenured associate professor of Applied Computer Science at Graz University of Technology (TUG) and PI of the Social Computing Lab at TUG, Austria. Her research interests include (music) recommender systems, psychology-informed recommender systems, user behavior modeling, information retrieval, algorithmic bias, and computational social science.