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• Oct 2026 Paper accepted at BNAIC/BeNeLearn 2026

  "Methodological Choices for Clustering-based Analysis of Classification Errors" by Mana Douma, Emma Beauxis-Aussalet, and Manel Slokom was accepted as a poster at BNAIC/BeNeLearn 2026.

• Oct 2026 SynIRgy to join ACM Web Conference 2027

  Excited to announce that SynIRgy, the Workshop on Simulation and Synthetic Data for Information Retrieval, will return for a new edition at the ACM Web Conference 2027, following its successful debut at ECIR 2026.

• Aug 2026 Joined Hotelschool The Hague as Lecturer

  Started as Lecturer at Hotelschool The Hague, teaching Data Analytics and Research, and contributing to the Hospitality Research Lab course and the maker space (AR/VR, 3D printing).

• Jul 2026 Best Paper Award at KES-HCIS

  "LLMDiRec: LLM-Enhanced Intent Diffusion for Sequential Recommendation" (with Bo Chen) received the Best Paper Award at the KES International Conference on Human-Centered Intelligent Systems (KES-HCIS).

• Apr 2026 Co-organized the First SynIRgy Workshop at ECIR 2026

  Co-organized SynIRgy, the First Workshop on Simulation and Synthetic Data for Information Retrieval, held in Delft, the Netherlands, as part of ECIR 2026.

• 2025 Paper accepted at ECIR 2025

  "How to Diversify Any Personalized Recommender?" (with Savvina Danil and Laura Hollink) accepted at ECIR 2025.

• Nov 2024 Visiting researcher talk at INRIA Saclay

  Gave an invited talk, "How to Diversify Any Personalized Recommender?", as a visiting researcher with the CEDAR Group at INRIA Saclay, France.

• 2024 Won the IAOS Prize for Young Statisticians

  "From COACH to COACH+: Automating Output Checking with Human-in-the-Loop" (Statistical Journal of the IAOS) won the IAOS Prize for Young Statisticians.

• 2024 PhD completed at TU Delft

  Defended the PhD dissertation "Towards Purpose-Aware Privacy-Preserving Techniques for Predictive Applications" at Delft University of Technology.

• Oct 2023 Talk at the Brinkhof AI Symposium

  Spoke on "Responsible Machine Learning and Recommender Systems" at the Brinkhof AI Symposium & Internet Thesis Award.

• 2021 Co-organized SimuRec at ACM RecSys

  Co-organized SimuRec, the First Workshop on Simulation and Synthetic Data for Recommender Systems Research, at ACM RecSys 2021, and served as Student Volunteer Co-Chair.