Dr. Wolfgang Wörndl

(Dipl.-Inform., Dipl.-Kfm.)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Department for Informatics
Chair of Connected Mobility
formerly Chair of Applied Informatics / Cooperative Systems (Prof. Schlichter)

Managing Director of the Center for Doctoral Studies in Informatics and its Applications (CeDoSIA)

Email: woerndl@in.tum.de
Tel.: +49 89 289 18686
Fax: +49 89 289 18657
Office: Room MI 01.05.043
Address: Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748 Garching b. München

Times of absence:

• 11.-22.09.2021

Thesis and GR/AP projects for the upcoming winter semester (apply until Oct. 3rd, 2021):

• MT/BT/GR/AP DestiRec: A Travel Recommender Systems for Destination Recommendation
• MT/BT Exploring SOLID as a Platform for Decentralized Personal Recommendations
• GR/AP Mobile User Interaction with Travel Recommender Systems

The lecture course User Modeling and Recommender Systems (IN2119) is not offered anymore!

List of previous courses

Research interest areas:

• User modeling and recommender systems
• Mobile applications and context-aware computing
• (Mobile) Human-computer interaction
• Automotive domain, eTourism and travel

Current research focus: Interactive Recommender Systems in Mobile Scenarios

Publications

Prototypes for travel recommendation:

• TourRec (with Daniel Herzog and Christopher Lass): Recommend a sequence of interesting places for visiting a city
• Travel Region Recommender: Combine travel regions to recommend a composite trip

Selected current academic activities:

• Member of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) e.V.
• Vice chair of the board of the GI Special Interest Group (SIG) on Adaptivity and User Modeling (ABIS) and member of the board of the SIG on User-Centered Artificial Intelligence
• Organizing conferences, workshops and other scientific events, e.g.:
  • Research track co-chair of ENTER2020 and ENTER2021 eTourism conferences
  • Co-chair of the Workshop on User-Centered Artificial Intelligence (UCAI '21), September 2021
  • Co-chair of the ACM RecSys Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism (RecTour 2021), September 2021
• Selected previously funded project: Social and Collaborative Mobility Services in TUM Living Lab Connected Mobility (TUM LLCM)
• Program committee member and reviewer for various journals, conferences and workshops

Private interests: Traveling; Photography; Sports (e.g. Golf); Outdoors (e.g. Hiking and Skiing); Music, Philosophy and Art.