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:

GR/AP projects for the current winter semester (one option for GR/AP still available):

• GR/AP Mobile User Interaction with Travel Recommender Systems
• I can not accept any more applications for (Bachelor's or Master's) thesis projects at this time

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

Archive 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
  • Honored as RecSys 2021 Outstanding Reviewer

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