Markus Schedl

Markus Schedl is a Full Professor at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, where he leads the Multimedia Mining and Search (MMS) group within the Institute of Computational Perception. He also heads the Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI) group at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) AI Lab.

• Education: Computer Science (TU Wien), PhD (JKU Linz), Master's in International Business Administration (WU Wien, University of Gothenburg)

Research Interests span recommender systems, information retrieval, algorithmic fairness, user modeling, and machine learning. His recent publications focus on:

• Multimodal and hybrid AI for human-centric personalization
• Context-aware music recommendation and emotion recognition
• Graph neural networks for session-based recommendation
• Technical and regulatory compliance in fair, transparent, and privacy-preserving systems

Projects are funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), and European Commission (EC). He maintains industry collaborations with Siemens, Spotify, and Deezer.

Teaching includes courses like Introduction to Machine Learning and Social Media Mining and Analysis at JKU, with guest lecturing experiences at Pompeu Fabra, Queen Mary London, and KTH Stockholm.

Labs & Teams: MMS group at JKU's Institute of Computational Perception and HCAI group at LIT AI Lab.