Julia Neidhardt

Julia Neidhardt is an Assistant Professor at TU Wien Informatics, specializing in Information Systems Engineering. Her research focuses on recommender systems, digital humanism, and user modeling, particularly in tourism and news domains. She leads the Christian Doppler Lab for Recommender Systems and is a UNESCO Co-Chair on Digital Humanism. Neidhardt holds a background in mathematics and computer science, with postdoctoral research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and visiting scholar roles at Northwestern University and the University of Geneva.

• Roles: Assistant Professor, Leader of Christian Doppler Lab for Recommender Systems, Board Member of CAIML
• Education: Dr. techn. (PhD) and Mag.a rer.nat. (Master's) in relevant fields

Her research emphasizes ethical AI, fairness in recommendations, and human-centered design. Notable contributions include work on sentiment analysis in online forums, serendipity in recommendations, and offensive language detection in multilingual contexts. She actively chairs conferences like ACM UMAP and RecSys, and serves on editorial boards for journals like the Journal of Information Technology & Tourism.

Grants/Projects: Leads the CDL Rec-Sys Lab (2022–2028), Excalibur (2022–2023), and projects on digital humanism and tourism technology. Her work integrates network analysis, computational linguistics, and empirical studies to address societal impacts of AI.

Awards: Distinguished Reviewer of ACM TORS, UNESCO Co-Chair, and top-tier conference involvement.