Toine Bogers

Toine Bogers is a Part-Time Lecturer at Aalborg University, affiliated with the Department of Communication and Psychology within the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is a core member of the AI for the People research group. His work focuses on Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, and Social Media Analysis, with particular emphasis on applications in talent search, leisure information needs, and multistakeholder evaluation.

Research Interests: Recommender systems, information seeking behavior, collaborative filtering, human resources algorithms, and ethical evaluation frameworks. His work bridges technical innovation with societal impact, often addressing challenges in job matching, cultural heritage retrieval, and user-centric design.

Awards:

• Best Paper Award at CHIIR 2021
• Outstanding PC Member (2020)
• Best Reviewer (2020, 2018, and multiple years)

Grants & Projects:

• PI of JobMatch (2020–2023): Developing job recommendation systems for unemployed individuals
• Co-PI of Flipping Information Studies (2017–2019): Integrating video lectures into problem-based learning
• Organized workshops at RecSys on topics like Recommender Systems in HR and ComplexEnvironments

Labs/Teams: He leads research in the AI for the People group, emphasizing human-centered AI applications in recruitment, cultural heritage, and social media analysis.