About the Conference
The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) is the premier international forum for presenting new research results, systems, and techniques in the broad field of recommender systems. RecSys brings together leading international research groups and industry experts, including many of the world’s top companies in e-commerce and related domains. It is the most important annual event for the discussion and advancement of recommender systems research.
RecSys 2026, the twentieth conference in this series, will be held in-person in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present their latest findings and identify new trends and challenges in providing recommendation components across a range of innovative application contexts. In addition to the main technical track, the RecSys 2026 program will feature keynote and invited talks, tutorials on state-of-the-art topics, workshops, an industrial track, and a doctoral symposium.
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Committee
General Co-Chairs
Joseph Konstan
University of Minnesota, USA
George Karypis
University of Minnesota, USA
Gediminas (Gedas) Adomavicius
University of Minnesota, USA
Program Co-Chairs
Martijn Willemsen
Eindhoven University of Technology & JADS, The Netherlands
Bart Goethals
Froomle & University of Antwerp, Belgium
Minmin Chen
Google Deepmind
Industry Co-Chairs
Merra Felice Antonio
Cognism, United Kingdom
Arnie Bhadury
Google, Canada
Zhenhua Dong
Huawei, China
Reproducibility Co-Chairs
Ludovico Boratto
University of Cagliari, Italy
Michael Ekstrand
Drexel University, USA
Demo & Research&Practice Notes Co-Chairs
Adir Solomon
University of Haifa, Israel
Ruixuan (Sophia) Sun
University of Minnesota, USA
Doctoral Co-Chairs
Markus Zanker
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy and University Klagenfurt, Austria
Xia Ning
The Ohio State University, USA
Alex Tuzhilin
New York University, USA
Workshop Co-Chairs
Moshe Unger
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Li Chen
Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Bart Knijnenburg
Clemson University, USA
Tutorial Co-Chairs
Kim Falk
Binary Vikings, Dk
Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Women’s Events Co-Chairs
Karlijn Dinnissen
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Elena Epure
Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland and Deezer, France
Sole Pera
TU Delft, The Netherlands
Tao Ye
Lyft, Inc, USA
Challenge Co-Chairs
Francesco Barile
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Abhinav Bohra
Amazon.com, Inc
Claudio Pomo
Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Sponsorship Co-Chairs
Ding Tong
Netflix Research, USA
Noam Koenigstein
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Xu Chen
Renmin University of China, China
Gauri Sarode
DoorDash, USA
Proceedings & Video Co-Chairs
Mahamudul Hasan
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
Konstantin Bauman
Temple University, USA
Student Volunteer Co-Chairs
Erasmo Purificato
Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Italy
Amanda Aird
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Inclusion & Accessibility Co-Chairs
Sushmita Khan
Clemson University, Clemson, US
Helma Torkamaan
TU Delft, The Netherlands
Publicity Co-Chairs
Pan Li
Georgia Tech, USA
Noemi Mauro
University of Turin, Italy
Web Co-Chairs
Giuseppe Spillo
University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Zannatun Naim Sristy
University of Minnesota, USA
Finance Chair
Saikishore Kalloori
Disney Research, Zurich, Switzerland
Steering Committee Chair
Alan Said
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Steering Committee Executive Committee
Humberto Corona
Spotify, The Netherlands
Sole Pera
TU Delft, The Netherlands
Michael Ekstrand
Drexel University, USA
Steering Committee Members
Gedas Adomavicius
University of Minnesota, USA
Christine Bauer
Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
Joeran Beel
University of Siegen, Germany
Shlomo Berkovsky
Macquarie University, Australia
Maria Bielikova
Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies, Slovakia
Toine Bogers
IT University Copenhagen, Denmark
Peter Brusilovsky
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Robin Burke
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Li Chen
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Humberto Corona
Spotify, The Netherlands
Paolo Cremonesi
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Elizabeth Daly
IBM Research, Ireland
Tommaso Di Noia
Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Michael Ekstrand
Drexel University, USA
Werner Geyer
IBM Research Cambridge, USA
Ido Guy
Yahoo Research, Israel
Max Harper
Amazon, USA
Dietmar Jannach
Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Thorsten Joachims
Cornell University, USA
George Karypis
University of Minnesota, USA
Joseph A. Konstan
University of Minnesota, USA
Pavel Kordik
Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Pasquale Lops
University of Bari, Italy
Leandro Balby Marinho
Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
Bamshad Mobasher
DePaul University, USA
Sole Pera
TU Delft, The Netherlands
Pearl Pu
EPFL, Switzerland
Francesco Ricci
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Alan Said
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Rodrygo Santos
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Markus Schedl
Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Giovanni Semeraro
University of Bari, Italy
Bracha Shapira
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Barry Smyth
University College Dublin, Ireland
Domonkos Tikk
Gravity R&D, Hungary
Alexander Tuzhilin
New York University, USA
Katrien Verbert
KU Leuven, Belgium
Martijn Willemsen
Eindhoven University of Technology & Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Netherlands
Tao Ye
Amazon, USA
Markus Zanker
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Jie Zhang
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Min Zhang
Tsinghua University, China
Marco de Gemmis
University of Bari, Italy
João Vinagre
JRC, Spain
Emilia Gómez
JRC, Spain
Alípio Jorge
University of Porto, Portugal
