Scholar
Lora Aroyo
Google Scholar ID: FXGgl5IAAAAJ
Research Scientists @Google Research NYC
Citations & Impact
Citations
15,970
H-index
35
i10-index
79
Publications
20
Co-authors
144
list available
Publications
Resume
Research Experience
- Former Professor of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).
- Founded and led the User-Centric Data Science research group since 2010.
- Served as a visiting scholar at the Columbia Data Science Institute, Columbia University.
- Chief Scientist at Tagasauris (now seeen.com), a NYC-based startup, where she guided human-in-the-loop strategies for multimedia enrichment and improved video search/discovery.
- Established the VU INTERTAIN Lab in 2010—the first user-centric experimental lab in academia.
- Principal Investigator of numerous research projects on semantic search, recommendation systems, and personalized access to online multimedia.
- Research focuses on handling ambiguity in multimodal content, augmenting intelligence via human-AI collaboration, and building hybrid systems for domains like digital humanities, cultural heritage, and interactive TV.
Background
- Currently a Research Scientist at Google Research, NYC, working in Responsible AI with a focus on Data Excellence—developing metrics and strategies to reliably and transparently measure the quality of human-labeled data.
- Active member of the Human Computation, User Modeling, and Semantic Web communities.
- President of UM Inc., the steering body for the ACM conference series 'User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization' (UMAP), sponsored by SIGCHI and SIGWEB.
- Member of the ACM SIGCHI Conferences Board.
- A leading advocate of 'User-Centric Data Science,' which she developed and led as a research group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
