Link to call for full and short papers:
www.um.org/umap2026/cal...

👏 Thank you to all organizing committee members, (senior) program committee members, authors, and volunteers who make UMAP 2025 a success! 😍

🎩 Special ‘Tilley Hat’ Award
Awarded to Peter Brusilovsky for his continued service and impact in the UMAP community.
(As publicity chairs, we would also like to award Peter with 'honorary publicity chair' 🏆 for his buzzmaking on social media 😘 🙌)

⏳ Test-of-Time Award
Modeling Individualization in a Bayesian Networks Implementation of Knowledge Tracing
by Zach Pardos and Neil T. Heffernan (originally published at UMAP 2010)

🔍 Best Reviewers Award
Gianmaria Biancofiore, Bereket A. YILMA, Lien Michiels, Marta Moscati, Giuseppe Spillo, and Vojtěch Vančura

📰 Best LBR Paper Award
Simulating Human Opinions with Large Language Models – Opportunities and Challenges for Personalized Survey Data Modeling
by Carolin Kaiser et al.

🎓 Best Student Paper Award
Legal but Unfair: Auditing the Impact of Data Minimization on Fairness and Accuracy Trade-off in Recommender Systems
by Salvatore Bufi et al.

🏅 Best Short Paper
"Strangers in a new culture see only what they know": Evaluating Effectiveness of GPT-4 Omni for Detecting Cross-Cultural Communication Norm Violations
by Tzu-Yu Weng et al.

🏆 Best Full Paper
“Synthetic Voices: Evaluating the Fidelity of LLM-Generated Personas in Representing People’s Financial Wellbeing”
by Arshnoor Kaur et al.

And last, but not least, our **incredible** list of accepted papers, involving #full, #short, #industry papers, #LBR, and #DC: um.org/umap2025/acc...

We'd like to thank everyone who submitted to the conference ❤️ None of all this would have been possible without you!!

(5/5)

So many #workshops and #tutorials spanning several topics and domains in #usermodeling #personalization #recsys 😎🚀

Workshops: um.org/umap2025/wor...

Tutorials: um.org/umap2025/tut...

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Then, our **amazing** industry panel um.org/umap2025/ind...

⭐️Moderator: Jacopo Tagliabue (NYU)

Starring:

⭐️Tullie Murrel (Shaped)
⭐️Maria Belousova (Daydream)
⭐️Klinton Bucknell (Duolinguo)

(3/5)

Let's say hello to our **wonderful** lineup of keynote speakers 🤩👋 um.org/umap2025/key...

⭐️ Francesca Rossi
⭐️ Alexander Tuzhilin
⭐️ Chen Zheng

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