Thorsten Joachims

Thorsten Joachims is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of computer science and information science at Cornell University. He is also the Vice Provost for Artificial Intelligence Strategy at Cornell, where he leads the Cornell AI Initiative and the AI Radical Collaboration. He previously served as the interim dean for Cornell Bowers, as associate dean for research for Cornell Bowers, and as chair of the Department of Information Science. He has also served as program chair of the ICML, KDD, and RecSys conferences, and he is a member of the IMLS Board and the SIGKDD Executive Committee. Thorsten Joachims joined Cornell in 2001 after finishing his Ph. D. as a student of Prof. Morik at the University of Dortmund, from where he also received a Diplom in computer science in 1997.

Joachims’ research interests center on a synthesis of theory and system building in machine learning from human interaction, with applications in information access, generative AI, and recommendation. His research focuses on counterfactual and causal inference, policy learning, learning to rank, structured output prediction, and learning from implicit feedback. Joachims is an ACM Fellow, AAAI Fellow, and Humboldt Fellow.