{"id":506,"date":"2018-12-19T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/?p=506"},"modified":"2018-12-19T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T09:02:00","slug":"phd-defense-bibek-paudel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/2018\/12\/19\/phd-defense-bibek-paudel\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Defense Bibek Paudel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Tuesday the 11th of December 2018, Bibek Paudel successfully defended his thesis &#8216;<strong>Improving recommendation diversity and identifying cultural biases for personalized ranking in large networks<\/strong>&#8216;. As is customary, the team created a graduation hat symbolizing his time at DDIS. We wish him good luck and good research at his next position as postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/12\/Bibek_defense1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/12\/Bibek_defense1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/12\/Bibek_defense1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/12\/Bibek_defense1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/12\/Bibek_defense1-220x165.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Bibek defending his doctoral thesis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/12\/Bibek_defense2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/12\/Bibek_defense2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/12\/Bibek_defense2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/12\/Bibek_defense2-165x220.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Graduated!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday the 11th of December 2018, Bibek Paudel successfully defended his thesis &#8216;Improving recommendation diversity and identifying cultural biases for personalized ranking in large networks&#8216;. As is customary, the team created a graduation hat symbolizing his time at DDIS. We wish him good luck and good research at his next position as postdoctoral researcher [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-ddis-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}