Noam Koenigstein

PhD. Candidate

School of Electrical Engineering

Tel-Aviv University

Email:

Research Interests:

•             Recommendations System (Matrix Factorization, Cold Start)

•             Multimedia Information Retrieval (mostly Music Information Retrieval)

•             P2P Networks

Teaching:

•             Introduction to Data Mining (The Open University of Israel)

•             Introduction to Computer Networks (website)

•             Advanced Laboratory in Computer Communications (website)

Journals:

· Web Scale Media Recommendation Systems
Gideon Dror, Noam Koenigstein and Yehuda Koren
Submitted to The Proceedings of The IEEE 

· The Yahoo! Music Dataset and KDDCup’11
Gideon Dror, Noam Koenigstein, Yehuda Koren, Markus Weimer
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 17:1-12. 2011.

· Talent Scouting in P2P Networks
Noam Koenigstein and Yuval Shavitt
Computer Networks, Special Issue on Complex Dynamic Networks: Tools and Methods. Accepted.

· Measuring the Validity of Peer-to-Peer Data for Information Retrieval Applications

Noam Koenigstein, Yuval Shavitt, Ela Weinsberg, and Udi Weinsberg

Computer Networks. Accepted.

Conferences:

· The Yahoo! Music Dataset and KDDCup’11 [pdf]
Gideon Dror, Noam Koenigstein, Yehuda Koren, Markus Weimer
The 7^th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD): KDD Cup 2011 Workshop, 2011

•          Yahoo! Music Recommendations: Modeling Music Ratings with Temporal Dynamics and Item Taxonomy [pdf]
Gideon Dror, Noam Koenigstein and Yehuda Koren
ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), 2011

•          Analyzing the DC File Sharing Network [pdf|bib]
Pavel Gurvich, Noam Koenigstein and Yuval Shavitt
The IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P) 2010

•          On the Applicability of Peer-to-Peer Data in Music Information Retrieval Research [pdf]
Noam Koenigstein, Yuval Shavitt, Ela Weinsberg, and Udi Weinsberg
International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference, 2010

•          What’s Hot? Estimating Country Specific Artist Popularity [pdf|bib]
Markus Schedl, Tim Pohle, Noam Koenigstein, Peter Knees
International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference, 2010

•          Collaborative Filtering Based on P2P Networks [pdf|bib]
Noam Koenigstein, Gert Lanckriet, Brian McFee, and Yuval Shavitt
International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference, 2010

· A Framework for Extracting Musical Similarities From Peer-to-Peer Networks [pdf]
Noam Koenigstein, Yuval Shavitt, Ela Weinsberg, Udi Weinsberg and Tomer Tankel
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2010): 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe), 2010

· Predicting Billboard Success Using Data-Mining in P2P Networks [pdf]
Noam Koenigstein, Yuval Shavitt, and Noa Zilberman
Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2009): 1st International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe), 2009

•          Song Ranking Based on Piracy in Peer-to-Peer Networks [pdf|bib]
Noam Koenigstein and Yuval Shavitt
International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference, 2009

•          Spotting Out Emerging Artists Using Geo-Aware Analysis of P2P Query Strings [pdf|bib]
Noam Koenigstein, Yuval Shavitt and Tomer Tankel
ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2008

Academic Responsibilities:

Publicity Chair:

--International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe): 2010

PC Member:

--International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents (SMUC), 2011

--International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe): 2009, 2010

Reviewer:

--International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2010, 2011

--International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe): 2009, 2010

--International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents (SMUC), 2011