Andreea Iana

Andreea Iana

PhD Student @ DWS Group, University of Mannheim | Recommender Systems, Algorithmic Bias & Cross-lingual IR

I am a final-year PhD student at the University of Mannheim, Germany, advised by Prof. Heiko Paulheim (University of Mannheim) and Prof. Goran Glavaš (University of Würzburg). I am interested in exploring algorithmic bias and diversity in (news) recommender systems, as well as in multilingual, cross-lingual and few-shot information retrieval.

Between Dec 2023 and Feb 2024, I was a visting researcher in the WüNLP Group at the University of Würzburg. Previously, I completed my M.Sc. in Business Informatics at the University of Mannheim, where I worked as a research assistant in the Data and Web Science Group.

You can find more info on my CV.

News

Nov, 2025Our paper "Multilinguality in MIND: Advancing Cross-lingual News Recommendation with a Multilingual Dataset" was accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems!
Aug, 2025I have been awarded the Open Science Grant from the University of Mannheim for the SpaceBenchRAG project.
May, 2025Our paper "Walk&Retrieve: Simple Yet Effective Zero-shot Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Knowledge Graph Walks" was accepted to IR-RAG 2025, in conjunction with SIGIR 2025!
Dec, 2024Our paper "News Without Borders: Domain Adaptation of Multilingual Sentence Embeddings for Cross-lingual News Recommendation" was accepted to ECIR 2025!
Oct, 2024Our paper "Peeling Back the Layers: An In-Depth Evaluation of Encoder Architectures in Neural News Recommenders" was accepted to INRA'24, in conjunction with RecSys 2024!
Sep, 2024Our paper "Train Once, Use Flexibly: A Modular Framework for Multi-Aspect Neural News Recommendation" was accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2024!