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CONGRATULATIONS

Successful PhD defence for Arpit Rana
From all of us in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at University College Cork, we wish Arpit Rana sincere congratulations upon successfully defending his PhD research thesis.
The examiners were impressed by Arpit's defence of his thesis and by his understanding of the broader issues in content-based recommender systems and user trials.
Thesis Title: Chain-based Recommendations
Supervisor: Dr Derek Bridge, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork
Internal Examiner: Professor Ken Brown, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork
External Examiner: Dr John O'Donovan, UC Santa Barbara
Well done Arpit!