Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

PhD Candidate (2024 - present) Institute of Human-Centred Computing, TU Graz Dissertation: Recommender Systems in the Digital Humanities

Work Experience

Project Manager (Oct 2024 - Jun 2026) Digital Humanities Infrastructure (DHInfra), University of Graz

  • Overall project coordination: GPU clusters, storage integration, software stack, API development
  • FOSS development funding and coordination; promotion and training for HPC in humanities
  • dhinfra.at

System Administrator (Jan 2024 - Dec 2026) Digital Humanities Infrastructure (DHInfra), University of Graz

  • Specification, acquisition, setup and maintenance of medium-sized GPU cluster
  • High-performance computing infrastructure for humanities research

System Administrator (Jun 2023 - Dec 2026) From Digital to Distant Diplomatics (DiDip), University of Graz

  • Machine learning pipeline design and integration for medieval charter analysis
  • Full-stack application development for Virtual Research Environment
  • Data integration, transformation, and system maintenance
  • didip.eu

Student Assistant (Feb 2022 - May 2023) DiDip, University of Graz

  • Data modeling, cleaning, and transformation of historical documents
  • Application prototype development

Education

PhD in Computer Science (2024 - ongoing) Technical University of Graz Thesis: Recommender Systems in the Digital Humanities

MA in Digital Humanities (with distinction) (2020 - 2023) University of Graz Thesis: Quantifying Formulaic Flexibility of Middle High German Legal Texts Repository | GitHub

BEd in German and English (2015 - 2020) University of Graz Thesis: The Use of Learner Corpora in ELT

Teaching

  • Introduction to Computer Science — University of Graz (Winter 2025/26)

Publications

Conference Proceedings

  • Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, F. (2025). Recommender Systems for Digital Humanities and Archives: Multistakeholder Evaluation, Scholarly Information Needs, and Multimodal Similarity. RecSys ‘25. ACM. DOI | SSRN

  • Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, F., Vogeler, G., & Kowald, D. (2025). A Multistakeholder Approach to Value-Driven Co-Design of Recommender System Evaluation Metrics in Digital Archives. RecSys ‘25. ACM. DOI

  • Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, F., & Kovács, T. (2024). Is Text Normalization Relevant for Classifying Medieval Charters? TPDL 2024. Springer. DOI | arXiv

  • Habring, A., Nicolaou, A., Luger, D., Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, F., et al. (2023). Probabilistic Modeling of Chronological Dates to Serve Machines and Scholars. DH2023. Zenodo

  • Kovács, T., Aoun, S., Vogeler, G., Nicolaou, A., Luger, D., Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, F., et al. (2023). Few Shot Classification for Labeling of Medieval and Early Modern Charter Texts. DH2023. Zenodo

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

  • Luger, D., & Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, F. (2024). De alto et basso: ein Experiment aus dem Bereich der “Distant Diplomatics” zum Formular von Urkunden aus dem Schiedsgerichtswesen. Studia historica Brunensia, 71(2), 237-245. DOI

Workshop Papers

  • Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, F., Geiger, B. C., Trattner, C., Vogeler, G., & Kowald, D. (2024). Challenges in Implementing a Recommender System for Historical Research in the Humanities. AltRecSys 2024 (co-located with RecSys). arXiv:2410.20909

  • Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, F., Geiger, B. C., Vogeler, G., & Kowald, D. (2024). Value Identification in Multistakeholder Recommender Systems for Humanities and Historical Research. NORMalize 2024. CEUR-WS

Forthcoming

  • Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, F. (2025). Multimodal Similarity Features for Search, Discovery, and Recommendation in Digital Archives. ICARUS Convention #35 (accepted, in editing).

Selected Presentations & Talks

  • “Current Updates and Future Prospects for Search and User Experience” — ICARUS Convention #34, Budapest, Hungary (May 2025, invited talk)
  • “Recommender Systems for Digital Humanities” — Data Skeptic Podcast (Nov 2025, invited)
  • “HPC and DHInfra” — Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2024, Grundlsee, Austria (Jun 2024)
  • “Formulaic language in diplomatics: Investigating formulas as charter type discriminators” — Amsterdam, Netherlands (Feb 2024)
  • “TEI2CEI2TEI oder Sapere Aude” — DHd2024, Passau, Germany (Feb 2024)
  • “Building a virtual research environment to move from digital to distant Diplomatics” — DHd2023, Trier, Germany (Mar 2023)
  • “Computational Methods in Studying Late Medieval Charters” — CHR2022, Antwerp, Belgium (Dec 2022)

Event Organization

  • Scriptorium Brunense – Diplomatics Summer School 2025 — Masaryk University Brno & DiDip (Jun 2025, organization and lecturing)
  • MOM Next Generation - AI-Enhanced Charter Retrieval — ICARus Convention #33, Naples, Italy (Oct 2024)
  • Summer School: Computational Language Technologies for Medievalists — University of Graz (Jul 2024)
  • Empowering Research with AI-Driven Historical Document Exploration — ICARus Convention #31, Skopje/Ohrid, North Macedonia (Nov 2023)
  • Digital Humanities 2023 — University of Graz (Jul 2023, with ADHO and DDH Graz)
  • Winter School: Computer Vision for Digital Humanists — University of Graz (Feb 2023, quality assurance and testing)
  • Information Visualization in the (Digital) Humanities — University of Graz (Oct 2022)
  • Digital Diplomatics 2022 — University of Graz (Sep 2022)

Open Source Contributions

  • Multilingual Language Detection Model — Co-created comprehensive language detection including historical languages (HuggingFace, 100k+ downloads)
  • Masked Language Model for Middle High German — Developed as part of MA thesis (HuggingFace)
  • DiDip Project — didip.eu | GitHub
  • DHInfra Project — dhinfra.at | GitHub

Awards & Funding

  • CLARIAH-AT Funding for Hackathon (€4,000) — 2025-2026
  • ASHPC Conference PhD Scholarship (€200) — 2024
  • University Performance Scholarship — 2022

Training & Certifications

  • Python for HPC — EuroCC Austria/VSC Research Center, TU Wien (2024)
  • Parallelization with MPI — VSC Research Center, TU Wien (2024)
  • N-Ways to GPU Programming Bootcamp — NVIDIA/VSC (2024)
  • Linux Essentials — LPI (2024)
  • Machine Learning for Language Analysis (Summer School) — University of Cologne (2021)

Academic Service

Conference Reviewing & Program Committees

  • WWW 2026 — PC member (User Modeling, Personalization and Recommendation track)
  • ECIR 2026 — Reviewing
  • UMAP 2025 — PC member (HyPer: Hybrid AI for Human-Centric Personalization workshop)
  • RecSys 2025 — PC member (Reproducibility track); Late Breaking Results
  • RecSys 2025 Workshops — Recommenders in Tourism, Music Recommender Systems
  • ECIR 2025 — IR for Good track
  • ECAI 2025 — Reviewing
  • RecSys — Workshops (ongoing)
  • DHd — Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (ongoing)
  • UMAP — Workshops (ongoing)

Professional Memberships

  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • International Centre for Archival Research (ICARus)
  • Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)
  • The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH)
  • Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd)

Last updated: November 2025