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- Data modeling, cleaning, and transformation of historical documents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
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Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, F. (2025). Recommender Systems for Digital Humanities and Archives: Multistakeholder Evaluation, Scholarly Information Needs, and Multimodal Similarity. RecSys ‘25. ACM. DOI | SSRN
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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
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Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, F., & Kovács, T. (2024). Is Text Normalization Relevant for Classifying Medieval Charters? TPDL 2024. Springer. DOI | arXiv
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Habring, A., Nicolaou, A., Luger, D., Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, F., et al. (2023). Probabilistic Modeling of Chronological Dates to Serve Machines and Scholars. DH2023. Zenodo
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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
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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
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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