Quick Intro
Summer 2025: Research Science Intern at Pinterest (supervised by Pedro Silva on the Fairness Team)
Currently doing a PhD at the University of Rochester (in New York) with Prof. Jian Kang.
My research interests include: Individual Fairness in Graphs and Discovery in Recommender Systems
Completed a M.Sc at Université de Montreal (MILA) — see my thesis here!
My research interests include: Graph Neural Networks (GNN), Fairness, and Music Recommender Systems
I’m also organizing a fairness in information retrieval reading group: DEFIRST
If you’d like a more detailed insight into my professional experiences and computer science background, click to see my C.V.
Publications
2024
LARP: Language Audio Relational Pre-Training for Cold Start Playlist Continuation : In KDD 2024. Salganik, R. , Liu, X. , Ma, Y., Kang, J., Chua, T. (2024)
Fairness Through Domain Awareness: Mitigating Popularity Bias For Music Discovery : In ECIR 2024. Salganik, R. Diaz, F, and Farnadi, G. (2024)
2023
Harms from Increasingly Agnetic Systems : In FAaCT 2023. A, Chan., R. Salganik, Markelius,A. , Pang,C., Rajkumar,N. et al. (2023)
2022
Analyzing the Effect of Sampling in GNNs on Individual Fairness: In: RecSys 2022 FaccTRec Workshop. Salganik, R., Diaz, F., Farnadi, G. (2022)
AI & Cities: Risks, Applications and Governance. Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute & UN-Habitat. (2022)
The AI Industry Through the Lens of Ethics and Fairness: In: Missing Links in AI Governance. Farnadi, G., Leal, A. and Salganik, R. (2022)
Some Fun Personal ComPuter Science Projects
Recreating Rats Navigating Mazes With Reinforcement Learning
Keywords: Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Maze Navigation
Hit Music Prediction Problem
Keywords: Machine learning, music, hit music prediction, Spotify, MIR
Genre Classification From Lyrical Content
Keywords: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Genre Classification
Good, Clean, Fair (In Progress)
A website for gathering data about skincare
Keywords: website design, software engineering