INERTIA Laboratory
Impact, Novation, Effectiveness, and Responsibility of Technology for Information Access Lab (INERTIAL) @ Drexel University.
INERTIAL is a research group housed in the Dept. of Information Science in the Drexel University College of Computing and Informatics, led by Dr. Michael Ekstrand. We study “information access technology” — recommender systems, search engines, and other algorithmic technology for accessing large information spaces — to make them more useful, effective, and socially beneficial.
news
| Jul 10, 2026 | Paper accepted to RecSys 2026 on convergent validity of offline evaluation. |
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| Jun 01, 2026 | Dr. Ekstrand is giving a tutorial on reproducibility at RecSys 2026. |
| Jun 01, 2025 | Dr. Ekstrand is giving a keynote at the AI & Society conference. |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Our paper “User and Recommender Behavior Over Time” is accepted to the FairUMAP workshop at ACM UMAP 2025! |
| Apr 04, 2025 | New paper in ACM TORS on robust recall-based evaluation. |