Sole Pera

Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology

Joined

January 2026

Names

Sole Pera (Preferred)

Maria Soledad Pera

Emails

****@tudelft.nl (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Associate Professor

Delft University of Technology (tudelft.nl)

2022 – Present

PhD student

Brigham Young University (byu.edu)

2009 – 2014

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Yiu-Kai Ng

Present

PhD Advisee

Robin Ungruh

2024 – Present

PhD Advisee

Hrishita Chakrabarti

2024 – Present

PhD Advisee

Alisa Rieger

2020 – 2024

PhD Advisee

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu

2015 – 2020

Expertise

Information Retrieval

Present

Recommender Systems

Present

Information Access

Present

Children Information Retrieval

Present

Publications

All The Cool Kids, How Do They Fit In?: Popularity and Demographic Biases in Recommender Evaluation and Effectiveness
Michael Ekstrand, Mucun Tian, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Jennifer D. Ekstrand, Oghenemaro Anuyah, David McNeill, Sole Pera
- Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, PMLR
- Readers: Everyone
2nd Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2) - Bridging User-centered AI with IR: Making Information Retrieval Accessible for All.
Noemi Mauro, Angelo Geninatti Cossatin, Maria Soledad Pera, Federica Cena, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia
- SIGIR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
4th KidRec workshop - "what does good look like?": from design, research, and practice to policy.
Monica Landoni, Jerry Alan Fails, Theo Huibers, Natalia Kucirkova, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
- IDC (Extended Abstracts) 2020
- Readers: Everyone
4th KidRec - what does good look like: from design, research, and practice to policy.
Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Emiliana Murgia, Natalia Kucirkova, Theo Huibers
- SIGIR Forum 2020
- Readers: Everyone
1st Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2).
Maria Soledad Pera, Federica Cena, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Noemi Mauro, Emiliana Murgia
- ECIR (5) 2024
- Readers: Everyone
What does good look like?: report on the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec) at IDC 2019.
Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Emiliana Murgia, Natalia Kucirkova
- SIGIR Forum 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Conversational Agents: A Framework for Evaluation (CAFE) (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 24352)
Christine Bauer, Li Chen, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr, Avishek Anand, Timo Breuer, Guglielmo Faggioli, Ophir Frieder, Hideo Joho, Jussi Karlgren, Johannes Kiesel, Bart P. Knijnenburg, Aldo Lipani, Lien Michiels, Andrea Papenmeier, Maria Soledad Pera, Mark Sanderson, Scott Sanner, Benno Stein, Johanne R. Trippas et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- Dagstuhl Manifestos 2025
- Readers: Everyone
We're Still Doing It (All) Wrong: Recommender Systems, Fifteen Years Later
Alan Said, Maria Soledad Pera, Michael D. Ekstrand
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Recommending With, Not For: Co-Designing Recommender Systems for Social Good
Michael D. Ekstrand, Afsaneh Razi, Aleksandra Sarcevic, Maria Soledad Pera, Robin Burke, Katherine Landau Wright
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Impacts of Mainstream-Driven Algorithms on Recommendations for Children Across Domains: A Reproducibility Study
Robin Ungruh, Alejandro Bellogín, Dominik Kowald, Maria Soledad Pera
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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