Tomislav Đuričić is a researcher in the Social Computing division at the Know-Center GmbH, Austria’s leading research center for data-driven business and Big Data analytics. He has an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Software Engineering and Information Systems from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb. As a University Assistant, he is currently doing his PhD in the field of Recommender Systems at the Institute for Interactive Systems and Data Science at the Graz University of Technology. Together with partners from Zagreb, Ljubljana, and Graz, he is working on the ERASMUS+ project called COGSTEPS which aims to “fill the gap” between the academic and the startup world. His main research interests are in the fields of Social and Complex Networks, Social Media Analytics, User Modeling and Personalization, Recommender Systems, Machine Learning, and Data Analysis.