Universities serve as a hub for academic collaboration, promoting the exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives among students and faculty through interdisciplinary dialogue. However, as universities expand in size, conventional networking approaches via student chapters, class groups, and faculty committees become cumbersome. To address this challenge, an academia-specific profile recommendation system is proposed to connect like-minded stakeholders within any university community. This study evaluates three techniques: Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF), Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), and a hybrid approach to generate effective recommendations. Due to the unlabelled nature of the dataset, Affinity Propagation cluster-based relabelling is performed to understand the grouping of similar profiles. The hybrid model demonstrated superior performance, evidenced by its similarity score, Silhouette score, Davies-Bouldin index, and Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG), achieving an optimal balance between diversity and relevance in recommendations. Furthermore, the optimal model has been implemented as a mobile application, which dynamically suggests relevant profiles based on users' skills and collaboration interests, incorporating contextual understanding. The potential impact of this application is significant, as it promises to enhance networking opportunities within large academic institutions through the deployment of intelligent recommendation systems.

Recommender systems have emerged as a crucial component of the modern web ecosystem. The effectiveness and accuracy of such systems are critical for providing users with personalized recommendations that meet their specific interests and needs. In this paper, we introduce a novel model that utilizes a Graph Neural Network (GNN) in conjunction with sentence transformer embeddings to predict anime recommendations for different users. Our model employs the task of link prediction to create a recommendation system that considers both the features of anime and user interactions with different anime. The hybridization of the GNN and transformer embeddings enables us to capture both inter-level and intra-level features of anime data.Our model not only recommends anime to users but also predicts the rating a specific user would give to an anime. We utilize the GraphSAGE network for model building and weighted root mean square error (RMSE) to evaluate the performance of the model. Our approach has the potential to significantly enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of anime recommendation systems and can be extended to other domains that require personalized recommendations.

How does YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, and many other apps keep recommending videos, products, or shows you may be interested in? Google follows your search topic everywhere a few minutes after you searched. Everyone's feed is full of personalized topics, news, and accurate recommendations based on previous activities. They use the recommender system to make recommendations about products, information, services, or audio-visual content. The majority of these systems use a hybrid approach to enhance the effectiveness and accuracy of recommendation. Let's explore what hybrid recommendation system is, why it is important in the data-driven world and everything around it.