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PAWS

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== About PAWS ==
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[[Image:AIED_2019.jpg|class=img-responsive|AIED 2019 - Chicago, IL]]
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Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is the development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation, and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and NIH funding.

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== Most Recent News ==
* Dr. Rosta Farzan is a Program Chair [https://chi.acm.org/welcome-to-the-chi-2027-chairs/ CHI 2027 happening in Pittsburgh]!
* Jordan defends his PhD thesis and starts a position as Professor at UDP, Chile ([[News#2025-11-21|details]])
* Kamil defends his PhD thesis and starts his postdoc position at CMU ([[News#2025-09-02|details]])
* Behnam defends his PhD thesis and starts his postdoc position at Stanford ([[News#2025-02-04|details]])
* Khushboo Thaker defends her PhD thesis ([[News#2024-12-09|details]])
* PAWS alumni Rosta Farzan and Claudia López co-chair ACM CSCW 2024 conference ([[News#2024-09-09|details]])
* Kamil's paper nominated for the Best Paper Award at EC-TEL 2024 ([[News#2024-09-15|details]])
* Rosta Farzan has been promoted to Full Professor at the University of Pittsburgh ([[News#2024-09-09|details]])
* Denis Parra serves as program co-chair of ACM IUI 2024 ([[News#2024-03-18|details]])
* Hung Chau defends his PhD Thesis ([[News#2023-11-03|details]])
* Sherry Sahebi has been promoted to Associate Professor at the University at Albany, SUNY ([[News#2023-09-01|details]])
* Sergey Sosnovsky has been promoted to Associate Professor at Utrecht University ([[News#2023-04-24|details]])
* Peter Brusilovsky receives 2023 Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award as a leader in the field of "cutting-edge research" ([[News#2023-03-14|details]])
* Peter Brusilovsky receives Amazon Research Award ([[News#2022-08-31|details]])
* Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai receives best paper award at ACM Learning at Scale 2022 ([[News#2022-06-08|details]])
* Peter Brusilovsky receives an NIH grant to work on the personalized treatment of aphasia ([[News#2022-04-05|details]])
* PAWS team receives Best Demo Award at ACM RecSys 2021 ([[News#2021-09-23|details]])
* Sharon Hsiao joins Santa Clara University as an endowed assistant professor ([[News#2021-09-01|details]])
* PAWS takes over EDM 2021! ([[News#2021-06-29|details]])
* Kamil Akhuseyinoglu and Peter Brusilovsky win Best Paper Award at UMAP 2021 ([[News#2021-06-23|details]])
* Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai starts as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha in Fall 2021! ([[News#2021-05-08|details]])
* Sherry Sahebi receives NSF CAREER award! ([[News#2021-05-06|details]])
* Rosta Farzan is appointed Associate Dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the School of Computing and Information ([[News#2021-02-21|details]])
* Chun-Hua Tsai defends his PhD Thesis and joins Penn State as Assistant Research Professor ([[News#2019-08-25|details]])
* Hung Chau wins the Best Paper award at the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery Learning at Scale Conference! ([[News#2019-06-25|details]])
* Prof. Peter Brusilovsky is awarded AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award in recognition of his contributions to the field of Recommender Systems by AMiner ([[News#2019-03-04|details]])
* Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018 ([[News#2018-08-13|details]])

Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.

== View Demos of Some PAWS Lab Systems & Tools ==
* [https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3640544.3645223 CARE: An Infrastructure for Evaluation of Carousel-Based Recommender Interfaces]
* [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3279720.3279726 Programming Construction Examples] (2017) with [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-09680-8_4 Self Explanations] (2022)
* [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3460231.3478879 Grapevine] (2021) - an interactive recommender system for finding research advisors
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI9Fxo_FeRw&t=145s&ab_channel=RH Mastery Grids for Java] (2017) - a personalized Java Programming Practice System
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roCkp7QVfB8 Mastery Grids for Python] (2017) - a personalized Python Programming Practice System

== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04 
135 North Bellefield Avenue 
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 
Tel: +1 (412) 624-9437

People

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== Faculty ==
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Image:Peter.jpg|'''[[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]''' Director
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== Doctoral Students ==
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Image:rully.jpeg|[https://ruhendrawan.com/ Rully Hendrawan] Projects: [[The_Pitt_Grapevine|Grapevine]], [[Investigating_and_Evaluating_Exploratory_Recommender_Systems|ArtEx]]

Image:moh70.jpg|[https://themhassany.github.io/ Mohammad Hassany]

Image:arun.jpeg|[https://a2un.github.io/ Arun Lekshmi-Narayanan]

Image:Rafaella.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafaella-sampaio-de-alencar/ Rafaella Sampaio de Alencar]

Image:QuinnKWolter.png|[https://www.quinnkwolter.com/ Quinn K Wolter]

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== Incoming Doctoral Students ==
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Image:Marzieh.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/marzieh-alidadi/ Marzieh]

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== Past Doctoral Students ==
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Image:Jordan.jpeg|[http://pitt.edu/~jab464 Jordan Barria-Pineda] Assistant Professor, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Image:Kamil.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~kaa108 Kamil Akhuseyinoglu] PostDoc, Carnegie Mellon
Image:behnam.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~ber58 Behnam Rahdari] Projects: [[The_Pitt_Grapevine|Grapevine]], [[HELPeR_-_Health_e-Librarian_with_Personalized_Recommender|HELPeR]] PostDoc, Stanford
Image:k.thaker.png|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/khushsi/ Khushboo Thaker] PAWS + [https://sites.pitt.edu/~dah44/iris.html IRIS Lab] Projects: [[HELPeR_-_Health_e-Librarian_with_Personalized_Recommender|HELPeR]]
Image:Arezou.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/arezou-farzaneh/ Arezou Farzaneh] PAWS + [https://sites.pitt.edu/~mrfrank/resilientEconomy.html Resilient Economy Lab]
Image:Avatar.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~hkc6 Hung Chau] Applied Scientist, Zillow
Image:zrisha.png|[https://zakrisha.com Zak Risha] PAWS + [https://facetlab.pitt.edu/ FACETLab]
Image:Tsai.jpg|[http://www.cht77.com/ Chun-Hua Tsai] Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Image:Roya.jpg|[[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft
Image:yunhuang.png|[http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yunhuang/index.htm Yun Huang] Assistant professor, Universidad Austral de Chile
Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Daniel Guerra]] Projects: [[Mastery Grids Interface|Mastery Grids]] Professor of Computer Science, Universidad Austral de Chile
Image:xidao.jpg|[[User:Xidao| Xidao Wen]] PAWS + [https://picsolab.github.io/ PISCO Lab] Postdoctoral Researcher, Tsinghua University
Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]] Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University at Albany - State University of New York
Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]] Associate Professor, Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]] Projects: [[CN3]], [[CoMeT]] Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
Image:Tomek.jpeg| [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomekloboda/ Tomek Loboda] Projects: [[WADEIn]], [[Mastery Grids Interface|Mastery Grids]] Data Scientist
Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]] PAWS + [https://sites.pitt.edu/~dah44/iris.html IRIS Lab] Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-Sen University.
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Image:Sergey.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Associate Professor, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Image:Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]] Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]], [[Progressor]], [[ProgressorPlus]] Assistant Professor and David Packard endowed junior fellow, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Santa Clara University
Image:Danielle.gif|[[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] Projects: [[Eventur]], [[Proactive]] Professor, Management Information Systems, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]''' Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]] Staff Data Scientist, Chegg
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]] Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]] Research Staff Member, Distributed AI, IBM Research
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] Professor, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh.
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== Past Master Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:ZaraBlum.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/zarajblum/ Zara Blum] Projects: [[The_Pitt_Grapevine|Grapevine]]
Image:Gangeshwari_Rajavelu.png|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/gangeshwari-rajavelu-94991137/ Gangeshwari Rajavelu]
Image:ShrutiSabusuresh.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrutisabusuresh/ Shruti Sabusuresh] Projects: [[Smart Content]]
Image:WeiJeng.jpeg|[https://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~wjeng/ Wei Jeng] Projects: [[CN3]]
Image:ShaopengZhang.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaopengzhang/ Shaopeng Zhang] Projects: [[CN3]]
Image:Gayathri.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayathrikrishnamoorthy/ Gayathri Krishnamoorthy]
Image:Dhruba.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbaishya/ Dhruba Baishya]
Image:VikKhenat.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/vik-khenat/ Vik Khenat]
Image:Chavan_girish.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishchavan Girish Chavan] CTO Astrata Inc
Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu] Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]
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== Past Visiting Faculty ==
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Image:dr_bereket_yilma.jpg |[https://bekyilma.github.io/ Dr. Bereket Yilma]
Image:Jaakko peltonen 215x296.jpg|[http://users.ics.aalto.fi/jtpelto// Jaakko Peltonen]
Image:IMG_0611.JPG|[http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~acristea/ Alexandra I. Cristea]
Image:Sibel.jpg|[http://sibelsomyurek.com/ Sibel Somyürek]
Image:Susan_bull.png|[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan_Bull2 Susan Bull]
Image:KatrienVerbert.jpg|[http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~katrien.verbert/KatrienVerbert/Katrien_Verbert.html Katrien Verbert]
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://cs.uef.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik]
Image:TanjaMitrovic.jpg|[http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tanja.mitrovic/ Tanja Mitrovic]
Image:Eva millan.gif|[http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eva/ Eva Millán Valldeperas]
Image:Julita vasilleva.gif|[http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/julita/ Julita Vassileva]
Image:NicolaHenze.gif|[http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/ Nicola Henze]

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== Past Visiting Scholars ==
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Image:Henrik.jpg | [https://www.uia.no/om-uia/ansatte/henrbr16/ Henrik Bradland]
Image:alice.jpg |[https://research-portal.uu.nl/en/persons/alice-micheli Alice Micheli] Utrecht University, Netherlands
Image:1648208030273.jpg | [https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellszymanski/ Maxwell Szymanski] KU Leuven, Belgium
Image:Francesco.jpeg | [https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zest/team/francesco_sovrano.html Francesco Sovrano] Universita Degli Studi Bologna, Italy
Image:boet_hubert.jpg |[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hubertboet/ Hubert Boët] Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Image:Laia_alb%C3%B3.png|[https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=G8XglngAAAAJ&hl=ca Laia Albó] Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Image:huhtamaki-jukka-300.jpg|[http://www.linkedin.com/in/jukkahuhtamaki Jukka Huhtamäki] University of Tampere, Finland
Image:CECILIA.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilia-di-sciascio/ Cecilia di Sciascio] Know Center, Graz, Austria
Image:Andrew.jpg|[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shuchen-Li Shuchen Li] Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Image:Rafael.png|[https://rafaelrda.wordpress.com Rafael Dias Araújo] Assistant Professor Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
Image:Ayca cebi.jpg|[https://ktu.academia.edu/aycacebi Ayça ÇEBİ] Trabzon University
Image:File crop1 1183908 y 384.jpg|[https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor#!teemu_sirkia Teemu Sirkiä] Aalto University, Finland
Image:Chris_face.jpg|[https://www.christophtrattner.info/ Christof Trattner] Professor University of Bergen
Image:Michelle_liang.JPG|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichelleliang/ Michelle Liang]
Image:Yetunde.JPG|[https://wit.edu/directory/yetunde-folajimi Yetunde Folajimi] Associate Professor Wentworth Institute of Technology
Image:Pkraker.jpg|[http://science20.wordpress.com Peter Kraker] Open Knowledge Maps
Image:Kim.jpg|Jaekyung Kim
Image:Jbravo.gif|[http://www.eps.uam.es/esp/personal/ficha.php?empid=367 Javier Bravo Agapito]
Image:MarkusKetterl1.jpg|[http://studip.serv.uni-osnabrueck.de/extern.php?username=mketterl&page_url=http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/VirtUOS/TemplStudipMitarbDetails&global_id=4c8fb9ddd4dde83366119b2031d39ab3 Markus Ketterl]
Image:Jillfreyne.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfreyne/ Jill Freyne] Deputy Chief Scientist CSIRO
Image:Robert.jpg|[https://bhh.hamburg.de/prof-dr-robert-mertens/ Robert Mertens] Professor Berufliche Hochschule Hamburg
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[https://cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik] Professor University of Eastern Finland
Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewaldramp/ Ewald W. A. Ramp] Strategic Systems & Technology Corporation
Image:Jacopo.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacopoarmani/ Jacopo Armani] Director/Producer Fireflies
Image:Liping_wang.jpg|Liping Wang JiLin University

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People

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== Faculty ==
<gallery>
Image:Peter.jpg|'''[[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]''' Director
</gallery>

== Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">

Image:rully.jpeg|[https://ruhendrawan.com/ Rully Hendrawan] Projects: [[The_Pitt_Grapevine|Grapevine]], [[Investigating_and_Evaluating_Exploratory_Recommender_Systems|ArtEx]]

Image:moh70.jpg|[https://themhassany.github.io/ Mohammad Hassany]

Image:arun.jpeg|[https://a2un.github.io/ Arun Lekshmi-Narayanan]

Image:Rafaella.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafaella-sampaio-de-alencar/ Rafaella Sampaio de Alencar]

Image:Quinn.jpg|[https://www.quinnkwolter.com/ Quinn K Wolter]

</gallery>

== Incoming Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">

Image:Marzieh.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/marzieh-alidadi/ Marzieh]

</gallery>

== Past Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">

Image:Jordan.jpeg|[http://pitt.edu/~jab464 Jordan Barria-Pineda] Assistant Professor, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Image:Kamil.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~kaa108 Kamil Akhuseyinoglu] PostDoc, Carnegie Mellon
Image:behnam.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~ber58 Behnam Rahdari] Projects: [[The_Pitt_Grapevine|Grapevine]], [[HELPeR_-_Health_e-Librarian_with_Personalized_Recommender|HELPeR]] PostDoc, Stanford
Image:k.thaker.png|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/khushsi/ Khushboo Thaker] PAWS + [https://sites.pitt.edu/~dah44/iris.html IRIS Lab] Projects: [[HELPeR_-_Health_e-Librarian_with_Personalized_Recommender|HELPeR]]
Image:Arezou.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/arezou-farzaneh/ Arezou Farzaneh] PAWS + [https://sites.pitt.edu/~mrfrank/resilientEconomy.html Resilient Economy Lab]
Image:Avatar.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~hkc6 Hung Chau] Applied Scientist, Zillow
Image:zrisha.png|[https://zakrisha.com Zak Risha] PAWS + [https://facetlab.pitt.edu/ FACETLab]
Image:Tsai.jpg|[http://www.cht77.com/ Chun-Hua Tsai] Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Image:Roya.jpg|[[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft
Image:yunhuang.png|[http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yunhuang/index.htm Yun Huang] Assistant professor, Universidad Austral de Chile
Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Daniel Guerra]] Projects: [[Mastery Grids Interface|Mastery Grids]] Professor of Computer Science, Universidad Austral de Chile
Image:xidao.jpg|[[User:Xidao| Xidao Wen]] PAWS + [https://picsolab.github.io/ PISCO Lab] Postdoctoral Researcher, Tsinghua University
Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]] Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University at Albany - State University of New York
Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]] Associate Professor, Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]] Projects: [[CN3]], [[CoMeT]] Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
Image:Tomek.jpeg| [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomekloboda/ Tomek Loboda] Projects: [[WADEIn]], [[Mastery Grids Interface|Mastery Grids]] Data Scientist
Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]] PAWS + [https://sites.pitt.edu/~dah44/iris.html IRIS Lab] Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-Sen University.
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Image:Sergey.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Associate Professor, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Image:Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]] Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]], [[Progressor]], [[ProgressorPlus]] Assistant Professor and David Packard endowed junior fellow, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Santa Clara University
Image:Danielle.gif|[[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] Projects: [[Eventur]], [[Proactive]] Professor, Management Information Systems, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]''' Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]] Staff Data Scientist, Chegg
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]] Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]] Research Staff Member, Distributed AI, IBM Research
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] Professor, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh.
</gallery>

== Past Master Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:ZaraBlum.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/zarajblum/ Zara Blum] Projects: [[The_Pitt_Grapevine|Grapevine]]
Image:Gangeshwari_Rajavelu.png|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/gangeshwari-rajavelu-94991137/ Gangeshwari Rajavelu]
Image:ShrutiSabusuresh.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrutisabusuresh/ Shruti Sabusuresh] Projects: [[Smart Content]]
Image:WeiJeng.jpeg|[https://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~wjeng/ Wei Jeng] Projects: [[CN3]]
Image:ShaopengZhang.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaopengzhang/ Shaopeng Zhang] Projects: [[CN3]]
Image:Gayathri.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayathrikrishnamoorthy/ Gayathri Krishnamoorthy]
Image:Dhruba.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbaishya/ Dhruba Baishya]
Image:VikKhenat.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/vik-khenat/ Vik Khenat]
Image:Chavan_girish.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishchavan Girish Chavan] CTO Astrata Inc
Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu] Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]
</gallery>

== Past Visiting Faculty ==
<gallery perrow="4">

Image:dr_bereket_yilma.jpg |[https://bekyilma.github.io/ Dr. Bereket Yilma]
Image:Jaakko peltonen 215x296.jpg|[http://users.ics.aalto.fi/jtpelto// Jaakko Peltonen]
Image:IMG_0611.JPG|[http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~acristea/ Alexandra I. Cristea]
Image:Sibel.jpg|[http://sibelsomyurek.com/ Sibel Somyürek]
Image:Susan_bull.png|[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan_Bull2 Susan Bull]
Image:KatrienVerbert.jpg|[http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~katrien.verbert/KatrienVerbert/Katrien_Verbert.html Katrien Verbert]
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://cs.uef.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik]
Image:TanjaMitrovic.jpg|[http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tanja.mitrovic/ Tanja Mitrovic]
Image:Eva millan.gif|[http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eva/ Eva Millán Valldeperas]
Image:Julita vasilleva.gif|[http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/julita/ Julita Vassileva]
Image:NicolaHenze.gif|[http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/ Nicola Henze]

</gallery>

== Past Visiting Scholars ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Henrik.jpg | [https://www.uia.no/om-uia/ansatte/henrbr16/ Henrik Bradland]
Image:alice.jpg |[https://research-portal.uu.nl/en/persons/alice-micheli Alice Micheli] Utrecht University, Netherlands
Image:1648208030273.jpg | [https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellszymanski/ Maxwell Szymanski] KU Leuven, Belgium
Image:Francesco.jpeg | [https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zest/team/francesco_sovrano.html Francesco Sovrano] Universita Degli Studi Bologna, Italy
Image:boet_hubert.jpg |[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hubertboet/ Hubert Boët] Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Image:Laia_alb%C3%B3.png|[https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=G8XglngAAAAJ&hl=ca Laia Albó] Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Image:huhtamaki-jukka-300.jpg|[http://www.linkedin.com/in/jukkahuhtamaki Jukka Huhtamäki] University of Tampere, Finland
Image:CECILIA.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilia-di-sciascio/ Cecilia di Sciascio] Know Center, Graz, Austria
Image:Andrew.jpg|[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shuchen-Li Shuchen Li] Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Image:Rafael.png|[https://rafaelrda.wordpress.com Rafael Dias Araújo] Assistant Professor Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
Image:Ayca cebi.jpg|[https://ktu.academia.edu/aycacebi Ayça ÇEBİ] Trabzon University
Image:File crop1 1183908 y 384.jpg|[https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor#!teemu_sirkia Teemu Sirkiä] Aalto University, Finland
Image:Chris_face.jpg|[https://www.christophtrattner.info/ Christof Trattner] Professor University of Bergen
Image:Michelle_liang.JPG|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichelleliang/ Michelle Liang]
Image:Yetunde.JPG|[https://wit.edu/directory/yetunde-folajimi Yetunde Folajimi] Associate Professor Wentworth Institute of Technology
Image:Pkraker.jpg|[http://science20.wordpress.com Peter Kraker] Open Knowledge Maps
Image:Kim.jpg|Jaekyung Kim
Image:Jbravo.gif|[http://www.eps.uam.es/esp/personal/ficha.php?empid=367 Javier Bravo Agapito]
Image:MarkusKetterl1.jpg|[http://studip.serv.uni-osnabrueck.de/extern.php?username=mketterl&page_url=http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/VirtUOS/TemplStudipMitarbDetails&global_id=4c8fb9ddd4dde83366119b2031d39ab3 Markus Ketterl]
Image:Jillfreyne.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfreyne/ Jill Freyne] Deputy Chief Scientist CSIRO
Image:Robert.jpg|[https://bhh.hamburg.de/prof-dr-robert-mertens/ Robert Mertens] Professor Berufliche Hochschule Hamburg
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[https://cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik] Professor University of Eastern Finland
Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewaldramp/ Ewald W. A. Ramp] Strategic Systems & Technology Corporation
Image:Jacopo.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacopoarmani/ Jacopo Armani] Director/Producer Fireflies
Image:Liping_wang.jpg|Liping Wang JiLin University

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== Faculty ==
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Image:Peter.jpg|'''[[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]''' Director
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== Doctoral Students ==
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Image:rully.jpeg|[https://ruhendrawan.com/ Rully Hendrawan] Projects: [[The_Pitt_Grapevine|Grapevine]], [[Investigating_and_Evaluating_Exploratory_Recommender_Systems|ArtEx]]

Image:moh70.jpg|[https://themhassany.github.io/ Mohammad Hassany]

Image:arun.jpeg|[https://a2un.github.io/ Arun Lekshmi-Narayanan]

Image:Rafaella.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafaella-sampaio-de-alencar/ Rafaella Sampaio de Alencar]

Image:Quinn.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/quinn-k-wolter-4b68bb8b/ Quinn K Wolter]

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== Incoming Doctoral Students ==
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Image:Marzieh.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/marzieh-alidadi/ Marzieh]

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== Past Doctoral Students ==
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Image:Jordan.jpeg|[http://pitt.edu/~jab464 Jordan Barria-Pineda] Assistant Professor, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Image:Kamil.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~kaa108 Kamil Akhuseyinoglu] PostDoc, Carnegie Mellon
Image:behnam.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~ber58 Behnam Rahdari] Projects: [[The_Pitt_Grapevine|Grapevine]], [[HELPeR_-_Health_e-Librarian_with_Personalized_Recommender|HELPeR]] PostDoc, Stanford
Image:k.thaker.png|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/khushsi/ Khushboo Thaker] PAWS + [https://sites.pitt.edu/~dah44/iris.html IRIS Lab] Projects: [[HELPeR_-_Health_e-Librarian_with_Personalized_Recommender|HELPeR]]
Image:Arezou.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/arezou-farzaneh/ Arezou Farzaneh] PAWS + [https://sites.pitt.edu/~mrfrank/resilientEconomy.html Resilient Economy Lab]
Image:Avatar.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~hkc6 Hung Chau] Applied Scientist, Zillow
Image:zrisha.png|[https://zakrisha.com Zak Risha] PAWS + [https://facetlab.pitt.edu/ FACETLab]
Image:Tsai.jpg|[http://www.cht77.com/ Chun-Hua Tsai] Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Image:Roya.jpg|[[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft
Image:yunhuang.png|[http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yunhuang/index.htm Yun Huang] Assistant professor, Universidad Austral de Chile
Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Daniel Guerra]] Projects: [[Mastery Grids Interface|Mastery Grids]] Professor of Computer Science, Universidad Austral de Chile
Image:xidao.jpg|[[User:Xidao| Xidao Wen]] PAWS + [https://picsolab.github.io/ PISCO Lab] Postdoctoral Researcher, Tsinghua University
Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]] Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University at Albany - State University of New York
Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]] Associate Professor, Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]] Projects: [[CN3]], [[CoMeT]] Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
Image:Tomek.jpeg| [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomekloboda/ Tomek Loboda] Projects: [[WADEIn]], [[Mastery Grids Interface|Mastery Grids]] Data Scientist
Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]] PAWS + [https://sites.pitt.edu/~dah44/iris.html IRIS Lab] Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-Sen University.
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Image:Sergey.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Associate Professor, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Image:Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]] Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]], [[Progressor]], [[ProgressorPlus]] Assistant Professor and David Packard endowed junior fellow, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Santa Clara University
Image:Danielle.gif|[[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] Projects: [[Eventur]], [[Proactive]] Professor, Management Information Systems, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]''' Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]] Staff Data Scientist, Chegg
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]] Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]] Research Staff Member, Distributed AI, IBM Research
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] Professor, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh.
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== Past Master Students ==
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Image:ZaraBlum.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/zarajblum/ Zara Blum] Projects: [[The_Pitt_Grapevine|Grapevine]]
Image:Gangeshwari_Rajavelu.png|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/gangeshwari-rajavelu-94991137/ Gangeshwari Rajavelu]
Image:ShrutiSabusuresh.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrutisabusuresh/ Shruti Sabusuresh] Projects: [[Smart Content]]
Image:WeiJeng.jpeg|[https://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~wjeng/ Wei Jeng] Projects: [[CN3]]
Image:ShaopengZhang.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaopengzhang/ Shaopeng Zhang] Projects: [[CN3]]
Image:Gayathri.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayathrikrishnamoorthy/ Gayathri Krishnamoorthy]
Image:Dhruba.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbaishya/ Dhruba Baishya]
Image:VikKhenat.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/vik-khenat/ Vik Khenat]
Image:Chavan_girish.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishchavan Girish Chavan] CTO Astrata Inc
Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu] Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]
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== Past Visiting Faculty ==
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Image:dr_bereket_yilma.jpg |[https://bekyilma.github.io/ Dr. Bereket Yilma]
Image:Jaakko peltonen 215x296.jpg|[http://users.ics.aalto.fi/jtpelto// Jaakko Peltonen]
Image:IMG_0611.JPG|[http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~acristea/ Alexandra I. Cristea]
Image:Sibel.jpg|[http://sibelsomyurek.com/ Sibel Somyürek]
Image:Susan_bull.png|[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan_Bull2 Susan Bull]
Image:KatrienVerbert.jpg|[http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~katrien.verbert/KatrienVerbert/Katrien_Verbert.html Katrien Verbert]
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://cs.uef.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik]
Image:TanjaMitrovic.jpg|[http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tanja.mitrovic/ Tanja Mitrovic]
Image:Eva millan.gif|[http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eva/ Eva Millán Valldeperas]
Image:Julita vasilleva.gif|[http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/julita/ Julita Vassileva]
Image:NicolaHenze.gif|[http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/ Nicola Henze]

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== Past Visiting Scholars ==
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Image:Henrik.jpg | [https://www.uia.no/om-uia/ansatte/henrbr16/ Henrik Bradland]
Image:alice.jpg |[https://research-portal.uu.nl/en/persons/alice-micheli Alice Micheli] Utrecht University, Netherlands
Image:1648208030273.jpg | [https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellszymanski/ Maxwell Szymanski] KU Leuven, Belgium
Image:Francesco.jpeg | [https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zest/team/francesco_sovrano.html Francesco Sovrano] Universita Degli Studi Bologna, Italy
Image:boet_hubert.jpg |[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hubertboet/ Hubert Boët] Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Image:Laia_alb%C3%B3.png|[https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=G8XglngAAAAJ&hl=ca Laia Albó] Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Image:huhtamaki-jukka-300.jpg|[http://www.linkedin.com/in/jukkahuhtamaki Jukka Huhtamäki] University of Tampere, Finland
Image:CECILIA.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilia-di-sciascio/ Cecilia di Sciascio] Know Center, Graz, Austria
Image:Andrew.jpg|[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shuchen-Li Shuchen Li] Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Image:Rafael.png|[https://rafaelrda.wordpress.com Rafael Dias Araújo] Assistant Professor Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
Image:Ayca cebi.jpg|[https://ktu.academia.edu/aycacebi Ayça ÇEBİ] Trabzon University
Image:File crop1 1183908 y 384.jpg|[https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor#!teemu_sirkia Teemu Sirkiä] Aalto University, Finland
Image:Chris_face.jpg|[https://www.christophtrattner.info/ Christof Trattner] Professor University of Bergen
Image:Michelle_liang.JPG|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichelleliang/ Michelle Liang]
Image:Yetunde.JPG|[https://wit.edu/directory/yetunde-folajimi Yetunde Folajimi] Associate Professor Wentworth Institute of Technology
Image:Pkraker.jpg|[http://science20.wordpress.com Peter Kraker] Open Knowledge Maps
Image:Kim.jpg|Jaekyung Kim
Image:Jbravo.gif|[http://www.eps.uam.es/esp/personal/ficha.php?empid=367 Javier Bravo Agapito]
Image:MarkusKetterl1.jpg|[http://studip.serv.uni-osnabrueck.de/extern.php?username=mketterl&page_url=http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/VirtUOS/TemplStudipMitarbDetails&global_id=4c8fb9ddd4dde83366119b2031d39ab3 Markus Ketterl]
Image:Jillfreyne.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfreyne/ Jill Freyne] Deputy Chief Scientist CSIRO
Image:Robert.jpg|[https://bhh.hamburg.de/prof-dr-robert-mertens/ Robert Mertens] Professor Berufliche Hochschule Hamburg
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[https://cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik] Professor University of Eastern Finland
Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewaldramp/ Ewald W. A. Ramp] Strategic Systems & Technology Corporation
Image:Jacopo.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacopoarmani/ Jacopo Armani] Director/Producer Fireflies
Image:Liping_wang.jpg|Liping Wang JiLin University

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