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Faculty

Peter Brusilovsky
Director

Doctoral Students

Rully Hendrawan
Projects: Grapevine, ArtEx
Mohammad Hassany
Arun Lekshmi-Narayanan
Rafaella Sampaio de Alencar
Quinn K Wolter

Incoming Doctoral Students

Past Doctoral Students

Jordan Barria-Pineda
Assistant Professor, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Kamil Akhuseyinoglu
PostDoc, Carnegie Mellon
Behnam Rahdari
Projects: Grapevine, HELPeR
PostDoc, Stanford
Khushboo Thaker
PAWS + IRIS Lab
Projects: HELPeR
Arezou Farzaneh
PAWS + Resilient Economy Lab
Hung Chau
Applied Scientist, Zillow
Zak Risha
PAWS + FACETLab
Chun-Hua Tsai
Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Roya Hosseini
Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft
Yun Huang
Assistant professor, Universidad Austral de Chile
Julio Daniel Guerra
Projects: Mastery Grids
Professor of Computer Science, Universidad Austral de Chile
Xidao Wen
PAWS + PISCO Lab Postdoctoral Researcher, Tsinghua University
Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University at Albany - State University of New York
Claudia López
Associate Professor, Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Chirayu Wongchokprasitti
Projects: CN3, CoMeT
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
Tomek Loboda
Projects: WADEIn, Mastery Grids
Data Scientist
Jennifer (Yiling) Lin
PAWS + IRIS Lab
Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-Sen University.
Denis Parra
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Sergey Sosnovsky
Associate Professor, Utrecht University, Netherlands
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
Danielle H. Lee
Projects: Eventur, Proactive
Professor, Management Information Systems, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Michael V. Yudelson
Projects: Knowledge Tree, CUMULATE, PERSEUS, NavEx, CoPE, WebEx
Staff Data Scientist, Chegg
Jae-wook Ahn
Projects: ADVISE, Adaptive VIBE, YourNews, TaskSieve, NameSieve
Research Staff Member, Distributed AI, IBM Research
Rosta Farzan
Professor, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh.

Past Master Students

Zara Blum
Projects: Grapevine
Gangeshwari Rajavelu
Shruti Sabusuresh
Projects: Smart Content
Wei Jeng
Projects: CN3
Shaopeng Zhang
Projects: CN3
Gayathri Krishnamoorthy
Dhruba Baishya
Vik Khenat
Girish Chavan
CTO Astrata Inc
Tibor Dumitriu
Projects: AdVisE

Past Visiting Faculty

Past Visiting Scholars

Henrik Bradland
Alice Micheli
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Maxwell Szymanski
KU Leuven, Belgium
Francesco Sovrano
Universita Degli Studi Bologna, Italy
Hubert Boët
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Laia Albó
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Jukka Huhtamäki
University of Tampere, Finland
Cecilia di Sciascio
Know Center, Graz, Austria
Shuchen Li
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Rafael Dias Araújo
Assistant Professor
Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
Ayça ÇEBİ
Trabzon University
Teemu Sirkiä
Aalto University, Finland
Christof Trattner
Professor
University of Bergen
Michelle Liang
Yetunde Folajimi
Associate Professor
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Peter Kraker
Open Knowledge Maps
Jaekyung Kim
Javier Bravo Agapito
Markus Ketterl
Jill Freyne
Deputy Chief Scientist
CSIRO
Robert Mertens
Professor
Berufliche Hochschule Hamburg
Roman Bednarik
Professor
University of Eastern Finland
Ewald W. A. Ramp
Strategic Systems & Technology Corporation
Jacopo Armani
Director/Producer
Fireflies
Liping Wang
JiLin University

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 == Doctoral Students ==
 <gallery perrow="4">
-Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]]
-Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]]
+Image:rully.jpeg|[https://ruhendrawan.com/ Rully Hendrawan]<br/> Projects: [[The_Pitt_Grapevine|Grapevine]], [[Investigating_and_Evaluating_Exploratory_Recommender_Systems|ArtEx]]
-Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]]
-Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]]
+Image:moh70.jpg|[https://themhassany.github.io/ Mohammad Hassany]
-Image:Roya.jpg|[[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]]
-Image:xidao.jpg|[[User:Xidao| Xidao Wen]]
+Image:arun.jpeg|[https://a2un.github.io/ Arun Lekshmi-Narayanan]
-Image:yunhuang.png|[[User:Yuh43| Yun Huang]]
+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]
 </gallery>
-== Visiting Scholar ==
+== Incoming Doctoral Students ==
 <gallery perrow="4">
-Image:Sibel.jpg|[http://sibelsomyurek.com/ Sibel Somyürek]
+Image:Marzieh.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/marzieh-alidadi/ Marzieh]
+Image:bryan_hollingsworth.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanhollings/ Bryan]
 </gallery>
+== Past Doctoral Students ==
+<gallery perrow="4">
+Image:Jordan.jpeg|[http://pitt.edu/~jab464 Jordan Barria-Pineda]<br/>Assistant Professor, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
+Image:Kamil.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~kaa108 Kamil Akhuseyinoglu]<br/>PostDoc, Carnegie Mellon
+Image:behnam.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~ber58 Behnam Rahdari]<br/>Projects: [[The_Pitt_Grapevine|Grapevine]], [[HELPeR_-_Health_e-Librarian_with_Personalized_Recommender|HELPeR]]<br/> PostDoc, Stanford
+Image:k.thaker.png|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/khushsi/ Khushboo Thaker] <br/>PAWS + [https://sites.pitt.edu/~dah44/iris.html IRIS Lab]<br/>Projects: [[HELPeR_-_Health_e-Librarian_with_Personalized_Recommender|HELPeR]]
+Image:Arezou.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/arezou-farzaneh/ Arezou Farzaneh]<br/> PAWS + [https://sites.pitt.edu/~mrfrank/resilientEconomy.html Resilient Economy Lab]
+Image:Avatar.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~hkc6 Hung Chau]<br />Applied Scientist, Zillow
+Image:zrisha.png|[https://zakrisha.com Zak Risha] <br /> PAWS + [https://facetlab.pitt.edu/ FACETLab]
+Image:Tsai.jpg|[http://www.cht77.com/ Chun-Hua Tsai] <br/>Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha
+Image:Roya.jpg|[[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]]  <br/>Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft
+Image:yunhuang.png|[http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yunhuang/index.htm Yun Huang] <br/> Assistant professor, Universidad Austral de Chile
+Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Daniel Guerra]]<br/>Projects: [[Mastery Grids Interface|Mastery Grids]] <br/> Professor of Computer Science, Universidad Austral de Chile
+Image:xidao.jpg|[[User:Xidao| Xidao Wen]]<br/>PAWS + [https://picsolab.github.io/ PISCO Lab]  Postdoctoral Researcher, Tsinghua University
+Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]] <br/>Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University at Albany - State University of New York
+Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]] <br/>Associate Professor, Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
+Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]] <br/>Projects: [[CN3]], [[CoMeT]]<br/> Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
+Image:Tomek.jpeg| [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomekloboda/ Tomek Loboda]<br/>Projects: [[WADEIn]], [[Mastery Grids Interface|Mastery Grids]]<br/> Data Scientist
+Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]]<br/>PAWS + [https://sites.pitt.edu/~dah44/iris.html IRIS Lab]<br/>Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-Sen University.
+Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]<br/>Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
+Image:Sergey.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]<br>Associate Professor, Utrecht University, Netherlands
+Image:Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]]<br/>Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]], [[Progressor]], [[ProgressorPlus]]<br/>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]]<br/>Projects: [[Eventur]], [[Proactive]]<br/>Professor, Management Information Systems, Chung-Ang University, Korea
+Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]'''<br/>Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]]<br/>Staff Data Scientist, Chegg
+Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]]<br/>Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]]<br/>Research Staff Member, Distributed AI, IBM Research
+Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]]<br/>Professor, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh.
+</gallery>
-== Past Doctoral Students ==
+== Past Master Students ==
 <gallery perrow="4">
-Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]]<br/>Currently Assistant Professor in the department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University.
+Image:ZaraBlum.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/zarajblum/ Zara Blum]<br/>Projects: [[The_Pitt_Grapevine|Grapevine]]
-Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]<br/>Currently Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department, School of Engineering at PUC Chile.
+Image:Gangeshwari_Rajavelu.png|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/gangeshwari-rajavelu-94991137/ Gangeshwari Rajavelu]
-Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]]<br/>Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[YourSports]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]]<br/>Currently Data Scientist, Watson Group, IBM
+Image:ShrutiSabusuresh.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrutisabusuresh/ Shruti Sabusuresh]<br/>Projects: [[Smart Content]]
-Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]]<br/>Currently Assistant Professor at School of Information Sciences.
+Image:WeiJeng.jpeg|[https://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~wjeng/ Wei Jeng]<br/>Projects: [[CN3]]
-Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]'''<br/>Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]]<br/>Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University
+Image:ShaopengZhang.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaopengzhang/ Shaopeng Zhang]<br/>Projects: [[CN3]]
-Image:Sergey.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]<br> Currently Principal Researcher, Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab, CeLTech, DFKI
+Image:Gayathri.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayathrikrishnamoorthy/ Gayathri Krishnamoorthy]
-Image:Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]]<br/>Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]], [[Progressor]], [[ProgressorPlus]]<br/>Currently Assistant Professor @ CIDSE, Arizona State University
+Image:Dhruba.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbaishya/ Dhruba Baishya]
-Image:Danielle.gif|[[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]<br/>Projects: [[Eventur]], [[Proactive]]<br/>Currently Assistant Professor at the University of Washington
+Image:VikKhenat.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/vik-khenat/ Vik Khenat]
+Image:Chavan_girish.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishchavan Girish Chavan]<br/>CTO Astrata Inc
+Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu]<br/>Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]
 </gallery>
 == Past Visiting Faculty ==
 <gallery perrow="4">
-IImage:Jaakko peltonen 215x296.jpg|[http://users.ics.aalto.fi/jtpelto// Jaakko Peltonen]
+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]
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 Image:NicolaHenze.gif|[http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/ Nicola Henze]
-</gallery>
-== Past Master Students ==
-<gallery perrow="4">
-Image:Vikrant Khenat.jpg|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~vkhenat/ Vikrant Khenat]
-Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu]<br/>Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]
 </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] <br/> Utrecht University, Netherlands
+Image:1648208030273.jpg | [https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellszymanski/ Maxwell Szymanski] <br/> KU Leuven, Belgium
+Image:Francesco.jpeg | [https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zest/team/francesco_sovrano.html Francesco Sovrano] <br/> Universita Degli Studi Bologna, Italy
+Image:boet_hubert.jpg |[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hubertboet/ Hubert Boët] <br/> Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
+Image:Laia_alb%C3%B3.png|[https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=G8XglngAAAAJ&hl=ca Laia Albó] <br/> Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
+Image:huhtamaki-jukka-300.jpg|[http://www.linkedin.com/in/jukkahuhtamaki Jukka Huhtamäki]<br/>University of Tampere, Finland
+Image:CECILIA.jpeg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilia-di-sciascio/ Cecilia di Sciascio]<br/>Know Center, Graz, Austria
+Image:Andrew.jpg|[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shuchen-Li Shuchen Li] <br/>Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
+Image:Rafael.png|[https://rafaelrda.wordpress.com Rafael Dias Araújo]<br/>Assistant Professor<br/>Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
+Image:Ayca cebi.jpg|[https://ktu.academia.edu/aycacebi Ayça ÇEBİ] <br/>Trabzon University
+Image:File crop1 1183908 y 384.jpg|[https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor#!teemu_sirkia Teemu Sirkiä]<br/>Aalto University, Finland
+Image:Chris_face.jpg|[https://www.christophtrattner.info/ Christof Trattner]<br/>Professor<br/>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] <br/>Associate Professor<br/>Wentworth Institute of Technology
+Image:Pkraker.jpg|[http://science20.wordpress.com Peter Kraker] <br/>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|[http://www.csi.ucd.ie/users/jill-freyne Jill Freyne]
+Image:Jillfreyne.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfreyne/ Jill Freyne]<br/>Deputy Chief Scientist<br/>CSIRO
-Image:Robert.jpg|Robert Mertens
+Image:Robert.jpg|[https://bhh.hamburg.de/prof-dr-robert-mertens/ Robert Mertens] <br/>Professor<br/>Berufliche Hochschule Hamburg
-Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman bednarik]
+Image:Roman bednarik.png|[https://cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik]<br/>Professor<br/>University of Eastern Finland
-Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|Ewald W. A. Ramp
+Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewaldramp/ Ewald W. A. Ramp]<br/>Strategic Systems & Technology Corporation
-Image:Jacopo.jpg|Jacopo Armani
+Image:Jacopo.jpg|[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacopoarmani/ Jacopo Armani] <br/>Director/Producer <br/>Fireflies
-Image:Yetunde.JPG|Yetunde Folajimi
+Image:Liping_wang.jpg|Liping Wang<br/>JiLin University
-Image:Chris_face.jpg|[http://www.austria-lexikon.at/af/User/Trattner%20Christoph Christof Trattner]
-Image:Michelle_liang.JPG|[http://www.tcs.fudan.edu.cn/~michelle/index.html Michelle Liang]
-Image:Pkraker.jpg|[http://science20.wordpress.com Peter Kraker] <br/>Marshall Plan Scholar
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