Scholar
Maria Soledad Pera
Google Scholar ID: KBUCWtUAAAAJ
Associate Professor - Web Information Systems Group - TU Delft
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,011
H-index
20
i10-index
58
Publications
20
Co-authors
123
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Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: Not provided in detail; Awards: Not listed; Projects: SOL - Scaffolding to foster independence when children search Online for Learning; CAST - Child Adaptive Search Tool.
Research Experience
- Current: Associate Professor @ TUDelft; Former: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with Tenure @ Boise State University; Projects Involved: SOL (SNSF-funded), CAST (NSF-funded); Co-director of People and Information Research Team (Piret).
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, April 2014, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA, Advisor: Dr. Yiu-Kai Ng; M.S. in Computer Science, April 2009, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA, Advisor: Dr. Yiu-Kai Ng; B.S. in Information Systems Analysis, September 2006, Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, Rosario, Argentina.
Background
- Research Interests: Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems, Information Access, Web Search, User Modeling, Readability Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning. Professional Area: Information Retrieval, with a focus on non-traditional populations. About: Dr. Maria Soledad Pera is an Associate Professor at the Web Information Systems group of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EWI), Delft University of Technology. Her research focuses on understanding the limitations of information access systems and designing algorithmic support to better serve all users, especially in different contexts like the classroom.
