Serving as a senior program committee member for conferences such as the 30th ACM Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2025), 33rd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2025), and 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025). Editorial, consulting, or reviewing board member for journals like User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), ACM Transactions on Social Computing, and more. Served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies for 6 years.
Research Experience
Junior and Senior Research Scientist at All-Union Scientific and Technical Information Center (1987 to 1990). Senior Research Scientist at International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information (1990-1994). Lecturer and student advisor at School of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University (1987-1994). Visiting researcher at the University of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, UK (1993). Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Cognition and Communication Group, Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Germany (1994-1996). Visiting Research Scientist at School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (1996-1998).
Education
Graduated with honor (1983) from Moscow State University (Applied Mathematics). PhD from Moscow State University, 1987 (Computer Science, advisor Prof. Lev Korolev).
Background
Research interests: Adaptive Web-based Systems, Personalized E-Learning, Adaptive Hypermedia, Social Computing and Social Web, Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Shells, Student and User Modelling, Adaptive Interfaces.
Miscellany
Past Chair of ACM SIGWEB, past President of User Modeling Inc., organizer of UMAP conference series. Senior Member of ACM and member of ACM SIGs SIGWEB, SIGCSE, SIGCHI. Senior Member of IEEE, member of IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Educational Society. Member of The International Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED) Society.