Bamshad Mobasher

Professor // Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval
School of Computing
Bamshad Mobasher

Bio and Research Information

Dr. Bamshad Mobasher is a professor of Computer Science and the director of the Center for Web Intelligence at DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media in Chicago. He is also the chair of the Artificial Intelligence Program at the School of Computing. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Iowa State University in 1994. His general research areas include artificial intelligence and machine learning. In particular, he is considered one of the leading authorities in Web personalization and recommender systems. He has published 5 edited books and over 250 scientific articles on topics related to the applications of AI and machine learning in user modeling, automatic personalization, and recommender systems. As the director of the Center for Web Intelligence, he directs research in these areas and regularly works with the industry on various joint projects. He has served in leadership positions of several prominent international conferences, including the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, and the ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. Dr. Mobasher serves as an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on the Web, the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology and the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems, and the ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems. He has also served on the editorial boards of several other prominent computing journals, including User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, and the Journal of Web Semantics.

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Research Area

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval

Specific Research Area

Recommender Systems, Web Mata Mining, User Modeling, Social Computing, and Information Retrieval.

Professional Associations

Association for Computing Machinary (ACM), IEEE, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

Schedule for Spring 2023-2024

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