SCI PhD students Behnam Rahdari and Alireza Javadian Sabet and Professor Peter Brusilovsky received the best demo award at the 15th ACM Recommender Systems Conference. Their demonstration, titled “Connecting Students with Research Advisors Through User-Controlled Recommendation,” presents the Grapevine system to recommend research advisors to undergraduate and graduate students. The system is available to try at http://scythian.exp.sis.pitt.edu/pittsci/index.php.
Please join us in congratulating Behnam, Alireza, and Peter on this exciting achievement!