Peter Brusilovsky

Director, Intelligent Systems Program, Professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems

    Education & Training

  • PhD, Moscow State University
    Awards
  • 2021 Best Paper Award at 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2021)
  • 2021 Invited Speaker, 17th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2021)
  • 2017 Provost Award for Excellence in Mentoring, University of Pittsburgh
  • 2016 Invited Speaker, 15th International Conference on Web-based Learning (Italy)
  • 2014 Best Paper Award at 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014)
  • 2014 Elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE
  • 2013 Awarded Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Finland by US Institute of International Education
  • 2013 Best Paper Award at IEEE Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2013)
  • 2012 Invited Speaker, WebMedia 2012 (Brazil)
  • 2010 Invited Speaker, ITEC 2010, 1st International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research on Technology, Education and Communication (Belgium)
  • 2009 Awarded Dr. Honoris Causa degree by Slovak Technical University in Bratislava
  • 2009 Elevated to Senior Member of the ACM
  • 2008 Best paper award at 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (Germany)
  • 2008 Invited Speaker, 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive WebBased Systems (Germany)
  • 2008 Invited Speaker, SOFSEM 2008, 34th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (Slovakia)
  • 2006 E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award, Science Foundation Ireland
  • 2005 NSF CAREER Award
  • 2006 Outstanding Paper Award at E-Learn 2006, World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education
  • 2005 Invited Speaker, IJCAI'05 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization (Edinburgh, UK)
  • 2004 Outstanding Paper Award at E-Learn 2004, World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education
  • 2004 Invited Speaker, 4th Hellenic Conference "Information & Communication Technologies in Education" (Athens, Greece)
  • 2003 Invited Speaker, Italian Human-Computer Interaction Conference HCITALY 2003 (Turin, Italy)
  • 2003 Invited Speaker, German Human-Computer Interaction Conference Mensch und Computer 2003 (Stuttgart, Germany)
  • 2003 Elected President of the User Modeling professional society (UM Inc.)
  • 2002 Ted Nelson Best Newcomer Paper Award at ACM Hypertext’2002
  • 2002 Invited Speaker, IASTED International Conference WWW/Internet 2002 (Lisbon, Portugal)
  • 2001 Elected Vice President of the User Modeling professional society (UM Inc.)
  • 2001 Invited Speaker, 10th International PEG Conference (Tampere, Finland)
  • 2000 Invited Speaker, Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (Montreal, Canada)
  • 1996 James S. McDonnell Fellowship (USA)
  • 1995 Invited Speaker, 5th World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (Washington, DC)
  • 1995 Invited Speaker, Window On Science (WOS) Program, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Brooks Air Force Base, TX)
  • 1994 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Germany)
  • 1993 The Royal Society Ex-Quota Fellowship (UK)
  • 1992 Invited Speaker, Third Soviet Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • 1983 Graduated Summa cum Laude (QPA 4.0) from Moscow State University
  • 1978 Graduated with Gold Medal from High School #201, Moscow
Recent Publications

Lee, DH and Brusilovsky, P (2017) Improving personalized recommendations using community membership information. Information Processing and Management, 53 (5). 1201 - 1214. ISSN 0306-4573

Anwar, M and Brusilovsky, P (2017) Privacy and territoriality issues in an online social learning portal. International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, 11 (1). 1 - 17. ISSN 1930-1650

Hsiao, IH and Brusilovsky, P (2017) Guiding and motivating students through open social student modeling: Lessons learned. Teachers College Record, 119 (3). ISSN 0161-4681

Huang, Y and Yudelson, M and Han, S and He, D and Brusilovsky, P (2016) A framework for dynamic knowledge modeling in textbook-based learning. UMAP 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on User Modeling Adaptation and Personalization. 141 - 150.

Verbert, K and Parra, D and Brusilovsky, P (2016) Agents vs. users: Visual recommendation of research talks with multiple dimension of relevance. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 6 (2). ISSN 2160-6455

Tsai, Chun-Hua and Brusilovsky, Peter (2016) A personalized people recommender system using global search approach. In: IConference 2016, 20 March 2016 - 23 March 2016, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Weber, G and Brusilovsky, P (2016) ELM-ART - An Interactive and Intelligent Web-Based Electronic Textbook. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 26 (1). 72 - 81. ISSN 1560-4292

Brusilovsky, P and Somyurek, S and Guerra, J and Hosseini, R and Zadorozhny, V and Durlach, PJ (2016) Open Social Student Modeling for Personalized Learning. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 4 (3). 450 - 461.

Brusilovsky, Peter (2016) Domain Modeling for Personalized Guidance. In: Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 4 - Domain Modeling. Army Research Laboratory, Orlando, FL, USA, 163 - 183. ISBN 978-0-9893923-9-6

Sahebi, Shaghayegh and Lin, Yu-Ru and Brusilovsky, Peter (2016) Tensor Factorization for Student Modeling and Performance Prediction in Unstructured Domain. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining. 502 - 506.

Sosnovsky, S. and Brusilovsky, P. (2015) Evaluation of Topic-based Adaptation and Student Modeling in QuizGuide. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 25 (4), 371-424. [DOI][PDF]

Parra, D. and Brusilovsky, P. (2015) User-controllable personalization: A case study with SetFusion. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 78, 43–67. [DOI][PDF]

Lin, Y., Trattner, C., Brusilovsky, P., and He, D. (2015) The impact of image descriptions on user tagging behavior: A study of the nature and functionality of crowdsourced tags. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 66 (9), 1785–1798. [DOI][CuL][PDF]

López, C., Butler, B., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Does Anything Ever Happen Around Here? Assessing the Online Information Landscape for Local Events. Journal of Urban Technology 21 (4), 95-123. [DOI][PDF]

Lee, D. and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Recommending Talks at Research Conferences Using Users’ Social Networks. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems 23 (2). [DOI][PDF]

Hsiao, I. H., Bakalov, F., Brusilovsky, P., and König-Ries, B. (2013) Progressor: social navigation support through open social student modeling. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 19 (2), 112-131. [DOI][PDF][CuL][Bibsonomy]

Research Interests

Adaptive Web systems, Social Web, adaptive hypermedia, user modeling, adaptive information systems, intelligent tutoring systems, e-learning, information visualization, digital libraries, human-computer interaction