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	Associate professor Intelligent Information Systems Web and Media Department of Computer Science, at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Scientific coordinator of the EU Integrated Project: NoTube: integration of Web and TV data with the help of semantics (watch Social Web & TV scenarious; watch the Social Web & TV demonstrator) Scientific coordinator of NWO project: CHIP: Cultural Heritage Information Personalization (try the CHIP artwork recommender demo and the CHIP mobile guide demo) Project leader of VU INTERTAIN Experimental Research Lab initiative (see view of the Lab and its facilities: video)
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Short CV

Since 2006 I am working in the area of Intelligent Information Systems as an assistant professor in the Web and Media Group, Department of Computer Science VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Until 2010 I was also an associate member Information Systems Group Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. My main research interest are in the field of personalization on the Web, focussing on user and context modelling for web-based recommender systems. Main application areas for this research are Interactive TV and Cultural Heritage. See below the list of my publications and the list of the projects I am currently involved in.

I received my M.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Sofia University in Bulgaria. I did my PhD research at the department of Educational Science and Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands, in the field of adaptive information retrieval for web-based education. I was granted a PhD on a thesis entitled "Task-based approach to information handling support with web-based education". After my PhD I worked as an assistant professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and was an associate member of the Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction Group of CWI in Amsterdam.

Here you can find quite recent full CV

Publications

Check out my most recent publications at DBLP, look at the pdf until 2010

Awards

• 1st Prize for Waisda? Video Tagging Game at the EuroITV2010 Competition Grand Challenge
• Best poster award at WebSci2010 Conference: NoTube: making the Web part of personalised TV by the NoTube WP3 team.
• Agora project wins the DISH2009 Digital Heritage Award!
• Semantic Web Challenge 2007, 3rd Prize: CHIP Demonstrator, jointly with TU/e, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and Telematica Institute, at ISWC'07, Seoul, Korea 2007; (see the article in Journal of Web Semantics)
• James Chen Annual Award for Best UMUAI Article 2008: Henriette S. M. Cramer, Vanessa Evers, Satyan Ramlal, Maarten van Someren, Lloyd Rutledge, Natalia Stash, Lora Aroyo, Bob J. Wielinga: The effects of transparency on trust in and acceptance of a content-based art recommender. User Modelling, User-Adaptation and Interaction, 18(5): 455-496 (2008)

Recent Invited Talks and Presentations (see full list)

• SmartTV NoTube Public Day, at Korea Telecom, 7 Nov 2010, [slides]
• Personalization with LOD Patterns, at Aalto University, Finland, 26 Nov 2010, [slides]
• BBC Internet and Future Technologies, London, UK, 7-8 July 2010, [slides]
• The Future of Television is Social Semantics, IBC2010, Amsterdam, [slides]
• Linking TV & Social Web, at the Future TV Workshop, at EuroITV2010 Conference, June 2010, Tampere, Finland [slides]
• ESWC2010 Conference General Chair - Closing and Award Ceremony, [slides]
• ESWC2010 Conference General Chair - Opening, [slides]
• Agora Project Lightning Talk, at WebSci2010 Conference, April 2010, Railegh, NC [slides]
• IntertainLab @VU Lightning Talk, at WebSci2010 Conference, April 2010, Railegh, NC [slides]
• Perspectives Workshop: Semantic Web Reflections and Future Directions, June 2009, Dagstuhl, Germany [slides]
• 7th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Chania, Greece, June 2009 [slides]
• Semantic annotation and search of cultural-heritage and TV content, at CSAIL Seminar, MIT, 9 April 2009, Boston. [slides]
• Kennismarathon 2009: Competing for the VUture, Olympisch Stadion Amsterdam, 19 January 2009, Amsterdam
• Museum Symposium on Interaction, Mobility and Ubiquitous Availability, Jewish Museum Berlin, 8 May 2008, Berlin

Recent professional activities (see full list)

Chair / Organizer (2009-2011):

• Program Co-chair: International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Germany.
• HCI Track Co-chair:EuroITV2011 Conference, Portugal
• Conference Chair: European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), Greece.
• Special Track Co-chair: AI and the Web track at AAAI 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• Program Co-chair: European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009), Greece.

PC memberships (2009-2011):

• International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP'09, K-CAP'11)
• European Conference on Interative TV and Video (EuroITV'10)
• International EKAW Conference (EKAW'10)
• International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'10)
• ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'10)
• International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'10)
• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'05, ISWC'06, ISWC'07, ISWC'08, ISWC'09)
• European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'07, ESWC'08)
• User Modeling Conference (UM'05, UM'07, UMAP'09, UMAP'10)
• World Wide Web Conference (WWW'05)

Reviewing activities (2009-2011):

• Member of the management team for the Network Institute
• Advisory Board User Modelling Inc.
• Steering Committee European Semantic Web Conference.
• Editorial Board Semantic Web Journal.
• Reviewer: Journal of Web Semantics (IJHCS)
• Reviewer: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS)
• Senior Reviewer:International Journal on User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI)

Editorial activities (2006-2011):

• Visual interfaces to the social and semantic web, VISSW'11 Workshop Proceedings, at IUI'11 Conferece, ACM
• Personalzed Access to Cultural Heritage, PATCH'11 Workshop Proceedings, at IUI'11 Conferece, ACM
• The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, ESWC'10 Conference Proceedings, Springer.
• Visual interfaces to the social and semantic web, VISSW'10 Workshop Proceedings, at IUI'10 Conferece, ACM
• The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, ESWC'09 Conference Proceedings Springer.
• Guest Editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on AI and Cultural Heritage, Mar/Apr 2009, Vol. 24, No. 2.
• Guest Editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on Intelligent Educational Systems, Jul/Aug 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4.
• The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006, 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC'06, Proceedings Springer.

PhD Students (see CV for the full list):

• Yiwen Wang (CHIP Project, 2006-2010) – supervisor - finalized
• Riste Gligorov (PrestoPrime Project, 2009-2012) - co-supervisor
• Balthasar Schopman (NoTube Project, 2009-2012) - co-supervisor
• Roxane Segers (Agora Project, 2009-2013) - co-supervisor 
• Yiling Lin (May-Aug 2010), PhD visiting from University of Pittsburgh, US

On-going Projects (2009-2012)

• Scientific Coordinator of Integrated Project NoTube (VU project fact sheet) (Feb 2009 - Feb 2012)
  • Social Web & TV scenarios
  • Social Web & TV demonstrator
  • Best poster award paper; poster
  • AT5 TV interview with piece on NoTube

             

  Notube iphone / mythtv bookmarking introduction and NoTube User scenarios from NoTube Project on Vimeo.



• Scientific Coordinator of NWO-CATCH CHIP: Cultural Heritage Information Personalization (Jan 2005 - Dec 2009)
  • Article on CHIP: Virtueel door het museum, 14 Nov'08, p. 10, Sp!ts (in Dutch)
  • Mobile Museum Tour Guide (demo)
  • Artwork Recommender (demo)
  • Online Museum Tour Guide (demo)

  



• Integrated Project PrestoPRIME: Keeping Audiovisual Contents Alive (VU project fact sheet) (Jan 2009 - Jun 2012)
  • Waisda? Video Tagging Game (paper, poster)
  • TAG: Video Tagging Game (paper, poster)
  • Video Annotation tool

  



• NWO-CATCH-2 Project Agora: Creating the Historic Fabric for and Providing Web-enabled Access to Objects in Dynamic Historical Sequences (2009 - 2013)
  • Eventing History Lightning talk @ WebSci2010

  

• VU INTERTAIN Experimental Research Lab (VU University Amsterdam
  Computer Science Department)
  • AT5 TV interview on Intertain HomeLab

Past Projects (2001-2009)

• Dutch BSIK project MultimediaN e-culture project
  • 1st Prize Semantic Web Challenge 2006, ISWC'06, Athens Georgia with the MultimediaN E-Culture demonstrator, jointly with CWI and UvA (paper)
  • Aricle on the Semantic Web group at the VU, in VrijNederland (in Dutch)
  • Article on Semantic Web in the Dutch business-weekly Intermediair.

          

• NWO-CATCH Project CHOICE: CHarting the informatiOn landscape employIng ContExt information (January 2005 - December 2008)


• EU Network of Excellence Knowledge Web


• Former TU/e sceintific coordinator of the European ITEA project: Passepartout: Personalized Ambient Multimedia (Jan 2005 - Mar 2007)
  • Follow-up project iFanzy in collaboration with Stoneroos Interactive TV
  • Read about us at:
    
    • Article on iFanzy: Intelligente televisiebutler, Broadcast Magazine
    • Article on iFanzy: "Ifanzy: een medicijn tegen tv-zapperitis", Het Parool (in Dutch)
    • Article on iFanzy: "Zappen tot je een ons weegt, is voorbij", Eindhovens Dagblad (in Dutch)
    • Article on ITEA Passepartout: "Persoonlijke tv-gids helpt bij het tv kijken", 5 Apr'07, TU/e Cursor (in Dutch)
    • Press release ITEA Passepartout, 21 Mar'07, Sync.nl (in Dutch)
    • Press release ITEA Passepartout, Automatiserings Gids (in Dutch)

• British Council NL-UK Partnership in Science Workshop Grant (2005)
• British Council NL-UK Partnership in Science SWALE Project (2003 - 2004)
• FP6 IST MobiLife Integrated Project - WP2, T2.3 (TELIN consortium)
• AlterEgo @ Telematica Instituut
• ToKeN2000 CHIME: Cultural Heritage in an Interactive Multimedia Environment (January 2002 - December 2006)
• IST-2000-31050 Agent Academy Project: A Data Mining Framework for Training Intelligent Agents (2001-2003)

Research interests

• Adaptive Information Management & Recommendation Systems
• Ontology-based User and Context Modeling
• User-centered Design of Interactive Semantic Systems
• Task-based Information Retrieval
• Application of Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning, e-culture and iTV
• Concept Structures (Ontologies, Conceptual Graphs, Concept Maps, Topic Maps)
• Authoring of Adaptive Web-based Information Systems, Web-based Educational Systems (ITS, KBS)

Invited Talks and Presentations

• The Future of Television is Social Semantics, IBC2010, Amsterdam, [slides]
• Linking TV & Social Web, at the Future TV Workshop, at EuroITV2010 Conference, June 2010, Tampere, Finland [slides]
• ESWC2010 Conference General Chair - Closing and Award Ceremony, [slides]
• ESWC2010 Conference General Chair - Opening, [slides]
• Eventing History: Agora Project Lightning Talk, at WebSci2010 Conference, April 2010, Railegh, NC [slides]
• Experimental Research: IntertainLab @VU Lightning Talk, at WebSci2010 Conference, April 2010, Railegh, NC [slides]
• Presentation at the Perspectives Workshop: Semantic Web Reflections and Future Directions, June 2009, Dagstuhl, Germany [slides]
• Invited talk at 7th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Chania, Greece, June 2009 [slides]
• Semantic annotation and search of cultural-heritage and TV content, at CSAIL Seminar, MIT, 9 April 2009, Boston. [slides]
• Invited talk at Kennismarathon 2009: Competing for the VUture, Olympisch Stadion Amsterdam, 19 January 2009, Amsterdam
• Invited talk at Museum Symposium on Interaction, Mobility and Ubiquitous Availability, Jewish Museum Berlin, 8 May 2008, Berlin
• Invited talk at Participation in e-culture, Ministry of the Flemish Community for Culture, Youth, Sport and Media, 27 Mar 2007, Brussels [slides]
• Invited presentation at EUREKA Results and Perspectives, 20 March 2007, European Parliament, Brussels
• Short press coverage of Passepartout presentation at the European parliament, Automatisering Gids, 20 March 2007


• Distributed Personalization, 26 Mar 2007, WAI Meeting, VU, Amsterdam
• IUI'07, 30 Jan 2007, Hawaii
• ITEA Passepartout Project, 26 Feb 2007, WAI meetings, VU, Amsterdam
• Presentation at ACHE day, 30 Mar 2006, Amsterdam
• Personalized Information Retrieval, DFKI, 27 Jul 2006, Saarbruecken
• Paper presentation at EKAW'06, 3 Oct 2006, Podebrady, Chech Republic
• Visit at DFKI, 17 Aug 2004, Saarbruecken, pictures

Professional activities

Chair / Organizer:

• Program Co-chair: International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Germany.
• HCI Track Co-chair: EuroITV2011 Conference, Portugal
• Conference Chair: European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), Greece.
• Program Co-chair: European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009), Greece.
• Special Track Co-chair: AI and the Web track at AAAI 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• Doctoral Consortium Chair: International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006), Ireland.
• Deputy Vice Chair Education Track: International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005), Japan, program
• Chair Interactive Events: International AI-ED Conference 2005, The Netherlands.
• Co-Chair Workshops and Tutorials: International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Web-based Systems (AH’04), The Netherlands.

• Tutorial: User-centered Design for the Semantic Web, at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007)

• NoTube Workshop on Future Television: integrating the Social and Semantic, at theEuroITV2010 Conference
• CH-SW Workshop: Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web, at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007)
• PATCH Workshop: Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage, at the User Modeling Conference (UM 2007)
• myTV Workshop: Personalized for Interactive TV, at the EuroITV 2007 Conference
• SW-EL Workshop: Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (2004, 2005, 2006)
• PerSWeb'05 Workshop: Personalization on the Semantic Web, at the User Modeling Conference (UM 2005)
• WOSE'05 Workshop: Ontologies, Semantics and E-learning
• Workshop on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, at the ICCE 2002 Conference

PC memberships:

• International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP'09, K-CAP'11)
• European Conference on Interative TV and Video (EuroITV'10)
• International EKAW Conference (EKAW'10)
• International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'10)
• ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'10)
• International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'10)
• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'05, ISWC'06, ISWC'07, ISWC'08, ISWC'09)
• European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'07, ESWC'08)
• User Modeling Conference (UM'05, UM'07, UMAP'09, UMAP'10)
• World Wide Web Conference (WWW'05)
• Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED'05, AIED'07, AIED'09)
• IEEE ICALT: Advanced Learning Technologies Conference (2004, 2005)
• IEEE/ACM WI: Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technologies Conference (2004, 2005)
• AACE E-Learn: E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education (2004, 2005)
• IFIP AI'06: IFIP TC12 and WG12.5 -- Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• IFIP AIAI: Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (2004, 2005)
• ACM SAC'04: Track on Engineering e-Learning Systems (ELS)
• e-Society'04
• IKE'04: Information and Knowledge Engineering
• ICAI: Artificial Intelligence (2002, 2004)
• WOSE: OTM 2004 Workshop on Ontologies, Semantics and E learning (2004, 2005)

Reviewing activities:

• Advisory Board User Modelling Inc.
• Steering Committee European Semantic Web Conference.
• Editorial Board Semantic Web Journal.
• Reviewer: Journal of Web Semantics (IJHCS)
• Reviewer: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS)
• Senior Reviewer:International Journal on User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI)
• IEEE Internet Computing Journal: Engineering and Applying the Internet
• Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR, AACE)
• Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning(IJCEELL)
• Elsevier Data and Knowledge Engineering
• IEEE Learning Technology Task Force
• AAAI Spring Symposium on Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM'03)
• All the refereed conferences and workshops mentioned above

Editorial activities:

• Visual interfaces to the social and semantic web, VISSW'11 Workshop Proceedings, at IUI'11 Conferece, ACM
• Personalzed Access to Cultural Heritage, PATCH'11 Workshop Proceedings, at IUI'11 Conferece, ACM
• The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, ESWC'10 Conference Proceedings, Springer.
• Visual interfaces to the social and semantic web, VISSW'10 Workshop Proceedings, at IUI'10 Conferece, ACM
• The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, ESWC'09 Conference Proceedings Springer.
• Guest Editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on AI and Cultural Heritage, Mar/Apr 2009, Vol. 24, No. 2.
• Guest Editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on Intelligent Educational Systems, Jul/Aug 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4.
• The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006, 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC'06, Proceedings Springer.
• Guest Editor of the Int. J. of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning (IJCEELL), Special Issue on Application of Semantic Web Technologies in E-learning, Vol. 16, 1/2, 2006
• Guest Editor of the Int. J. of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning (IJCEELL), Special Issue on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, Vol. 14, 3, 2004
• Guest Editor of the Int. J. of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning (IJCEELL), Special Issue on Software Agents in Education, Vol. 12, 3/4, 2002
• Guest Editor of the Int. J. for Interactive Learning Research (JILR), Special Issue on Intelligent Agents for Education and Training Systems, Vol. 10, 3/4, 1999
• Journal associate for the Int. J. of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning (IJCEELL)

Memberships:

• Associaltion for Computing Machinery (ACM member)
• Int. Society of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IAIED member)
• Association for Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE member)
• IFETS and IEEE Learning Technology Task Force
• SIKS Research School, The Netherlands

Courses

At the Free University of Amsterdam I am involved in the following courses (2006-present):

• Information Retrieval
• Human Computer Interaction
• The Social Web

At the Eindhoven University of Technology I was involved in the following courses (2001-2006):

• 2L340: Kennissystemen (Knowledge systems)
• 2ID10: Information Retrieval
• 2R290: ISO - Inleiding Informatiesysteemontwikkeling
• 2R350: Graphical User-Interfaces

Interesting Events

• European Semantic Web Conference 2009, Crete, Greece
• 16-18 October 2007: AudioCubes Workshop, organized by V2 _ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
• 19-20 October 2007: Recalling RFID, organized by the center for culture and politics De Balie in Amsterdam. See also NRC.next blog
• 25 October 2007: the future of Google, organized by the Club Amsterdam.
• 31 October 2007: Ambient intelligence in De Waag, organized by the center for new media De Waag and University of Tilburg (TILT) in Amsterdam. Se also NRC.next blog
• PICNIC 2007, organized by the center for new media De Waag in Amsterdam.
• FabLabs in NL
• RFID Hackers camp @ PICNIC 2007
• 22 February 2007: the future of Ambient Intelligence, slides

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Free University Amsterdam, FEW, Computer Science,
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