Peter Brusilovsky - Research Page
Peter Brusilovsky: Research
Professor
School of Computing and Information
University of Pittsburgh
Other affiliations:
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Research
Teaching
Publications
Edited Work
Research interests
Research Activities
Professional Service
Vitae
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
Research Activities
PAWS: Personalized and Adaptive Web Systems Lab
Personalized and Adaptive Web Systems Lab explores various kinds of user-adaptive Web systems.
New PAWS Lab Wiki
Old PAWS Lab Home Page
LTL: Learning Technologies Lab (was: Teaching and Learning Research Lab, TaLeR)
The Learning Technologies Lab (LTL) is an interdisciplinary research and development laboratory that fosters innovative research in the area of learning technologies and transformational / serious games.
Learning Technologies Lab Home Page
Old TaLeR Lab Home Page
Current and past NSF grants
Professional Service
The following links may be of interest for you if your research interests are close to mine. Do not hesitate to contact me if you are interested to submit a paper to one of the conferences and journals listed below. I usually update this list once a year.
Conferences and Workshops
I am serving as as a senior program committe member for the following conferences that I highly recommend:
30th ACM Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces,
IUI 2025
(Italy)
33rd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization,
UMAP 2025
(USA)
19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems,
RecSys 2025
(Czech Republic)
Journals
I am an editorial, consulting, or reviewing board member of the following journals that I also recommend:
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI)
ACM Transactions on Social Computing
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED)
The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
I served for 6 years as the Editor-in-Chief for the
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
. If you work in the area of E-Learning technologies, consider to submit to this journal!
Professional Societies
I am the past Chair of
ACM SIGWEB
, a Special Interest Group of the
ACM Association for Computing Machinery.
I am also the past President of
User Modeling Inc.
, a professional organization of User Modeling researchers, the organizer of UMAP conference series
I am a member of the following professional organizations:
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
(and proud to be a member of its inaugural steering committee)
Vitae
Below is my brief "hypelinked" vitae. And here is
my CV in PDF format
Graduated with honor (1983) from the
Moscow State University
(Applied Mathematics). PhD from the
Moscow State University
, 1987 (Computer Science, advisor
Prof. Lev Korolev
). Junior and Senior Research Scientist in
All-Union Scientific and Technical Information Center
(1987 to 1990). Senior Research Scientist in
International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information
(1990-1994). Lecturer and student advisor at
School of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics
of the
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 the
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). My reseach work with
John Anderson
was suppoprted by a grant from
James S. McDonnell Foundation
. Director of Computer-Managed Instruction at Carnegie Technology Education (later iCarnegie), a wholly owned, non-profit subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University (1998-1999).
In 2000 I joined the
University of Pittsburgh
as an Assistant Professor at
School of Information Sciences (SIS)
. I am currently a Professor and the head of Personalized and Adaptive Systems Lab in the
School of Computing and Information
, the successor of SIS. I have secondary appointments at
Intelligent Systems Program
University of Pittsburgh
and the
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
. I also served as a
Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair
at the
Aalto University
and
University of Helsinki
(2013-2014),
E.T.S Walton Visiting Professor
at
National College of Ireland,
Visiting Professor at
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
(2002), and Visiting Assistant Professor at the
Tokio Denki University
, Japan (1993). In addition to my degrees from the
Moscow State University
, I also hold a
Doctor Honoris Causa
degree from the
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
(2009).