Bamshad Mobasher

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 books and over 300 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 others. He is currently leading DePaul University’s efforts to develop and interdisciplinary AI Institute focusing on the responsible development of AI technologies and their applications for social good