Research Interests

His research interests lie in Data Science, Personalizations, Recommender Systems, Context-Awareness, Human Factors, Technology-Enhanced Learning, and so forth. It could be related to the following topics:

• General Areas: Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
• Web & Learning Intelligence: Personalization, Recommender Systems, Learning Analytics
• HCI and Users: User Modeling, Human Factors (trust, emotion, personality), Behavior Analysis

Honors, Grants & Awards

• 2021, Excellence in Research Award by College of Computing at Illinois Institute of Technology
• 2021, ACM SIGCHI Development Fund
• 2020, PI, Industry Grant #20-0195
• 2020, PI, NSF grant (#2022227) to support students in ACM UMAP 2020 & 2021
• 2018, PI, NSF grant (#1830908) to support students in ACM UMAP 2018 & 2019
• 2017, Distinguished Student Supervisor Nominees, IIT, Chicago, USA
• 2017, Distinguished reviewer by ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
• 2016-2018, AWS Educate Teaching Grant
• 2015-2016, AWS Educate Student Grant
• 2016, Travel Award: UMAP, SAC
• 2015, Travel Award: ICDM, IUI, SAC, UMAP, DSS
• 2015, Best paper award at SOCRS, Chicago, USA
• 2015, Finalist at SRC@ACM SAC, Spain
• 2014, Travel Award: RecSys, SAC
• 2013, Travel Award: KDD, UMAP

Projects & Supervisions

Below is a list of students or researchers under his supervision

• List of PhD Students
  • Diego Sánchez-Moreno (Part-time PhD Student; University of Salamanca, Spain); Project: Music Recommender Systems

• List of Master Students
  • Recommender Systems
    • Maria Delgado Franco, Beatriz Blanco, Mili Singh, Mayur Agnani; Project: Grey Sheep Users In RecSys
    • Tanaya Dave, Neha Mishra, Harshit Kumar; Project: Reciprocal Recommendations
    • Shephalika Shekhar; Project: Multi-Criteria Recommender System
    • Shravan Shankar Polisetty, Alisha Anna Jose; Project: Context-Aware Recommender System
    • Nastaran Ghane, Milad Sabouri; Project: Multi-Stakeholder Recommendations
    • Archana Subramaniyan, Arturo Pavon Estrade; Project: Personality-Aware Recommendations
    • Juan Ruiz Toribio; Project: Transparency and Fairness
    • Gonzalo Florez Arias, Manuel Diaz Bendito; Project: Recommender Systems based on Deep Learning
  • Learning Analytics
    • Alejandro Susillo Ridao; Project: AI for Educations
  • Cybersecurity | Security
    • Raquel Noblejas Sampedro, Sridhar Srinivasan, Kim Taehun; Project: Mobile Security
    • Vih Dogo, Yash Agrawal, Shubham Sudhir Madke; Project: Crime Predictions over the Chicago Transit Authority Services, collaboration with Digby's Detective & Security Agency, Inc.
• Supervision under the Joint Program with Universities in Spain (with M.S. thesis)
  • Maria Delgado Franco, Beatriz Blanco, Project: Grey Sheep Users In RecSys
  • Arturo Pavon Estrade, Project: Personality-Aware Recommendations
  • Juan Ruiz Toribio, Project: Transparency and Fairness
  • Alejandro Susillo Ridao, Project: AI for Educations
  • Raquel Noblejas Sampedro, Project: Mobile Security
  • Jorge Torres, Project: Group RecSys
  • Gonzalo Florez Arias, Manuel Diaz Bendito; Project: Recommender Systems based on Deep Learning