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Current Research Areas: personalization, privacy, human-computer interaction, personal healthcare support, information visualization.
 

Academic Education
 

1982-85	University of Vienna, Austria	Ph.D. in Computer Science (with distinction)
1980-81	University of Salzburg, Austria	Non-degree studies in psychology, linguistics, philosophy and formal logic
1975-80	University of Linz, Austria	Master of Computer Science (with distinction) Master of Business Administration (with distinction)

Scientific Positions
 

Since 2018	Professor Emeritus, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, Univ. of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
2003-2018	Professor, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, Univ. of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
2012, 2013	Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
2013	Visiting Research Professor, National University of Singapore
2013	Visiting Researcher, Telekom Innovation Labs at Ben Gurion University and University of Haifa, Israel
2005-2006	Visiting Scientist, Institute for Information Systems, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
2000-2003	Associate Professor, School of Information and Computer Sciences, Univ. of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
1995-2005	Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Essen, Germany
1995-2000	Director, GMD FIT, German Nat'l Research Center for Information Technology, St. Augustin
1991-95	Associate Professor, Dept. of Information Science, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany
1993	Visiting Researcher, Dept. of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York
1985-91	Senior Researcher and Project Director, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Saarbrücken
1989	Substitute Full Professor in Computational Linguistics / Linguistic Informatics, Univ. of Duisburg
1988	Visiting Scientist, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA
1985	Research Associate, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria
1982-84	Research Associate, Dept. of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Univ. of Vienna
1980-81	Researcher, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Linz, Austria

Other positions
 

1997-1999

Co-Director, humanIT Human Information Technologies GmbH, St. Augustin, Germany

Professional Offices
 

Societies	User Modeling, Inc. (Founding President, 1994-1999; Director-at-large, 1999-2003; Advisory Board Member 2003-2012) Orange County ACM SIGCHI chapter (co-founder, Program Chair; 2002-04) European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence (Delegate, 1984-85)  ÖGAI Working Group on Cognitive Science (Chairman, 1982-85)  ACM, SIGCHI, AAAI, German Informatics Society, FIFF, AACE APC (member)
Editorial	User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (Editor-in-Chief, 1991-2016) ACM Transaction on Intelligent Interactive Systems (Associate Editor, 2009-2014) Universal Access in the Information Society (Editorial Board Member, 2000-2015) World-Wide Web (Editorial Board Member, since 1996) Dissertations in Artificial Intelligence Series, German Informatics Society (Editorial Board Member, since 1996) Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Editorial Board Member,  2007-2012) Information Technology and Decision Making (Editorial Board Member, 2001-07) Review of Information Science (Editorial Board Member, 1996-98)
Conference/Workshop Chair or Co-Chair	ACM IUI 2019 Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces for Internet of Things, Los Angeles, CA 2014 ACM Recommender Systems Conference (RecSys'14), Foster City, Silicon Valley, CA AAAI-2012 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Persoanlization and Recommender Systems, Toronto, Canada IJCAI-2011 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems, Barcelona, Spain 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalizaton (UMAP 2010), Big Island, HI. 2009 ACM RecSys Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web (New York) IJCAI-09 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems, Pasadena, CA UMAP-09 Workshop on Personalization in Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Trento, Italy  AAAI-08 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems, Chicago, IL AAAI-07 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization, Vancouver, Canada PEP06, CHI-2006 Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization, Montreal, Canada EU-IST / NSF ITR Collaboration Workshop, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005 PEP05, UM05 Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005 e-Accessibility, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, 2003 Third Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia, at ACM Hypertext'01, Århus, Denmark, and UM-01, Sonthofen, Germany Fifth ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, Dagstuhl, Germany, 1999 Second Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the World Wide Web at WWW-8, Toronto, Canada, and UM99, Banff, Canada, 1999 UM94 and UM96 Workshops on the Standardardization of User Modeling Shells, Hyannis, MA, 1994 and Kailua-Kona, HI, 1996 Fourth International Conference on User Modeling, Hyannis, MA, Aug.1994  First German Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Software Systems, Berlin, Germany, 1993  Workshops on Knowledge Representation and Inference in User Modeling, Saarbrücken, 1990 and Konstanz, 1992 German KL-ONE Workshop, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1987 First International Workshop on User Modeling, Maria Laach, Germany, 1986
Conference Program  Committees	UMAP 2020 (Genua, Italy), UMAP 2019 (Cyprus), UMAP 2018 (Singapore), UMAP 2017 (Bratislava, Slovakia), UMAP 2016 (Halifax, Canada), RecSys 2015 (Vienna, Austria; Senior Member), UMAP-15 (Dublin, Ireland), AAAI ICWSM-14 (Ann Arbor, MI; Senior Member), UMAP-14 (Aalborg, Denmark; Area Chair), AAAI ICWSM-13 (Cambridge, MA; Senior Member), UMAP-13 (Rome, Italy), 2012 ACM RecSys (Dublin, Ireland; Senior Member); EC-Web 2012 (Vienna, Austria), ISMIS'12 (Macau, China), UMAP 2012 (Montréal, Canada), EC-Web 2011 (Toulouse, France), UMAP 2011 (Girona, Spain), EC-Web 2010 (Bilbao, Spain), FLAIRS-22 (Sanibel Island, FL), UMAP-2009 (Trento, Italy), AAAI-2008 (Chicago, IL), AH-2008 (Hanover, Germany), ARES-08 (Barcelona, Spain), ECIS-08 (Galway, Ireland), AAAI 2007 (Vancouver, BC), IEEE InfoVis 2007 (Sacramento, CA), IFIP IDMAN’07 (Rotterdam, Netherlands), IUI 2007 (Oahu, HI), Recommender 07 (Minneapolis, MN), UM07 (Corfu, Greece), AAAI-06 (Boston, MA), AH 2006 (Dublin, Ireland), IEEE InfoVis 2006 (Baltimore, MD), WWW-2006 (Edinburgh, Scotland), IEEE InfoVis 2005 (Minneapolis, MN), I-KNOW 05 (Graz, Austria), ISWC-05 (Galway, Ireland), IUI-2005 (San Diego, CA), UAHCI-2005 (Las Vegas, NE), UM05 (Edinburgh, Scotland), WWW-05 (Chiba, Japan), AH-2004 (Eindhoven, Netherlands), e-Society 2004 (Madrid, Spain), PRICAI-04 (Auckland, New Zealand), WWW-2004 (New York, NY), IEEE InfoVis 2003 (Seattle, WA), ACM Hypertext'03 (Nottingham, UK), INTERACT-2003 (Zürich, Switzerland), UAHCI-03 (Heraklion, Greece), UM03 (Johnstown, PA), WWW2003 (Budapest, Hungary), AAAI-2002 (Edmonton, Calgary; Senior PC member), IEEE ICALT-2002 (Kazan, Tatarstan), IEEE InfoVis-2002 (Boston, MA), PRICAI-2002 (Tokyo, Japan), AH-2002 (Malaga, Spain), UAHCI-01 (New Orleans, Louisiana), UM01 (Sonthofen, Germany), IEEE ICALT-2001 (Madison, WI), WebNet 2001(Orlando, Florida), PRICAI2000 (Melbourne, Australia), ACM CUU 2000 (Washington, D.C.), AIMSA-2000 (St. Constantine, Bulgaria), IWIPS-2000 (Baltimore, MD), COOP-2000 (Sophia Antipolis, France), ECCE-00 (Linköping, Sweden), ISI-00 (Graz, Austria), WebNet 2000 (San Antonio, TX), WebNet 99 (Honolulu, HI), UM99 (Banff, Canada), ECCE-98 (Limerick, Ireland), CoopIS'98 (New York, NY), COOP-98 (Antibes-Juan-les-Pins, France), IBERAMIA'98 (Lisbon, Portugal),  ISI-98 (Prague, Czechia), UM97 (Chia Laguna, Italy), ECCE-96 (Madrid, Spain), EuroAIED-96 (Lisbon, Portugal), UM-96 (Kailua-Kona, HI), COOP-96 (Antibes-Juan-les-Pins, France), ICC-95 (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), HIM-95 (Konstanz, Germany), ISI-94 (Graz, Austria), ECAI-94 (Amsterdam, Netherlands), ECCE-94 (St. Augustin, Germany), ISI-90 (Konstanz, Germany), UM-90 (Honolulu, HI), KONNAI-90 (Salzburg, Austria), GLDV-89 (Darmstadt, Germany), ÖGAI-87 (Vienna, Austria), GWAI/ÖGAI-86 (Ottenstein, Austria)
Workshop Program Committees	CHI-2018 Workshop "Bridging a Bridge: Bringing Two HCI Communities Together" (Montréal, Canada), ACM ASIACCS 2017 International Workshop on IoT Privacy, Trust, and Security (Abu Dhabi, United Emirates), UMAP 2017 Workshop on Temporal Aspects in User Modelling (Bratislava, Slovakia), ACM ASIACCS 2016 Workshop on Internet-of-Things Privacy, Trust, and Security (Xi'an, China), ACM ASIACCS 2015 Workshop on Internet-of-Things Privacy, Trust, and Security (Singapore), UMAP-13 Workshop on User Modeling for Enabling Technology for All (Rome, Italy), WWW 2013 Workshop on Social Recommender Systems (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), ACM WSDM 2013 Workshop on Context-aware Retrieval and Recommendation (Rome, Italy), ACM CSCW 2012 Workshop on Measuring Networked Social Privacy (San Antonio, TX), ACM RecSys 2012 Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems, UMAP 2012 Workshop on Augmented User Modeling (Montreal, Canada), UMAP 2012 Workshop on Personalized Knowledge Modeling with Big (Usage & Context) Data (Montreal, Canada), ACM KDD 2012 Workshop on Context Discovery and Data Mining (Beijing, China), IUI 2012 Workshop on Ubiquitous Personalization (Lisbon, Portugal), IUI 2012 Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation (Lisbon, Portugal), ACM RecSys 2011 Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems (Chicago, IL), IJCAI 2011 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization & Recommendation (Barcelona, Spain), UMAP 2011 Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments, UMAP 2011 Workshop on Augmenting User Models with Real World Experiences to Enhance Personalization and Adaptation (Girona, Spain), RecSys 2010 Workshop on User-Centric Evaluation of Recommender Systems and Their Interfaces (Barcelona, Spain), RecSys 2010 International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (Barcelona, Spain), HCI India 2010 Workshop on Modelling for Accessibility Personalization in HCI (Bombay, India), IUI 2010 Workshop on Social Recommender Systems  (Hong Kong, China), IJCAI 2009 Workshop on Intelligence and Interaction (Pasadena, CA), IIMSS-09 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction in Knowledge-based Environments (Mogliano Veneto, Italy), UM07 Workshop on Ubiquitous and Decentralized User Modeling (Corfu, Greece), UM07 Workshop Towards User Modelling and Adaptive Systems for All (Corfu, Greece), PERVASIVE-06 Workshop on Real-World Experiences with RFID and Sensor Networks (Dublin, Ireland), UM05 Workshop on Decentralized, Agent-Based and Social Approaches to User Modeling (Edinburgh, Scotland), AAAI-04 Workshop on Semantic Web Personalization (San Jose, CA), AH'04 Workshop on Personalization in Future TV (Eindhoven, Netherlands), UM03 Workshop on User Modeling for Ubiquitous Computing (Johnstown, PA), i3 2000 Workshop on Interactive Learning Environments for Children (Athens, Greece), UI4ALL-00 (Florence, Italy), HT98 Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia (Pittsburgh, PA), ABIS-98 (Saarbrücken, Germany), UI4ALL-98 (Stockholm, Sweden), AAAI-99 Symposium on Modal and Temporal Logic based Planning for Open Networked Multimedia Systems (North Falmouth, MA), ABIS-97 (Dortmund, Germany), UI4ALL-97 (Obernai, France), UI4ALL-96 (Prague, Czech Republic), UI4ALL-95 (Heraklion, Greece), Italian Workshop on User-Adapted Interaction 1994 (Bari, Italy), ABIS-94 (St. Augustin, Germany), IJCAI-91 Workshop on User Models and Natural-Language Dialog (Sydney, Australia), AAAI-91 Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces (Stanford, CA).
Journal Reviewer	ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on [Office] Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, ACM/Springer Journal on Multimedia Systems, AI & Society, Angewandte Informatik, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Review, Behaviour and Information Technology, The Computer Journal, Communications of the ACM, Cybernetics & Systems Journal, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, IEEE Privacy & Security, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Information and Management, Information Technology & Decision Making, Interacting with Computers, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Journal for Digital Information, KI, Knowledge Engineering Review, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Swiss Journal of Psychology, Universal Access in the Information Society, World Wide Web
Conference Reviewer	CHI-16 (San Jose. CA), CHI-13 (Paris, France), UbiComp-12 (Pittsburgh, PA), InfoViz-09 (Atlantic City, NJ), ECIS09 (Verona, Italy), UbiComp07 (Innsbruck, Austria), VAST-06 (Baltimore, MD), CHI-2004 (Vienna, Austria), CHI-2002 (Minneapolis, MN), ECAI-2002 (Lyon, France), UIST-2002 (Paris, France), UIST-2001 (Orlando, FL),COOP-95 (Antibes-Juan-Les-Pins, France), CHI-94 (Boston, MA), INTERCHI'93 (Amsterdam, Netherlands), ISI-92 (Saarbrücken, Germany), CHI-92 (Monterey, CA), ECAI-92 (Vienna, Austria), CAIA-91 (Miami, FL), GWAI-91 (Bonn, Germany), ECAI-90 (Stockholm, Sweden), GWAI-90 (Eringerfeld, Germany), IJCAI-89 (Detroit, MI), ÖGAI-89 (Innsbruck, Austria), ECAI-88 (Munich, Germany), IJCAI-87 (Milan, Italy), GWAI-87 (Geseke, Germany, EMCSR-84&86 (Vienna, Austria)
Reviewing for Publishers	Addison-Wesley, Springer Verlag, Kluwer Academic Publishers, German Information Science Association Press, Wiley
Reviewing for  Funding Agencies	Australian Research Council, Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, Austrian Science Fund, Commission of the European Union (ESPRIT, Information Society Technologies, Disabled & Elderly, Telematics, Language Engineering, Design for All), Danish National Research Foundation, German Science Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, U.S. National Science Foundation (Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation, Cybertrust, Digital Libraries, Digital Society and Technology, Human-Centered Computing, Information Technology Research, Research Infrastructure, Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, Social-Computational Systems), Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Science Foundation Ireland, German Volkswagen Foundation
Advisory Boards	Scientific Advisory Board of the German National Social Science Information Center (IZ Sozialwissenschaften, 1997-2002), User Modeling Association (2003-2012), Adaptive Hypermedia and WWW Conference series (2002-2009).
Executive Boards	Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine (since 2000)
Steering Committees	ACM Conference Series on Recommender Systems (2014-2016)

Research Grants
 

2016-19	Process Tracing to Improve Household IoT Users' Privacy Decisions	NSF and Dutch NWO (w/ PIs Knijnenburg; Willemsen, NL)	$882.000
2015-20	Privacy Cognizant IoT Environment	DARPA Brandeis (w/ PI Mehrotra, co-PI Venkasubramanian)	$4,972,000
2015-18	Effects of Auditory Stimuli on Security Tasks	National Science Foundation (w/ co-PIs Tsudik and Berg)	$240,000
2015	Online Job Clubs: A Smartphone Pilot Project	UCI Multi-Investigator Research Grant (w/ PI Sugie, co-PI Ward)	$18,621
2015	Justice Propulsion Lab & Racial Violence Archive	UC Center for New Racial Studies (w/ PI Ward, co-PI Sugie)	$27,500
2014-18	User-Tailored Approach to Privacy Decision Support	National Science Foundation (single PI)	$666,000
2014-16	Self-Discovery Tool for Latina Breast Cancer Survivors	National Cancer Institute (7 PIs from UCI and CSUF)	$100,000
2008-14	Industry gifts (mostly related to research on privacy)	Samsung, Intel, Google, Disney, Magellan, Ericsson, TCL, Qualcomm (all single PI)	$375,000
2012-13	User Errors in Security-Related Behavior	National Science Foundation, SaTC (w/ G. Tsudik)	$50,000
2011	Various Seed Grants	UCI, Bren School of ICS (5 PIs)	$43,000
2009-2012	Usable Location Privacy in Geo-Social Networks	National Science Foundation (3 PIs)	$300,000
2008-2012	Decentralized Virtual Activities & Technologies	National Science Foundation (6 PIs)	$3,000,000
2008-2013	User-Aided Secure Association of Wireless Devices	National Science Foundation (3 PIs)	$460,000
2005-2006	Instant Messaging and Privacy	CRITO (single PI)	$15,000
2004-2006	European IST collaboration (privacy area)	National Science Foundation (single PI)	$91,000
2004-2006	Privacy Protection in E-Commerce	Alexander v. Humboldt Foundation (w/ O. Günther)	$45,000
2003-2007	Privacy in Personalized Systems	National Science Foundation (Single PI)	$360,000
2002-2006	Distributed Software Development	National Science Foundation (8 PIs)	$1,800,000
2002-2003	Information Visualization	CRITO (w/ J. Kim)	$ 15,000
2001-2003	International Privacy	CRITO (Single PI)	$ 40,000
1999-00	Industrial Projects	German Industries	$ 45,000
1997-00	LaboUR (Machine Learning)	German Science Foundation (w/ W. Pohl)	$ 400,000
1998	BGP-MS (User Modeling Shell)	SERI, Korea	$ 25,000
1996-98	COBRA (Business Intelligence)	European Commission (ACTS, 6 institutions)	$ 1,600,000
1995-98	AVANTI (Universal Access)	European Commission (ACTS, 8 institutions)	$ 3,500,000
1992-96	BGP-MS (User Modeling Shell)	German Science Foundation	$ 600,000
1992-95	Research and Instrumentation	University of Konstanz	$ 60,000
1985-95	Conference travel	German Science Foundation	$ 15,000

Awards and Honors

• 20 different classes in the fields of Information Science, Human-Computer Interaction, User Modeling, Information Visualization, Privacy, Knowledge Representation, Natural-Language Interfaces, Algorithms, and Cognitive Science, taught at the Universities of Linz and Vienna, Austria; Saarbrücken, Kaiserslautern, Duisburg, Konstanz and Essen, Germany; Rome, Italy; and Irvine, California.
• Courses and tutorials on dialog systems and user modeling held at German and Spanish summer schools and at CAIA-91, SIGIR-92, AAAI-93, IJCAI-93, ECAI-94, and CHI-94
• About 25 master theses supervised in several areas of Informatics and Information Science (6 months full-time work) and computer science (12 months full-time work)
• Supervised 11 and co-supervised 9 PhD theses.
   

Scientific publications

List of all publications (including many online copies) available at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/kobsa-publi.htm

Rankings

 
Scientific presentations