Committees

Organization

General Chairs

• Lawrence Bergman, IBM Research, NY, USA
• Alex Tuzhilin, New York University, USA

Program Chairs

• Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA
• Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Lars Schmidt-Thieme, University of Hildesheim, Germany

Industry Chairs

• John Ciancutti, Netflix, USA
• Paul Lamere, Sun Microsystems, USA

Workshop Chairs

• Joseph Konstan, University of Minnesota, USA
• Sean McNee, FTI Technology, USA

Doctoral Symposium Chairs

• Michael O’Mahoney, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Paul Resnick, University of Michigan, USA

Publicity Chair

• Zan Huang, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Asian Liaison

• Dong Zhang, Google Research, China

European Liaison

• Alexandros Nanopoulos, University of Hildesheim, Germany

Program Committee

Silvana Aciar (University of Girona, Spain)
Gedas Adomavicius (University of Minnesoate, USA)
Xavier Amatriain (Telefonica, Spain)
Sarabjot Singh Anand (University of Warkwick, UK)
Liliana Ardissono (University of Torina, Italy)
Mathias Bauer (Mineway, Germany)
Lawrence Bergman (IBM Research, NY, USA)
Shlomo Berkovsky (TasICT Centre, Tasmania, Australia)
Derek Bridge (University College Cork, Ireland)
Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Robin Burke (DePaul University, USA)
Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University, China)
Lorcan Coyle (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Hendrik Drachsler (Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands)
Charles Elkan (University of California, USA)
Alexander Felfernig (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Gerhard Friedrich (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Werner Geyer (IBM Research, USA)
Andreas Geyer-Schulz (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Gustavo Gonzalez (Mediapro Research, Spain)
Mehmet Göker (PricewaterhouseCoopers Center for Advanced Research, USA)
Ido Guy (IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel)
Conor Hayes (DERI, National University of Ireland, Ireland)
Thomas Hofmann (Google, USA)
Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel, Germany)
Zan Huang (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Neil Hurley (University College Dublin, Ireland )
Alejandro Jaimes (Telefonica Research, Spain)
Anthony Jameson (DFKI, Germany)
Dietmar Jannach (University of Dortmund, Germany)
Magnus Jändel (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Benjamin Keller (Eastern Michigan University, USA)
Joseph Konstan (University of Minnesota, USA)
Yehuda Koren (Yahoo, USA)
Georgia Koutrika (Stanford University, USA)
Paul Lamere (SUN Microsystems, USA)
Daniel Lemire (University of Quebec, Canada)
Michael O’Mahoney (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Monika Mandl (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Leandro Balby Marinho, University of Hildesheim
Kevin McCarthy (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
Lorraine McGinty (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Sean McNee (University of Minnesota, USA)
Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University of Chicago, USA)
Alexandros Nanopoulos (University of Hildesheim, Germany)
Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover, Germany)
Shimei Pan (IBM Research, NY, USA)
Pearl Pu (EPFL, Switzerland)
Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Techo, USA)
Steffen Rendle (University of Hildesheim, Germany)
Paul Resnick (University of Michigan, USA)
Francesco Ricci (University of Bozen, Italy)
John Riedl (University of Minnesota, USA)
Inbal Ronen (IBM Haifa Research Lab, Isreal)
Monika Schubert (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari, Italy)
Mark van Setten (Telematica Institute, Netherlands)
Guy Shani (Microsoft Research, USA)
Bracha Shapira (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Barry Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Myra Spiliopoulou (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Markus Stolze (Hochschule Rapperswil, Switzerland)
Loren Terveen (University of Minnesota, USA)
Domonkos Tikk (University of Budapest, Hungary)
Jie Tang (Tsinghua University, China)
Lars Schmidt-Thieme (University of Hildesheim, Germany)
Alex Tuzhilin (New York University, USA)
Karen Tso-Sutter (SAP Research, Darmstadt, Germany)
Alex Tuzhilin (New York University, USA)
Gulden Uchyigit (Imperial College, UK)
Chris Volinsky (AT&T Labs, USA)
Hannes Werthner (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Markus Zanker (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Yi Zhang (UC – Santa Cruz, USA)
Dong Zhang (Google Research, China)
Tom Zimmermann (Microsoft Research, USA)
Tingshao Zhu (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)