Shlomo Berkovsky

Research Team Leader

Contact

GPO Box 1538
Hobart TAS 7001

Tel: 61 3 6232 5536
Fax: 61 3 6232 5050
Email

Projects

• TLI - Tailored Lifestyle Information

Science Area

• Human Information Interaction

Biography

I am a Research Scientist at the TLI project, Tasmanian ICT Centre. The project project aims to provide overweight individuals and their families with health and lifestyle information relevant to them.

My broad research interests are user modeling and personalization as a means to overcome the information overload problem. In particular, I am interested in the mediation of user models, ubiquitous user modeling, recommender systems, collaborative and content-based filtering, context-aware personalization, personalized content generation, and use of machine learning and data mining techniques in user modeling and personalization. My prior research interest include text and web mining, semantic web and peer-to-peer computing.

Before joining CSIRO, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne. I graduated from the University of Haifa. The topic of my PhD thesis was "Mediation of user models for enhanced personalization in recommender systems". The topic of my MSc thesis was "Unspecified ontologies for Peer-to-Peer E-Commerce applications".

Academic Qualifications

2007	PhD(summa cum laude), CS Dept., University of Haifa
2004	MSc(cum laude), CS Dept., University of Haifa
2002	BSc, CS Dept., University of Haifa

Achievements & Awards

2006	Best Paper Award, International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
2005	Research Recognition Award, Caesarea Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Science Citizenship

2006-2010

Co-Organizer, International Workshop on Ubiquitous User Modeling

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