SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR

Dr. Alexandra Cristea
University of Warwick, United Kingdom

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Biography of the Special Session Chair

Dr. Alexandra I. Cristea is associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick. She is the Director of Graduate Research in Computer Science, and Coordinator of the Intelligent and Adaptive Systems group, consisting of 14 academics (5 affiliated) and 19 research students. Her research interests include adaptive educational systems, authoring of adaptive hypermedia, user modelling, intelligent tutoring systems, semantic web technologies, concept mapping, and artificial intelligence. She has published more than 150 papers on these subjects. She is leading the work package on Weblog structure and semantics in the BLOGFOREVER EU FP7 project starting January 2011 as well as is leading the work package on Authoring in the GRAPPLE EU FP7 project started in February 2008 and has recently lead the Minerva project entitled ‘ALS’ (Adaptive Learning Spaces) (October 2006 – April 2009). Previously, she has also successfully lead as project manager the ‘ADAPT’ Minerva project, that was recommended as outstanding by the EU Commission (2002-2005). She was previously working at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, as assistant professor, at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, as research associate, and at the University ‘Politehnica’ of Bucharest as assistant, all these positions including research and teaching. She has graduated ‘Politehnica’ University of Bucharest, Romania, with two degrees, a Masters in Computer Science and one in Economical Engineering. She received her PhD at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. She has been organizer of workshops, co-organizer, panelist and program committee member of various conferences in her research field (including, for example, ED-MEDIA, Hypertext, Adaptive Hypermedia, ICCE, ICAI). She was demonstration chair of EC-TEL 2009, and was track co-chair of Hypertext 2007 and general workshop co-chair of the ICALT 2007 conference in Niigata, Japan. She will be hosting ICALT 2013. She is executive peer reviewer of the IEEE LTTF Education Technology and Society Journal and she is co-editor of the Advanced Technologies and Learning Journal. She has given invited talks in various countries, e.g., UK, Netherlands, Spain, Japan, Finland, Romania, etc. She acted as UNESCO expert for adaptive web-based education at a high-level (Ministry of Education and Educational institutes) meeting of East European countries. She is an IEEE and IEEE CS member.

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