Peter Brusilovsky

Peter Brusilovsky is a Professor of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, and director of the Personalized Adaptive Web Systems (PAWS) lab at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Computing and Information. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Moscow State University (1987) and a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Slovak University of Technology (2009). His research focuses on adaptive web systems, user modeling, recommender systems, and intelligent tutoring, with applications in education and health. He has led NSF-funded projects on personalized learning technologies and serves on editorial boards of journals like User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction and ACM Transactions on Social Computing.

Brusilovsky’s work emphasizes user-centered design, integrating social computing and AI for adaptive systems. He directs the PAWS and Learning Technologies Labs, exploring innovations in adaptive textbooks, programming practice systems, and health information access. Awards include the NSF CAREER Award and Fulbright-Nokia Chair. His contributions span over 30 years, with impactful publications on adaptive hypermedia, social information access, and educational technology.

Professional roles include past Chair of ACM SIGWEB and service on conference committees (e.g., RecSys, UMAP). He collaborates with institutions like Carnegie Mellon University and Aalto University, advancing interdisciplinary research in AI, education, and human-computer interaction.