Activities

Here are some selected highlights of my involvement in different research communities.

• Conference Chair: European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010)
• Program Chair: International Semantic Web Conferences (ISWC2011), European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009)

• Special Track Chair:
  • HCI Track @EuroITV 2011
  • AI and the Web track @AAAI 2010
  • Education Track @ WWW 2005
  • Interactive Events @ International AI-ED 2005
  • Doctoral Consortium Chair at ISWC2006, UMAP2012, ISWC2013, WWW2013

• Vice president of Executive Board of Semantic Technology Institute International.
• Vice president of User Modeling Inc.

• Editorial Board member:
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS).
  • UMUAI Journal (Journal of Personalization Research), Kluwer Academic.
  • Semantic Web Journal, IOS Press.

• Conference Proceedings Editor:
  • The Semantic Web, ISWC’06, ISWC’11, Springer.
  • The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, ESWC’09, ESWC’10, Springer

• Journal Guest Editor of Special Issues:
  • AI and Cultural Heritage, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2009
  • Intelligent Educational Systems, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2007
  • Concepts & Ontologies in WBES, IJCEELL, 2004
  • Software Agents in Education, IJCEELL, 2002
  • Intelligent Agents for Education and Training Systems, JILR, 2001

• Journal associate for the International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning (IJCEELL), ISSN: 1560-4624.

• Reviewer for more than 6 journals, e.g:
  • Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Applied Ontology (Interdisciplinary Journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling), IOS Press.

• PhD External Examiner:
  • UPC Barcelona, Technical University of Catalonia (Spain)
  • NUI Galway (Ireland)
  • Aalto University (Finland)
  • INRIA (France)
  • Leeds University (UK)
  • University of Sydney (Australia)
  • Trinity College (Ireland)
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)

• External PhD committee member:
  • VU University Amsterdam
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Delft University
  • Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

• Workshop Proceedings Editor for more than 15 workshops and tutorials at international conferences.

I have served on more than 30 program committees for peer-reviewed venues, as well as more than 15 international peer-reviewed workshops (a selection of the conference PC memberships is included below):

• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC’05 – ’11)
• International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP’09 – ’13)
• European Conference on Interactive TV and Video (EuroITV’10 – ’12)
• International EKAW Conference (EKAW’10)
• International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’10 – ’12)
• ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’10)
• International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’05,’10 – ’13)
• European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC’07 – ’13)
• User Modeling Conference (UM’05,’07, UMAP’09 – ’13)
• Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED’05 – ’09)
• IEEE/ACM WI: Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technologies Conference (’04,’05)
• IFIP AI’06, Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (’04,’05)
• ACM SAC’04, ICAI: Artificial Intelligence (’02,’04)