Shlomo Berkovsky Research Team Leader CSIRO, TasICT Centre  Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  shlomo.berkovsky [AT] csiro.au  GPO Box 1538,            Hobart, TAS, 7001            Australia    +61-3-62325536    +61-3-62325050   slavax

Research Synopsis

I am a Research Team Leader at the TLI project (CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Tasmanian ICT Centre). The project aims to provide individual users and their families with a personalized dietary and health information to help them to maintain a healthier lifestyle .

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

Before joining CSIRO, I was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Melbourne. I graduated from the University of Haifa. The topic of my PhD was "Mediation of user models for enhanced personalization in recommender systems" (advisors: Martin Golumbic, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, Oliviero Stock). The topic of my MSc was "Unspecified ontologies for peer-to-peer e-commerce applications" (advisor: Yosi Ben-Asher).

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