Professional Information

Education

Present, PhD, Intelligent System Program at University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

2003, Master Of Science, Computer Science at California State University, Hayward , CA

1999, Bachelor of Science,  Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
 

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Publications

Journals

• Farzan, R. and Brusilovsky P. (2008). AnnotatEd: A Social Navigation and Annotation Service for Web-based Educational Resources. Journal of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM)
• He, D., Brusilovsky, P., Ahn, J., Grady, J., Farzan, R., Peng Y., Yang Y., and Rogati, M. (2007). An evaluation of adaptive filtering in the context of realistic task-based information exploration, Information Processing and Management.
• Ahn, J., Farzan, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2006) Social Search in the Context of Social Navigation. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management 23(2):147-165.

Peer Reviewed Conferences

2008

• Farzan R., and Brusilovsky P. Where did the Researchers Go? Supporting Social Navigation at a Large Academic Conference. Hypertext 2008.
• Farzan, R., DiMicco, J., Millen, D. R, Brownholtz, B., Dugan, C., and Geyer, W., R. When the experiment is over: Deploying an incentive system to all the users. Persuasive Technology 2008.
• Farzan, R., DiMicco, J., Brownholtz, B., Dugan, C., Geyer, W., and Millen, D. R. Results from deploying a participation incentive mechanism within the enterprise. CHI 2008.

2007

• Freyne, J., Farzan, R., and Coyle, M. (2007). Toward the exploitation of social access patterns for recommendation. RecSys 2007.
• Farzan, R., Coyle, M., Freyne, J., Brusilovsky, P., and Smyth, P. (2007). ASSIST: Adaptive Social Support for Information Space Traversal. Hypertext 2007.
• Freyne J., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P., Smyth B., and Coyle M. (2007). Collecting Community Wisdom: Integrating Social Search & Social Navigation. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (PDF)

2006

• Bateman S., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P., and McCalla G. (2006) OATS: The Open Annotation and Tagging System. In Proceedings 3rd annual e-learning conference on Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories(PDF)
• Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2006). AnnotatEd: A Social Navigation and Annotation Service for Web-based Educational Resources. In Proceedings of E-Learn 2006--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education.Winner of outstanding paper award. (PDF)
• Mertens R., Farzan R.,and Brusilovsky P. (2006) Social Navigation in Web Lectures. In proceedings of Seventeenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia(short paper).
• Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2006). Social Navigation Support in a Course Recommendation System. In proceedings of 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems. Winner of James Chen best student paper award. (PDF)

2005

• Gavrilova T., Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2005). One Practical Algorithm of Creating Teaching Ontologies. In proceedings of Network Based Education. (PDF)
• Farzan, R. & Brusilovsky P. (2005). Social Navigation Support through Annotation-Based Group Modeling.  In proceedings of 10th International Conference on User Modeling. (PDF).
• Brusilovsky P., Farzan R. & Ahn J. (2005). Comprehensive Personalized Information Access in an Educational Digital Library. In proceedings of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. (PDF)

2004

• Brusilovsky, P., Chavan, G., Farzan, R. (2004). Social Adaptive Navigation Support for Open Corpus Electronic Textbooks  - In: P.De Bra (ed.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH'2004), Eindhoven, the Netherlands (PDF).
• Farzan, R. (2004). Adaptive Socio-Recommender System for Open-Corpus E-Learning - In Doctoral Consortium of the Third International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH'2004), Eindhoven, the Netherlands (PDF).

2003

• Farzan, R. (2003). Adaptive Collaborative Unix Meta-Tutorial for Computer Sciecne Students. Proceedings of SIGCSE 2003. pdf & Poster Presentation

Workshops

2007

• Farzan, R. and Brusilovsky P.(2007). Community based conference navigator. SociUM: Adaptation and Personalization in Social Systems: Groups, Teams, Communities workshop, in conjunction with UM’07.
• Brusilovsky, P., Ahn J., and Farzan R. (2007). Accessing educational digital libraries through adaptive information visualization. Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries in conjunction with the UM’07

2006

• Brusilovsky P., Farzan R., and Ahn J. (2006). Layered Evaluation of Adaptive Search. In Proceedings of Workshop on Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems. At SIGIR 2006. (PDF)
• Ahn J., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P. (2006). A Two-Level Adaptive Visualization for Information Access to Open-Corpus Educational Resources. In proceedings of Workshop on Social Navigation and Community-Based Adaptation Technologies. At 4th International Conference on Adpative Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems(PDF)

2005

• Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2005). Social Navigation Support in E-Learning: What are the Real Footprints? In proceedings of Third Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization (ITWP '05). At Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.(PDF)
• Ahn J., Brusilovsky P. & Farzan R. (2005). Investigating Users' Needs and Behaviors for Social Search. In proceedings of Workshop on New Technologies for Personalized Information Access (PIA 2005). At 10th International Conference on User Modeling. (PDF)

Thesis

• Farzan, R. (2003). Masters' Thesis: ACUT: Adaptive Collaborative Unix Tutorial ( PDF )
• Farzan, R. (1999). Undergraduate Thesis: "Implementation of a RISC Processor on FPGA chip". Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

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Academic Honor

• Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowships, University of Pittsburgh, 2007
• Outstanding Paper Award, ELearn Conference, 2006
• James Chen Best Student Paper Award, Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia 2006 Conference
• Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowships, University of Pittsburgh, 2005
• Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2003-2006
• Graduate Research Scholarship, CSU Hayward, 2003
• Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Honorable Mention, 2002
• Chevron Texaco Scholarship in Computer Science, 2002
• Associated Students Fellowship, CSU Hayward, 2002
• Problem of Month Award Winner, Math & CS Department, CSU Hayward, 2002 & 2003

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Community Work

• Conference Treasurer - ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 2008
• Workshop organizer – Workshop on Adaptation for the Social Web, 2008
• Panelist - Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries in conjunction with the UM’07
• Committee member – International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning
• Committee member – Workshop on Adaptation and Personalization in Social Systems: Groups, Teams, Communities, In Conjunction with UM 2007
• Committee member - Workshop on the Social Navigation and Community-Based Adaptation Technologies, In Conjunction with AH 2006
• Reviewer for Journal of User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction's special issue on User Modeling to Support Groups, Communities and Collaboration
• Reviewer for User Modeling Conference 2007
• Reviewer for World Wide Web Conference 2007
• Reviewer for World Conference on E-Learning, E-Learn 2005
• Reviewer for First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, 2005