Alexandra Cristea
Dr. Alexandra Cristea is associate professor in the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Warwick. She is the Head of the Intelligent and
Adaptive Systems group. 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 100 papers on these subjects. She is
leading a new Minerva project entitled ‘ALS’ (Adaptive Learning Spaces) started
on October 2006. She has also successfully lead as project manager the
‘ADAPT’ Minerva project, that was recommended as outstanding by the TAO.
She was previously working at Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands, as assistant professor. 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 and was previously employed there as
research associate. 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). This year
she is general workshop co-chair of the ICALT 2007 conference in Niigata, Japan.
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 was invited 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. More information can be found at:
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~acristea/