Rosta Farzan Assisstant Professor School of Information Sciences University of Pittsburgh 135 North Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

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1 Rosta Farzan Assisstant Professor School of Information Sciences University of Pittsburgh 135 North Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA Office: Web: EDUCATION University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PhD in Intelligent System Program Thesis topic: A study of Social Navigation Support under Different Situational and Personal Factors California State University, Hayward, Master of Science in Computer Science Thesis topic: Adaptive Collaborative Unix Tutorial Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Thesis topic: Design and Implementation of a RISC Processor for FPGA RESEARCH INTERESTS Socialization of Newcomers Participation and Commitment in Online Communities Social Navigation and Social Information Filtering Social Web Technologies Personalized Information Access Community based User Modeling POSITIONS August 2012 Present August 2009 July 2012 August 2003 April 2009 Summer 2008 Summer 2007 Summer 2006 Feb 2002 May 2003 Summer 1996 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA School of Information Sciences Assistant professor Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Human Computer Institute, Social Computing Lab Post-doctoral fellow Mentor: Prof. Robert Kraut University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Personalized and Adaptive Web Systems Research Lab Graduate Researcher Advisor: Prof. Peter Brusilovsky IBM Research Lab, Cambridge, MA Collaborative User Experience group Research intern Mentor: Dr. Joan DiMicco IBM Research Lab, Cambridge, MA Collaborative User Experience group Research intern Mentor: Dr. Joan DiMicco University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland School of Computer Science and Informatics Research intern Mentor: Dr. Barry Smyth California State University, Hayward, CA Adaptive Hypermedia and Assistive Technologies Research Lab Graduate Researcher Advisor: Dr. Hilary Holz Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Electronic Research Center Undergraduate Researcher

2 PUBLICATIONS Journals 1. Farzan, R. and Brusilovsky, P (2010). Encouraging user participation in a course recommender system: an impact on user behavior. Journal of Computers in Human Behavior, 27(1): Farzan, R. and Brusilovsky, P (2009). AnnotatEd: a social navigation and annotation service for web-based educational resources. Journal of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM), 2006(1): 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 & Management, 44(2): Peer Reviewed Conferences 1. Farzan, R. and Kraut R (2013). Engaging experts in online production communities. In proceedings of the ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI Lopez, C., Farzan, R., Sahebi, S., Brusilovsky, P. (2013) What influences the decision to participate in audience-bounded online communities? In proceedings of the iconference Fort Worth, USA. IDEALS. 3. Lopez, C., Farzan, R., and Brusilovsky P. (2012). Personalized incremental users engagement: Driving contributions one step forward. In proceedings of the ACM conference on Supporting Group Work (Group 2012), Sanibel Island, USA. ACM Press. 4. Farzan, R., Pal, A., Kraut, R. and Konstan, J. (2012). Socializing volunteers in an online community: A field experiment. In proceedings of the ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2012). ACM Press. 5. Dabbish, L., Farzan, R., Kraut, R., and Postmes, T. (2012). Fresh faces in the crowd: turnover, identity, and commitment in online groups. In proceedings of the ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2012). ACM Press. 6. Pal, A., Farzan, R., Konstan, J., Kraut, R. (2011). Early detection of potential experts in question answering communities. Proceedings of User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. Springer (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, Springer-Verlag, pp James Chen best student paper award. 7. Farzan, R., Dabbish, L., Kraut, R. and Postmes, T. (2011). Increasing commitment to online communities by designing for social presence. Proceeding of the ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011), Hangzhou, China, March 19-23, ACM Press, pp Farzan, R., DiMicco, J., and Brownholtz, E. (2010). Mobilizing lurkers with a targeted Task. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011), Washington, DC, USA, May 23-26, AAAI Press, pp Farzan, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2009). Social navigation support for information seeking: if you build it, will they come? Proceedings of User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2009), Trento, Italy, June 22-26, Springer-Verlag, pp James Chen best student paper award. 10. Farzan, R. DiMicco, J., and Brownholtz E. (2009). Spreading the honey: a membermaintained content promotion system. Proceedings of the ACM conference on Supporting Group Work (Group 2009), Sanibel Island, USA, May 10-13, ACM Press, pp Farzan, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2008). Where did the researchers go? supporting social navigation at a large academic conference. Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Pittsburgh, USA, ACM Press, pp

3 12. Farzan, R., DiMicco, J., Millen, D. R, Brownholtz, E., Dugan, C., and Geyer, W., R. (2008). When the experiment is over: Deploying an incentive system to all the users. Proceedings of Symposium on Persuasive Technology, in conjunction with AISB 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland, The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior, pp Farzan, R., DiMicco, J., Millen, D. R, Brownholtz, E., Dugan, C., and Geyer, W. (2008). Results from deploying a participation incentive mechanism within the enterprise. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), Florence, Italy, April 5-10, ACM Press, pp Freyne, J., Farzan, R., and Coyle, M. (2007). Toward the exploitation of social access patterns for recommendation. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2007), Minneapolis, USA, October 19-20, ACM Press, pp Farzan, R., Coyle, M., Freyne, J., Brusilovsky, P., and Smyth, P. (2007). ASSIST: Adaptive social support for information space traversal. Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2007), Manchester, UK, September10-12, ACM Press, pp Freyne, J., Farzan, R., Brusilovsky, P., Smyth, B., and Coyle, M. (2007). Collecting community wisdom: integrating social search and social navigation. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2007), Honolulu, USA, January 28-31, ACM Press, pp Bateman, S., Farzan, R., Brusilovsky, P., and McCalla, G. (2006). OATS: The Open Annotation and Tagging System. Proceedings of Conference of the Learning Object Repository Research Network (I2LOR-06), Montreal, Canada, November 8-10, ACM Press, pp Farzan, R. & Brusilovsky, P. (2006). AnnotatEd: a social navigation and annotation service for web-based educational resources. Proceedings of the AACE conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education (E-Learn 2006), Honolulu, USA, October 13-17, AACE, pp Outstanding paper award. 19. Mertens, R., Farzan, R.,and Brusilovsky, P. (2006) Social Navigation in Web Lectures. Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2006), Odense, Denmark, August 25-26, ACM Press, pp Farzan, R. & Brusilovsky P. (2005). Social navigation support in a course recommendation system. Proceedings of Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH 2005), Dublin, Ireland, June 21-23, Springer, pp James Chen best student paper award. 21. Farzan, R & Brusilovsky, P. (2005). Social navigation support through annotation based group modeling. Proceedings Conference on User Modeling (UM 2005), Edinburgh, UK, July 24-29, Springer, pp Brusilovsky, P., Farzan, R. & Ahn J. (2005). Comprehensive personalized information access in an educational digital library. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2005), Denver, USA, June 7-11, ACM Press, pp Brusilovsky, P., Chavan, G., Farzan, R. (2004). Social adaptive navigation support for open corpus electronic textbooks. Proceedings of Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH 2004), Eindhoven, the Netherlands, August23-26, Springer pp

4 Peer Reviewed Workshops 1. Farzan, R. (2010). Effect of interpersonal trust on social information seeking. Second international workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking. In conjunction with the ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 2. Coyle, M., Freyne, J., Farzan, R., Smyth, P., and Brusilovsky P. (2008). Evaluating user representations for the trustworthiness of interaction partners. ReColl'08: International Workshop on Recommendation and Collaboration. In Conjunction with the international conference on Intelligent User Interface (IUI 08). 3. Farzan, R. and Brusilovsky P. (2007). Community based conference navigator. SociUM: Adaptation and Personalization in Social Systems: Groups, Teams, Communities workshop. In conjunction with the international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UM 07). 4. 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 international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UM 07). 5. Brusilovsky P., Farzan R., and Ahn J. (2006) Layered evaluation of adaptive search. In Proceedings of Workshop on Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems. In conjunction with the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 06). 6. Ahn J., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P. (2006) A two-level adaptive visualization for information access to open-corpus educational resources. Workshop on Social Navigation and Community-Based Adaptation Technologies. In conjunction with the International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH 06). 7. 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). In conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 8. 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). In conjunction with the International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UM 05). INVITED TALKS Summer school course on Social Computing, The East Finland Universities Graduate School in Computer Science and Engineering, June Tutorial on socialization of newcomers into online communities, The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, May Social Media and Diversity. Western Pennsylvania Diversity Initiative Organization, Social media: Changing Life from What We Eat to Who Rules our Country, ischool Inclusion Institute of Information Sciences, What is PhD about? A perspective of a recent graduate, University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences, Panelist on Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries in conjunction with the User Modeling Conference, 2007 Grants, Awards, and Fellowships NSF SoCS: Supporting Newcomer Socialization in Online Production Communities, Co- PI. 3 years, $448,786, Andrew Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2005 and 2007 Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation,

5 James Chen Best Student Paper Award,2011, 2009, and 2006 Outstanding Paper Award, ELearn Conference, 2006 First Prize of i-fest Research System Demonstration Competition, School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh Graduate Research Scholarship, CSU Hayward, 2003 Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Honorable Mention, 2002 Chevron Texaco Scholarship in Computer Science, 2002 SERVICE ACTIVITIES Program Committee Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, 2013 ACM Hypertext 2013 track on Adaptive Hypertext and Narrative Connections Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web, 2009, 2010, 2011 Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, 2010 Conference on Web Engineering, 2010 Workshop on Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, 2010 Workshop on Adapting and Personalizing Multimedia Access and Interaction, 2010 Workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning, 2009 Workshop on the Social Navigation & Community-Based Adaptation Technologies, 2006 Organizing Peer Reviews Adaptation and Personalization for Web 2.0, 2008, 2009 (workshop co-organizer) ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 2008 (Conference Treasurer ) CHI CSCW iconference FLAIRS Recommender Systems Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology Journal Journal of Personalization Research Journal of Communication Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Journal of Information Systems Research TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor, Social Computing (graduate course), University of Pittsburgh, 2011 Guest lecturer, The Social Web, University of Pittsburgh, 2010 Instructor, Web 2.0 (undergraduate course), University of Pittsburgh, 2008 Instructor, The Social Web Graduate Seminar Course, University of Pittsburgh, 2008 Teaching assistant, C Programming, University of Pittsburgh, 2006