Welcome

Last update: 2009-06-18

Hi! Welcome to my page at SIS at Pitt.

My name is Denis Parra-Santander and I am a graduate student at the Phd Program in Information Science and Technoloy at the University of Pittsburgh. My main research interests are Adaptive Hypermedia, Recommender Systems and the Semantic Web. My advisor is Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, a recognized researcher specially in the areas of Adaptive Hypermedia Systems and User Modelling.

I suggest you to browse my web site through the links under Pages on the left side of this page to know more in deep about me and my interests. Regards!

Summer 2009: Internship at Trinity College

18-Jun-09

This Summer 2009 I am going to be doing a research internship at the School of Computer Science of the Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland (Eire). As I have been working in the latest months in developing tag-based aproaches for Recommender Systems, I am going to be working here on the application of Spreading Activation methods under the supervision of IBM researcher Dr. Alex Troussov.

Presentation at Southern University of Chile

17-Dec-08

I gave a presentation about Social Bookmarking Systems at Informatics Department at Southern University of Chile on Dec 17th 2008.

You can download it here: [here]