Sergey Sosnovsky

Curiculum Vitae

Education:

2002 – now PhD student (School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh)
Thesis: Ontology-based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning [PDF]
1999 – 2002 PhD student (Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics. Kazan State Technological University)
1994 – 1999 Student (Program Automated systems for information processing and control. School of Control and Automation. Kazan State Technological University.
MS thesis: Development of Authoring Tools for Intelligent Tutoring Systems)
1990 – 1994 Student (Kazan high school #131 for physics and math)

Work Experience:

2006 Jun. - 2006 Jul. Visiting researcher (L3S Lab, Leibniz University of Hanover /Hanover, Germany)
2002 Aug. – now Graduate student assistant (TALER Lab & PAWS Lab, School of Information Sciences. University of Pittsburgh /Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
1999 Nov. – 2002 Sep. Instructor (Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics at Kazan State Technological University, Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics at Kazan State Technical University named after Tupolev A.N. /Kazan, Russia)
1999 Sep. – 2002 Sep. Research assistant (ITTAL Department at Kazan State Technological University, and Research Institute for Math and Mechanics /Kazan, Russia)
1999 Jul. – 2002 Sep. Assistant editor ( East-European Section of International Journal Educational Technology and Society /Kazan, Russia)
1996 Apr. – 2001 Mar. Programmer, IT consultant (Galaxy LTD, Tatarstan centre for non-profit organizations support [Eurasia Foundation: #AAG-928], Library for the deaf people [Open Society Institute: #S98-0043] /Kazan, Russia)

Membership:

2008 – now Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2007 – now Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2000 – 2002 IEEE Learning Technology Task Force (LTTF)
1999 – 2001 International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society
1998 – now International Forum on Educational technology & Society

Conference organization:

2008 International Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Web for Intelligent Educational Systems – SWEL@ITS'08 ( Montreal, Canada, June 23, 2008) :
Program Committee Member
2007 International Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Web for E-Learning SWEL@AIEd'07 (Los Angeles, July 9th, 2007):
Program Committee Member
2003 International Conference on User Modeling UM2003 (Johnstown, USA, 22-26 of Jun., 2003):
Student Volunteer Chair
2002 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT’2002 (Kazan, Russia, 9-12 of Sep., 2002):
Local Organizing Committee Member
2001 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT’2001 (Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 8-6 of Aug, 2001):
Session co-chair (Support Tools and Systems-II)
Reviewing

AH'2008, AVI'2008, SOFSEM'2008,
WWW'2007, AIEd'2007, EC-TEL'2006,
WI'2007, WI'2006, WI'2005,
ICALT'2008, ICALT'2007, ICALT'2006, ICALT'2005, ICALT'2004, ICALT'2002, ICALT'2001,
SOA-AIS@AH'2006

Computer Applications in Engineering Education
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Awards:

2005 Honorable Mention: University of Pittsburgh i-Fest (Poster "User Modeling and Adaptive Navigation Support in a Distributed Architecture for Adaptive E-Learning")
2004 AACE International Conference E-Learn 2004 Outstanding Paper Award (QuizGuide: Increasing the Educational Value of Individualized Self-Assessment Quizzes with Adaptive Navigation Support in co-authorship with Peter Brusilovsky and Olena Scherbinina)
2001 graduate student grant of the president of Russian Federation
2000 graduate student grant of the president of Russian Federation
1999 winner of All-Russian student competition Science-intensive educational technologies
1997 student grant of the Government of Russian Federation
1996 student grant of the President of Russian Federation

Research Projects

Research Interests

Teaching Experience

Publications

Development Experience:

C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl,
RDF, RDFS, OWL,
XML, HTML,
SQL,
JESS
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