Academic Activities

Mentoring and Contribution to Diversity

• Guided two graduate students in their research projects, writing papers and presenting their work at University of Notre Dame.
• Organized Women In Technology workshop (over 100 particpants) at DePaul University with the goal of encouraging undergraduate female students pursue higher degree in STEM and help them to find a technology job in industry.
• Worked with both graduate and undergraduate students to implement a recommendation model for Chicago City of Learning at DePaul University.
• Volunteered to review and evaluate three posters by undergraduate students at DePual University Annual Undergraduate Research Showcase.
• Volunteered and mentored third-through fifth-grade kids and their parents at Family Science Nights at Chicago Public Library.

Professional Activities

Organizer of Women In Technology Workshop, DePaul University 2017

Chair of School Of Computing Research Symposium (SOCRS)-2017

Program Committee Member

• ACM Conference on Recommender Systems- RecSys-2018, 2019
• AI track- Grace Hopper Celebration of Women-2018
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)- 2017
• Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS)- 2017
• Workshop on Intelligent Recommender Systems by Knowledge Transfer and Learning (RecSysKTL) held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems- 2017, 2018
• Workshop on Web Personalization, Recommender Systems, and Social Media joint with Web Intelligence Conference- 2017
• School Of Computing Research Symposium (SOCRS)- 2015 DePaul University Annual Undergraduate Research Showcase- 2016

Reviewer

• User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI)
• Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems
• Journal of IEEE’s Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• World Wide Web Journal -Internet and Web Information Systems
• Journal of Information System and Tourism
• ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys)- 2016
• ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR)- 2017