Author: 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.