Robin Burke

Biography

Research Interests:

• Case-Based Reasoning
• Collaborative Filtering
• intelligent agents
• Recommender Systems
• user modeling

General

Name and Title: 

Robin Burke

Position: 

Visiting Professor, Fulbright Scholar

Phone: 

+353 1 7162892

Email: 

Personal Website: 

http://josquin.cs.depaul.edu/~rburke/

U.S. address:

243 S. Wabash Ave. #453
Chicago, IL 60604
312-362-5910
(312) 362-6639 (fax)

• Biography
• Publications

Biography

Robin Burke is an Associate Professor at DePaul University, USA. His research interests are in artificial intelligence (especially case-based reasoning) as applied to electronic commerce and digital libraries. His current work concentrates on the area of recommender systems, including comparative evaluation of hybrid designs and the investigation of the security properties of recommender system algorithms.

Professor Burke helped initiate the Computer Game Development program at College of Computing and Digital Media and teaches a number of its courses including Introduction to Game Design, Game AI, and History of Games.

Professor Burke earned his PhD in 1993 from Northwestern University, working with Professor Roger Schank, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He worked in post-doctoral positions at the University of Chicago, and then in 1998, left academic employment to help found a "dot-com" startup. He returned to academic work in 2000 first at the University of California, Irvine and then at California State University, Fullerton. In the Fall of 2002, he began his current position at DePaul University.

Publications

Full list of publications is available at http://josquin.cti.depaul.edu/~rburke/pubs/