CV for Åsa Rudström

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Ph.D. in Man-Machine Interaction 2005, Stockholm University.
Ph.Lic. in Computer and Systems Sciences from Stockholm University, 1995.

Appointments

Employed at SICS since 1997.
Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, 1985-1998.

Entrepreneurial achievements

During her years at Stockholm University, Åsa was part of the Machine Learning research group that was formed in 1985. In her licentiate thesis work, she investigated the application of machine learning to real-world problems. The majority of the applications in the study used machine learning in the knowledge acquisition phase of the system development process. An important issue in solving real-world problems turned out to be the integration of the learning system into an existing environment of other systems. The study also indicated that the availability of a large set of examples to learn from is crucial to the success of applying machine learning to real-world problems. For many years, Åsa has also been a much-appreciated teacher. She has been involved in the development and implementation of courses in e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Object Oriented Programming, and Intelligent User Interfaces. In 1993, she was also part of the group that developed the masters study program in computer and systems sciences at the department of Computer and Systems Sciences. At SICS, Åsa has participated in the following projects:

PUSH concerned the development of an adaptive help system in the telecommunications domain, investigating which methods for automatic adaptation are appropriate for the domain.
EdInfo investigated news ways of achieving filtered news services, combining machine learning techniques with input from a human editor.
ConCall realized the EdInfo ideas in the domain of conference calls.
News Media in the year 2003 explored ways of maintaining and improving the quality of news production in digital media.
RIND, that investigated the application of recommender system technology to the domain of configuration of complex products.
Socifer, a joint project with Stena Line, that developed and studied a prototypical social component to be run on Stena Line's on-line ticket booking site.

Currently, Åsa is working on social computation within the project Mobile and Social Services.

During the years 1990-1998, Åsa was a member of the board of the Swedish AI Society, and a member of the board of the Centre for Information Technology and Cognitive Sciences at Stockholm University / KTH, from the start in 1992 until 1999.

Other merits

Chairperson of the local labour union at SICS 2002-2004.

Organizer of an international workshop in the combined field of machine learning and user modeling: Learning about Users. Workshop ML-4 at the 16 International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-99, August, Stockholm, Sweden. Together with Mattias Bauer (DFKI, Germany) and Wolfgang Pohl (GMD, Germany) and Wayne Iba (Stanford University, USA).

Local Organizer of the Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence SCAI-93, held in Stockholm, Sweden, May 1993.

Publications (including workshops)

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