Raffaella Settimi is an Associate Dean at the School of Computing of DePaul University. She received a M.Sc. in Statistical Sciences from the University of Sheffield (UK) in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Perugia (Italy) in 1995. Her research interests include applications of machine learning techniques to housing market segmentations and urban studies, Bayesian learning and latent variable modeling. Her work on these topics has appeared in several international journals, and conference proceedings. Her research has been supported by grants from National Science Foundation (NSF), Argonne National Laboratory, and McArthur Foundation.

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Dr. Bamshad Mobasher is a professor of Computer Science and the director of the Center for Web Intelligence at DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media in Chicago. He is also the co-founder of the Center for Data Science at DePaul University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Iowa State University in 1994. His general research areas include artificial intelligence and data mining. In particular, he is considered one of the leading authorities in Web mining, Web personalization, and recommender systems. He has published 5 edited books and approximately 200 scientific articles. As the director of the Center for Web Intelligence, he directs research in these areas and regularly works with the industry on various joint projects. He serves in leadership positions of several international conferences, including the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, and the ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. He has been an organizer of several long-running and highly regarded workshop series on Web mining and personalization, including the WebKDD series of workshops on Knowledge Discovery on the Web, the Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization, and the Workshop on Recommender Systems for the Social Web. These workshops have been held regularly at conferences such as ACM KDD, IJCAI, UMAP, RecSys, and AAAI. Dr. Mobasher serves as an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on the Web, the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology and the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems. He has also served on the editorial boards of several other prominent computing journals, including User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, and the Journal of Web Semantics.

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Sue Fogel is an associate professor at DePaul’s Marketing Department and associate director of the DePaul Center for Data Science. She has led development of a number of educational innovations at DePaul, including the Sales Leadership Program and MS in Marketing Analysis.

Fogel has taught a variety of courses at DePaul, including consumer behavior, market segmentation and an interdisciplinary decision-making course. She has also taught marketing strategy and brand positioning for corporate clients. Consulting and pro bono projects include consumer insight development, segmentation and survey research and analysis.

Fogel’s research focuses on consumer decision making, especially personal financial decision making. Her work has been published in Harvard Business Review, Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Marketing Letters, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Journal of Promotion Marketing, and other academic journals. She holds a PhD in cognitive psychology and an MS in business administration, both from the University of California at Berkeley. She has been at DePaul since 1992.

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Daniela Stan Raicu is a Professor of School of Computing, College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University, Chicago. She is the co-director of the Medical Informatics and the Intelligent Multimedia Processing Laboratories. Daniela is the founding Director of the Center for Data Science at DePaul. Her research interests include medical imaging, multimedia retrieval, pattern recognition and data mining. Daniela’s projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Argonne National Laboratory, Department of Education, and McArthur Foundation. She is the recipient of the DePaul Excellence in Teaching Award 2008, the DePaul Spirit of Inquiry Award in 2010, and the IBM Faculty Innovation Award in 2010. She also serves on the National Council of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) honor society in Computer and Information Sciences since 2008. Daniela holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oakland University, Michigan, a M.A. in Computer Science from Wayne State University, Michigan, and a B.S. in Mathematics from University of Bucharest, Romania.

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