Alexandra I. Cristea

Alexandra Cristea

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Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Warwick University
Invited Professor, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

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Computer Science
Room 321
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL 		Tel: (+44) 24 765 73774
Fax: +44 24 7657 3024
Email: A.I.Cristea@warwick.ac.uk
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RESEARCH PROFILE


Adaptive Systems, Adaptive Hypermedia, User Modeling, AI, Semantic Web, Social Web, Knowledge Computing, Neural Networks, Education

RESEARCH GROUPS

BACKGROUND


Dr. Alexandra Cristea is associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick. She is the current coordinator and a co-founder 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 150 papers on these subjects. She is leading the work package on Authoring in the GRAPPLE EU FP7 project started in February 2008 and the Minerva project entitled ?ALS? (Adaptive Learning Spaces) started in 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). She was track co-chair of Hypertext 2007 and 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 has given invited talks in various countries, e.g., UK, Netherlands, Spain, Japan, Finland, Romania, etc. She acted 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.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS


  • BLOGFOREVER, Funded by: EU, Project Start Date: 01/01/2011 Project End Date: 01/01/2014

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


  • Hendrix, M. and Cristea, A. I.(2008) 'A spiral model for adding automatic, adaptive authoring to adaptive hypermedia' Journal Of Universal Computer Science 14 (7), 2799 - 2818 (0948-6968)
  • Cristea A.I.,, Dolog P., Kravcik M., Burgos D., De Bra P., Ceri S., Devedzic V., Houben G-J., Libbrecht P., Matera M., Melis, E., Neidl W., Specht M., Stewart C.,Smits D., Stash N., Tat C., (2007) 'Specification, authoring and prototyping of personalised workplace learning solutions'
  • Cristea A.I.,Hendrix M. Nejdl W., (2007) 'Authoring adaptive educational hypermedia on the semantic desktop'
  • Cristea A I,Cristea H M, Muntean G M, McManis J, (2007) 'Quality of Experience-LAOS: create once, use many, use anywhere'
  • Cristea A.I.,C. Stewart, T. Brailsford, P. Cristea, (2007) 'Adaptive Hypermedia System Interoperability: a ?real world? evaluation.' Journal Of Digital Information 8 (3),

RESEARCH DEGREES SUPERVISED

  • Incorporating Learning styles in Adaptive Hypermedia, Date of Completion: 2006
  • Supporting authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia with Semantic Web Technologies and Visualisation Techniques
  • Adaptive semantic collaboration in open and distance learning (ODL) and Social Web techniques and e-Learning Standards in Adaptive Hypermedia
  • Generic Responsive Adaptive Personalized Learning Environment
  • Adaptation language delivery
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