Bamshad Mobasher, AI Institute Director

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. 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.

James Moore, AI Institute Associate Director 

James Moore is the Director of Online Learning for DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business. He teaches Artificial Intelligence and Internet Marketing classes in DePaul’s Flex modality. This modality is highly desired by students who enjoy learning in the classroom but want the flexibility to connect online when work or family responsibilities prevent them from traveling to campus.

He received the national Schullo Best Distance Teaching Practice Award at the 34th annual Distance Teaching & Learning Conference in 2018, has been twice awarded the Kellstadt Marketing Center Distinguished Professional Educator Award For Excellence in Teaching, and has contributed book chapters on Search Engine Optimization to the IMC (Integrated Marketing Communications) Handbook. He has Bachelor of Science in Economics and Information Technology from Middlesex University and a Master of Science in Telecommunications Systems (Computer Science concentration) from DePaul. Passionate about technology and practical problem-solving, James combines his AI expertise with a deep understanding of digital marketing strategies. He balances his love of technology and gadgets with the knowledge that quick and simple solutions are often the most effective.