Bamshad Mobasher is a Professor of Computer Science and the director of the Center for Web Intelligence at the School of Computing of DePaul University in Chicago. His research areas include Web mining, Web personalization, recommender systems, predictive user modeling, and information retrieval. He has published five edited books as well as more than 170 scientific articles, including several seminal papers in Web mining and Web personalization that are among the most cited in these areas. Most recently, has served as the program chair and steering committee member of the ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, as a program chair for the International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, and as local organizing chair for the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. As the director of the Center for Web Intelligence, Dr. Mobasher is directing research in Web mining, predictive analytics, and recommender systems, as well as overseeing several related joint projects with the industry. Dr. Mobasher serves as an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on the Web, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems and the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. He also serves on the editorial board of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, The Journal of Personalization Research.