Cristina Gena

Short Bio

• I received a degree in Degree in Communication Science at the University of Torino in 1998. In 2000 I took a Master in Web Tecnology and Security.
• I hold a Ph. D. in Communication Science and Design (1999-2002) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Torino. My thesis was about the evaluation methodologies and user involvement in user modeling and user adapted systems. Advisor: prof. Luca Console.
  
  
• From January to March 2002 I visited prof. Alfred Kobsa at the Institute for Software Research at University of California, Irvine.
  
  
• From 2003 to 2005 I had a temporary researcher position at the Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, while from 2005 to 2015 I have been assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Torino and at the School of Multimedia and Arts.
• I'm currently an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, and President of the Master Degree in Communication, ICT, and Media (CIME). I teach at the School of ICT (social Innovation Communication and new Technologies), and at the Bachelor in Computer Science and I'm part of the PhD Commitee in Computer science. Since 2018, I hold the national habilitation as Full Professor in Computer Science, and since 2023 I also have the habilitation as Full Professor in Computer Engineering.
  
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• Since 2024 I'm an affliated researcher at the CONTACT (COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies) Unit of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) where I carry out research on the topic of "User modelling and robot adaptation in affective HRI" together with Alessandra Sciutti.
  
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• I am leading the Advanced Interactions and Robotic lab - AIRLab of my department, and I'm heading the smart HCI lab of the ICxT Innovation center
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• I'm the president of the board of directors for the User Modeling community UM Inc., which also serves as a steering committee for the ACM Conference Series "User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization" (UMAP) sponsored by SIGCHI and SIGWEB. I'm editorial board member of UMUAI (User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction) journal, Associate Editor for the Behaviour & Information Technology journal, for for Human-Media Interaction, Frontiers in Computer Science Journal, and for the Frontiers in Neuroinformatics journal.
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  I have been scientific coordinator of funded national, regional, and local projects (funded for example by the Ministry of University and Research, the Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta Regions, the City of Turin etc.) and of several consulting and research projects (funded by e.g. Google, Intesa San Paolo, Quercetti, etc.).


• I'm in the program committee of numerous international conferences and workshop, among the most important conferences in my field (ACM UMAP, ACM IUI, ACM Mobile HCI, Interact, ACM CHI, etc.). I have been Guest Editor of several special issues hosted by ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Behaviour and Information Technologies Journal.