WITS 2026 Keynote

 

Alex Tuzhilin is Leonard N. Stern Professor of Business in the Department of Technology, Operations and Statistics at the Stern School of Business, NYU. His research interests include AI, personalization, recommender systems and machine learning. He has produced over 180 research publications on these and related topics. Professor Tuzhilin has served on the organizing committees of numerous conferences, including as the Program and the General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), and as the Program Chair, the Conference Chair and the Chair of the Steering Committee of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys). He served on the editorial boards of several journals, including as the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems. Professor Tuzhilin’s past doctoral students have joined leading universities, including the Wharton School, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, Boston University, Emory University, Temple University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a recipient of the INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) Andrew B. Whinston Pathbreaking Research Award, the INFORMS ISS Design Science Award, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the ISS IFORMS Society.