Paul Resnick
Paul Resnick at Cornell/Microsoft Research International Symposium on Self-Organizing Online Communities
Born
Paul Resnick

Michigan, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater
Known for
  • Recommender systems
Awards
  • 2010 ACM Software Systems Award
  • 2016 University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award
  • ACM Special Interest Group on E-commerce Test of Time Award for the paper titled "The Social Cost of Cheap Pseudonyms."
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisHypervoice: Groupware by Telephone[1] (1992)
Doctoral advisorThomas W. Malone
Doctoral studentsCliff Lampe

Paul Resnick is Michael D. Cohen Collegiate Professor of Information and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs at the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

Education

Paul Resnick was born in New York and attended the University of Michigan for his undergraduate studies. He received a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1992 in Computer Science. After graduating from MIT, Resnick worked at AT&T Labs and AT&T Bell Labs and was an assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Resnick became an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in 1997, and subsequently became Associate Professor, Professor, and then Associate Dean.

Awards

Resnick was elected to the CHI Academy in 2017.[2] He received the 2010 ACM Software Systems Award for his work on the GroupLens Collaborative Filtering Recommender System[3] which showed how distributed users could personalize recommendations via ratings. He also received the ACM Special Interest Group on E-commerce Test of Time Award for the paper titled "The Social Cost of Cheap Pseudonyms".[4] He received the 2016 University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award.[5] In 2020, he was selected as Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions to recommender systems, economics and computation, and online communities.[6]

Selected works

  • 2013. Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design (with Bob Kraut)
  • 1994. GroupLens: an open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews
  • 1997. Recommender systems (with Hal Varian)
  • 2001. The social cost of cheap pseudonyms

References

  1. ↑ Resnick, Paul (1992). Hypervoice: Groupware by Telephone (PhD thesis). MIT.
  2. ↑ "2017 SIGCHI Awards".
  3. ↑ "ACM touts Resnick's recommender system | University of Michigan School of Information". www.si.umich.edu.
  4. ↑ "Paul Resnick paper withstands the "Test of Time" to win new award | University of Michigan School of Information". www.si.umich.edu.
  5. ↑ "Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards".
  6. ↑ "2020 ACM Fellows Recognized for Work that Underpins Today's Computing Innovations".

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