Behnam Rahdari
Position: Postdoctoral Scholar
Behnam Rahdari is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics research. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh under the supervision of Peter Brusilovsky. His research focuses on carousel-based recommender systems, with an emphasis on human-AI collaboration, user navigation, and the evaluation of carousel interfaces. He has authored several publications in this area, including an award-winning work presented at the ACM IUI conference and other contributions at top-tier venues. His doctoral dissertation, titled “Human-AI Collaboration in Search and Recommendation: Navigation, Personalization and Evaluation of Carousel-Based Interfaces,” explored the interplay between user guidance and algorithmic personalization in carousel recommenders. He has presented his work at multiple major conferences, and this tutorial is his first official tutorial presentation.