Connecting Students with Research Advisors Through User-Controlled Recommendation

Abstract

We present Grapevine, a user-controlled recommender that enables undergraduate and graduate students to find a suitable research advisor. This system combines the ideas from the areas of exploratory search, user modeling, and recommender systems by employing state-of-the-art knowledge extraction, grape-based recommendation, and an intelligent user interface. In this paper, we demonstrate the system’s key components and how they work as a whole.