2026 Pearl Pu: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	50	5680	5520	119	119	199	8538

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Computer Science

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Overview

Pearl Pu is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans primarily the fields of Computer Science and Psychology, contributing to a diverse range of interdisciplinary topics.

The scientist's work extensively covers subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology, Information Systems, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Research topics addressed by Pearl Pu include:

Topic Modeling
AI in Service Interactions
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Machine Learning in Healthcare
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Speech and Dialogue Systems
Humor Studies and Applications

Pearl Pu's frequent co-authors include:

Anuradha Welivita
Yubo Xie
Ekaterina Svikhnushina
Junze Li
Dietmar Jannach

They have published articles in a variety of venues, with multiple appearances in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
AI Magazine
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Notable recent papers include:

"Recommender systems: Past, present, future" (2021) published in AI Magazine
"Recommender systems: Trends and frontiers" (2022) published in AI Magazine
"PEACE: A Model of Key Social and Emotional Qualities of Conversational Chatbots" (2022) published in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
"Is ChatGPT More Empathetic than Humans?" (2024) published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"HEAL: A Knowledge Graph for Distress Management Conversations" (2022) published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Best Publications

A user-centric evaluation framework for recommender systems

Pearl Pu;Li Chen;Rong Hu

1025
Citations
Evaluating recommender systems from the user's perspective: survey of the state of the art

Pearl Pu;Li Chen;Rong Hu

468
Citations
Trust building with explanation interfaces

Pearl Pu;Li Chen

360
Citations
Critiquing-based recommenders: survey and emerging trends

Li Chen;Pearl Pu

338
Citations
Trust-inspiring explanation interfaces for recommender systems

Pearl Pu;Li Chen

293
Citations
Survey of Preference Elicitation Methods

Li Chen;Pearl Pu

251
Citations
HealthyTogether: exploring social incentives for mobile fitness applications

Yu Chen;Pearl Pu

237
Citations
Enhancing collaborative filtering systems with personality information

Rong Hu;Pearl Pu

217
Citations
A new development in camera calibration: calibrating a pair of mobile cameras

A. Izaguirre;P. Pu;J. Summers

212
Citations
Issues and Applications of Case Based Reasoning to Design

Mary Lou Maher;Pearl Pu

190
Citations
Acceptance issues of personality-based recommender systems

Rong Hu;Pearl Pu

153
Citations
Preference-based search using example-critiquing with suggestions

Paolo Viappiani;Boi Faltings;Pearl Pu

140
Citations
Enriching buyers' experiences: the SmartClient approach

Pearl Pu;Boi Faltings

131
Citations
A study on user perception of personality-based recommender systems

Rong Hu;Pearl Pu

125
Citations
User-Involved Preference Elicitation for Product Search and Recommender Systems

Pearl Pu;Li Chen

118
Citations
Prediction of helpful reviews using emotions extraction

Lionel Martin;Pearl Pu

111
Citations
A recursive prediction algorithm for collaborative filtering recommender systems

Jiyong Zhang;Pearl Pu

111
Citations
SmartClients : Constraint Satisfaction as a Paradigm for Scaleable Intelligent Information Systems

Marc Torrens;Boi Faltings;Pearl Pu

106
Citations
Adaptation Using Constraint Satisfaction Techniques

Lisa Purvis;Pearl Pu

96
Citations
Evaluating critiquing-based recommender agents

Li Chen;Pearl Pu

93
Citations
A Taxonomy of Empathetic Response Intents in Human Social Conversations

Anuradha Welivita;Pearl Pu

68
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Boi Faltings École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Li Chen Hong Kong Baptist University

Mary Lou Maher University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Antoine Geissbuhler University of Geneva

Xiaofang Zhou Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Barry Smyth University College Dublin

Qing Li Hong Kong Polytechnic University

George Karypis University of Minnesota

Lance Fortnow Illinois Institute of Technology

John Chuang University of California, Berkeley

External Links

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