Z. Petrushyna

address:	Lehrstuhl Informatik V RWTH Aachen Ahornstr. 55 D-52056 Aachen, Germany
email:	petrushyna@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
phone:	+49 / 241 / 80 21505
fax:	+49 / 241 / 80-22321
room:	6235, 2nd floor, building: E2

Short Biography

Zinayida Petrushyna got her Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Odessa National Polytechnic University in 2004. She finished Master program in Software System Engineering from RWTH Aachen in 2007.

Her master thesis was called "Network Modelling and Structural-Semantic Analysis of E-Learning Communities". She analysed communities in E-Learning area using following concepts:

	Social network analysis
	Natural language processing
	Actor Network Theory
	I* Modelling

Currently she is working as a research assistant at the the information systems chair(Informatik 5), RWTH Aachen University .

Research Interests:

	Virtual Communities of Practice
	Technology Enhanced Learning
	Web 2.0/Social Software and Social Network Analysis
	Concept mining, data mining, text mining
	Cross-media analysis
	Natural language processing
	Semantic Web

Master/Diploma thesis:

Open Theses

	Application of Game Theory in the Long Tail of Learning
	Recognizing People, Places, Conferences and Events in the Web 2.0