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Meet Featured ACM Distinguished Speaker Tsvi Kuflik
Tsvi Kuflik is the former head of the Information Systems Department at the University of Haifa in Israel. The focus of his work has been on ubiquitous user modeling. He has organized the PATCH (Personal Access to Cultural Heritage) and UbiqUM (Ubiquitous User Modeling) workshops series and was General Chair of ACM IUI 2014 and 2017. Kuflik is the Chair-Elect of the ACM SIGCHI IUI community, and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.

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