Dr. Burke brings more than 30 years of experience in artificial intelligence and machine learning research and development to Lotis Blue Consulting. His primary research is in personalized recommender systems, a field he helped found and develop. He is a Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Burke most recent projects explore fairness, accountability, and transparency in recommendation through the integration of objectives from diverse stakeholders.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Burke spent 16 years at DePaul University where he was co-director of DePaul’s Center for Web Intelligence, a member of DePaul’s interdisciplinary Data Mining and Predictive Analytics Center, and a founding member of Studio χ, DePaul’s digital humanities center.

Dr. Burke obtained a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, an M.Phil. from Yale University, and a Bachelor of Science from Harvey Mudd College, all in computer science.