Joseph A. Konstan

Joseph A. Konstan
Nationality	American
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Harvard University (A.B., 1987) University of California, Berkeley (M.S., 1990) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1993)
Awards	IEEE Fellow (2013) ACM Fellow (2008) ACM Distinguished Scientist (2006)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction
Institutions	University of Minnesota
Thesis	An Event-Based Architecture for Graphical User Interface Toolkits  (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Lawrence A. Rowe

Joseph A. Konstan is an American computer scientist and the Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are human computer interaction, social computing, collaborative information filtering, online communities and medical and health applications of Internet technology. He is best known for his work in collaborative filtering recommenders (the GroupLens project), and for his work in online HIV prevention.

He received the SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award in 2013.