Jeff Huang

University of Washington

I'm a fourth-year information science PhD candidate at the University of Washington in Seattle. My research area is information retrieval (web search), specifically mining search behavior (like mouse movements) and opinions (demo). My masters and undergraduate degrees are in computer science from the University of Illinois (UIUC).

I have analyzed search behavior at: Yahoo (employee), Google (intern × 2), and Microsoft Research (intern × 3). I'm a Facebook Fellow and funded by a Google Research Award. I taught the UW iSchool graduate-level information retrieval class in 2010, and co-founded a Techstars-backed company called World Blender that makes geolocation mobile games. See my Resume for details.

Recent Papers

pdf	User See, User Point: Gaze and Cursor Alignment in Web Search Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher CHI 2012, pp. 1341-1350.    (23% acceptance)

pdf	No Search Result Left Behind: Branching Behavior with Browser Tabs Jeff Huang, Thomas Lin, Ryen W. White WSDM 2012, pp. 203-212.    (20.7% acceptance)

pdf	Large-Scale Analysis of Individual and Task Differences in Search Result Page Examination Strategies Georg Buscher, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jeff Huang WSDM 2012, pp. 373-382.    (20.7% acceptance)

pdf	Remix and Play: Lessons from Rule Variants in Texas Hold'em and Halo 2 Gifford Cheung and Jeff Huang CSCW 2012, pp. 559-568.    (39% acceptance)

pdf	Interactive Search Support for Difficult Web Queries Abdigani Diriye, Giridhar Kumaran, Jeff Huang ECIR 2012, to appear.    (21% acceptance)

pdf	No Clicks, No Problem: Using Cursor Movements to Understand and Improve Search Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, and Susan T. Dumais CHI 2011, pp. 1225-1234.    (26% acceptance, Best Paper Finalist)

pdf	Starcraft from the Stands: Understanding the Game Spectator Gifford Cheung and Jeff Huang CHI 2011, pp. 763-772.    (26% acceptance)

pdf	Optimal Strategies for Reviewing Search Results Jeff Huang and Anna Kazeykina AAAI 2010, pp. 1321-1326.    (26.9% acceptance)

pdf	Assessing the Scenic Route: Measuring the Value of Search Trails in Web Logs Ryen W. White and Jeff Huang SIGIR 2010, pp. 587-594.    (16.7% acceptance, Best Paper Award)

pdf	Studying Trailfinding Algorithms for Enhanced Web Search Adish Singla, Ryen W. White, and Jeff Huang SIGIR 2010, pp. 443-450.    (16.7% acceptance)

pdf	Conversational Tagging in Twitter Jeff Huang, Katherine Thornton, and Efthimis N. Efthimiadis Hypertext 2010, pp. 173-177.    (35% acceptance)

pdf	Parallel Browsing Behavior on the Web Jeff Huang and Ryen W. White Hypertext 2010, pp. 13-17.    (35% acceptance)

pdf	Analyzing and Evaluating Query Reformulation Strategies in Web Search Logs Jeff Huang and Efthimis N. Efthimiadis CIKM 2009, pp. 77-86.    (14.5% acceptance, Best Paper Finalist)

pdf	Graphstract: Minimal Graphical Help for Computers Jeff Huang and Michael B. Twidale UIST 2007, pp. 203-212.    (17% acceptance)