Jeff Huang (University of Washington)

I'm a second-year information science phd student at the University of Washington in Seattle. My research area is information retrieval (web search), specifically post-query user behavior. My masters and undergraduate degrees are in computer science from the University of Illinois (UIUC).

I am co-teaching the UW iSchool graduate-level information retrieval class in Fall 2010, cross-listed as INSC 544 / LIS 544 / IMT 542. Sign up!

Previously, I've worked at Microsoft Research (intern) in search log mining, Yahoo (fulltime) in distributed data processing, Google (intern) in click fraud, and other software engineering internships at Microsoft and Motorola. Here is my Resume.

Recent Papers

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)

Other Pages

I collected the list of WWW, SIGIR, CIKM, AAAI, CHI, KDD, SIGMOD, ICML, and VLDB best paper awards since 1996 on a single page.

I'm kind of obsessive with making my papers look nice. Here are my notes for publishing Word papers.

Contact

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